travel-collage-postcard

Travel Collage Postcard

Generate a complete, specific, modern travel collage postcard prompt for the target city that can be given directly to an image model. Parse and verify internally first, then output the finished product; do not show the reasoning process.

Input Scope

Accepts the following inputs and their combinations:

• City;
• City + country or region;
• City + festival, season, event, or special theme;
• Date, year, aspect ratio, language, number of landmarks, specified landmarks, or style preference.

As long as the key information is sufficient, fill it in yourself; do not require the user to fill out a form.

Decision Priority

Handle conflicts in the following order:

1. Clarify the city and theme, and avoid applying the wrong location to a city or event with the same name;
2. Comply with the country, date, language, aspect ratio, landmarks, and style explicitly specified by the user;
3. Ensure that landmarks, dates, events, coordinates, and cultural elements are true and reasonable;
4. Apply theme rules and local visible text rules;
5. Use this skill's visual identity and default values.

"Fixed visual framework" refers to the default design identity and does not override the user's explicitly stated aspect ratio, quantity, or language requirements.

Clarify Only When Necessary

Usually generate the prompt directly. Ask a brief question first only when the following ambiguities would materially change the entire result:

• The country or region of a city with the same name cannot be determined from context;
• The city has multiple festivals or events with the same name, and the target cannot be determined;
• The user requests a "real date" but does not provide the year that must be determined;
• Two explicit requirements conflict with each other;
• Key facts cannot be reliably verified, and continuing to generate would cause fabrication.

Clarifying questions are the only exception to the "output only the prompt in the end" rule. Do not ask multiple unnecessary questions at once.

Fact Verification

Verify the following information before generating:

• The country or region to which the city belongs and its main local public written language;
• Whether the landmark truly exists and is directly related to the target city;
• The dates of festivals, solar terms, or specific events in the target year;
• Reasonable coordinates for the city center or municipal center;
• Whether the theme elements fit the local cultural context.

Prioritize primary sources such as governments, official tourism agencies, event organizers, cultural heritage institutions, and astronomical or meteorological agencies. Dynamic dates and uncertain facts must be verified by search; stable and clear common knowledge need not be repeatedly searched for formality.

If online tools are unavailable and key facts are uncertain, do not write memory or guesses as verified facts. Ask the user first, or remove that fragile detail without harming the goal. The final prompt does not include citations or the research process.

Date Rules

Use the following categories to avoid disguising a seasonal window as a single official date:

1. User-specified date: Use directly. If the user simultaneously requires the "actual date of the holiday" and the two conflict, clarify first.
2. Fixed or calendar holidays: Use the actual Gregorian date in the target year; when the year is omitted, use the current year.
3. Official events: Use the main event date announced by the organizer; when the event spans multiple days, prioritize the opening day or the most representative main day, and avoid calling it the only date.
4. Natural season windows: Cherry blossoms, autumn leaves, etc. do not have a single official date. Choose a representative date within a reliable predicted or observed window for the target year, but treat it only as a postcard design date.
5. Broad seasons or special themes: When there is no verifiable date, use the current system date, and do not claim it is the "actual date" of that theme.
6. No theme: Use the current system date.

Before outputting the prompt, fill in the date as a specific value; do not leave judgments such as "current date" or "the day of the holiday" to the image model.

Visible text rules

The language restrictions here only constrain thevisible textin the generated image, not the language of the prompt's own description.

• By default, choose one local written language that best matches the city's public visual system;
• When the user specifies a language, follow the user's requirement; use bilingual text only when the user explicitly requests it;
• Allow scripts, Arabic numerals, and necessary punctuation that the target language naturally uses;
• Chinese cities by default do not include pinyin, English, or Latin letters, and directions are written as "北纬、南纬、东经、西经";
• Japanese cities by default use kanji, kana, Arabic numerals, and necessary punctuation, and do not use romaji;
• For multilingual cities, verify their public visual context before choosing a default language;
• All text that needs to be presented is written item by item inside quotation marks, and the image model is required to render it accurately, without adding fake text, garbled characters, or extra decorative words.

To improve the image model's text stability, keep slogans, poetic short phrases, and map labels short. Do not pile in unnecessary long copy.

Landmarks and coordinates

By default, choose 4 landmarks; when the user specifies a number, use 3–6.

Landmarks must:

• actually exist and be directly related to the target city;
• use specific place names, not generic substitutes such as "city skyline" or "old town scenery";
• have high visual recognizability and be suitable for background-free collage;
• try to balance architecture, nature, and culture, but do not choose weakly related places just to fill categories.

Coordinates by default represent the city's administrative or publicly recognized center; if the user specifies a landmark, that landmark's coordinates may be used instead. Keep 2–4 decimal places, avoiding false precision without a source. The coordinate format must follow the visible text rules.

Copy

Generate the following short visible text:

• City name;
• A concise slogan with a travel feel but not like an advertising slogan;
• An original poetic short phrase suitable for vertical or side arrangement on the right;
• Landmark list;
• Postmark date;
• Coordinates;
• A small number of map labels when necessary.

By default, create original short phrases, and do not quote existing poems, lyrics, or advertising slogans without authorization. When the user explicitly requests a quotation, verify the original text and attribution first.

Default visual identity

When not overridden by the user, use:

• Portrait 3:4;
• clean off-white background, subtle paper texture, white modern postcard border;
• off-white, gray-green, mustard yellow, and brick red as the main colors;
• modern, fresh, realistic free collage;
• no distressing, no yellowing, no heavy grain, no halftone dots.

The user may override the aspect ratio, number of landmarks, date, language, and style intensity, but the core identity of "city travel postcard + realistic free collage" is still retained, unless the user explicitly requests another visual direction.

Default layout

1. Top left: handwritten-feel city name;
2. Below the city name: a short tagline;
3. Top right: brick-red dots and a landmark list;
4. Right side: poetic short phrases, adapted to the natural typographic direction of the target writing system;
5. Center: realistic color free collage of city landmarks;
6. Bottom: modern, concise abstract city map;
7. Bottom right: city-related stamps overlaid with a circular postmark;
8. Background: a small number of geometric color blocks;
9. Bottom left: coordinates.

If the user changes the aspect ratio or number of landmarks, rebalance the layout; do not mechanically retain positional relationships that do not suit the new aspect ratio.

Center collage

The central landmarks use background-removed realistic color cutout elements: irregular edges, varying sizes, slight rotation, free overlapping, and staggered arrangement, forming clear spatial layering.

Explicitly exclude:

• line illustration, cartoon, flat icons;
• rectangular photo walls, neat grids, a single large image;
• excessive symmetry or mechanical alignment;
• generic scenery unrelated to the target city.

Thematic elements serve only as accents and must not overpower the city landmarks. For example, festival foods, flowers, dragon boats, lantern decorations, or seasonal foliage should be naturally interspersed rather than becoming the main subject.

Map, stamps, and postmark

• The map uses an abstract, concise, clean-lined modern design; do not use navigation screenshots or old maps;
• Map labels remain minimal and follow the visible text rules;
• Stamps use small images directly related to the city; do not fabricate postal agency names or unsupported denominations;
• The circular postmark states the already-determined specific date;
• Stamps, postmark, and map must not contain gibberish, fake English, or an unspecified second language.

Assembly order

Organize the final prompt into one coherent paragraph in the following order:

1. Visible text language and accurate rendering requirements;
2. Aspect ratio, background, border, texture, and color scheme;
3. The exact content of all visible text;
4. Layout positions;
5. Landmark collage and thematic elements;
6. Map, stamps, postmark, coordinates;
7. Negative constraints and overall mood.

Do not leave any placeholders. Read only when calibration of information density or wording is needed references/examples.md; examples are for structural reference only and must not be copied for facts or copy.

Pre-output check

Internally confirm:

• The city, country, landmarks, coordinates, and date are not mismatched;
• The seasonal window is not described as the only official date;
• User parameters have correctly overridden the defaults;
• The visible text in the image uses only the selected language, and all copy is already realistic;
• Landmark names are specific and consistent in number;
• The middle clearly is realistic free collage, not a photo wall or illustration;
• Map, stamps, postmarks, dates, coordinates, slogans, and poetic short phrases are complete;
• There are no placeholders, explanations, citations, analysis, or self-check processes.

Output Format

Except for necessary clarification, output only one complete prompt in the end. Do not output a title, parameter list, research record, self-check results, multiple version options, or supplementary explanations.