Meaningful Chinese Embroidery Poster

Meaningful Chinese Embroidery Poster

Use the system imagegen skill and image-generation tool. Treat each uploaded photograph as the edit source. Understand what the image expresses before deciding where to place a single stitch.

Output contract

• Produce one independent raster poster for every uploaded photo. Never combine photos into a collage, contact sheet, comparison layout, diptych, or shared canvas.
• Use a 3:4 portrait canvas with one exact horizontal 50/50 division. Keep truthful photography in the upper half and the selective Chinese embroidery reconstruction in the lower half. Do not let either medium invade the other.
• Follow one-image/one-core/one-motif discipline. Select one subject, gesture, contour, relationship, action, contrast, or symbolic fragment to carry the entire photograph's meaning.
• Render all visible wording in English unless the user explicitly requests another language.
• Return every poster as a separate image. Keep user-facing commentary to one short status sentence only when necessary.

Preserve the photographic upper half

Keep the source recognizably photographic. Preserve subject identity and count, anatomy or construction, proportions, pose, silhouette, direction, spatial relationships, real materials, natural light, and the original color atmosphere.

Apply only restrained art-magazine, independent-publication, or exhibition-photography color correction. Do not redraw, vectorize, beautify, materially relight, or apply embroidery, fabric texture, typography, or graphic overlays to this region.

Crop deliberately for the upper half. When more area is needed, extend only plausible environmental background such as sky, ground, wall, water, foliage, or ambient space. Never stretch, warp, mirror, duplicate, or redesign the subject.

Find the one core

Before prompting, privately identify:

1. the photograph's central proposition: [subject or relationship] + [action/state] + [feeling, contrast, or implication];
2. what would still deserve to remain if the image could keep only one gesture, relation, contour, or fragment;
3. the minimum identity cues needed for the lower motif to correspond unmistakably to the upper photo;
4. the motif's weight, movement, gaze, direction, crop, and emotional distance;
5. the parts that should be densely stitched, lightly suggested, interrupted, or left completely unstitched;
6. the source color relationship with the most spirit, life, and emotional memory;
7. one extremely short English word or phrase expressing what the photo does not directly say.

Do not choose the largest object merely because it is prominent. Do not convert every person, object, plant, building, or background detail. If a secondary subject is essential to the proposition, preserve it only as part of the same inseparable relationship motif.

Do not expose this analysis or repeat the user's design brief.

Draw with stitching and omission

Reconstruct the selected motif through Chinese silk-embroidery logic. Preserve its decisive silhouette, posture, proportion, structural turn, gaze, motion, relational gap, or symbolic local feature. Let all other information disappear.

Use stitch behavior according to form:

• satin stitch for calm, continuous planes and decisive silhouettes;
• long-and-short stitch for nuanced volume, fur, petals, skin, sky, water, or tonal transition;
• couching or laid thread for strong axes, contours, stems, paths, architecture, or directional energy;
• wrapped or coiled line for tactile boundaries and concentrated gestures;
• seed or knot stitch for small focal texture, light, pollen, eyes, foam, fruit, or granular accents;
• sparse holding stitches, trailing thread, or broken outline for distance, hesitation, memory, atmosphere, and unfinished meaning.

Change stitch direction, density, overlap, and sheen with the motif's anatomy, construction, material, and movement. Allow a precise passage beside a nearly empty one. Let one loose thread, incomplete edge, few isolated stitches, or a small color patch carry emotional weight.

Show real silk luster, directional reflection, thread overlap, tension, puncture points, slight hand irregularity, and occasional subtle reverse pull. Avoid uniform digital strand brushes, embossed texture maps, perfect vector hatching, machine-satin regularity, chunky yarn, or fake embroidered stickers.

Compose through breath and resonance

Place, scale, crop, suspend, or offset the motif according to its center of gravity, action, gaze, contour direction, and emotional tone. It may be partially enlarged, cross an edge, float away from center, or appear only as a fragment.

Let a small stitched area interact with a large quiet field. Treat empty space as air, distance, pause, silence, anticipation, or aftertaste—not as an unfinished area waiting to be filled. Use one intentional eye path and one primary visual tension.

Do not mechanically center, evenly fill, surround with a border, repeat motifs, add ornamental corners, or use all-over traditional clouds, waves, flowers, dragons, phoenixes, lattice, medallions, or auspicious symbols unless one is already essential to the source.

Present the result as a flat editorial artwork. Do not add an embroidery hoop, frame, wall, table, hands, needles arranged as props, craft kit, product packaging, or museum-display mockup.

Choose a clean silk ground

Derive the ground from the upper photograph's color character. Choose clean white, cool white, soft ivory, an extremely pale source hue, a clear silk color with a defined undertone, or—when strongly supported—a bolder but pure colored ground.

Show only a very light silk, gauze, damask, or woven texture. Keep it clean, bright, and airy. Do not default to beige, gray-beige, old linen, tea-stained cloth, yellowed silk, burlap, dirty neutral, stains, wrinkles, distressed edges, or vintage aging.

The handmade quality must come from thread and stitch decisions, not from a dirty background.

Translate living thread color

Do not average the photograph's palette or use a fixed “Chinese” color card. Select the source relationship with the most life and meaning, then translate it into luminous silk-thread families.

Keep one meaningful principal color, related cooler/warmer and lighter/darker thread variations, a few supporting source colors, and at most one tiny complementary or high-purity accent. Use different stitch directions to create optical shimmer and color change.

Color may be clear, vivid, rich, gentle, or restrained according to the source. Keep it varied but ordered, bright without vulgarity, soft without grayness, and traditional without stiffness.

Avoid generic red-and-gold, blue-and-white, muted antique palettes, rainbow thread samples, synthetic neon, candy color, muddy mixing, or dense equal-area multicolor embroidery.

Stitch a quiet English thought

Derive one extremely short English word or phrase from an unstated emotion, action, relationship, or metaphor. Do not label the subject or explain the image.

Render it as fine thread lettering, a slender label, or minimal small type. Follow a loose thread, occupy a shaped gap, touch the motif edge, or let a letter continue into the stitched line. Keep it sparse, legible, and secondary.

Do not use fixed slogans, motivational quotes, direct object names, long captions, years, issue numbers, unsupported facts, pseudo-language, logos, brands, signatures, or watermarks.

Compile the image-edit prompt

Write one source-specific production prompt per input photo containing:

1. one independent 3:4 portrait output and the exact 50% photography / 50% embroidery split;
2. the upper-half preservation invariants, restrained color correction, crop, and any safe background extension;
3. the core proposition, one selected motif, minimum identity cues, preserved relationship, and all intentionally deleted information;
4. the motif's position, scale, crop, direction, emotional distance, stitched/unstitched map, eye path, and negative-space meaning;
5. the exact stitch families, thread directions, densities, overlaps, loose or unfinished passages, silk luster, punctures, and hand irregularity;
6. the exact clean silk ground and subtle weave, with no aging treatment;
7. the principal source-derived thread colors, warm/cool and light/dark variations, supporting hues, small accent, and area hierarchy;
8. the exact short English wording and its thread-, edge-, or negative-space-aware placement;
9. hard exclusions: no multi-photo layout, no altered or redrawn upper subject, no approximate split, no full-scene embroidery copy, no element-by-element conversion, no multiple competing motifs, no uniform digital stitch filter, no all-over traditional pattern, no old yellow cloth, no dirty beige, no hoop or craft display, no cultural-product template, no direct object label, no fixed national palette, no logo, and no watermark.

Use concrete meaning, omission, stitch, thread, color, and spacing language rather than relying on adjectives such as “premium,” “Chinese,” or “poetic.”

Inspect and correct

Review every result at full size and thumbnail size. Verify the exact split, truthful upper photography, one clear lower core, immediate correspondence, meaningful omission, varied physically credible stitching, clean silk ground, source-derived living color, emotional negative space, and restrained English wording.

If the lower half retells the whole photograph, delete all but the one motif and its essential relationship. If it looks like a digital embroidery filter, vary stitch families, direction, density, puncture, sheen, and incompletion. If it resembles a craft product, remove hoop, border, repeated pattern, props, and packaging cues. If the ground looks old or dirty, return to a clean source-responsive silk color. If the composition feels empty rather than resonant, give one loose thread, unfinished contour, gaze, or relational gap a precise directional role. Regenerate with one targeted correction when needed.