Friends Road Trip Contact Sheet Cover

Use my supplied photographs as the only source images. Preserve the identity, actual age, facial proportions and distinguishing features of everyone in each source. Keep pet markings and meaningful scene details when present. Do not substitute generated people or invent missing photographs. Create a carefully composed photo-based memory design in a square 1:1 aspect ratio, following this specific concept: Friends Road Trip Contact Sheet Cover. Composition and Pose Create a three-by-three contact-sheet layout from supplied road-trip photos, retaining their actual people and scenes. Give every frame a consistent slim black border and a small empty caption strip below. Place [TRIP TITLE] in a separate header above the grid with [YEAR] beside it. Clothing, Materials and Styling Warm film tones, charcoal borders and an off-white album background. Background and Lighting Flat scanned-contact-sheet appearance with restrained grain and accurate image proportions. Source Preservation — Highest Priority Preserve each source image's people, actual ages, facial structure, expression and meaningful visual details. Do not merge separate identities, generate new childhood versions, modernise old clothing or erase distinguishing features. Keep photographs within their intended frames without stretching. For damaged regions, recover only supported detail and leave genuinely unknown information conservative. Preserve monochrome sources unless colourisation is explicitly requested. Quality and Finish Maintain clear focal separation, natural scale, correct perspective and consistent illumination throughout the image. Keep anatomy and object construction believable. Render the main subject sharply while allowing only the intended background softness. Preserve subtle detail rather than using excessive sharpening or heavy smoothing. Make the overall visual feel cohesive, carefully composed and suitable for the stated use. Avoid: changed identities, invented people, fabricated dates, altered ages, stretched photographs, facial over-smoothing, excessive sharpening, incorrect image order, covered faces and watermarks. Keep only the text and people explicitly requested in this composition.