An editable two-ink poster
A composite PNG, a two-plate SVG and an editable project backup.
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Acid bloom.
Iris petals become sharp blocks of pink, citron and violet.
Move the dark-to-mid boundary in Plates to decide how much pink survives.
Choose the included images or your own inside the studio. Applying keeps your current work as a local copy.
The transformation
From source to study.
The result below is an actual studio export with this recipe. The source image is part of the result; changing it creates a different work.
Irises · Vincent van Gogh
Public domain · The Met Open Access (CC0) ↗
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The recipe
Structure first. Finish second.
TRACE structure
- 3 ink plates · Tonal bands
- Solid inks · high detail
- Exposure 0 · Midtones 1.10
- Lightness boundaries: 30% / 65%
- Aligned plates; no registration shift
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Compose passes, in order
No photographic finish. The ink plates themselves make this image, so its colors and shapes can remain editable in SVG.
Your first change
Move the dark-to-mid boundary in Plates to decide how much pink survives.
A flat PNG or editable SVG. Free single SVG keeps the actual vector paths. Photo finishes do not appear in SVG.
Develop this into a finished work.
A focal print with offset impressions
A clean PNG, an offset PNG, a layered SVG and a project containing the versions.
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