Retro Editorial Illustration Split Poster

Create separate high-design posters for each photo I upload, no multi-image collages, output each photo individually. Overall use {argument name="composition ratio" default="3:4 vertical composition"}, with the top and bottom areas strictly 1:1 in height, each occupying 50% of the canvas.

The top part retains the original photo, maintaining the main structure, real texture, natural lighting, and original color atmosphere, only applying slight high-end photography color grading to give it a magazine photography and art exhibition quality. To fit the canvas, naturally extend the sky, ground, or environmental background, but do not stretch, distort, or alter the subject.

The bottom part extracts the most recognizable subject, silhouette, posture, and narrative relationship from the photo, reconstructing it as a light, naive, retro hand-drawn editorial illustration. Do not mechanically trace details; instead, re-express through summarizing shapes, slightly exaggerated proportions, symbolic features, and humorous visual metaphors, while keeping it instantly recognizable. The style blends modernist editorial illustration, Bauhaus composition, children's picture books, and fashion sketch qualities, with concise forms, fine lines with slight handmade errors, relaxed, clever, playful yet restrained.

Color palette is extracted from the top photo, using a limited palette of high brightness, low to medium saturation, with large areas of cream white or light color for white space, and a small amount of complementary colors as visual accents. Use a mix of watercolor, gouache, colored pencils, pastels, and dry brush textures, preserving paper grain, rough edges, transparency, misregistration, and imperfect brushstrokes, avoiding smooth vector, realistic lighting, 3D rendering, and plastic textures.

Overall composition is balanced, light, and breathable, with optional addition of a few hand-drawn lines, geometric symbols, or abstract elements. Text can include a small amount of retro handwritten titles, numbers, or years to naturally blend into the illustration. Overall reference old fashion picture books, travel illustrations, art publications, and high-end editorial design, presenting a gentle, retro, relaxed, stylish, humorous, slightly clumsy and quirky confident temperament, avoiding cartoonishness, cheapness, e-commerce feel, and template

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