Photo × Intaglio Study Poster
Pair your photograph with a banknote-inspired intaglio reinterpretation, built from fine engraving, guilloche patterns, and textured paper. Adjust the format, comparison layout, paper and ink palette, and specimen lettering.
Turn the input photo into a vertical 3:4 or horizontal 4:3 travel/person study poster. Choose an above-and-below or side-by-side comparison according to the input composition: preserve the real photograph on one side, occupying approximately 40%–55%, accurately retaining the number, identity, actions, viewpoint, perspective, lighting, and spatial relationships of the people or buildings; on the other side, reconstruct the same subject as an intaglio engraving on generic banknote-inspired paper, without tying it to any country or currency. On the reinterpreted side, use warm white, gray beige, pale cyan, faded green, ochre yellow, or low-saturation paper and ink colors sampled from the original image. The contours of facial features, hair, and clothing folds, or building facades, window grids, roads, and tree canopies, must be formed with fine parallel lines, crosshatching, curved engraving, stippling, and intaglio shadow areas. Leave the paper exposed in highlights; form shadows through line density and slightly raised impressions. Add abstract guilloche patterns that cannot replicate real currency, fine rings, radial lines, wave-pattern security backgrounds, local translucent watermark shapes, short security threads, microscopic lines, and subtle misregistration; show paper fibers, ink-absorbing edges, slightly raised ink, impression shadows, and localized wear. Allow only a few specimen fields, such as SECURITY STUDY 02 or INTAGLIO SAMPLE. Do not make it into circulating currency, and do not generate real denominations, institutions, signatures, serial numbers, official emblems, QR codes, logos, watermarks, or original/AI-image labels.
About this prompt
- What you need
- Requires one reference photo. Attach it in your image generation tool; the prompt keeps a photographic panel and reinterprets the same subjects as intaglio art.
- How to use
- Adjust the highlighted format, comparison layout, palette, and specimen-text options.
- Copy the prompt, or open it directly in ChatGPT.
- Attach your reference photo and send. The source does not specify a model or tool.
- Example images
- These are four complete posters from the source, with a photograph beside its engraved interpretation. Changing options updates the prompt, not the examples. Image Prompt Book has not reproduced these examples. The model, generation settings, and standalone reference photos are not provided by the source.
- What we changed
- The Chinese default preserves the source prompt exactly; the English version translates every sentence. Format, comparison layout, paper and ink colors, and specimen text are adjustable. Photo share, subject consistency, engraved linework, and the source’s specimen-only restrictions remain fixed. Added options are project adaptations, not author endorsements.
- License
- License: none stated. All rights remain with the author; shown here with credit and a link to the original post. Removed on the author’s request.
- Sources
- 蛋黄堡 on X (2026-09-27) · Original · 蛋黄堡 · checked 2026-10-01
Use with your own image. After copying or opening ChatGPT, attach one photo or character image, then send.