Prompt trick: generate handmade paper-collage poster backgrounds with real shadows
tisch_eins · x · 2026-10-17
Designer tischeins shares a poster-background workflow: have the image model generate a photographed handmade paper-collage scene, then add typography yourself afterward. The attached image shows a vermilion disc, narrow black strip and pale blue rectangle asymmetrically arranged on warm off-white card, with one lifted corner casting a real shadow.
The core trick is a physical constraint: each shape has thickness, an edge, and a height above the background — explicitly request stronger side light and a lifted corner so the result doesn't flatten into vector art. The full Midjourney prompt is included, with key ingredients: asymmetric placement, visible cut fibres, soft directional side light, camera parallel to surface, no lettering, --ar 5:4.
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