# Medium book mockup — references and prompts

Attach two images to any AI image tool (GPT Image 2, Nano Banana, Seedream): your finished cover as image 1, and one of the blank-book references in this folder as image 2. Send the two role instructions below, then the prompt block for the angle you want.

## Image 1 — your cover

Use this as the cover artwork reference. Take the artwork from this image and apply it to the front cover face of the rendered book — reproduce it pixel-faithfully with exact colors, typography, and graphical elements. Preserve every text element on the cover exactly as it appears (wording, font, size, color, layout, and position); do not regenerate, restyle, or relayout any text. This image is a flat artwork file — do NOT let it dictate the rendered book's 3D orientation, perspective, depth, or angle (those come from the scene description below). Do not modify, stylize, restyle, or reinterpret the design; treat it as the literal cover to apply onto the rendered book's front face.

## Image 2 — blank book reference

Use this as the book-form reference. Take the identity of the book from this image and apply it to the rendered book — match its orientation, angle, perspective, and physical proportions exactly. The depth shown on the side face is load-bearing: match that depth proportion precisely, even if it looks unusually thin or thick for a book — do NOT normalize toward an average book thickness. This image is a photographic reference of a blank-cover book — copy its pose, depth, and physical form. The output background and lighting come from the scene fields, with the book-form reference contributing only the book's pose and proportions. The front cover face shown here is intentionally blank; do NOT copy the blank white cover onto the rendered book — the actual artwork to apply to the front cover comes from the cover artwork reference.

## Prompt, by angle

Every angle uses the same two role instructions above; only the prompt block changes. The first line sets the medium thickness.

### Straight-on

```text
A medium-thickness book — the page-stack reads as a moderate block on the depth-side, clearly thicker than a thin book and thinner than a thick one.

Scene: A single closed softcover book isolated against a clean white field, centered in the frame. The front cover face is perfectly parallel to the image plane and squared to the camera, so the viewer sees a true dead-on front view with no visible tabletop or surface. The camera lens axis is exactly perpendicular to the cover face. The cover face fills the frame, squared to the frame edges, top and bottom of the cover parallel to the top and bottom of the frame. The front cover face shows the cover artwork from the attached reference image, reproduced pixel-faithfully from edge to edge.

Lighting: Soft high-key diffuse studio lighting aimed straight at the cover face, producing bright uniform exposure across the cover artwork and surrounding white field. All typography and artwork detail remain clean and readable without washout.

Mood: Premium, clean, editorial.

Background: Clean white field, perfectly uniform across the frame. The book is the only element in view, with crisp sharp edges all around its silhouette and bright white negative space around it.

Composition: Cover face squared to the frame, centered, occupying roughly sixty-five to seventy-five percent of the vertical height. Top and bottom edges of the cover parallel to the top and bottom of the frame.

Camera: 50mm camera positioned directly above the book, looking straight down. Lens axis perpendicular to the cover face. Sharp focus across the cover.

Aspect ratio: 4:5.
```

### Corner hang

```text
A medium-thickness book — the page-stack reads as a moderate block on the depth-side, clearly thicker than a thin book and thinner than a thick one.

Scene: A single closed softcover book floating freely in mid-air, centered in the frame, with the front cover face squared dead-on to the camera. The book is rotated clockwise (in screen space) by twenty-eight degrees within the picture plane — the top-LEFT corner is the highest point of the book, the top-RIGHT corner sits lower, the bottom-RIGHT corner is the lowest point. The top edge slopes from upper-left (high) down to upper-right (low), as if the book is dangling diagonally from its top-left corner. The full front cover face is the visible surface at this diagonal angle. Do not show the spine, spine fold, hinge, left-side folded strip, or any wrapped side panel; this is the no-spine cover-facing recipe. Any physical thickness should read from the lower page-edge cue in the book-form reference, not from a visible spine. The front cover face shows the cover artwork from the attached reference image, reproduced pixel-faithfully from edge to edge.

Lighting: Soft high-key diffuse studio lighting aimed straight at the cover face, perpendicular to the cover plane rather than the frame. The light follows the diagonal cover orientation, producing bright uniform exposure across the cover artwork and surrounding white field while all typography and artwork detail remain clean and readable without washout.

Mood: Premium, dynamic, editorial — a weightless, suspended feel.

Background: Clean white field, perfectly uniform across the frame. The book floats alone against it with crisp sharp edges all around its silhouette.

Composition: Cover face fully visible and centered, occupying roughly sixty to seventy percent of the frame. The book's top-LEFT corner is the highest point in the frame; the body of the book extends down and to the right toward the bottom-RIGHT corner. The left edge remains just the front cover silhouette, with no spine band or folded side face.

Camera: Eye-level 50mm camera, lens axis perfectly horizontal and perpendicular to the cover face. Sharp focus across the cover.

Aspect ratio: 4:5.
```

### Three-quarter

```text
A medium-thickness book — the page-stack reads as a moderate block on the depth-side, clearly thicker than a thin book and thinner than a thick one.

Scene: A single closed softcover book floating mid-air, centered in the frame. The book stands perfectly upright, top and bottom edges horizontal across the frame. The book is rotated thirty degrees around its vertical axis with the front cover face presented toward the right of the camera. The page-edge foredge shows as a vertical stripe along the right side of the book. The spine sits behind the book on the back-left, occluded by the cover. The front cover face shows the cover artwork from the attached reference image, reproduced pixel-faithfully from edge to edge.

Lighting: Soft completely diffuse lighting aimed straight at the cover face, perpendicular to the cover plane rather than perpendicular to the camera. Because the cover is angled away from the camera, the light also comes from that same angled direction, producing uniform brightness across the cover artwork and a clean white field. The cover face and foredge stripe read at a bright, clean exposure with consistent tonal value, while preserving all cover artwork and text detail without washout.

Mood: Premium, dynamic, editorial.

Background: Clean white field, perfectly uniform across the frame. The book floats alone against it with crisp sharp edges all around its silhouette.

Composition: Book centered in the frame, occupying roughly fifty-five to sixty-five percent of the vertical height. The book stands upright and level. The full front cover face stays unobstructed; the foredge reads as a vertical page-edge stripe along the right side.

Camera: Eye-level 50mm camera, lens axis perfectly horizontal at the book's middle. Sharp focus across the book.

Aspect ratio: 4:5.
```
