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close-up portrait composition — Oversized title, condensed type, stacked lines

L3438 · close-up portrait composition — Oversized title, condensed type, stacked lines. Explore the reference image and prompt, then open this composition in the layout tool.

L3438 · Oversized title, condensed type, stacked lines

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L3438

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A vintage film-noir illustrated movie poster split between an oversized gunman and a full-length glamorous adult woman, set against flat blocks of bright yellow and deep green. The left third of the frame is a flat, saturated yellow field. In the upper-left quadrant, a large painted close-up of an adult man's face appears in three-quarter view, his wavy dark hair swept back, his green eyes glancing upward to the right, dramatic painted shadows carving his cheekbones. At the lower-left corner, his hand grips a black pistol, the barrel angled diagonally upward across the yellow field. He wears a dark collared shirt, its shoulder visible at the bottom of the portrait. His raised brow and parted lips give the painted face a wary, defiant look. Along the vertical seam, the yellow and green fields meet in a crisp straight edge. On the right side of the frame, the background is a flat, deep emerald green. In the center-right, a standing adult woman with platinum-blonde waved hair poses with one hand near her chin, holding a thin cigarette between the fingers of a long black glove. She wears a strapless, sparkling red evening gown, its bodice dotted with painted star-like highlights, and a matching long black glove on her other arm, which bends behind her back with the elbow jutting out. Her crimson lips and arched brows are rendered in the same bold illustrative style. In the upper-right corner, her blonde hair glows against the dark green. Across the middle-right of the frame, two lines of yellow uppercase condensed text present two "ACTOR NAME" billing lines, stacked one above the other. Below the billing, a very large "TITLE" in white letters with a thick red outline is stacked in two centered lines, dominating the lower-right quadrant. The white title letters cast a subtle red drop shadow onto the green background. At the bottom of the frame, the green field continues unbroken beneath the title. The lighting is bold poster-paint illumination, with dramatic painted highlights carving the man's face out of shadow and a glossy sheen on the woman's gown, all rendered in flat, high-saturation color. The composition balances the oversized gunman on the left against the full-length woman on the right across the hard vertical color divide, in a vintage pulp-illustration style whose palette of lemon yellow, emerald green, and signal red carries a mood of hardboiled glamour.