024 / 024 · Photography · v0.17.1 · MIT
photo-abstract-editorial-native
This skill does the one layer that actually needed watching: the composite and its quality control.
- When it fires
The prompts CI scores this skill against, on every release.
Fires on
- Put my original photo above this supplied abstract panel, keep both sharp, and make a single comparison card.
- My editorial photo-and-illustration board has a blurred top and a squashed lower half. Rebuild it using the original file.
- Rebuild this comparison board and tell me exactly which file each half came from.
Stays out of
- Turn this photograph into a sparse abstract memory panel.
- Make a contact sheet of these twenty photos.
What it produces
Three boards from the native-resolution audit, published with the author's permission. They show the proportion the composite keeps, not a template to copy.
Neither half may be stretched
The upper half is always the original photograph after automatic orientation correction, and may only be scaled down proportionally. The lower half is an abstract panel you supply, or one made by another skill you have permission to use, and it may not be enlarged or squashed either.
The reason is that the usual damage a compositing tool does is "fill this space" — a photograph widened by 3% looks fine in a thumbnail and shows up as a distorted face in print. So scaling runs one direction only, at one ratio.
Each aspect gets its own lower band
Landscape, portrait and square each reserve a different height for the lower half. One ratio applied to all three leaves the abstract panel as a sliver on the landscape crop and eating half the photograph on the portrait one.
It records where the pixels came from
The finished piece carries a manifest saying whether the source was the original file, an unmodified Photos export, the cloud original, or — where nothing else was available — a preview rendition. A preview is short of resolution, so using one has to leave a record; otherwise there is no way to tell later whether the composite can go to print.
Where the lower half comes from ZzzLc0405 / @AM.'s photo-abstract-editorial, the page and the record both keep the attribution and licence note.
What it does not do
It does not retouch, does not grade colour, does not generate the abstract panel itself, and does not upscale either half.