# Reality Glitch photo treatment for Cosmos Luminosity

Use when Margarita asks to make her photographs futuristic, daring, or visually aligned with Cosmos Luminosity. This is a selected direction for futuristic photo treatments, not a universal replacement for every CL visual.

## Approved direction

**Reality Glitch**: reality appears as multiple simultaneous versions, with controlled digital displacement, probability interfaces, and intentional breaks in the familiar render.

Brand palette:

- rich violet;
- solar yellow;
- refined gold;
- white for primary readability;
- deep aubergine/indigo shadows rather than muddy brown-black.

The desired result is **premium editorial futurism**, not a mobile glitch filter, generic cyberpunk HUD, or noisy sci-fi collage.

## Visual grammar

Use selectively:

- RGB/channel displacement at low opacity;
- 1–3 localized horizontal reality slices;
- version labels such as `V.01`, `V.02`;
- partial probability arcs or brackets;
- sparse scan markers and data traces;
- subtle duplicates or displaced fragments of the environment;
- light installations interpreted as rendering errors, portals, or probability signals;
- small technical English labels only when they support the composition.

Keep Margarita's face, anatomy, pose, clothing, and recognizability intact. Put stronger glitches into the surrounding space, background, lights, or peripheral silhouette. Do not run destructive bands through eyes, mouth, face, joints, hands, or the main body axis unless a deliberately unsettling result has been explicitly approved.

## Workflow

1. **Wait for the full image set and `конец`** when Margarita is sending several photographs.
2. Make a contact sheet or otherwise inspect the full set before choosing the hero frame.
3. For style selection, create 2–3 treatments on the **same photograph** so the aesthetic—not the source image—is what changes. Useful comparison set:
   - Biointerface: clean scanning/data architecture;
   - Cosmic Couture: pearl, liquid gold, violet light;
   - Reality Glitch: displaced versions and reality breaks.
4. After a direction is chosen, make the first publication visual at **1080×1350 (4:5)**.
5. Keep the main headline to one sharp idea. Use a bold modern grotesk when HUD/glitch elements are present; serif can work in fashion treatments but may conflict with a technical interface.
6. Apply effects around the person first. Protect face and body with explicit no-effect zones.
7. Run visual QA at phone size; repair every named collision before delivery.
8. Deliver the rendered visual plus copy-ready caption if the user asked for a post.

## Source-image rules

- Prefer clean original photographs without text, UI, frames, or prior layout.
- Never build a premium redesign by merely darkening over baked-in text: ghost lettering remains visible and makes the result look unfinished.
- If only a predesigned/baked-text image exists, crop to a genuinely clean photographic region, reconstruct a deliberate split layout, or request the original.
- Low-light smartphone photos benefit from gentle denoising before grading. Preserve facial detail; avoid aggressive smoothing.
- Control bloom around bright installations so their structure remains visible.

## Typography and composition

- Keep generous safe margins; do not let arcs, scan lines, or diagrams cross the headline.
- Use violet and yellow as semantic accents, not equal-weight decoration on every element.
- Gold works best for navigation, fine rules, micro-labels, and premium detail.
- Keep technical labels readable but secondary. If they will collapse to dots on a phone, enlarge or remove them.
- Add a dark localized veil behind a headline where needed, but avoid large opaque panels that flatten the photograph.
- A footer must sit on a controlled dark area; never place tiny text over a bright flower, dress, skin, or light installation.

## Mandatory release QA

A visual is not ready until all are true:

- Russian text is correctly spelled, unclipped, and readable at phone size;
- no UI line or arc crosses the headline;
- face is unobstructed and recognizable;
- body is not accidentally cut by glitch bands;
- no random box overlaps a bright installation;
- footer and numbering are clean, unique, and readable;
- violet reads as rich violet, yellow as solar yellow, and gold as refined detail;
- shadows are deep and clean rather than dusty/muddy;
- grain, particles, bloom, chromatic aberration, and glitches are restrained;
- the composition reads as intentional editorial design rather than a filter.

If QA finds a collision, do not explain it away as “part of the glitch.” Move or remove it and re-render.

## Copy relationship

A strong Reality Glitch cover can ask one sharp question, for example:

> Ты видишь только одну версию?

The caption can then unfold the CL principle with honest causal boundaries: past conclusions shape what attention notices; questions can interrupt the familiar render and make other options noticeable. Do not claim that a question automatically changes external reality.

## Common failures

- Too many HUD rectangles and labels competing with the subject.
- Glitch strips through the face, hips, knees, or hands.
- Uniform grain over the whole image, including crisp interface graphics.
- Neon violet on muddy brown shadows.
- Excessive glow destroying detail in luminous installations.
- Presenting an obviously rough mockup as finished.
- Continuing to decorate after the composition is already strong; reduction usually makes the work more premium.