# Quiet scenes in paper and ink

> Four zine pages pair architecture and winter photos with sparse figure drawings: torn edges, faded blue print, charcoal grain and small yellow or red accents on cream paper. Made with two Codex image skills.

- Kind: Slides
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/torn-paper-zine-pages-from-photos/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/torn-paper-zine-pages-from-photos/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/torn-paper-zine-pages-from-photos/prompt.txt
- Authorship: AI-made, per the source
- Made with: Codex
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Skills or plugins: scenes-gathered-zine-v1-3, scene-distillation-zine-v1-3
- Style: Zines; paper collage, torn edges, editorial illustration, dry ink, negative space, muted colors, photomontage
- Slides: 4
- Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions.
- Shared by Zeejay0 in GitHub, Aug 1, 2026: https://github.com/Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

Requirements reported by the source: The skill installed in Codex; Your own photo; An image generation tool in the agent.

## Recreating this deck

These are the creator's published instructions, unedited.

## Prompts

### 1. Prompt

```text
用 $scenes-gathered-zine-v1-3 把这张照片做成一张拾景纸刊海报。
保留人物与海岸线的关系，文字用中文。
```

### 2. Follow-up 1

```text
用 $scene-distillation-zine-v1-3 重新创作这张照片。
不要保留照片本身，让作品表达“靠近与错过”。
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator.

Quiet editorial zine aesthetic combining photo-based scenes, rough paper edges, and subtly grainy print textures.

- Color: Muted cream and pale blue, with deep navy, charcoal, and occasional warm yellow or red accents.
- Type: Small, understated monospaced captions and sparse text, used as part of the page design.
- Framing: Full-page collage layouts with layered image fragments, broad areas of negative space, and subjects placed off-center.
- Structure: A sequence of distinct collage pages: a city and rooftop tower, a waterside scene, and spare figures-and-landscape compositions.

Storyboard of the slides: https://meetreference.com/media/torn-paper-zine-pages-from-photos/storyboard.webp

- Slide 1: https://meetreference.com/media/torn-paper-zine-pages-from-photos/f1.webp
- Slide 2: https://meetreference.com/media/torn-paper-zine-pages-from-photos/f2.webp
- Slide 3: https://meetreference.com/media/torn-paper-zine-pages-from-photos/f3.webp
- Slide 4: https://meetreference.com/media/torn-paper-zine-pages-from-photos/f4.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- Notes: Two Codex image skills: "Gathered Scenes" keeps the real photo as an anchor inside torn-paper collage; "Scene Distillation" drops the photo and re-creates it as a minimal editorial illustration. Each example folder has the source photo, the observation notes and the result.

## Links

- Watch: https://github.com/Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill
- Original post: https://github.com/Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill