Turn a Photo into a Wood-Inlay Panel

Format

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Inputs

Reference_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

Wood_inlay_panel_photograph (image)

Transform the uploaded photo into a photograph of one finished wood-inlay panel. Output a single portrait image in a 4:5 aspect ratio. Do not divide the image into a grid or show before-and-after views.

PANEL AND SETTING
Place one flat wooden panel on a plain workbench. Soft natural light falls diagonally across it from one side. The inlay covers the entire front of the panel. Show at least one section of the panel's thin side edge, revealing a lighter inner layer so it reads as a solid object with depth. A soft shadow falls where the edge meets the workbench. Nothing else appears in the frame.

HOW THE INLAY IS MADE
Every form in the picture is made from thinly sawn pieces of wood. The pieces are cut, fitted against one another, glued, sanded flat, and finished with non-glossy matte oil. Nothing is painted or drawn; each form gets its color from the wood it is cut from.

Use four to six wood species in total: pale maple or birch, honey-colored oak, warm cherry, reddish-brown mahogany, dark walnut, and nearly black ebony for the darkest areas.

Each piece has its own grain, and the grain runs in a different direction from piece to piece. Grain lines stop at the joints and begin again at a different angle in the neighboring piece. Use the wood's natural grain purposefully where appropriate: curling grain on a hill's shoulder, straight and tight grain in the sky, and irregular knotty grain in leaves or fur.

Joints appear as dark lines about the width of a hair. A few may have a very narrow gap or a slight difference in level. Let shallow sanding marks and faint machine marks catch the light on the surface.

PRESERVE THE PHOTO'S CONTENT
Keep the photo's subjects, their count, positions, and outlines unchanged. Do not add anything that was not there or remove anything that was. Preserve the shapes, patterns, and expressions of faces and animals, but construct them from assembled wood pieces rather than drawing them. Read the photo as a map of light and dark, assigning wood tones that match the brightness of each area.

FAILURE CONDITIONS
- The image fails if any text, number, signature, logo, stamp, date, or watermark appears anywhere. The count must be zero.
- The main subject must contain at least five pieces, each with a different grain direction.
- No more than two joints may have grain that continues straight across them at the same angle. That would look like a photograph printed on wood, not an inlay.
- Do not use a smooth color gradient within any single piece. Variation within a piece may come only from the wood's own grain and the light falling on the panel.
- Colors outside the wood palette—such as blue, green, purple, pink, vivid red, or gray—must not cover more than one-twentieth of the panel's front.
- Do not create a continuous dark drawn or burned outline around a subject. Boundaries must occur only where pieces of wood meet.
- The numbers of people, animals, and vehicles must match those in the photo.
- The panel's side edge must be visible somewhere in the frame. Show nothing besides the panel and the workbench beneath it: no hands, tools, clamps, or second panel.

IF ALL REQUIREMENTS CANNOT BE MET
Prioritize giving each piece a different grain direction and using only wood colors. If showing the panel's side edge conflicts with the composition, show it along just one edge and allow the other three edges to extend beyond the frame.