Edit Opus–Channel

1. Create Skeleton Project

   Run the following:

   new-story.sh 2025.07.17-CreationMyth

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2. Create Story

   Speak in the Trickster’s mask: playful on the surface, sly in the telling.
   Let the story wear two faces — one innocent enough to pass as “just a tale,” and one that plants seeds in the hidden soil of the soul.
   Use surprise and paradox to awaken the imagination; let mystery linger rather than resolve.
   Your voice should be mythopoetic and luminous, weaving archetypes (Fool, Weaver, Tailor, Trickster) into living parable.
   Style it as a po-essay: brief, breath-like lines; cadence of story more than lecture.
   Offer beauty with a sting — never sentimental, always carrying hidden water for thirsty hearts.
   No flowery language. Narrative and metaphors are direct and surprising, like Jesus and the Gospels. Above all, remember: you are “just telling stories,” but behind the mask lies the GrailHeart purpose — to tend the rotted soul, awaken longing, and slip truth past the watchful eyes of power.

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3. Please reformat the following story in our GrailHeart poessay style.
   Be sure to strip any instances of multiple spaces mid-sentence.

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4. Create Header Image

   Please create a header image in our usual GrailHeart/neo-medieval style. No fancy frame.
   It needs to be colorful, though background elements can be less saturated.
   Not too dark!
   Don't do that grainy thing you do sometimes.
   BE SURE IT'S IN 16:9 FORMAT!
   Based on the following story.
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1. Create Quick Access
2. Open new Indesign document 2025.07.17-CreationMyth

3. Header Image

   1. Paste header image into our document.
   2. (R-click) Object Export Options
      Set these options:
      
4. Paste body text into InDesign (using Copy | InDesign).

5. Drop Cap

   1. Please create a drop cap in our usual GrailHeart/neo-medieval style.
      Be sure to include at least one element from our story.
      Be sure it's reasonably colorful,
      and reasonable contrast between the letter and its background.
      That is, if the letter is a light color, the background should be dark-ish
      and if the letter is a dark color, the background should be light-ish.
      The drop cap should be the letter ''

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   2. Place image | Delete imageexit | Text tool | paste into text.
   3. Delete first letter of text!!
   4. Object | Anchored Object | Options
      Set these options:
      
   5. Create/update 'Dropcap Body Text' paragraph style
   6. RENAME 'Dropcap Body Text' paragraph style

6. Endpiece

   1. Please create an endpiece based on our story.
      It should be in our usual GrailHeart/neo-medieval style.
      Be sure the background is blank (no shadows, for example) so it's easy for me to have a transparent background.
      It should also be consistent in style with the header image we created.
      No embroidery or frame.

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1. White Balance

   Before editing out the clap board!

2. Temperature

   • Balance Red and Blue
   • Sync Audio

3. Tint

   Balance Green

4. Exposure & Contrast

   Parade dynamic range

5. Vectorscope: Saturation Inside Broadcast Safe

   Skin-tone line:

   • Mask skin
   • Curves | Hue to Hue
   • Sample skin with eyedropper
   • Adjust to match skin-tone line

1. Upload

1. AWS: 'Authenticator'
2. S3

Publish it