Handcrafted 3D Travel Diorama

SkillMedia

Turn uploaded photos into full-canvas 3:4 handcrafted travel diorama posters. Use for papercraft models, tactile miniature travel scenes, or when this skill is invoked.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Handcrafted 3D Travel Diorama skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by gz-l/photo-to-poster-skills in skills/papercraft-travel-diorama/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Delivery

  • Use the source photo only as a reference for subject, structure, pose, spatial relationships, scene, and color. Stylize the entire final canvas; do not show the original photo or create split-screen or before-and-after layouts.
  • Generate one standalone 3:4 vertical poster per source image. Process multiple images separately; never create a collage.
  • If the user asks only for a prompt, return a ready-to-use generation prompt. Otherwise, use the available image generation or editing capability directly. Ask for an upload only when no reference image is available.
  • Preserve subject identity, count, silhouette, pose, proportions, direction, defining structures, spatial relationships, and narrative context so the result remains immediately traceable to the source. Do not distort, replace, or invent defining features.

Fixed visual specification

Reconstruct the subject and only the few elements that best reinforce its identity and setting as a refined 3D handcrafted miniature scene. Use paper, cardstock, soft clay, or thin wood. Simplify details without mechanically copying the photograph.

  • Build the composition around one dominant subject, one long narrow lightweight floating landscape base, and generous negative space.
  • Adapt height, depth, spacing, density, and left-right balance to the subject's scale, direction, and spatial relationships. Create depth through size variation, layered occlusion, and restrained foreground and background elements.
  • Give the subject the greatest visual weight. Keep supporting models smaller and quieter. Center the visual balance without rigid symmetry.
  • Supporting plants, roads, water, lamps, vehicles, people, birds, or clouds must come from the source or be clearly relevant to its setting. Add no meaningless decoration.

Use a soft, airy, slightly desaturated premium palette led by powder blue, mist blue, sky blue, and other cool atmospheric blues, balanced with ivory, cream, pale beige, muted gray-green, sage, and neutral architectural tones. Use dusty rose or muted blush only as small accents. Keep the palette clean and gentle; avoid muddy gray, yellow casts, or candy saturation.

Emphasize authentic handcraft: visible paper fibers, folds, cut marks, layered thickness, slightly rough edges, and tiny handmade imperfections. Use soft natural diffused light and delicate shadows to reveal miniature volume and macro-photography tactility. Keep the background soft white or extremely pale with abundant clean negative space, like a meticulously photographed premium handcrafted travel postcard.

Derive one short title from a verifiable location, the subject, theme, or mood. Use small, refined lettering with a subtle handwritten quality, preferably in the negative space below the landscape strip. It may follow the base or interact gently with the miniature. Keep it like an artist's signature, never a commercial headline; add no long explanation.

Quality boundaries

Combine premium miniature diorama × handcrafted paper art × light 3D illustration × travel postcard. The result should feel airy, gentle, refined, tactile, and full of everyday life. Avoid visible source photography, collages, plastic CGI, generic toy aesthetics, children's crafts, excessive complexity, overly cute styling, unrelated decoration, e-commerce displays, and templates.

Signals

GitHub stars
21
Last commit
Aug 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
papercraft-travel-diorama
Source
github.com/gz-l/photo-to-poster-skills