Split-Panel Editorial Poster Blends Photo With Playful Korean Illustration

Create one independent high-end editorial poster for each uploaded photo. Process each photo separately. Never combine photos into a collage, grid, split-screen, or multi-photo composition.

FORMAT

Strict 3:4 vertical composition, horizontally divided into two exactly equal 50/50 sections. Top 50% = original photography; bottom 50% = flat editorial illustration. Keep the overall design premium, clean, art-directed, visually balanced, and rich in negative space.

TOP 50% - ORIGINAL PHOT

Treat the uploaded photo as the single source of truth. Preserve the original subject, identity, facial features, body proportions, pose, expression, clothing, objects, environment, composition, colors, spatial relationships, lighting, shadows, depth, and photographic texture. Do not redesign, replace, beautify, distort, stretch, duplicate, or reinterpret the subject. Only subtle professional color grading is allowed, with the feel of an independent art magazine, premium travel editorial, or exhibition photograph. If more space is needed, naturally extend the existing background without altering the subject.

BOTTOM 50% - FLAT EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

Reinterpret the same photograph as a playful, slightly awkward Korean-inspired flat editorial illustration. Identify and preserve the most recognizable subject, silhouette, pose, action, key relationships, and narrative of the original scene. Simplify them into rounded, slightly exaggerated geometric shapes with clean solid fills and rough, imperfect black hand-drawn outlines featuring subtle wobble, uneven thickness, broken edges, and imperfect contours. Remove photorealistic lighting, shadows, perspective, and material textures. Avoid conventional cartoon or photorealistic styles. Aim for a contemporary Korean children's book, independent magazine graphic, or playful editorial artwork.

COMPOSITION

Keep one dominant focal point with secondary objects used only as accents. Create relaxed visual rhythm through varied scale, slight misalignment, overlaps, partial cropping, irregular spacing, and subtle asymmetry. Allow some shapes to extend beyond or overlap the composition. Use bold color blocks and generous negative space. Preserve key visual relationships without reproducing every detail. The illustration should feel designed, relaxed, and intentionally imperfect, never mechanically traced or cluttered.

COLOR

Extract the photograph's most distinctive colors and reinterpret them as a limited palette of high-purity, high-saturation flat colors. Use bold, clean color blocks and bright youthful contrasts. No gradients, realistic shadows, muddy gray tones, glossy effects, complex blending, or excessive texture. The palette should feel cheerful, energetic, childlike, warm, and visually confident.

TYPOGRAPHY & EDITORIAL TEXT

Generate English text inspired by the photo's theme, action, emotion, atmosphere, or story. Integrate typography naturally into the

illustration.

MAIN TITLE: 2-4 English words, placed near the upper illustration area. Use playful, slightly handwritten, imperfect lettering; irregular alignment or capitalization is allowed.

SUBTAGLINE: One short, restrained English phrase below the title.

LOCATION / YEAR: Small editorial line in the lower-middle area. Use a verified location/year when known; otherwise use the subject, activity, event, or travel theme. Never invent a location.

POETIC MICRO-CAPTION: A short 1-2 line poetic or playful phrase, placed naturally within negative space, beside a color block, along

an edge, or on the visual axis.

SERIES NUMBER: Small, subtle editorial numbering such as "No.01" in a corner.

Typography may follow subject contours, align with color blocks, occupy negative space, overlap shapes slightly, rotate subtly, or use irregular spacing/cropping. Readability must remain strong. Title can be expressive; supporting text should stay clean and restrained.

Art DIRECTION

Combine real travel photography x playful flat illustration x premium editorial design x Korean graphic sensibility x travel diary aesthetics. The result should feel bright, youthful, cheerful, warm, playful, slightly quirky, sophisticated, and collectible-like a limited-edition travel art print or contemporary illustrated travel diary, not a generic tourist poster.

STRICT RESTRICTIONS

One photo = one independent poster. Never combine photos. Never invent a different scene, replace the subject, alter identity or pose, or introduce unrelated objects. Keep the bottom illustration clearly derived from the same photo shown above. No photorealistic illustration, excessive gradients, shadows, 3D/glossy effects, visual clutter, or overcrowding. The top and bottom must feel like two connected interpretations of the same travel moment.