Vintage Watercolor Illustration Poster

Please make each photo I upload into an independent high-design poster, no collage of multiple images, each photo output separately. Use a 3:4 vertical composition overall, with the upper and lower areas strictly 1:1 in height, each occupying 50% of the frame.

The upper part retains the original photo, accurately keeping the subject's identity, emotion, posture, spatial relationship, realistic texture, natural lighting, and original color atmosphere, with only slight high-end photographic color grading to give it the quality of fashion magazines, art publications, and exhibition photography. To fit the frame, the sky, ground, or environmental background can be naturally expanded, but the subject must not be stretched, distorted, or altered.

The lower part extracts the most recognizable subject, outline, posture, and narrative relationship from the photo, reconstructing it into a light, naive, retro hand-drawn editorial illustration. Do not mechanically replicate details; instead, express through generalized shapes, moderate proportion exaggeration, symbolic features, and humorous visual metaphors, while keeping the original recognizable at a glance. Incorporate modernist editorial illustration, Bauhaus graphic composition, children's picture books, naive art, and fashion sketch temperament, with simple forms, outlines slightly hesitant and with handmade errors, local features moderately enlarged, giving the image a sense of story, fashion, and playfulness.

Color palette extracted from the upper photo, using a soft limited palette of high brightness, low to medium saturation, unified atmosphere with analogous colors, small areas of complementary colors creating visual accents. Use mixed textures of watercolor, gouache, colored pencils, pastel crayons, and dry brush, preserving paper grain, underpainting, broken brushstrokes, rough edges, slight dirtiness, and old printing color misregistration. Background largely white, with only loose light color, local diagonal lines, or simple geometric elements supporting the subject, avoiding complex scene accumulation, realistic lighting, smooth vectors, 3D rendering, and over-refinement.

Text extracts a few English keywords, titles, numbers, or suitable quotes from the photo's location, character, scene, or theme, continuing the hand-drawn editorial language of the lower part. Main title uses a slightly naive and retro handwritten artistic font, auxiliary text uses restrained and warm sans-serif or serif fonts, with slight misalignment, tilt, stretching, color overlay, or old printing color shift, making the text naturally grow into the frame like part of the illustration, not layout elements added later.

Overall use off-white or light background with ample white space, upper and lower frames echoing through the same subject features, colors, postures, and visual symbols. Overall temperament is light, playful, retro, gentle, smart, fashionable, humorous, romantic, relaxed, slightly clumsy and quirky confidence, like a carefully preserved old fashion picture book and modern art magazine.

Machine-translated — the original is what produced this result.

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