Realistic Photo to Flat Illustration Style Transfer

Starting from a realistic reference photo, use the GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst image editing pipeline to redraw it as a flat vector-style illustration while preserving the subject's pose, compositional framework, and key color relationships. Sunburst trades longer generation time for detail fidelity, making it suitable for illustration finalization scenarios that require repeated fine-tuning: editorial copy illustrations, brand visual extensions, and concept draft style exploration. The work demonstrates the stylistic range achievable with the minimal input combination of "reference image + style instruction," allowing developers to judge which parts of the source image's information are retained and which are discarded during flattening.

Style Illustration · style-transfer · editorial-ai

Model GPT Image 2.5

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Reinterpret the reference photo as a flat vector illustration: simplify the subject into bold geometric shapes with hard, crisp edges; replace the gradients in the photo with two to three flat color blocks per form; keep the original pose, composition, and dominant color relationships unchanged; remove fine textures and photographic noise; overlay a subtle paper-grain texture; leave clean negative space; use a magazine-poster-style composition; crop to 16:9; add no outlines except where needed to distinguish shapes.

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