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A Receipt That Sounds Like an Old Abacus

A café receipt shot with more care than a ledger — marble tabletop, a blurred cup rim, oddly elegant for something this small.

GPT Image 2 Macro photography Still life photography Shallow depth of field Realistic texture

Prompt notes

✍️ The trick here is getting the text exact, character for character — punctuation is where models slip most. The blurred cup rim against the crisp paper is what pulls in the depth, so the receipt doesn't read as a flat screenshot; it gets some of that old-fashioned invoice gravity instead.

Full prompt

📋 Prompt Natural Language609 characters

A photorealistic macro photograph centers on a long narrow paper receipt from a café, slightly curled on a marble table beside the blurred rim of a coffee cup. The receipt's small monospace type reads "THE HAPPIES CAFÉ" and "TUE 14 MAR · 09:42 · REGISTER 2" at the top, followed by the item lines "1× OAT LATTE — 4.50", "1× SCONE, BUTTERED — 3.00", "1× REGRET — FREE", "2× NAP TIME — 0.00", a total line "TOTAL — 7.50", and at the very bottom the small line "THANK YOU, COME AGAIN". Soft morning light falls across the crisp paper texture, the coffee cup's edge softly blurred in the corner, 2:3 aspect ratio.

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