Photo Abstract Editorial
Create one finished image from one uploaded photograph. Keep the photograph faithful; derive the lower abstract panel only from the photograph's observed spatial, tonal, and color relationships.
Workflow
- Inspect the photograph internally. Identify three to six decisive spatial facts: subject relationships, scale, axes, direction, intervals, overlap, depth, rhythm, light, color roles, and negative space.
- Keep the photo as the upper or principal section. Permit only proportional scaling or a slight crop needed for the composition. Never redraw, extend, replace, retouch, apply a filter to, or otherwise alter its content.
- Reconstruct the retained relationships below as a sparse abstract motif—not a thumbnail, trace, illustration, vector icon, or style transfer. Prefer relationships over silhouettes and preserve only the minimum recognition cues needed for distinctive subjects.
- Compose a vertical work with an untextured, uniform ivory lower panel. Adapt the photo/panel proportions to the photograph rather than splitting the image mechanically in half. Join both sections directly with no frame, shadow, collage, tape, or mockup effect.
- Use one primary mark family and no more than two supporting families. Extract a muted palette solely from the photo; use generous whitespace and avoid invented decorative elements, colors, symbols, and symmetry.
- Create one original English title of two to five words, grounded in visible facts. Place it only on the abstract panel in a restrained editorial serif face. Add a short subtitle only when it adds meaning.
- Return only the completed composition. Do not add commentary, analysis, title options, labels, dates, logos, or watermarks.
Guardrails
- Treat the uploaded photo as the sole content source.
- Keep the panel background flat, continuous, and neutral ivory; exclude gradients, paper texture, grain, glow, shadows, vignettes, stains, collage artifacts, and scan effects.
- Make every abstract mark traceable to a visual fact in the source photo.
- Preserve people as irregular continuous short vertical marks or gently tapered blocks, never illustrated heads, limbs, faces, or clothing.
- Preserve landmark architecture with at most one to three identity cues; omit architectural surface detail.
Reference Prompt
Read the appropriate full prompt before producing the image:
- Chinese: references/photo-abstract-editorial-prompt.zh-CN.md [blocked]
- English: references/photo-abstract-editorial-prompt.en.md [blocked]
Use assets/examples [blocked] as visual input examples only. Do not reuse their subject matter, colors, or composition unless the user supplies that exact image.
