Exposure 0.15 · Contrast 0.3 · Saturation 0.75×
What this pass changes →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.
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.

Marble head of a man wearing a laurel wreath · Roman
Public domain · The Met Open Access (CC0) ↗
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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
Public domain · The Met Open Access (CC0) ↗
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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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