Lab
What I test before it reaches clients
Building this site with AI
Testing: Whether directing AI coding tools could produce a fast, careful, client-ready website, if I set the rules, reviewed every step, and approved nothing I had not checked myself. It could: the phone speed score went from 47 to 87.
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One prompt
Testing: Whether one written description could become a person worth building a brand around. I kept the first result.
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Skin depth
Testing: Three models, one face. Nano Banana held the depth of her skin; GPT Image kept lightening it. Now a deep-skin reference rides along on every generation.
Kali at the Trevi Fountain
Testing: Matching a real reference photo. Her face, skin and necklaces held; the railing did not, so I sent it back until it matched, then fixed only the legs in the seated shot.
Aging him up
Testing: How to make a face read close to 70 without making it tired: defined lines, not sag, and thicker, wilder locs.
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The wrong nostril
Testing: Mirroring a profile moves asymmetric details. A text edit failed to remove the ring; a hand-masked inpaint fixed it.
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Edwin out of the studio
Testing: Taking him into golden-hour light and a workshop without losing his locs, beard or glasses.
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Kali's voiceApproved sample, 24 seconds. Edwin's voiceSample, 26 seconds. Two voices
Testing: Whether each voice sounds like the person in the pictures. Kali's should be warm, low and unhurried.
Bringing a piece to life
Testing: How far generative fill in Adobe Express can push a real photograph before it stops feeling true.
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