1980s Toy Packaging

Packaging · Toys · Lego

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1980s Toy Packaging, Airbrushed hero art, starburst badges and cardboard that has seen a shelf — Boxed vehicle set, front panel·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5 and GPT Image 2. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

Make it yours

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

Front panel of a 1987 toy box for a fictional space vehicle. Airbrushed painted background of an alien canyon with laser fire, the physical toy photographed in front of it under hard studio light. Loud starburst badge reading a feature claim, chrome outline logo type, black and magenta grid. Dot screened offset printing with slightly degraded inks. Flat printed panel artwork filling the frame.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size: 1536 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Ask for the toy to be photographed and the background to be painted. That contrast is the whole look.
2Shelf wear, a price sticker or a scuffed corner sells the age faster than any filter.
3Say "photographed flat" or you get a three quarter product render.