Put the cover under the lamp. Each of the five things that made it work is a layer you can switch on: the words, the grid it sits on, the colours it uses, the subject, the light.
福. The red "福" character immediately sets the theme, instinctively evoking New Year and family reunion, making people stop scrolling.
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Keep all five layers and swap what’s under them: your shop, your budget, your city. You get four covers and the post text.
Verbatim. Copy it, or let Queenie swap in your own details.
Referencing the case study "AI Images Enter a New Era"—its old photo restoration approach, period texture, visual storytelling, and publishing tone—generate a new set of retro old-photo image-and-text content. New theme: {fill in the photo theme you want to restore, rebuild, or recreate} Reference platform: Xiaohongshu Content direction: retro old-photo image-and-text Creation method: retain the original case's nostalgic emotion, film/photo-paper texture, character relationships, era-specific scene feel, and restoration constraints; if it's photo restoration, it must stay faithful to the original image's identity, facial features, composition, and historical context, avoiding excessive beautification, redrawing, false historical information, and a modern digital plastic look. Please output: 1. Cover title and subtitle; 2. A 6-9 page image-and-text script, each page including a visual description, main copy, era/texture keywords, and a save prompt; 3. Visual prompts that can be used directly for image generation or photo restoration, specifying requirements for characters, scene, lighting, film grain, damage repair, and color restoration; 4. Publishing suggestions: title length, tags, image aspect ratio, and platform tone. Constraints: do not replicate the original author, original people, or brand logos; do not fabricate historical facts; when involving photos of real people, prioritize identity consistency, and do not make them younger, beautify, slim the face, or alter facial features.
