Works best for
Architecture, object collections and landscapes with clear motifs, repeated forms or strong foreground/background separation.
Tested AI art skill · 3 source photographs
Deconstructed Duotone Poster
A strict nine-cell system that converts a photograph into bold graphic fragments. The grid is most successful when the source contains repeatable shapes or a scene that can be separated into distinct visual anchors.
Keep in mind
The source is interpreted rather than preserved. Small details and exact spatial relationships may disappear, while a simple subject may not provide nine genuinely different cells.
One skill, three kinds of source image
Each result is the retained first attempt. No manual image edits or automatic retries were used, so the comparison shows both the skill’s strengths and its practical limits.
Test 01
Building
Twin towers, arches and the rose window naturally break into repeated geometric cells. The result retains architectural identity without reproducing the original photograph literally.
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Image 1 is the semantic source photograph. Image 2 is a structural layout guide only; follow its exact portrait 3:4 nine-square positions and margins, but redraw all pigment edges organically and do not expose the guide’s neutral color. Create a Deconstructed Duotone Poster in Source Interpret mode using exactly pale ivory cream #F7F1E3 and one user-choice ink inferred for this benchmark: cobalt blue #2148B8. Extract 3–5 anchors from Image 1: paired towers, central radial rose window, pointed arches, pale stone mass, and open sky. Preserve only these cues across nine square cells; do not paste, trace, collage, posterize, or reconstruct the source. Populate exactly nine equal square cells. Give every cell one broad cobalt mass, negative-space cut, gesture, or material rhythm: paired vertical masses; an interrupted central gap; radial aperture; twin dark openings; stepped roof rhythm; cross-like axis; sky void; arch cut; stone-to-shadow density. Use large silhouettes and rough screen-printed pigment with a stable flat core, narrow absorbed-ink edge and subtle luminous cobalt halo. Avoid detailed windows, masonry, full building scenes, fine linework, engraving, gradients, or third colors. Below the grid, place exact small two-line left-aligned footer copy: “TWIN STONE TOWERS” line 1, “HOLD OPEN SKY” line 2. Add exactly one tiny source-derived icon representing the twin towers. No other text or arbitrary footer geometry. Warm pressed-pulp paper texture, equal top/left/right margins, restrained editorial composition.
Test 02
Items
Clock, plant blades and mannequin become readable icons across the grid. The varied still life supplies enough distinct anchors, though depth and material differences are flattened.
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Image 1 semantic source; Image 2 structural portrait 3:4 nine-square guide only. Create exactly nine equal cells on pale ivory #F7F1E3 using one solid terracotta ink #C65F38. Extract torso silhouette, clock circles, plant blades, shelf line and diagonal shadow into broad masses, voids and organic printed gestures; no pasted photo or detailed reconstruction. Stable flat ink cores, narrow absorbed edges and subtle luminous halo. Exact two-line footer: “OBJECTS KEEP TIME” / “LIGHT GROWS GREEN”. Exactly three tiny subject icons for torso, clock and plant. No other text, third hue, gradients, detailed line art, logo or watermark.
Test 03
Traveler
Mountain, trees, path and walker divide cleanly across the grid. The strong layers produce a coherent travel poster, but the small human figure becomes secondary.
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Image 1 semantic source; Image 2 exact portrait 3:4 nine-square structural guide only. Exactly nine equal cells on pale ivory #F7F1E3 using one ultramarine ink #263E99. Extract snow peak, small walker, backpack, winding path, fir rhythms and autumn slope into broad masses, voids and printed gestures; no photo paste or detailed reconstruction. Stable flat cores, absorbed edges, subtle halo. Footer exact two lines: “ONE SMALL WALKER” / “BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN”. Exactly two tiny source icons: walker and peak. No other text, third hue, gradients, fine foliage, logo or watermark.