Photo Revival
Redraws throwaway snapshots as small poetic pencil-and-watercolour sketches floating on blank paper.
Travellers / Journalers / Social creators

Preview: example output from dacnay816y62-hub/photo-revival by dacnay816y62-hub, reproduced under the MIT licence.
Suggested prompts
Written by PicGens as starting points. Click one to copy it, then paste it to your agent once the skill is installed.
About this skill
Photo Revival (废片焕新, roughly “new life for rejected shots”) takes the everyday photos that never make it into an album — a cat on a bed, a plate of food, a street corner, a fragment of a trip — and redraws them as delicate hand-drawn pieces. The skill first picks out the one to three details that make the moment memorable, then keeps the subject, pose and spatial relationships while rendering them in pencil, watercolour or dry brush.
The composition is deliberately small: the drawing fills only a modest part of a 3:4 page, with most of the paper left blank, a short handwritten Chinese caption and an English field note. The author is explicit that this is a fresh redraw through the host’s image tool rather than a filter laid over the photo. The README includes a complete English prompt template and fixes for common failures such as an oversized subject, garbled lettering or colour bleeding.
What it makes
A 3:4 white-paper page with a small hand-drawn illustration of your photo and a short caption.
Before you install: An agent that can generate or edit images.
From the project README
Reproduced from dacnay816y62-hub/photo-revival by dacnay816y62-hub under the MIT licence.
废片焕新 · Photo Revival
FANTASY / 梵想美学 · 摄影与照片转译
把生活照片转译成白纸上的小幅手绘,保留记忆点,以大量留白与少量诗性文字重新组织画面。
快速开始 · 下载与安装 · 完整规则 · 全部视觉 Skills
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一分钟开始
| 你提供 | 这套 Skill 组织的交付 |
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| 生活随拍、物件、街角或旅行照片 | 3:4 白纸手绘插画页,主体小、留白多 |
用 $photo-revival 把这张照片重新画成白纸上的小幅水彩手绘。保留主体与空间关系,主体约占整页 10–16%,文字只留一句很小的中文批注。
生成说明: Skill 组织设计判断、提示词与执行流程;图片由当前环境中可用的图像工具生成或编辑。示例用于理解视觉方向,具体来源以本仓库记录为准,不能据此保证每次得到相同效果。
下载与安装
- 下载并解压仓库。
- 将仓库根目录(包含
SKILL.md)放入当前助手支持的技能目录。 - 安装文件夹命名为
photo-revival,确保入口是photo-revival/SKILL.md。 - 在支持技能调用的会话中使用
$photo-revival。如果列表未刷新,新开一个任务。
Codex CLI / IDE 的用户级目录是 ~/.agents/skills/,项目级目录是 .agents/skills/;Windows 用户目录可写为 %USERPROFILE%\.agents\skills\。以 OpenAI 官方安装说明 为准。ChatGPT 与其他宿主请按各自的技能加载方式使用。
仓库名与调用名可能不同,以上以 SKILL.md 中的名称为准。安装不包含图像服务、账户或生成额度;实际出图取决于你使用的环境。
核心效果
- 3:4 竖构图
- 白色或近白纸张底图
- 80-88% 大面积留白
- 主体插画只占画面 10-16%
- 主体最大不超过整页 18%
- 色彩只集中在这一小块插画区域
- 手绘笔触:铅笔、水彩、干刷、蜡笔、轻微 risograph 颗粒
- 少量中英文手写小字、日期、field note
一句话:把照片重新画成一页诗,而不是把照片修成插画。
适合做什么
- 随手拍、废片、日常照片
- 小猫、食物、杯子、窗户、楼道、旧店、街角
- 旅行碎片、建筑、树、桥、庭院、器物
- 传统文化、非遗、民俗、手作、地方记忆
- 想保留真实主体,但希望画面变得更文艺、更轻、更有纸感
不适合做什么
- 写真人像精修
- 商业产品大海报
- 大标题视觉海报
- 满版拼贴
- 密集信息图
- 需要严格还原原照片像素的修复任务
中文操作指南
下面是从安装到出图的一套完整中文流程。
基础用法
在 Codex 里上传一张照片,然后像平常聊天一样说就行:
用 $photo-revival,把这张照片画成那种白纸留白的小手绘插画。
稍微具体一点可以这样说:
用 $photo-revival 处理这张照片,保留主体和氛围,但重新画成大留白、白纸质感、带一点诗意小字的手绘插画。
如果要批量测试,可以说:
用 $photo-revival 随机测试这几张照片,每张都保持白纸大留白,小小一块手绘插画,文字少一点、有诗气一点。
默认情况下,这个 skill 会自己控制比例:主体很小、留白很多、颜色集中在局部。只有结果跑偏时,才需要使用下面的更严格提示词。
推荐工作流
- 上传照片。
- 先识别照片里最重要的 1-3 个记忆点。
- 保留这些记忆点:主体、姿态、空间关系、关键物件、情绪。
- 用图像生成重新绘制,不要做本地滤镜或简单风格迁移。
- 输出 3:4 竖图。
- 检查主体是否过大。如果超过 18%,重新生成。
- 检查文字是否过大、重复、乱码。如果有问题,重新生成或减少文字。
通用提示词模板
Transform the reference photo into a 3:4 vertical poetic hand-drawn illustration page on clean white textured paper.
Preserve:
<照片中必须保留的主体、姿态、空间、物件、氛围>
Redraw:
Turn the photo into a fresh hand-drawn illustration, not a photorealistic edit and not a filter.
Composition:
The illustrated subject occupies only 10-16% of the full page, absolute maximum 18%.
Keep 80-88% of the page as untouched blank white paper.
Place the small illustration slightly below center or gently off-center.
Texture:
Use pencil line, watercolor wash, dry brush, wax pastel edges, light print grain, and subtle paper texture.
Color:
Use vivid color only inside the small illustrated area.
Do not spread color into the blank white-paper field.
Text:
Add tiny handwritten caption: "<一句短中文诗句>"
Add tiny English note: "<FIELD NOTE / DATE>"
The text must be very small, handwritten, imperfect, and part of the image.
Avoid:
full-bleed photo, photo-filter look, large portrait crop, subject larger than 18%, dense collage, old yellow paper, big typography, duplicated text.
示例文案
可以把中文小字写得短一点,像页边批注:
- 圆镜里藏着今天
- 猫把夜晚抱住
- 风从旧店门口经过
- 蓝里藏着风
- 一剪春天醒了
- 竹声很轻
- 影子也会唱戏
英文小字适合做成档案感:
FIELD NOTE / 08.02SOFT MEMORYPAPER STUDYQUIET ROOMHAND MEMORYDAILY ARCHIVE
样张画廊
![]() 汽车页 |
![]() 花树 |
![]() 月洞门 |
![]() 相机笔记 |
![]() 泡泡 |
![]() 塔 |
![]() 红色自行车 |
![]() 跑步者 |
![]() 城市天际线 |
![]() 一碗食物 |
![]() 道路记忆 |
![]() 旧店 |
![]() 床上的猫 |
![]() 面具舞 |
![]() 车窗 |
![]() 山与牦牛 |
![]() 田野笔记 |
常见问题
主体太大怎么办?
重新生成,并把约束写得更硬:
The illustrated subject must occupy only 10-16% of the full page.
Absolute maximum subject area is 18%.
Keep 80-88% of the page blank white paper.
文字重复或乱码怎么办?
减少文字,只保留一句中文和一个英文日期。文字必须“小、少、像手写批注”,不要当成海报标题。
生成结果像照片滤镜怎么办?
强调:
This must be newly redrawn as an illustration, not a filtered version of the photo.
颜色铺太满怎么办?
强调:
Color must stay localized inside the tiny illustrated area.
The blank paper field remains white.
文件说明
SKILL.md:Codex skill 的核心指令。agents/openai.yaml:Codex 展示用元数据。examples/:公开样张。
License
MIT
FANTASY / 梵想美学
让想象先被看见。 将视觉判断与创作流程整理成可以继续使用的方法。
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How to install Photo Revival
1.Manual install
Download the repository as a ZIP and place it in your agent’s skills folder as a folder named photo-revival (for Codex, ~/.agents/skills/).
Licence and attribution
Photo Revival is created and maintained by dacnay816y62-hub and published at github.com/dacnay816y62-hub/photo-revival under the MIT licence. The summary, suggested prompts and “About this skill” text are written by PicGens; the README section is reproduced under the project’s licence. The preview is an example image from the repository, reproduced under its licence. PicGens is not affiliated with the author.
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