image-master references — index
The SKILL.md carries the load-bearing core you apply by heart. These chapters are the depth, read on demand.
| File | What's in it | Read when |
|---|---|---|
01-realism-anatomy-skin.md |
Hands, faces, bodies, the plastic-skin attack vocabulary, negative-vs-positive per tool | A human/animal subject must hold up: anatomy, hands, faces, skin |
02-physics-light-optics.md |
One-light discipline, reflections/catchlights, real camera+lens banks, atmosphere/depth, materials, motion, the anti-pattern blacklist | Making the image physically and optically believable (the NatGeo look) |
03-typography-text.md |
The quote-short-caps trinity, per-model text reliability, background-text-vague rule, composite-in-post workflow, Hebrew | Any signage, poster, logo, label, or rendered text |
04-impact-and-composition.md |
Color recipes, composition for eye-path, drama/chiaroscuro/scale/decisive-moment, single-image narrative devices | Engineering deliberate emotional + visual punch |
05-prompt-library.md |
Copy-paste 8-block skeletons per discipline + fully worked examples (incl. the war-from-animals series) | You want a ready scaffold or a worked model to adapt |
06-tool-adapters.md |
Reve 2.0 deep notes + per-tool quirks (MJ, Flux, GPT-image, Imagen, Nano Banana, SD) and how to translate one prompt across tools | Tuning a built prompt for a specific generator |
07-pre-submit-inspection.md |
The forensic QA checklist mapping to the 13 penalized artifacts; pre-flight (on prompt) + post-flight (on output) | Before locking/submitting any image |
08-series-consistency.md |
Series cohesion (Style Lock), recurring-character consistency, the full-prompt hard rule, the worked 10-image animal-war bible | Building a SET that must feel unified and keep characters consistent |
09-magazine-cover-treatment.md |
Editorial cover layer: composite-type workflow, caption craft (kicker+headline), the design-system lock, IP safety, the worked "WITNESS" captions | Adding a magazine masthead + short stylized caption to each image |
10-directing-emotion.md |
The decisive emotional moment, animal affect cues, the signature heart-breaking micro-detail, the war-in-the-eye device, the emotion gate | Making a frame ACHE — when output is technically clean but neutral/dead |
11-finishing-layer.md |
The 10/10 difference-makers: wet-eye layered reflections, eye-muscle expression, real tear physics, strand-level fur + selective focus, true non-airbrushed colour, the honest emotional hooks (gaze, neoteny, identifiable victim), the FINISHING STACK clause | Pushing a near-final image from 9 to 10 — indistinguishable-from-real + maximum emotional pull |
12-award-winning-composition.md |
What wins photo contests (10 common denominators) + the stop-scroll techniques (scale juxtaposition, eye-mirror & water reflections, unusual angles, layering, subject-breaks-text-plane depth cover, decisive moment, gaze, selective focus, colour) + the Range+Vision portfolio strategy | Designing world-class, contest-winning concepts with sophistication, depth, and range |
13-conceptual-message-images.md |
Conceptual/message-driven image patterns (irony, role-reversal, juxtaposition, self-confrontation, split-frame), execution rules for multi-person scenes, the DE-BRAND/IP disqualifier rule, English-text-only | Building idea-driven social-commentary images that carry a message (the winning Vision) |
The master rule across every chapter: prompt toward specific photographic reality, away from the retouched-stock average; describe what you DO want, not what you forbid.
Currency: the AI-tool layer (chapters 03/05/06 model notes) drifts monthly — re-verify a model's text/negative/aspect behavior before relying on it. The physics, anatomy, light, color, and composition craft (01/02/04) is stable.