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3,306Audience · generalComplexity · 1/5LicenseSetup · easy

TL;DR

Two Codex Skills that turn a photo into a paper zine style page, either keeping the original photo as a collage anchor or distilling it into new artwork.

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  root((repo))
    What it does
      Reads scene before styling
      Builds paper collage page
      Distills photo into new art
      Ships before after examples
    Format
      Two Codex Skills
      Chinese and English docs
    Use cases
      Personal photo zines
      Social media art
      Creative photo journaling
    Audience
      Photographers
      Codex users

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Turn a personal photo into a paper collage style zine page that keeps the original image visible.

REASON 2

Distill a photo's mood and meaning into a brand new illustrated page without keeping the photo itself.

REASON 3

Build a set of zine style pages from everyday photos for a personal project or social media.

REASON 4

Guide the output by describing which relationships, colors, or mood should be preserved from the photo.

What's in the stack?

Codex

How it stacks up

zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skillweb-infra-dev/rsbuildpeng-zhihui/project-quantum
Stars3,3063,3053,297
LanguageTypeScript
Last pushed2022-07-25
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyeasyeasyhard
Complexity1/53/55/5
Audiencegeneraldeveloperdeveloper

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Clone the repo, copy the skill folders into ~/.codex/skills, then restart Codex if needed.

Personal, non commercial use only, any commercial use requires the author's written permission.

Wtf does this do

Gathered Scenes Zine is a pair of Codex Skills that turn an everyday photo into a page that looks like it belongs in a small printed zine. Instead of dropping a photo into a fixed template, the skill first studies the photo itself: who or what the subject is, how the space is arranged, the colors, any motion, and the feeling the scene carries, and then uses that reading to decide how to turn the photo into a finished page. The project includes two related but different skills. The first, called Gathered Scenes, keeps your original photo as the visual anchor of the final piece and builds a paper collage style page around it, adding a hand torn paper texture, a small number of bold colors, and an illustrated extension of the parts of the scene the photo does not fully show. The second, called Scene Distillation, does not keep the original photo in the final result at all. It instead pulls out the core meaning, emotional tension, and visual metaphor from the photo and uses those to create an entirely new illustrated piece with paper, color, and short text. Both skills follow the same basic process: look closely at the photo, decide what to keep and what to leave out, translate shapes, light, and mood into paper like forms and colors, arrange everything into a page with a clear reading path, and produce one flat, finished zine page. The repository includes several before and after examples showing real source photos next to their finished pages. To use it, you clone the repository and copy the two skill folders into your Codex skills directory, then restart Codex if the skills do not appear right away. After that, you upload a photo and ask Codex to use either skill, optionally describing which relationships, language, or mood you want kept. The license only allows personal, non commercial use, any commercial use requires the author's written permission first.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Use $scenes-gathered-zine-v1-3 to turn this photo into a gathered scenes zine page, keeping the main subject and background relationship.
Prompt 2
Use $scene-distillation-zine-v1-3 to reimagine this photo as a new illustrated zine page without keeping the original photo.
Prompt 3
Explain the difference between the Gathered Scenes and Scene Distillation skills in this repository.
Prompt 4
Show me how to install both skills from gathered-scenes-zine-skill into my Codex skills directory.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is gathered-scenes-zine-skill?

Two Codex Skills that turn a photo into a paper zine style page, either keeping the original photo as a collage anchor or distilling it into new artwork.

What license does gathered-scenes-zine-skill use?

Personal, non commercial use only, any commercial use requires the author's written permission.

How hard is gathered-scenes-zine-skill to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is gathered-scenes-zine-skill for?

Mainly general.

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