The Streaks Come From the Object
A product launch poster on black, where the light form is built from the product's own edges — so the picture has a thing in it rather than an atmosphere. Five fields.
Two runs of the same template. Three streaks, and each continues exactly the edge the field named - the graduated arc's outer curve, the axis of the telescope barrel, the straight line of the index arm. The arc's streak even curves, because the edge it continues curves. Nothing mirrors, the instrument is turned, and the outer third of the sheet stays black. Both runs make the same point: give the light an edge to come from and it stops being a preset.
There is a chip in it, which the reference run of this style could not manage - that run returned a symmetrical light X on black with a wordmark over it and no object of any kind. All four streaks here continue real edges of the package, and the lower one comes out gold because it leaves the gold contact side, which is the rule working harder than it was asked to. One divergence: the field said a third of the frame height and the package fills nearer half.
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Input
Product a square processor package, gold contact pads
underneath, matt dark ceramic on top - about a
third of the frame height, centred
Angle tilted back 30° and turned slightly left - the
top-left chamfer and near-right corner catch the
hardest light
Streaks four, running out along the package's four edges
to the frame corners - brightest at the chip,
gone by the sheet edge
Words top BEYOND COMPUTE / INTO INTELLIGENCE · over the
product NEXUS X1 · foot NEXT-GENERATION SILICON
Palette near-black - cyan, deep violet, gold contacts
Returned 1 poster · 2:3 · near-black, backlit
subject the package unmistakably present and unmistakably
the subject
streaks four, and each one continues the line of an actual
edge - measurable against the silhouette
asymmetry the left pair longer than the right, because the
object is turned
rims cyan along the top-left chamfer, gold catching the
near contacts, nothing lit that faces away
dark the outer third of the sheet left near-blackYou fill in 5 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The product, and how much of the frame it fills
- 2Its angle, and which edges catch the light
- 3The streaks, and which edges they come from
- 4The words
- 5The palette
The Streaks Come From the Object
Produce ONE image, 2:3 portrait: a product launch poster on near-black. Follow every line. Replace only the FIELDS block; everything after it is fixed.
First — do you have the fields?
If any field below still has braces around it, stop and ask. Put all the questions in one short message, and show the example under each one so they can see the shape of a useful answer. Wait for the replies, then draw. Never fill a brace yourself: a value you invented is a value nobody asked for, and it will look exactly as considered as the ones they did give you.
Ask in whatever language they are writing to you in. Translate the questions and the examples; do not make someone read English to tell you what they want.
The examples are only examples. If someone answers a question, use their answer; never fall back to the example because you prefer it.
If the fields are already filled in, ignore this and carry on.
Fields — replace these five lines only
- The product, and how much of the frame it fills: {an object, described physically, and a size}
- Its angle, and which edges catch the light: {a tilt, a turn, and the lit edges}
- The streaks, and which edges they come from: {how many, and which edge each continues}
- The words: {two or three lines, and their positions}
- The palette: {a near-black, and two or three lit colours}
The subject law
The product is in the picture. This sounds too obvious to state, and it is the single thing this style loses.
A reference run of this style was asked for a chip launch poster. It returned a superb symmetrical light X on black with a wordmark across it — no chip, no device, no object of any kind. Every element was atmosphere. The poster would have worked identically for a bank, a festival or a car, because nothing in it was the thing.
The product occupies the share of the frame the fields give, it is physically described, and it is the largest and sharpest thing on the sheet.
Test: if swapping the name in the type would make it a poster for something else, there is no product in it.
The streak law
The light form is caused by the object, not laid over it.
- Every streak continues the line of an actual edge of the product, extended outward.
- The number of streaks equals the number of edges the fields name.
- Each is brightest where it leaves the object and fades to nothing before the frame edge.
- Their angles are measurable against the silhouette: lay a ruler along a streak and it should run into the edge it came from.
No streak exists that does not start at an edge. No generic X, no crossing diagonals, no lens flares, no radial bursts.
Asymmetry
Nothing mirrors. The object is turned, so:
- Streaks on one side are longer than on the other.
- One side of the object is brighter than the other.
- The light form is lopsided, and that lopsidedness matches the turn.
Perfect left-right symmetry is the signature of an effect applied rather than a scene lit.
Lighting
- One key from behind and above, rimming the top and far edges.
- One fill from the front, very low, so the near face is barely visible rather than black.
- Nothing lit that faces away from a light. Every highlight traces to the key, the fill or a streak.
- Contact and occlusion are real: where the object overlaps a streak, it blocks it.
Dark
The outer third of the sheet stays near-black, with no glow reaching it. Falloff is fast. The dark is what makes the object read as lit.
Type
- One family, two weights, letterspaced wide, in white or the palette's lightest tone.
- The product name over or beside the object, largest.
- Two supporting lines at top and foot, small.
- Only the words the fields supply. No invented specs, model numbers, taglines or company names.
- Type never crosses the product's silhouette.
Never
- ✕ a poster with no product in it
- ✕ a streak that does not continue a real edge
- ✕ a generic X, crossing diagonals, flares or radial bursts
- ✕ perfect left-right or top-bottom symmetry
- ✕ a highlight with no light source behind it
- ✕ glow reaching the outer third of the sheet
- ✕ type over the product
- ✕ invented specifications, model numbers or company names
- ✕ a product described only by category rather than physically
The result
A poster that could only be for this thing: the object present, sharp and central, and every line of light in the picture running back to an edge of it.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the five FIELDS lines. In the third, always say which edge each streak comes from — that is what stops the light becoming a stock effect.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Look for the product before shipping. If the poster would work just as well with a different product name on it, there isn't one in the picture.
What you swap
- The product, and how much of the frame it fills
- a square processor package, gold contact pads on its underside, matt dark ceramic on top — filling about a third of the frame height, centred
- Its angle, and which edges catch the light
- tilted back about 30° and turned slightly left — the top-left chamfer and the near-right corner catch the hardest light
- The streaks, and which edges they come from
- four streaks running out along the lines of the package's four edges, extended to the frame's corners — brightest where they leave the chip, gone by the edge of the sheet
- The words
- top BEYOND COMPUTE / INTO INTELLIGENCE · over the product NEXUS X1 · foot NEXT-GENERATION SILICON
- The palette
- near-black ground — electric cyan, deep violet, warm gold on the contacts
Before it runs
- An actual product to show, described physically. 'A chip' renders as a glowing square; 'a square package with gold contact pads and a matt ceramic lid' renders as a chip.
- Edges worth extending. The streak geometry comes from the object's silhouette, so a featureless blob gives you nothing to build the light from.
- Restraint with the words. Every line you add competes with the one thing the poster exists to show.
When to reach for it
Hardware launches, chip and device announcements, keynote keys, spec-sheet covers. Templates in this style return a gorgeous symmetrical light X on black with a wordmark over it and no product anywhere — the effects have quietly replaced the thing being launched.
What changes
- One product on near-black, occupying a stated share of the frame, lit from behind and above.
- Light streaks whose angles are taken from the product's own edges, so the glow is caused rather than applied.
- An asymmetric light setup, because a real one never mirrors perfectly.
- Every rim and highlight traceable to a named edge of the object.
- Type held to the margins in one family, so the product stays the largest event.
Pairs with
- Bolted to the SkyA mascot built as real signage — a face on a plate, one wider name plate under it, and visible hardware holding both to the pole. Six fields.
- Cut, Not FilledA copperplate-engraved city poster in one ink — where every tone is line density, nothing on the page is a flat fill, and the bare paper is a shape rather than a margin. Six fields.
- Every Bar Is a MultipleA barcode poster in two colours — with the code built on a base module, guard bars and a numeral row, so it reads as a scanned object rather than a stripe field. Five fields.