Couple's Keepsake Montage

Facial likeness comes first. Use the attached couple photo only to identify the same two adults, the exact man and the exact woman. Preserve each person's hairline, haircut, hair texture and colour, brows, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, cheeks, jaw, chin, age, skin tone, distinguishing marks and existing facial hair or its absence. Do not swap, merge, beautify, slim or replace their faces. The reference is an identity source, not a pose or setting template.

Create one finished vertical 9:16 two-panel keepsake. The upper 52 percent is a full-width real photograph; the lower 48 percent is its designed paper-art companion, joined by a clean horizontal seam. Fill the canvas: no black screenshot margins, letterboxing, phone interface or extra panels. There are exactly two people in each panel: the same couple appears once above and once below, four depictions of only two identities.

In the upper photograph: An unfurnished first apartment with white walls, a large sunny window, pale flooring and two open, unmarked moving boxes. A rolled blue rug and a small leafy plant hint at the home taking shape. The floor around the couple is clear and clean, with no piles hiding their bodies. He wears a washed denim-blue shirt over a white T-shirt and comfortable charcoal trousers. She wears a terracotta cotton overshirt over a white top with dark denim trousers. Both outfits are casual, intact and natural. They sit on the floor against the wall, him on the viewer's right and her on the viewer's left, shoulders resting gently together and knees bent comfortably. His right hand holds a small ring with two plain house keys over his own right knee; his left palm supports him on the floor beside his hip. Her left hand rests on his right forearm below the elbow, and her right hand rests open on her own knee. Keep the keys below both faces. Photograph from a low seated eye level with a 65mm perspective, including their heads, hands and bent knees. Both look toward the lens with relieved, happy smiles that retain natural facial asymmetry. Soft window daylight from front-left spreads across both faces. Use gentle reflected light from the empty white walls, avoiding hard stripes or deep backlit silhouettes. Preserve true skin texture, real fabric weight, sharp eyes and natural adult body proportions. Keep the important gesture fully inside this panel rather than cutting hands at the seam.

In the lower panel, use a carefully masked photographic cutout of the exact upper-panel couple and their pose, preserving the original facial pixels and natural skin detail, with a fine white cut edge on pale sky-blue scrapbook paper with one flat kraft-paper strip behind the lowest part of the cutout. Repeat the precise photographed moment: same left-right positions, face angles, expressions, clothes, hand ownership and props. Do not mirror the couple or invent a second pose. Keep them large in the centre and lower portion, with clean side spaces for lettering; simplify the background instead of reducing the people to tiny figures. Only the surrounding paper and doodles are illustrated; both people remain photographic. Small line drawings of a roof, a key ring and two open cardboard-box flaps occupy the lower corners. Two short pieces of plain yellow paper tape secure only the paper strip, never the couple's faces.

Letter only the lower panel, using legible deep navy-charcoal handwriting with open letterforms and restrained flourishes. In the empty left area, print these exact lines from top to bottom: "Not settled" then "yet.". In the empty right area, print these exact lines from top to bottom: "Already home.". Quotation marks are instructions, not printed characters. Preserve spelling, punctuation and line order; render each caption once, large enough to read on a phone. Text and doodles must not overlap faces, hair, hands or each other. Leave comfortable outer margins; keep the photograph free of lettering.

Each person has two anatomically plausible arms and hands within each panel; fingers and touching limbs remain distinct, and cropped anatomy continues naturally. Add no bystanders, reflected people, extra limbs, speech bubbles, extra captions, logos, watermarks, dates, numbers or unrelated writing. Match both identities between panels before adding ornament; reduce doodles, never likeness or caption readability, when space is tight.