Watercolor-Style Editorial Illustration Poster

Turn each photo I upload into a separate premium design poster. Do not combine multiple images; output each photo separately. Use an overall 3:4 vertical composition divided into two regions with a strict 1:1 height ratio, each occupying 50% of the image.

Retain the original photo in the upper half, accurately preserving the subject’s identity, emotion, pose, spatial relationships, realistic texture, natural lighting, and original color atmosphere. Apply only subtle, high-end photographic color grading to give it the feel of a fashion magazine, art publication, and exhibition photograph. To fit the aspect ratio, naturally extend the sky, ground, or environmental background as needed, but do not stretch, distort, or alter the subject.

In the lower half, extract the most recognizable subject, silhouette, pose, and narrative relationships from the photo, then reconstruct them as a light, naïve, vintage hand-drawn editorial illustration. Do not mechanically reproduce details. Reinterpret them through simplified forms, moderately exaggerated proportions, symbolic features, and humorous visual metaphors while keeping the original subject instantly recognizable. Blend the character of modernist editorial illustration, Bauhaus graphic composition, children’s picture books, naïve art, and fashion sketching. Keep forms concise, with slightly hesitant contours and handmade imperfections. Select features may be moderately enlarged, giving the image a narrative, fashionable, and playful quality.

Extract the color palette from the photo above. Use a soft, limited palette with high brightness and low-to-medium saturation, unifying the atmosphere with analogous colors and using small areas of complementary color as visual accents. Combine the textures of watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, oil pastel, and dry brush. Preserve paper grain, translucent underlayers, broken strokes, rough edges, slight muddiness, and vintage print-registration misalignment. Leave most of the background blank, supporting the subject only with loose pale washes, partial diagonal lines, or simple geometric elements. Avoid crowded complex scenes, realistic lighting and shadows, smooth vector graphics, 3D rendering, and excessive refinement.

Derive a small number of English keywords, titles, numbers, or fitting quotes from the photo’s location, people, scene, or theme, and carry through the hand-drawn editorial language of the lower half. Use slightly naïve, vintage hand-lettered display type for the main title. Use restrained, gentle sans-serif or serif typefaces for supporting text. Allow slight misalignment, tilting, stretching, color overlap, or vintage print-registration shifts so the text grows naturally as part of the illustration rather than appearing as a layout element added afterward.

Use an off-white or pale background with abundant negative space throughout. Create visual echoes between the upper and lower images through shared subject features, colors, poses, and visual symbols. The overall mood should be relaxed, playful, vintage, gentle, intelligent, stylish, humorous, romantic, and easygoing, with a touch of awkwardness and eccentric confidence—like a carefully preserved page from a vintage fashion picture book crossed with a modern art magazine.