Passport Pop-Up, made with GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
Example made with GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst miniature diorama promptPassport Pop-Up

The exact text-to-image prompt behind this picture, made with GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst.

Prompt

Vertical 4:5 portrait frame. An open worn passport on a wooden desk where each colorful stamp bursts upward into the miniature place it stands for: a tiny lighthouse on a cliff, a desert caravan, a canal city with gondolas, macro photography with warm desk lamp light, whimsical and detailed, no readable text.

Prompts are kept in their original English to help reproduce the example. Copy one as it is, or adapt it for your project.

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Settings

Mode
Text to image
Aspect ratio
4:5
Quality
high
Price
From 2 credits

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Make your own version

  1. For a different mood, rewrite only the light: macro photography with warm desk lamp light.
  2. The prompt ends with no readable text. Leave that in, or the model may add random lettering.

Where this idea comes from

Inspired by an idea from @iamaiistudio, collected in Evolink-AI/awesome-gpt-image-2-API-Prompts under CC0 1.0. PopNow wrote this prompt and made the example above.

Scene prompt guide

How the scene is composed

An open, weathered passport transforms into a tabletop diorama where stamped ink sprouts into three-dimensional travel destinations. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst balances physical tactile textures like textured paper and desk wood with miniature architectural scale. The concept works because macro depth-of-field seamlessly blends the flat stamps with the miniature scenes rising above them.

  1. composition and base subjectVertical 4:5 portrait frame. An open worn passport on a wooden desk

    This establishes the physical surface, orientation, and context of the shot. Removing the desk or the worn quality makes the passport look like a sterile digital graphic floating in void space.

  2. core surreal transitionwhere each colorful stamp bursts upward into the miniature place it stands for:

    This instructs the AI to treat 2D surface ink as the foundation for 3D miniature geometry. Without this mechanic, the generator will simply draw standard flat ink marks on the paper.

  3. miniature scene anchorsa tiny lighthouse on a cliff, a desert caravan, a canal city with gondolas,

    These concrete subjects give the model diverse micro-environments to render with distinct palettes and shapes. Omitting them leads to ambiguous, generic fantasy mounds rather than readable travel motifs.

  4. camera and negative guardrailmacro photography with warm desk lamp light, whimsical and detailed, no readable text.

    This sets close-focus miniature optics, cozier evening lighting, and suppresses garbled AI letterforms on the passport pages. Altering this can result in flat studio illumination and distracting gibberish typography.

Camera and light

The macro perspective and tabletop illumination establish a cozy, believable miniature illusion.

Camera Angle
A close-up three-quarter macro perspective captures both the flat surface of the open passport pages and the vertical height of the rising miniature landmarks.
Lens & Depth
A shallow depth of field keeps the foreground stamps sharp while softening the wooden tabletop behind, reinforcing the micro diorama scale.
Light
Warm incandescent desk lamp lighting creates directional shadows from the tiny structures onto the passport paper, anchoring the surreal elements in reality.
Scale
Keeping the desk wood grain and passport binding realistic ensures the miniature buildings and tiny camels appear convincingly micro-sized.

Variations on the scene

Antique Explorer Map

Replaces the passport with a weathered leather journal and morning window light for a historic expedition feel.

Prompt

Vertical 4:5 portrait frame. An open antique leather journal on a mahogany desk where vintage hand-drawn maps burst upward into miniature 3D landscapes: a snow-capped mountain pass with pine trees, a stormy coastline with a wooden galleon, macro photography with soft morning window light, whimsical and detailed, no readable text.

Top-Down Desk Overview

Switches to an overhead vantage point and twilight atmosphere, emphasizing how the 3D landmarks rise up toward the lens.

Prompt

Vertical 4:5 portrait frame. Overhead bird-eye macro view of an open worn passport on a rustic oak desk, colorful stamps rising vertically into miniature dioramas: a tropical island with palm trees, a medieval walled castle, macro photography under cool twilight lamp light, whimsical and detailed, no readable text.

Midnight Study Glow

Shifts the time to midnight with glowing miniature landmarks illuminated by fairy lights.

Prompt

Vertical 4:5 portrait frame. An open worn passport on a dark walnut desk at midnight where luminous stamps burst upward into glowing miniature scenes: an aurora borealis over snowy tundra, a neon-lit Tokyo crosswalk, macro photography illuminated by tiny fairy lights, whimsical and detailed, no readable text.

Model and settings

Keep the ratio at 4:5 portrait mode because vertical framing gives the miniature landmarks room to grow upward without cropping the passport margins. Set quality to high so GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst renders clean architectural micro-facets, tiny stamp lines, and wood grain without blurring. If adapting this concept for wide desktop wallpapers, adjust the aspect ratio to 16:9 while adding empty desk space on either flank.

  • FLUX.2 ProFLUX.2 Pro is ideal if you want hyper-realistic wood grain and macro photographic textures, leveraging its photoreal image rendering strengths.
  • Nano Banana ProNano Banana Pro is a strong pick when you need strict layout planning across multiple complex miniature landmarks popping out at once.

When the scene falls apart

Miniature buildings look like flat 2D cutouts pasted on top of the passport rather than physical models.
Add 'casting soft directional shadows onto the paper pages' right after 'bursts upward into the miniature place it stands for:'.
The miniature scenes blend together into an illegible, cluttered clump across the passport fold.
Reduce the list of landmarks to two isolated zones, such as 'a tiny snowy peak on the left page and a miniature desert dune on the right page'.
Distorted pseudotext or gibberish stamps cover the passport pages and distract from the dioramas.
Replace 'no readable text' with 'blank aged passport pages, zero text, zero letters, abstract ink patterns only'.

Questions about this scene prompt

How do I make the miniature pop-up scenes look larger or smaller relative to the passport?

Adjust the scale adjectives in the prompt. Replace 'miniature' and 'tiny' with 'dollhouse-scale' or 'fingertip-sized' to shrink them, or describe them as 'towering pop-up sculptures rising above passport edges' to make them grander.

Why are the stamps blending together into one messy landscape instead of separate miniatures?

The model sometimes groups multiple location descriptions into a single hybrid landmass. To fix this, explicitly assign one vignette to the left page and one to the right page so the AI clearly separates their boundaries.

Can I specify real-world landmarks instead of generic scenes?

Yes, you can swap generic descriptions for distinct monuments like the Eiffel Tower or the Taj Mahal. Keep the descriptor 'miniature' before each landmark name so the model maintains the micro-scale diorama aesthetic.