Halyard Sardines, Lunch by the Water

A candid lunch-table photograph of an invented tinned-sardine brand whose four lines of packaging copy came out exactly as written.

GPT Image is the model to reach for when the words on the product have to be right. Give it the copy line by line and it sets that copy on the pack in a believable typeface, while the rest of the frame stays an ordinary photograph: sun on a zinc table, crumbs, a sweating glass. Here an invented sardine brand's four lines read letter for letter on the first take.

To make your own, write the scene the way it would really be photographed and put the exact copy in its own lines, saying there should be no other words. Pick GPT Image in the model picker or name it in your brief. Check every word at full size before you use the still; to change one line later, ask for an edit of this image rather than a new one, so the scene holds.

An open tin of sardines in olive oil on brown paper on a round zinc café table by the sea, with torn bread, a lemon wedge, a fork and a glass of white wine; beside it a teal box reading HALYARD, Sardines in olive oil with lemon & pepper, 120 g, with a line drawing of a fish

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