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DUEL / Photographic collisions

Stone in bloom.

Flowers surround a stone face while painted territories protect its features.

In Edit, paint Photo A over the face and Photo B around the outside.

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

Flowers surround a stone face while painted territories protect its features.

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 Stone in bloom
Original A
Marble head of a man wearing a laurel wreath · Roman
Public domain · The Met Open Access (CC0) ↗
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Original B for Stone in bloom
Original B
Irises · Vincent van Gogh
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Flowers surround a stone face while painted territories protect its features.
Finished study
DUEL + the settings below.
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The recipe

Structure first. Finish second.

DUEL structure

  • Edge competition · Balance -10% · Spread 22%
  • Photo A: 1.00× zoom, crop 50% across / 50% down
  • Photo B: 1.00× zoom, crop 50% across / 50% down
  • 3 recorded local ownership marks

Compose passes, in order

Your first change

In Edit, paint Photo A over the face and Photo B around the outside.

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.

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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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