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Vintage Travel Poster

Poster · Travel · Railway

Download examples
Alpine railway, four colour separation
Coastal resort, low horizon·Nano Banana Pro
Wide format tourism board panel·Nano Banana Pro
National park, solid shadow shapes·Nano Banana Pro
Harbour at dusk·Seedream 4.5
Poster mocked up on a hoarding·Seedream 4.5
Example 7·Seedream 4.5
Example 8·Seedream 4.5
GPT Image·GPT Image 2

Recipe

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 Midjourney 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.

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

Prompt

A 1930s travel poster advertising a mountain railway. Flat lithographic colour in a limited palette of ochre, deep teal and cream. Simplified geometric peaks, a small red funicular carriage crossing a viaduct, long solid shadows. Low horizon with a large open sky. Bold condensed sans serif destination lettering across the lower third. Slight off register printing, visible paper grain, gently faded inks.

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
1024 x 1536
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Name the printing process rather than the look. "Stone lithograph, four inks" beats "vintage".
  • 2Ask for slight off register printing. That single flaw does most of the ageing work.
  • 3Keep the palette to three or four named colours or the flatness collapses.

Things to try

Snowy mountains

swap the coastline for granite peaks under a pale winter sky, palette of ice blue, slate and cream

Mediterranean coast

terracotta rooftops, a cobalt bay, cypress trees, palette of terracotta, cobalt and bone

Japanese railway

a stylised Mount Fuji, a scarlet express train, palette of indigo, vermilion and rice paper white

Futuristic city

a monorail curving between white towers, palette of dusty rose, brass and pale grey

National park

a canyon in three flat planes, a ranger silhouette, palette of ochre, forest green and sand

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