# Watercolor Travel Ticket Poster > Edit each user-supplied photograph into its own 3:4 premium poster with truthful photography above and one centered horizontal watercolor postcard-ticket stub below, using a strict 74/26 image-information split. Use for collectible travel, memory, object, seasonal, and chapter-record designs; do not use for loose journaling, false travel data, realistic illustration, distressed vintage effects, e-commerce templates, or multi-photo collages. - Skill: `goodchengwang/watercolor-travel-ticket-poster` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add goodchengwang/watercolor-travel-ticket-poster` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/goodchengwang/watercolor-travel-ticket-poster/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Design & Media - Author: goodchengwang (https://skillmd.com/u/goodchengwang) - Updated: 2026-09-22 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/goodchengwang/watercolor-travel-ticket-poster --- # Watercolor Travel Ticket Poster Use the system `imagegen` skill and image-generation tool. Treat every uploaded photograph as the edit source. Preserve its most memorable subject-environment relationship inside one precisely designed watercolor ticket. ## 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 watercolor ticket composition in the lower half. Do not let either medium invade the other. - Center one horizontal ticket within a large ivory blank field. The ticket must have a left image area of about 74% and a right information stub of about 26%. - Preserve immediate correspondence through the watercolor scene's hero, silhouette, posture, direction, essential environment, and source-derived color. - Render ticket labels and visible text 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, travel-publication, or exhibition-photography color correction. Do not redraw, vectorize, beautify, materially relight, or apply ticket shapes, watercolor, typography, stamps, or graphic overlays to this region. Crop deliberately for the upper half. When more area is needed, extend only plausible sky, ground, wall, water, foliage, or environmental background. Never stretch, warp, mirror, duplicate, or redesign the subject. ## Extract a ticket memory Before prompting, privately identify: 1. the one hero subject or inseparable relationship carrying recognition; 2. its decisive silhouette, posture, direction, scale, and three to six identity cues; 3. the minimum environment, ground, horizon, companion, path, object, or atmosphere needed for memory and scale; 4. the foreground, hero, and receding background order; 5. the upper photograph's freshest and most life-filled color relationship; 6. the truthful information available for date, place, subject, moment, field, number, state, project, chapter, season, or mood; 7. one concise title and the minimum labels needed for the right stub. Do not isolate an object when the source meaning depends on a place, companion, direction, weather, action, or distance. Do not expose this analysis or repeat the user's design brief. ## Construct the physical ticket Use one horizontal thick matte watercolor-paper ticket suspended near the center of the lower half. Give it: - a stable horizontal proportion suitable for a postcard/ticket hybrid; - fine serrated or deckled edges with consistent scale; - unified top and bottom margins; - a precise vertical perforation, dotted tear line, or narrow row of punched marks between the 74% and 26% sections; - a very light, short, natural shadow beneath it; - a clean ivory surrounding field substantially larger than the ticket. Keep ticket face, text, image, stamp, and linework aligned to one invisible grid. Avoid tilted scrapbook placement, stacked tickets, curled corners, tape, hands, envelopes, table surfaces, multiple shadows, dramatic floating, product mockups, and complete lower-half fill. ## Paint the left 74% as a remembered scene Recompose the source relationship in light transparent watercolor. Keep the hero a little clearer than the environment. Use simplified contours, limited structural detail, and a recognizable source layout. Organize depth with: - one restrained foreground cue when necessary; - a clear hero or relationship at the visual center; - a softened mid/background that loses edge, saturation, and detail; - paper white preserved for air, light, water, sky, or breathing room. Show light washes, wet-on-wet transitions, dry-brush edges, small pigment granulation, transparent overlap, and variable water control. Keep brushwork visible and thin. Avoid realistic shading, photographic detail, dark outlines, full scene tracing, opaque gouache, digital blur, airbrush, dense pen drawing, complex architecture rendering, and generic travel-sketch props. ## Translate a high-key healing palette Select two to four neighboring color families from the upper photograph's freshest hues. Gently lift lightness, clean muddy mixtures, and preserve its warm/cool character. Use one tiny warm contrast only when a source detail needs it. Source-supported sage green, mist blue, pale cyan-gray, cream yellow, warm sand, light terracotta, or another natural hue may appear, but do not force a fixed palette. Use paper white as a major value. Keep the painting bright, transparent, gentle, and clear. Avoid gray fog, yellowing, heavy brown, sepia, high-saturation collisions, neon, candy color, dark vintage filters, and more than four active color families. ## Build the right 26% information stub Use a strict left edge, baseline system, vertical rhythm, and consistent spacing. Select only a few labels appropriate to the source: - `DATE` only when date metadata or user-provided date is available; - `PLACE` only when a place is known; - `SUBJECT`, `OBJECT`, or a truthful name when identity is known; - `MOMENT`, `STATE`, `FIELD`, `PROJECT`, `CHAPTER`, `SEASON`, or `MOOD` when these better fit a non-travel source; - `NO.` for a clearly compositional or user-supported number; - direction, material, or category words only when justified. Add short rules, dots, a restrained number group, and one circular stamp. The stamp may use a truthful place or theme; otherwise keep it abstract and non-factual. Let it lightly overlap the perforation or bottom grid. Never invent a city, date, coordinate, ticket number presented as real, project name, season, or archive fact. When information is unavailable, omit the field or use a truthful state/theme instead. ## Keep the grid quiet and exact Align the watercolor horizon, main hero, perforation, labels, stamp, and number block to shared horizontal and vertical guides. Maintain consistent ticket margins and clear text hierarchy. Use a small title or subject identifier, compact uppercase labels, fine rules, and tiny values. Keep enough blank area inside the stub. The right side should read as one structured information column, not a cluster of floating labels. Avoid many fonts, large decorative titles, arbitrary rotations, loose handwriting everywhere, dense fake data, barcodes, QR codes, airline branding, passport icons, UI panels, and commercial ticket templates. ## 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% ticket split; 2. the upper-half preservation invariants, restrained color correction, crop, and any safe background extension; 3. the lower ticket's exact horizontal dimensions, centered placement, surrounding ivory space, serrated edge, paper thickness, perforation, 74/26 split, and short shadow; 4. the left watercolor hero, relationship, source layout, foreground/mid/background order, three to six identity cues, and deleted detail; 5. the exact transparent brush behavior, paper white, edge hierarchy, pigment granulation, dry/wet changes, and soft recession; 6. the exact two-to-four source-derived color families, area hierarchy, and optional small warm contrast; 7. the selected right-stub fields and the factual support for every date, place, number, subject, moment, state, project, chapter, season, or mood; 8. the invisible grid, margins, shared alignments, title/label/value hierarchy, rules, dots, number group, and circular stamp relation; 9. hard exclusions: no multi-photo layout, no altered or redrawn upper subject, no approximate split, no isolated object that loses the source relation, no realistic lower illustration, no loose ticket layout, no false date/place/coordinates/number, no barcode or QR, no dirty vintage color, no desk or scrapbook props, no product mockup, no e-commerce template, no logo, and no watermark. Use concrete ticket ratios, grid, factual fields, watercolor hierarchy, color, paper, and spacing language rather than relying on adjectives such as “premium,” “travel,” “healing,” or “collectible.” ## Inspect and correct Review every result at full size and thumbnail size. Verify the exact split, truthful upper photography, one centered horizontal ticket, accurate 74/26 division, serrated paper edge, short shadow, recognizable watercolor relationship, high-key source palette, strict right-column grid, supported information, one stamp, and large ivory quiet space. If the ticket feels loose, restore common margins, baselines, and alignment guides. If watercolor becomes realistic or dark, simplify detail, expose paper, and lighten washes. If the hero loses its environment relation, restore the minimum path, horizon, companion, or scale cue. If any field contains invented information, remove or replace it with a truthful state/theme. If it resembles an e-commerce template, remove mockup props, branding, and sales-style polish. Regenerate with one targeted correction when needed.