# Narrative Outpainting: expand the frame and continue the story

Extend an image beyond its borders while preserving the original composition and adding a coherent continuation of its world and action.

## Prompt

```text
Use case: story-aware image outpainting
Input image: the attached image, the image to extend
Target aspect ratio: {{target_aspect_ratio}}
Expansion direction: {{expansion_direction}}
Story elements to reveal: {{story_elements}}

Primary request: Expand the attached image toward {{expansion_direction}} into {{target_aspect_ratio}}, revealing {{story_elements}} as a natural continuation of the existing moment.

Original preservation: Keep the original image content, subjects, faces, pose, crop relationships, color, sharpness, and internal composition unchanged wherever possible.

World continuation: Extend architecture, landscape, horizon, surfaces, patterns, weather, crowd flow, and object trajectories using the same perspective, scale, depth, and spatial logic.

Narrative 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.

Image matching: Continue lighting direction, shadows, reflections, atmospheric perspective, depth of field, motion blur, grain, lens distortion, and edge detail seamlessly across the former border.

Constraints: 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.

Output: Return only one seamless expanded image in {{target_aspect_ratio}}.
```

## Examples

### A tight source frame expanded into a wider story

Source image: https://picoprompt.app/examples/advanced/narrative-outpainting-before.png  
Result: https://picoprompt.app/covers/narrative-outpainting.png

Category: Image  
Author: @picoprompt (official)  
Model: Image model with outpainting support  
Canonical URL: https://picoprompt.app/p/narrative-outpainting