{"id":"vis-tch-class-book-style-guide","audience":"teachers","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"examples","title":"Write a reusable style guide for a class picture book","free":false,"task":"Your 2nd graders are making a class picture book, and each pair will generate one page with ChatGPT. Get Claude to write a style guide as exactly 6 numbered lines, plain text, under 150 words, labeled Style, Colors, Characters, Backgrounds, Shape and Avoid. It must give the 4 hex colors, say 4:3, describe Bramble the fox the same way for every page, and the Avoid line must rule out text in the image and famous characters.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Class book project - \"Bramble's Big Day\" (Room 12, Mr. Ortiz)\n\nEach of 12 student pairs gets one page. They type their scene, plus our shared style guide, into the image tool. Last year every page looked totally different (one was 3D, one was anime, one was a photo) and the book looked like a mess.\n\nMain character: Bramble, a small red fox with a white-tipped tail, green rain boots and a yellow backpack. (In the first draft Bramble wore a blue scarf; the class voted to drop it.)\n\nLook we agreed on: soft colored-pencil illustration, rounded friendly shapes, lots of white space.\n\nClass palette:\n- fox orange #E76F2E\n- leaf green #6A994E\n- sky blue #8ECAE6\n- sunny yellow #FFD166\n\nBackgrounds: simple, a few shapes only, so the words fit on the page.\nPages: landscape, 4:3. We print the words below the picture ourselves.\n\nKids keep asking to add their favorite cartoon characters as Bramble's friends.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":6},{"type":"maxWords","max":150},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Writing a paragraph","why":"The AI writes a friendly description that's hard for 7-year-olds to copy.","fix":"Add: \"Exactly 6 numbered lines labeled Style, Colors, Characters, Backgrounds, Shape, Avoid.\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"Colors by name","why":"\"Warm oranges and greens\" gives different colors on every page.","fix":"Add: \"Give the 4 hex codes.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Old character details","why":"The AI keeps the blue scarf from the first draft.","fix":"Add: \"Bramble: red fox, white-tipped tail, green rain boots, yellow backpack. No scarf.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"No Avoid line","why":"Pages end up with garbled words and cartoon characters.","fix":"Add: \"Avoid: text, letters, famous or cartoon characters, 3D, photos.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Bold labels","why":"The AI bolds each label, which pastes badly.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, under 110 words.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Asks for labeled lines","patterns":["labeled","style:","\\b(6|six)\\b.{0,15}lines"]},{"label":"Gives hex colors","patterns":["#E76F2E","hex"]},{"label":"Sets the shape","patterns":["4\\s*:\\s*3"]},{"label":"Describes the character","patterns":["white[- ]tipped","rain boots"]},{"label":"Adds an Avoid line","patterns":["avoid"]}],"hint":"A style guide only works if it's short and identical for every page. Ask for labeled lines with exact colors, one fixed character description, and what to avoid.","rubricLabels":["Has the 6 labeled lines in order: Style, Colors, Characters, Backgrounds, Shape, Avoid","The Colors line gives all 4 hex codes (#E76F2E, #6A994E, #8ECAE6, #FFD166) and the Shape line says 4:3","The Characters line describes Bramble (red fox, white-tipped tail, green rain boots, yellow backpack, no blue scarf) and the Avoid line rules out text in the image and famous or cartoon characters"]}