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DUEL / Photographic collisions

Impossible marble.

A crest of sea cuts through an ancient silhouette.

Flip Photo B in Edit to reverse the direction of the wave without repainting the face.

Choose the included images or your own inside the studio. Applying keeps your current work as a local copy.

A crest of sea cuts through an ancient silhouette.

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.

Original A for Impossible marble
Original A
Marble head of a man wearing a laurel wreath · Roman
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Original B for Impossible marble
Original B
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) · Katsushika Hokusai
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A crest of sea cuts through an ancient silhouette.
Finished study
DUEL + the settings below.
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The recipe

Structure first. Finish second.

DUEL structure

  • Edge competition · Balance 0% · Spread 30%
  • Photo A: 1.00× zoom, crop 50% across / 50% down
  • Photo B: 1.20× zoom, crop 35% across / 50% down, mirrored
  • 2 recorded local ownership marks

Compose passes, in order

Your first change

Flip Photo B in Edit to reverse the direction of the wave without repainting the face.

A composite PNG, short loop, or replay video. Both original images stay in a project backup.

Develop this into a finished work.

A directed two-image collage

A composed collage PNG, an optional short motion file and a project preserving both sources and their framing.

Follow the project →

From collision to printed poster

A collage PNG, TRACE print PNG and editable SVG, plus one project retaining both stages and original source images.

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