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Turn each photograph I upload into a separate, independently finished premium design poster. Do not combine multiple photographs; output each one individually. Use a vertical 3:4 composition with two regions whose heights are strictly equal, each occupying 50% of the canvas.
Preserve the original photograph in the upper half, retaining the subject’s identity, structure, pose, authentic texture, natural light and shadow, and original colour atmosphere. Apply only subtle refined colour grading to evoke an art magazine, independent publication or exhibition image. The environmental background may be extended naturally to fit the format, but never stretch, distort or change the subject.
In the lower half, extract the photograph’s most recognisable subject, contours, structure, pose and narrative relationships, and reconstruct them as Bento-fication: a convenience-store prepared-food packaging visual. Do not copy every object. Understand the image’s core visual relationships and use semantic ingredient mapping and material substitution to reorganise people, buildings, plants, sky, water, objects or other elements with rice, vegetables, eggs, fruit, nori, cheese, sauces, jelly, roe, herbs and similar ingredients. At first glance the original image’s soul should remain recognisable; only at second glance should viewers realise that everything is food.
Contain all visual information within one clearly defined transparent convenience-store deli box, bento tray or compartmentalised food container. Preserve the original image’s most important compositional hierarchy while allowing re-direction: remove irrelevant background and use cropping, changes of scale, rearrangement, modular ingredients and container divisions to turn a complex or ordinary scene into a convincing product visual. Do not cram in ingredients for the sake of fidelity; retain only the elements that truly determine identity.
Use top-view packaged-food photography as the main perspective for the lower half. Emphasise authentic transparent packaging, individual ingredient grains, cut surfaces, moisture, freshness and natural light, as though the product could really sit on a premium convenience-store shelf. Keep the main package clear with ample whitespace around it. The composition should be clean, refined and breathable, not a crowded food platter.
Extract the upper photograph’s most distinctive, vivid colours and translate them into natural ingredient colours. Keep them bright, fresh, appetising and full of everyday life: greens can become vegetables and herbs; yellows can become eggs, corn or fruit; warm reds can become tomatoes, roe or sauces. Cool colours may be expressed through jelly, packaging, tray liners or other plausible ingredient relationships. Avoid gloomy, greasy or muddy colours and a cheap food-advertising look.
Add a small product-label system. Freely generate a product name, short phrase, price, weight, barcode, shelf-life information or miniature description based on the original image’s theme; neither the language nor the fields are fixed. Labels should resemble real Japanese convenience-store or premium food packaging, with clear hierarchy and restrained dimensions, naturally integrated with the transparent container and ingredient composition.
The overall visual language combines Japanese konbini deli packaging aesthetic, packaged-food reinterpretation, semantic food substitution, containerised composition and retail product visualisation. The core principle is not to draw the photograph as food, but to preserve its visual soul and direct it anew through ingredients, a container and product packaging.