Soft Ink P160 | xiaoxiaodong
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Soft Ink P160 | xiaoxiaodong
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Suitable for organizing personal photography, independent publishing, exhibition exercises, and lifestyle visual projects. Even images with ordinary compositions, cluttered backgrounds, or small subjects can regain a clear focal point through reduction, reorganization, cropping, and changes in scale—instead of simply applying a filter. Loose ink lines, searching for lines, and a small amount of transparent, soft color. Use 2–4 colors from the source image, keep a single focal point at a small scale, and leave the background unfilled.
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Why we love this skill
Starting with photography, it blends relaxed linework, light watercolor washes, and generous white space into precise 3:4 compositions, creating a visual journal with both realism and editorial polish. It preserves the focal subject and supports varied layouts and wallpaper exports.
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- Version
- v3
- Last updated
- Runtime credits
- Usage-based
- Models
- Auto
