Field School guide · Style study

Three directions, on your real content

Same hero, same illustrations, same words from the guide. Only the type, colour and layout treatment change, so you can judge the feel, not a lorem-ipsum mock. Open each one, then tell me which to build for real.

Pick a direction

The three looks

Each opens a full page built with the actual Jelsa harbour hero and three real spots (Mina Beach, L'Amore gelato, Fontana). A switcher at the top of every page lets you flip between them.

Direction A · my pick

Illustrated field journal

Editorial serif headlines (Fraunces), a film-grain wash to unify the art, illustrations given room to breathe. Warm and hand-made, matched to your painted images.

Open A →

Direction B

Modern transit guide

Leans into the numbered-pin idea as a wayfinding system: station chips, a colour-coded line legend, tabular numerals, poster-flat blocks. Cool and systematic.

Open B →

Direction C · lowest risk

Sharpened, as-is

Your current layout, tightened: a grotesk with more edge (Hanken), the grain wash, and a gentle scroll-in motion. Minimal change, a little more polish.

Open C →

For re-rendering your photos

ChatGPT image briefs

Since the illustrations come from your own photos, here are paste-ready prompts to regenerate them in each direction's style. Attach your photo, paste the prompt, and swap the bold bit for what the photo shows.

One tip that matters more than the wording: render every image with the same prompt and settings in one sitting. Consistency across the set is what makes it look designed rather than a pile of AI pictures.

Direction A · Illustrated field journal

Warm, painterly, hand-made. Closest to what you already have, just more unified.

Turn this photo into a hand-painted travel illustration of the Jelsa harbour: stone houses, terracotta roofs, moored boats and a church tower. Soft gouache and watercolour, visible brushwork, gentle soft edges, warm late-afternoon Mediterranean light. Muted Adriatic palette: teal water, sage-green hills, warm stone, small coral accents. Light paper grain, calm and editorial, like an illustrated field journal. Wide landscape composition. No text, no lettering, no logos.

Direction B · Modern transit guide

Flat, graphic, poster-like. The biggest departure from your current art.

Turn this photo into a flat vector travel-poster illustration of the Jelsa harbour and church tower. Bold geometric shapes, strong clean silhouettes, minimal detail, a limited flat palette of deep teal, coral, cream and indigo. No gradients, crisp edges, a very subtle grain. Mid-century transit-poster and Monocle-magazine feel. Wide landscape composition. No text, no lettering, no logos.

Direction C · Sharpened

Keeps your images natural, just graded to feel like one set.

Lightly stylise this photo of the Jelsa harbour into a clean, semi-realistic illustration. Keep it natural and bright, with a soft painterly polish and a cohesive cool-and-warm grade: teal water, warm stone, sage hills. Subtle film grain, editorial and understated. Wide landscape composition. No text, no lettering, no logos.