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Vintage Food Packaging

Packaging · Food · Grocery

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Tin with painted illustration
Paper label detail
Three tins as a set
Shelf group
Scratched lid

Recipe

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Updated 6 Jul 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A 1940s food label design. Painted illustration of ripe tomatoes on a deep red ground, a friendly script logo, a decorative gold border, small weight and address type at the base. Slight ink loss and faded printing, honest period colour. The label artwork fills the frame, 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.

Recommended settings

Size
1024 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Printed onto tin behaves differently from printed on paper. Say which one.
  • 2Scratches, dents and a lifted seam turn a mockup into an artefact.
  • 3Soft window light suits old objects far better than studio lighting.

Things to try

Paper wrapped

a paper label around a can with a visible glued seam

Cereal box

a printed carton with a mascot and a back panel game

Enamel sign

the same brand as a chipped enamel shop sign

Grocery shelf

a row of tins on a wooden shelf with price cards

Modern reissue

the vintage artwork on a clean contemporary pack

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