Use case: visual distillation
Asset type: abstract lower panel only, for later deterministic composition
Input image: Image 1 is the photograph uploaded by the user in the current request. It is the sole content source, never an edit target. Generate no photographic panel and do not reproduce Image 1.
Style references: Images 2-N are bundled lower-panel style references only. They are not the original photograph and must never appear in the final upper panel. Match only their abstraction vocabulary, spatial balance, restrained palette, quiet editorial tone, and poetic negative space.
Core method: DECONSTRUCT, ABSTRACT/DISTILL, RECONSTRUCT - NEVER STYLE TRANSFER. First separate Image 1 into dominant masses, axes, boundaries, counts, color roles, directions, overlaps, intervals, depth, asymmetry, and meaningful voids. Then remove photographic detail and literal outlines. Finally rebuild only the retained relationships as a new nonliteral system of minimal marks. Preserve relational identity and spatial rhythm, not the exact scene or pixel geometry.
Subtle mode: default to subtle editorial optimization, not heavy symbolism. State one visual intention for the lower panel, then keep the source facts that preserve recognition and compositional rhythm. Prefer cleaner grouping, restrained simplification, better spacing, and source-derived color order over dramatic deletion. Avoid literal nouns only when they would make the result a cute icon, sticker, or mechanical miniature.
Layout: portrait lower panel planned for an untouched full-frame photograph above it. Create one coherent reconstructed motif occupying about 35-45% of panel width and at most 32% of panel height, leaving roughly 65-75% visually empty. Scale the motif as one coherent group while preserving its internal hierarchy and relationships. Allow measured displacement, compression, separation, overlap, and scale change when these make the source relationships clearer. Do not place the abstraction inside a miniature scene frame, trace the source aspect ratio as a visible box, scatter marks to fill space, or collapse it into one unrelated symbol.
Validation-safe placement: keep the upper 25% and lower 20% of the generated panel blank unless the motif is known not to touch validation sample zones. Do not let tall spikes, broad curves, or reflections reach the background sampling areas.
Surface mode: CLEAN ONLY with poetic negative space. Use one perfectly uniform, uninterrupted flat field at or near #F3F0E8 across every background pixel. The center, edges, corners, number area, and date/phrase area must share the same background color. Create atmosphere only through sparse placement, pauses, distance, asymmetry, and silence - never through surface effects. Use clean matte marks with subtly organic contours when structurally justified. Add no gradient, light falloff, glow, shadow, edge darkening, band, patch, seam, grain, noise, paper texture, fibers, watercolor bloom, haze, vignette, stains, faded color, or grading.
Color emphasis: slightly prefer several distinct accent roles sampled from `USER_PHOTO` when they clarify different source facts. Preserve their original saturation, luminance hierarchy, and approximate dominance. Do not force extra colors into a monochrome source.
Text: generate no text of any kind. The deterministic compositor adds the exact archive number, date, and phrase later.
Core visual evidence:
- Visual intention: [one sentence naming the clean editorial feeling or relationship to preserve]
- Abstraction intensity: [subtle-editorial, poetic-minimal, or stronger-artistic; default subtle-editorial]
- Primary element: [identity, shape, count, position, scale, color, direction]
- Structural axis: [horizon, vertical, curve, or diagonal and normalized location]
- Spatial rhythm: [intervals, clusters, gaps, depth, overlap, or repetition]
- Secondary evidence: [two to four supporting relationships when useful]
Deconstruction and reconstruction mapping:
- [source fact] -> [minimal mark + relative placement + relative size]
- [source fact] -> [minimal mark]
- [source fact] -> [minimal mark]
Removal decision: omit [textures, background detail, or low-information objects].
Constraints: preserve source relationships before decorative style; every major mark needs source justification; one primary motif family and two to four supporting families when useful; quiet, clean, sparse, restrained; make only gentle formal improvements unless stronger abstraction is requested.
Avoid: photograph, exact scene reconstruction, generic style transfer, heavy stylization, vectorized logo, posterization, literal tracing, complete illustration, cute icon, travel sticker, souvenir graphic, unrelated symbol system, decorative filler, regularized spacing, invented symmetry, invented content, any text, numbers, captions, color swatches, watermark, gradient background, uneven background, lighting falloff, background bands or seams, visible grain, dirty paper, yellow cast, gray veil, watercolor, haze, or texture.
