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A surreal solarized portrait with reversed tones and bright edge halos.
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Solarization / Sabattier effect

Photographic tone reversal with glowing edge halos, mixed positive-negative values, and a surreal darkroom look.

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Solarization / Sabattier effect treatment with partial tonal reversal, luminous edge outlines, and mixed positive-negative values.

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OpenAI Image API
Model
gpt-image-2.5-flare
Generated
2026-10-15

Original OpenAI API image selected from research plan solarization-sabattier-effect. Automated independent style review and visual review: Matches solarization/Sabattier style with strong partial tonal reversal, luminous edge outlines, and mixed positive-negative values; coherent square portrait of a street musician with trumpet; no visible text, watermark, or obvious defects, and it is not a near-copy of the comparison samples. Exact and conservative perceptual duplicate checks passed against existing samples and this batch. Exported to 1200px and 640px WebP; source 1024px enlarged for full display. No human visual review.

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Photographic tone reversal with glowing edge halos, mixed positive-negative values, and a surreal darkroom look.

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