Photo-to-glass tile collage poster

Pair a faithful source photo with a source-colored glass-tile and torn-paper editorial collage in an exact 50/50 poster.

Create one vertical 3:4 art-magazine poster from one source photo. Process multiple photos in separate runs; never combine them. Divide the canvas horizontally into exactly equal 50% halves.

TOP: Preserve the actual photo and all subject identity/count, position, proportions, pose, structure, perspective, environment, light, depth, and color relationships. Add no tiles, paper, text, stickers, frames, or decoration. Only safe edge cropping or continuation of existing surroundings is allowed; never stretch, warp, move, replace, or redraw. Only subtle photo grading.

BOTTOM: Use the same photo as the sole visual source. Fill the lower half with fine-grid, semi-transparent square glass tiles at roughly half the usual visual size. Derive 2–4 colors from this photo and adapt the palette every time; moderate saturation and contrast may rise below while the inset photo keeps its original color character. Show restrained glass thickness, refraction, reflections, edge highlights, and small shadows, without chunky pixels or toy-like 3D.

Center one paper print derived from the same photo at about 90% of the usual central-photo scale; keep its subject and basic composition recognizable and show glass on all sides. Add only a narrow, source-appropriate torn pale edge with slight fibers, lift, and soft shadow. Keep paper grain, creases, halftone, print wear, and tape subtle.

Create source-specific type below the seam: one concise high-contrast serif headline, a tiny caption, one quiet handwritten phrase, and the exact lowercase credit “prompt by awen” in tiny type. Adapt wording, color, and placement to the image; keep it legible and off the subject. Place words directly on glass or negative space, never on a black bar, box, backing block, or heavy shadow. Gallery images show materials only; do not copy their subjects or text. Return one finished poster.

Merged photos, unequal split, misplaced seam, altered or redrawn upper photo, added upper-panel elements, changed identity/pose/composition/perspective/environment/light/native colors, stretch, warp, relocation, replacement, invented content, fixed green palette, unrelated neon colors, muddy low-saturation grading, coarse or hidden glass grid, flat tiles, chunky pixels, cartoon, toy-like 3D, plastic look, thick mat, wide torn border, heavy aging or dirt, texture hiding the print, text above seam or over subject, black bar/box/block, heavy text shadow, copied reference wording, fixed copy, gibberish, brands, logos, signatures, watermarks, unrelated decoration.