{"id":"vis-re-just-sold-postcard","audience":"real-estate","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"constraints","title":"Get postcard art that leaves room for the mailing panel","free":false,"task":"You're mailing \"Just Sold\" postcards and want the front art from Gemini. Get Claude to write one paste-ready prompt, plain text, under 130 words: a prompt paragraph plus a last line starting \"Avoid:\". It must say landscape 3:2, keep the right third plain for the address panel, allow only the text \"JUST SOLD\", show a watercolor house described exactly as the real one, and name both hex colors.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Postcard job - 27 Alder Lane\n\nThe house: one-story craftsman bungalow, sage green siding, white trim, wide front porch with tapered columns, red front door, low stone wall along the sidewalk, big oak tree on the right.\n\nCard: 6 x 4 inches, landscape. Postal rules: the right part of the front holds the address and stamp area, so it needs to be plain.\n\nLook: soft watercolor illustration, not a photo (our office does illustrated cards).\n\nBrand colors: deep teal #0F4C5C, warm gold #E3A72F.\n\nIdeas:\n- My assistant: \"Add 'SOLD IN 6 DAYS! 4 OFFERS! Call Jen 555-0142' on the art.\"\n- The previous postcard showed a two-story colonial from a stock site; a neighbor pointed out it wasn't the house.\n- Seller asked us not to show the house number.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":130},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Generic house","why":"The AI draws any pretty house, which neighbors will notice isn't the one sold.","fix":"Describe it: \"one-story sage green craftsman, red door, tapered porch columns.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Too much text","why":"The AI adds the offers and phone number, which image tools garble.","fix":"Add: \"The only text is JUST SOLD.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Forgetting the mail panel","why":"Art across the whole card leaves no room for the address.","fix":"Add: \"Landscape 3:2, right third plain.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"No colors, no exclusions","why":"The AI skips brand colors and the house number warning.","fix":"Add: \"#0F4C5C and #E3A72F. Avoid: house number, people, extra text.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Write-up instead of prompt","why":"The AI adds headings and tips.","fix":"Add: \"Output only the prompt and the Avoid line.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets the shape","patterns":["3\\s*:\\s*2","landscape"]},{"label":"Leaves the address area","patterns":["right third","plain"]},{"label":"Limits the text","patterns":["JUST SOLD","only text"]},{"label":"Describes the real house","patterns":["craftsman","sage"]},{"label":"Adds an Avoid line","patterns":["avoid"]}],"hint":"Postcards have a postal layout and neighbors who know the house. Describe it exactly, keep the address area clear, and limit the text.","rubricLabels":["States landscape 3:2 and keeps the right third plain for the address panel","Describes the real house (one-story craftsman bungalow, sage green siding, red door, porch with tapered columns), and the only text it allows is 'JUST SOLD'","Names both hex codes (#0F4C5C and #E3A72F) and ends with a line starting 'Avoid:'"]}