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# Sources & Attribution

## Visual Fundamentals

### Composition Theory
- **Rule of Thirds & Golden Ratio**: Classical photography and art composition principles, documented since Renaissance era
- **Leading Lines & Framing**: Standard cinematography education (ASC, BSC guidelines)
- **Visual Weight & Balance**: Art and design fundamentals (Dondis, "A Primer of Visual Literacy", 1973)

### Color Theory
- **Color Harmonies**: Johannes Itten, "The Art of Color" (1961)
- **Color Psychology**: Research aggregated from marketing and design studies
- **Film Color Grading**: Industry standard practices from colorists like Stefan Sonnenfeld, Bradford Young

### Lighting
- **Classic Portrait Lighting Patterns**: Rembrandt, butterfly, loop, split - Standard portrait photography education
- **Cinematography Lighting**: "Painting with Light" by John Alton (1949), ASC Master Class materials
- **Three-Point Lighting**: Standard film/video production technique

### Photography & Cinematography
- **Camera Movements**: ASC Manual, industry standard terminology
- **Lens Characteristics**: Physics of optics, documented in cinematography education
- **Film Stock Looks**: Kodak, Fuji official specifications and photographer documentation

## AI Model Documentation

### Nano Banana Pro
- Official fal.ai documentation and model card
- Google Gemini 3 technical reports
- Community testing and prompt engineering guides

### Qwen Image / Qwen Image Edit
- Alibaba Qwen official model documentation
- GitHub repository: QwenLM/Qwen
- ComfyUI community implementations

### Z-Image Turbo
- Tongyi-MAI official documentation
- Open-source model specifications
- ComfyUI native integration guides

### Wan 2.2
- Alibaba Tongyi Lab official release notes
- GitHub repository documentation
- ComfyUI-WanMoE community nodes

### Sora2
- OpenAI official documentation and blog posts
- API documentation
- User testing and community findings

## Graphic Design

### Typography
- **Typography Fundamentals**: Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style"
- **Digital Typography**: Google Fonts documentation, Apple Human Interface Guidelines

### Thumbnail Design
- **YouTube Creator Academy**: Official best practices
- **A/B Testing Research**: Community data from vidIQ, TubeBuddy analytics
- **CTR Optimization**: Industry case studies and creator documentation

### Social Media Design
- Platform-specific guidelines: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok official resources
- Social media marketing best practices

## Prompt Format Research

### JSON vs Natural Language (2025)
- [JSON Prompting for AI Image Generation – ImagineArt](https://www.imagine.art/blogs/json-prompting-for-ai-image-generation)
- [Prompt Engineering Showdown: JSON vs Text – Medium](https://medium.com/learning-data/prompt-engineering-showdown-json-vs-text-for-ai-image-generation-610d2ea2a169)
- [Why I Switched to JSON Prompting – Analytics Vidhya](https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2025/08/json-prompting/)
- [Mastering Structured JSON Prompts 2025 – ImageJSON](https://www.imagejson.org/posts/mastering-structured-json-prompts-2025-guide-chatgpt-4o)
- [AI Video Generation: JSON vs Natural Language – Morph Studio](https://www.morphstudio.com/article/ai-video-generation-are-json-prompts-really-better-than-natural-language)

**Key Finding**: As of 2025, 78% of professional AI image creators use structured formats for production work (Visual AI Trends Report, May 2025).

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## Developed by ThepExcel

### Skill Structure
- Two-mode workflow (Generate / Critique & Edit)
- RESEARCH → VISUALIZE → COMPOSE → PROMPT framework (v1.1)
- GOAL → ANALYZE → DIAGNOSE → PRESCRIBE critique workflow
- Model selection decision trees
- Quick reference tables and prompt templates

### Integration
- ComfyUI workflow recommendations
- Cross-model comparison and selection guide
- Thai-English bilingual considerations

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**Skill Version**: 1.1
**Created**: December 2025
**Updated**: December 2025 (Added RESEARCH step, JSON prompt format)
**Author**: ThepExcel