Retro postcard generator

A real 1960s tourist postcard wasn't hand-illustrated — it was a photograph, run through the oversaturated, slightly-fringed photo-chrome printing process of the time. That's the specific look this style targets: punchy saturated color, a soft vignette, and gentle halftone dot texture, applied to your actual photo rather than a hand-drawn approximation of "retro."

It's a different era and a different technique from Snap2Poster's Vintage Travel Poster style, not just a different name for the same thing. Vintage Travel Poster is 1930s-1950s WPA/Art Deco silkscreen — flat illustrated color blocks, bold type, a muted five-color palette. Retro Postcard is 1960s and photographic — punchier color, more saturation, closer to a real photograph than an illustration. If Vintage reads as a travel poster hanging in a train station, Retro Postcard reads as the postcard someone actually mailed home.

One honest limitation, stated upfront rather than discovered after paying: this style deliberately does not add a fake stamp, postmark, or handwritten caption. Early versions sometimes tried to render one and it came out as illegible scribble in the corners — worse than no caption at all — so the prompt now explicitly keeps every edge clean. The color and print texture are the point; if you want the caption, that's what the poster editor's text fields are for.