Story Patchwork Textile Poster

Story Patchwork Textile Poster

Use the system imagegen skill and image-generation tool. Treat every uploaded photograph as an edit source. Read its quiet human meaning before choosing fabric, cutting a shape, or placing a 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 story-led patchwork reconstruction in the lower half. Do not let either medium invade the other.
• Preserve immediate correspondence through the selected hero's silhouette, posture, material identity, key relationship, movement, and source-derived color.
• Render all visible wording in English unless the user explicitly requests another language. Omit terminal punctuation from the short phrase.
• 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 cloth texture, stitches, 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 life inside the image

Before prompting, privately identify:

1. the photograph's core proposition: [subject or relationship] + [action/state] + [quiet tension or feeling];
2. the one visual anchor or inseparable relationship that best carries it;
3. the minimum contours, postures, gaps, overlaps, and directional cues needed for recognition;
4. the concrete lived detail that makes this story specific: a bicycle waiting at a lane, a sleeve touching a shoulder, a plant leaning toward a window, a bowl left half full, a dog keeping pace, a chair holding distance, or another source-supported clue;
5. the emotional role of empty space: companionship, separation, pause, waiting, growth, belonging, chance encounter, continuation, or time passing;
6. which elements can be removed without harming the proposition;
7. one source color carrying the most life, plus its supporting color relationship;
8. one extremely short English phrase that expresses what remains unsaid.

Do not use a generic mood when the photograph provides a concrete relation. Describe who or what is near, apart, crossing, waiting, sheltering, growing, leaving, returning, resting, or continuing—and how the patchwork will make that visible.

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

Cut only the essential cloth shapes

Translate rather than trace. Reduce the selected anchor and relationship to a small set of simple fabric shapes. Preserve the decisive silhouette, posture, orientation, relative scale, contact, gap, or path so the viewer recognizes the source immediately and feels its implied story.

Choose textiles for visible function:

• gingham or checked cotton for familiar domestic rhythm, repeated structure, windows, fields, clothing, or everyday order;
• smooth cotton or linen for calm principal masses and clean silhouettes;
• washed coarse linen or restrained burlap for ground, bark, stone, old walls, roads, or weight;
• thin translucent fabric for air, water, light, distance, veil, or memory;
• small contrasting patches for a key object, gesture, light, flower, sign, garment, or emotional accent.

Use raw edges, folded edges, overlaps, underlayers, visible fibers, small patches, cross-stitches, running stitches, backstitches, and occasional repair-like seams. Let material variation clarify form and relation rather than demonstrate a textile sample library.

Do not convert every source item, copy the complete background, create many equal patches, outline everything with thick stitches, or add arbitrary hearts, flowers, buttons, ribbons, lace, labels, and craft decorations.

Compose with fabric and breathing room

Arrange patch sizes, density, overlap, crop, and edge crossing from the hero's weight, movement, gaze, and relationship. The composition may be asymmetric, suspended, enlarged, lightly cropped, or extended beyond an implied patchwork zone.

Let a branch, wheel, path, sleeve, animal gesture, building edge, vehicle line, or landscape strip continue past the main cluster when the source implies growth, passage, arrival, departure, or unfinished time. Use trailing thread or an incomplete seam only when it strengthens that direction.

Keep a large quiet ground around the stitched forms. Empty space must carry measurable narrative work: show the interval between two figures, the distance ahead of a moving subject, the pause around a still object, the air above a growing plant, or the time implied by an unfinished edge.

Do not evenly fill the lower half, mechanically center every subject, confine the artwork inside a hard rectangle, build a quilt grid, or use a decorative border.

Present the result as a flat editorial artwork. Do not add a hoop, frame, wall, table, sewing machine, hands, scissors, thread spools arranged as props, product packaging, or craft-market mockup.

Translate color without aging it

Derive the patchwork palette from the upper photograph's most spirited and identity-bearing colors. Preserve its cool/warm relation and emotional temperature, then gently soften, lighten, and coordinate the fabrics.

Use one clearer focal color on the hero or decisive relationship. Let supporting fabrics remain quieter through source-derived related hues and value steps. Different photographs must produce different color groups.

Keep the result warm, fresh, approachable, and lived-in. Vintage character must come from weave, washing, fiber, repairs, and stitch irregularity—not from a dirty filter.

Avoid default beige, gray-brown, fixed Morandi palettes, yellowing, sepia, muddy desaturation, forced pastels, synthetic neon, candy color, or equal-area multicolor patchwork.

Sew the unsaid phrase

Derive one very short English word or phrase from the source's unstated emotion, action, relation, or metaphor. Do not merely name a place or object. Keep it light, precise, and slightly open-ended, like a sentence interrupted before explanation.

Render it as fine embroidery, hand-sewn lettering, or restrained handwriting. Follow the hero's movement, sit near a fabric edge, hide in a shaped gap, or continue and pause with a seam. Use no terminal punctuation.

Do not use fixed slogans, motivational quotes, generic nostalgia, literal labels, 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 with at least these ten concrete information layers:

1. one independent 3:4 portrait output and the exact 50% photography / 50% patchwork split;
2. the upper-half preservation invariants, restrained color correction, crop, and any safe background extension;
3. the core proposition and concrete lived relationship or event;
4. the selected visual anchor and minimum recognition cues;
5. the deliberately deleted source information;
6. the exact fabric shapes, sizes, overlaps, crop, and directional continuation;
7. each chosen textile's material and narrative job;
8. the stitch types, raw or folded edges, fibers, repairs, irregularity, and unfinished passage;
9. the negative space's exact emotional and spatial role;
10. the source-derived focal color, supporting colors, value hierarchy, and clean ground;
11. the exact short English phrase without terminal punctuation and its seam-, edge-, or gap-aware placement;
12. hard exclusions: no multi-photo layout, no altered upper subject, no approximate split, no full-scene fabric copy, no quilt grid, no equal patch catalog, no children's craft, no arbitrary ornaments, no dirty beige or aged cloth filter, no fixed vintage palette, no hoop or sewing-prop mockup, no literal object label, no logo, and no watermark.

Use concrete relationships, everyday evidence, material choices, spatial intervals, and stitch behavior rather than broad words such as “warm,” “healing,” or “story.”

Inspect and correct

Review every result at full size and thumbnail size. Verify the exact split, truthful upper photography, immediate lower correspondence, one clear life proposition, selective cloth shapes, real textile detail, purposeful edge crossing, emotional negative space, source-derived color, and restrained English wording.

If the result simply copies the source in cloth, delete all but the essential anchor and relation. If the story feels generic, restore a concrete everyday action, interval, or object-to-subject relationship from the photo. If it resembles a children's craft, reduce ornaments, simplify shapes, refine scale, and control stitching. If it becomes a quilt or swatch catalog, merge patches into larger visual masses and restore quiet ground. If vintage color looks dirty, return to clean source-derived hues and let texture carry age. Regenerate with one targeted correction when needed.