Editorial Collage

Editorial · Collage · Cut Paper

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Editorial Collage, Cut edges, halftone scraps and one clean typographic anchor — Cover illustration·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. 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.

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

Prompt

An editorial collage illustration for a magazine feature about cities. Halftone printed photographic fragments of buildings and hands, scissor cut and torn edges with visible paper thickness and small shadows, flat cut paper shapes in ochre and deep blue for structure, a faint grid of ruled lines behind. One clean piece of black sans serif typography anchoring the composition. Scanned rather than rendered, slight paper texture throughout.

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

Tips

1Ask for visible paper thickness and small shadows. Flat collage looks like a filter.
2Halftone the photographic pieces and leave the flat shapes clean for contrast.
3Scanned rather than rendered is a useful instruction across many print styles.