Download .md# The POSTCARD Wallpaper Prompt
Turn one uploaded photo into a quiet, collectible 9:16 wallpaper that looks hand-illustrated and rubber-stamped onto aged paper. The prompt keeps the few details that make the moment recognizable while leaving enough empty space for your phone clock.
## How to use it
1. Pick one photo with a clear main subject or moment. It can be a person, couple, place, object, wedding, birthday, night out, concert, or trip.
2. Upload that photo to an image model that accepts image references.
3. Replace the four optional fields below, or leave any of them blank and let the model infer them.
4. Copy the **entire prompt** into the same conversation and generate at 9:16.
5. Check the spelling, whitespace, and paper composition before saving it as your wallpaper.
## REPLACE THESE FOUR FIELDS
~~~text
Name or location: [REPLACE, OR LEAVE BLANK TO INFER]
No.: [REPLACE, OR LEAVE BLANK TO USE No. 01]
Three keywords: [REPLACE WITH three lowercase words separated by " / ", OR LEAVE BLANK TO INFER]
Year: [REPLACE, OR LEAVE BLANK TO USE THE CURRENT YEAR]
~~~
Keep the fields short. A name or location of one to four words and three single-word keywords will render more reliably than long sentences.
## Copy this complete prompt
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Create a single 9:16 vertical Collectible Rubber-Stamp Field Notes Wallpaper from the uploaded source image.
Use the source image only to understand its most recognizable subject, location, objects, color character, and visual relationships. Do not reproduce, paste, frame, inset, crop into, or display the source photograph anywhere in the result. Generate the entire finished wallpaper in one pass. This is one full sheet of paper, never a collage, split layout, Polaroid, photo postcard, or before-and-after design.
The entire 9:16 canvas is warm off-white aged paper with subtle fibers, natural grain, faint handling marks, and a matte tactile texture. Preserve generous unprinted whitespace. Keep the top 42% nearly empty for a phone lock-screen clock: no photo, face, text, stamp, box, frame, or important object.
Analyze the source and compress only the minimum information needed to recognize it into one small multicolor hand-drawn, hand-carved rubber-stamp illustration: the primary subject silhouette, two or three signature details, and one location, scene, or prop anchor. Remove bystanders, logos, branding, dense background objects, repeated windows or lights, vehicle clutter, and decorative noise. Center the illustration around 56-60% of the full canvas height. It should occupy only 22-30% of the frame height, with generous blank paper above and around it. It must not look like a full painting, portrait cutout, logo, photograph, or smooth vector drawing.
Extract 2-4 restrained spot inks from the source image. Favor desaturated carbon black, deep green, brick red, ochre, slate blue, muted violet, burnt orange, or taupe while preserving the source's distinctive color character. Render each color as a separate hand-stamped layer with authentic carved-rubber texture, hand-engraved marks, uneven line widths, contour notches, fractured edges, dry ink shortages, paper show-through, granular ink, uneven pressure, partial ghosting, and 1-2 mm of subtle natural misregistration. Keep every edge tactile and imperfect, never digitally smooth.
Directly below the illustration, add exactly four small left-aligned lines in a restrained, slightly imperfect typewriter font. If I provide text below, reproduce it exactly with correct spelling. If a field is blank, infer concise text from the image:
Line 1: name or location
Line 2: No. number
Line 3: three short lowercase keywords separated by " / "
Line 4: year
REPLACE THESE FOUR FIELDS:
Name or location: [REPLACE, OR LEAVE BLANK TO INFER]
No.: [REPLACE, OR LEAVE BLANK TO USE No. 01]
Three keywords: [REPLACE WITH three lowercase words separated by " / ", OR LEAVE BLANK TO INFER]
Year: [REPLACE, OR LEAVE BLANK TO USE THE CURRENT YEAR]
Keep the text compact and subordinate to the illustration. Preserve at least the bottom 10% as quiet paper. Do not add any slogan, caption, signature, logo, watermark, pseudo-text, or decorative copy beyond those four field-note lines.
Overall mood: a quiet field note kept by an architect, music archivist, travel writer, or natural observer; collectible, tactile, restrained, personally specific, and handmade.
Avoid any visible source photo, split photo-and-paper composition, photo frame, Polaroid, collage, placeholder box, circular seal, Chinese red stamp, postage perforations, wax seal, sticker collage, scrapbook layout, tourist souvenir template, smooth vector logo, generic subject icon, full replication of every object, dense detailing, childlike craft, cartoon style, 3D rendering, plastic texture, glossy digital gradient, oversaturation, decorative clutter, and people or landmarks that are not present in the uploaded source.
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## Quick troubleshooting
- **It made a photo collage:** Repeat that the source is analysis-only and must never appear in the result. The output should be one continuous aged-paper sheet with one small redrawn illustration.
- **It copied too much detail:** Ask it to keep only the main silhouette, two or three signature details, and one scene or prop anchor. Remove background clutter and secondary people.
- **There is not enough empty space:** Reinforce that the top 42% must remain nearly empty, the illustration must stay within 22-30% of the canvas height, and the bottom 10% must remain quiet paper.
- **The field-note text is garbled:** Shorten every field, use simple characters, and regenerate. Do not accept a misspelled name, number, keyword, or year.
