# Reality Glitch photo carousels for Cosmos Luminosity

Use when Margarita asks to turn her photographs into a bold futuristic carousel, especially after choosing the **Reality Glitch** direction.

## Approved visual direction

Reality Glitch is the selected futuristic treatment for Margarita’s photographs. Its core idea is that several versions of reality remain available at once.

Brand palette:

- violet = alternate version / perception shift;
- solar yellow = insight / visible signal;
- gold = premium navigation and CL signature;
- white = primary readable copy.

Visual vocabulary:

- restrained RGB/channel displacement;
- fragmented image slices and digital ruptures;
- probability/version labels such as `V.01`, `V.02`;
- broken arcs, scan marks and interface traces;
- brief English microcopy as technical texture;
- the face, body and recognizable source photograph remain primary.

Avoid generic cyberpunk, dense HUD dashboards, random neon, excessive particles and one-click glitch filters.

## Workflow

1. If Margarita is sending several photographs, wait for her explicit `конец`.
2. Preserve every requested photograph unless she approves an edit to the set.
3. Select one source and make a single style test before processing the full set.
4. Compare style tests on the **same source photo** so the direction, rather than the photograph, is being judged.
5. Once she selects Reality Glitch, build the series as one conceptual progression, not seven unrelated posters.
6. Export each Instagram carousel slide at 1080×1350.
7. Make a contact sheet and inspect every slide before delivery.
8. Run a release gate focused on headline intersections, faces, bodies, footer readability and clipping. Repair every blocker and rerender before sending.

## Recommended seven-slide narrative

A proven arc is:

1. charged reality-version hook;
2. attention determines what becomes visible;
3. perception arises from an inner configuration;
4. an old conclusion narrows the view;
5. a question interrupts the habitual render;
6. one strong open question;
7. invitation to the Cosmos Luminosity Telegram channel.

Keep claims accurate: attention changes what becomes noticeable and therefore can influence choices and actions. Do not claim that a question automatically changes external reality.

## Typography and composition

- Use a bold modern sans-serif for the Reality Glitch headline. A delicate editorial serif can conflict with HUD/interface language.
- Keep the headline inside a clean darkened zone with generous safe margins.
- Use color on selected semantic units, not every word.
- Keep interface marks outside the headline, face and central body silhouette.
- Place distortion mainly in surrounding space. A glitch crossing a body joint can look like a rendering error rather than intentional art.
- Use a clean dark footer when source lights or scenery make microcopy unreadable.
- Small technical English text is decorative; the Russian headline and CTA must remain readable at phone size.

## Source-image constraints

### Photographs that already contain typography

Do not repeatedly mask baked-in copy with gradients. Ghost text, duplicate counters and footer remnants make the design look unfinished. Prefer, in order:

1. obtain the clean original;
2. use a genuinely text-free crop;
3. build an intentional split layout where the typography sits on a clean solid field and the photo uses only a clean region;
4. if none works, ask for the original rather than presenting a compromised final.

### Low-light smartphone photographs

- apply restrained denoising before grading;
- deepen violet/indigo shadows without producing muddy brown-grey blacks;
- preserve facial detail and natural anatomy;
- control bloom around bright installations so petals retain structure;
- do not add uniform grain over UI graphics;
- keep source limitations honest: graphic styling cannot restore missing facial detail.

## Release-gate checklist

For every slide verify:

- Russian spelling and punctuation are exact;
- no arc, scan line, frame or glitch crosses the headline;
- no text is clipped or too close to an edge;
- face and eyes remain open wherever visible;
- body joints are not accidentally severed by distortion;
- footer is readable against lights and foreground objects;
- violet, yellow and gold feel coordinated rather than like a traffic-light palette;
- all seven slides use a consistent visual grammar;
- the final slide clearly names the Telegram channel and gives a verified action path (`ссылка в профиле` if the direct URL is unknown).

## Failure patterns captured

- Bigger type plus brighter colors alone produced an ugly, aggressive result. Margarita asked for it to be aesthetic: futurism must remain clean, intentional and premium.
- Layering new typography over a slide with baked-in old typography created ghosting and duplicate counters.
- Too many HUD boxes, particles and arcs competed with the photograph and reduced premium quality.
- UI lines crossing headline letters failed release QA even when the concept was otherwise strong.
- A clipped footer over a bright installation made the composition feel unfinished.
- A contact sheet can hide small collisions; inspect final-size slides when QA identifies a suspect area.