{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","name":"Narrative Outpainting: expand the frame and continue the story","abstract":"Extend an image beyond its borders while preserving the original composition and adding a coherent continuation of its world and action.","text":"Use case: story-aware image outpainting\nInput image: the attached image, the image to extend\nTarget aspect ratio: {{target_aspect_ratio}}\nExpansion direction: {{expansion_direction}}\nStory elements to reveal: {{story_elements}}\n\nPrimary request: Expand the attached image toward {{expansion_direction}} into {{target_aspect_ratio}}, revealing {{story_elements}} as a natural continuation of the existing moment.\n\nOriginal preservation: Keep the original image content, subjects, faces, pose, crop relationships, color, sharpness, and internal composition unchanged wherever possible.\n\nWorld continuation: Extend architecture, landscape, horizon, surfaces, patterns, weather, crowd flow, and object trajectories using the same perspective, scale, depth, and spatial logic.\n\nNarrative continuity: Make the new elements causally and emotionally connected to the visible action. Use visual clues already present in the source and avoid introducing a competing focal point.\n\nImage matching: Continue lighting direction, shadows, reflections, atmospheric perspective, depth of field, motion blur, grain, lens distortion, and edge detail seamlessly across the former border.\n\nConstraints: Avoid mirrored or repeated content, stretched textures, duplicated people, abrupt seams, perspective drift, scale errors, invented text, or unrelated spectacle. Add no frame or watermark.\n\nOutput: Return only one seamless expanded image in {{target_aspect_ratio}}.","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Picoprompt","handle":"picoprompt","official":true},"genre":"Image","dateCreated":"2026-09-10T01:09:00.000Z","url":"https://picoprompt.app/p/narrative-outpainting","usage":{"model":"Image model with outpainting support","variables":["target_aspect_ratio","expansion_direction","story_elements"]},"examples":[{"name":"A tight source frame expanded into a wider story","sourceImage":"https://picoprompt.app/examples/advanced/narrative-outpainting-before.png","sourceImages":[{"label":"Source image","image":"https://picoprompt.app/examples/advanced/narrative-outpainting-before.png","alt":"Tightly framed cyclist on a desert road at sunset"}],"outputImage":"https://picoprompt.app/covers/narrative-outpainting.png","sourceAlt":"Tightly framed cyclist on a desert road at sunset","outputAlt":"The cyclist scene expanded into a panoramic desert narrative"}]}