Illustrated City Postcard

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Illustrated City Postcard, A landmark drawn in ink, flat colour behind it and the city name hand lettered — Landmark with hand lettering·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 Ideogram, 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

An illustrated souvenir postcard of a city: a chrome bean sculpture in the foreground reflecting the skyline, drawn with a busy black ink line and backed by flat bright turquoise. Exaggerated perspective so the landmark dominates the frame, small yellow taxis and pedestrians filling the base, towers drawn in fine hatched line behind. Hand lettered fat script naming the city across the top in pink. Loud, cheerful, printed flat.

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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: 1365 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Exaggerated perspective on the landmark is what separates a postcard from a drawing of a building.
2GPT Image can set the hand lettering. Midjourney cannot, so leave a band for it there.
3Fill the base with small details: taxis, people, street furniture.