Use the attached photograph as the primary governing reference. Recreate its structure exactly without reinterpreting it.

This is a portrait-photographic dominant-figure cover with a strong secondary typographic installation. One centrally seated woman provides the facial-recognition anchor in the lower half, while a large three-line luminous neon sign physically mounted on the rear wall dominates the upper third. Both masses carry approximately equal recognition weight. The layout grammar is title-top over image-below, with a perfectly centred vertical axis.

Square 1:1 composition, 3000 × 3000 pixels, sRGB. Artwork fills the full canvas edge to edge. No device frame, no mockup, no rounded corners, no border.

Background system constructed bottom upward.

The base layer is a continuous-tone photographic warm residential podcast studio interior. The rear wall is a flat matte warm taupe-brown painted surface, dominant hue approximately

#927250, luminosity 50–65 in the central upper region, running full width and height behind all elements. In front of the rear wall sits a long low mid-century-style wooden credenza spanning the full canvas width at approximately 42–68% canvas height. The credenza has a warm honey-brown wood surface with a slightly darker lower recess at 58–70% canvas height.

On top of the credenza from left to right: a group of two to three lit candles in glass vessels at approximately 9–24% width, 32–44% height producing warm amber flame bloom; a small decorative object cluster at approximately 25–35% width, 38–46% height; a small white ceramic planter with a green leafy plant at approximately 29–39% width, 29–44% height with olive-green foliage

#4C552A; the central zone behind the presenter is open warm wall; a second small green plant in a white planter at approximately 79–94% width, 27–43% height; and a group of two to three lit candles in glass vessels at approximately 73–88% width, 36–46% height producing matching warm amber bloom. All credenza objects are defocused with optical depth-of-field blur approximately 1.5–2.5% canvas width.

Apply rear-background depth-of-field softening across the full wall surface, credenza face, plants and candle groupings. Background sharpness is well below the subject and foreground desk. This is optical camera behaviour baked into the photograph, not a compositing mask.

Apply a warm amber-brown global colour grade at 20–30% strength across the full canvas. This pulls wall, wood, skin, blazer and desk toward unified warm amber values while retaining near-black values in the microphone, boom arm and laptop body.

Apply a subject key-light exposure lift at 15–25% strength concentrated on the face, hands, white inner top and upper blazer at approximately 24–77% width, 25–77% height. Render as photographic studio lighting from above and slightly forward of the subject.

Apply moderate practical-light warm amber bloom radiating from the left candle group at 9–24% width, 32–44% height, from the right candle group at 73–88% width, 36–46% height, and from the foreground candle at 70–81% width, 87–98% height. Bloom colour warm amber-cream

#F4C878, spread approximately 1–2% canvas width from each flame source.

Apply peripheral luminance falloff vignette at 10–20% strength, strongest at outer 8–12% of each edge. Vignette colour near-black warm brown

#361204. Irregular edge-hugging photographic falloff, not a centred radial. Corner luminosity targets: top-left ≈22, top-right ≈45, bottom-left ≈53, bottom-right ≈36. Asymmetry is from photographic lighting, not a mathematical gradient.

Title typography — render this first, as a physically mounted neon sign on the rear wall.

The exact text is YOUR PODCAST HERE — spelled Y-O-U-R space P-O-D-C-A-S-T space H-E-R-E — 17 characters including two spaces, 15 letters, zero punctuation. Verify this spelling character by character before rendering. The text is broken across exactly three lines with a centred rag: Line 1 is YOUR, Line 2 is PODCAST, Line 3 is HERE. Line 2 is the widest line. Lines 1 and 3 are substantially narrower and approximately similar width to each other.

This is a physical neon or LED tube sign mounted on the rear wall, not floating digital type. Each letterform is constructed as a continuous rounded monoline tube, not a filled glyph. Stroke contrast is monoline. Terminals are fully rounded and circular-capped. Aperture is wide. Counters are rounded-oval. Width class is normal-to-extended. Weight is visually light because tube diameter is small relative to cap-height, approximately 7–10% of individual letter cap-height. Style is upright. Tracking is loose. Case is all uppercase. Distinctive letterform properties: Y has widely spread diagonal upper arms feeding a vertical stem; O is nearly circular; U has long straight sides with a broad rounded bottom; R has a rounded bowl and clean diagonal leg; C has wide open aperture; A has a broad triangular skeleton with a horizontal crossbar; S is a smoothly rounded continuous curve; T has an extended horizontal top stroke; E has squared open skeleton with rounded terminals. Metric-similar structural reference: rounded DIN or geometric neon-tube uppercase skeleton — reference only, not a verified font identification.

Individual line cap-height approximately 8% of canvas height. Total three-line title block bounding box approximately 19–82% width, 5–30% height, optical centre approximately (50.5%, 17.5%). Title block width approximately 63% of canvas width. Title block height approximately 25% of canvas height. Alignment centred on the canvas vertical axis. Leading between line envelopes approximately 0.20–0.32× cap-height. No baseline rotation, no arc, no path warp.

Neon tube core colour: yellow-ivory warm, luminosity 94–98, estimated hex

#FFF0AE to

#FFF6C8. Hot inner edge at the tube centre: pale yellow-white, luminosity 98–100. Outer tube edge transitions to golden orange, luminosity 65–75, estimated hex

#F59A36. Surrounding each tube is a soft outer halo/glow in warm orange-amber

#F07827, opacity equivalent 35–55%, spread approximately 1–2% canvas width from each tube. The halo covers the full title block at approximately 16–85% width, 3–33% height and raises the wall luminosity in a soft perimeter around the tubing. The core-to-non-glowing-wall luminosity delta is approximately 34–43, verdict MEDIUM. Inside the strongest glow area the local delta reduces to 18–25, verdict LOW-MEDIUM. A faint transparent or clear physical mounting backplate may be subtly visible around portions of the tubing — it does not form an opaque panel. No drop shadow, no inner shadow, no dimensional extrude, no bevel, no distress applied to the letters.

Primary visual element — figure.

One seated woman occupies approximately 23–78% width, 25–78% height, optical centre (50%, 52%). Full-colour photographic figure. No cutout, no mask, no silhouette simplification, natural photographic edges throughout. Treatment chain: full-colour photography, warm colour grade applied, natural skin tones retained, optical depth-of-field background separation maintained. No duotone, no halftone, no painterly rendering, no graphic overlay on figure, no artificial contour glow, no cutout drop shadow.

Pose — exact.

The woman is seated centrally and frontally behind the desk. Her torso is approximately frontal with shoulders nearly level and square to the camera. She is not angled or turned to one side. Both forearms angle inward from each side of the desk toward the centre of her body. Her hands are clasped together and resting on the desk surface at approximately 36–59% width, 68–78% height. She leans very slightly forward, engaged toward the camera. Her head is approximately frontal with no significant yaw or tilt. Her eyes are directed toward the camera. Her mouth is slightly open in a natural warm smile. Her expression is open and conversational. She is fully contained inside the frame — no body part bleeds off any edge.

She wears a burnt-orange rust blazer

#A75E23 in shadow areas and

#C6793B in highlight areas, open at the front, over a warm ivory off-white fitted inner top visible at approximately 43–57% width, 54–68% height. A delicate gold chain necklace is visible at the neckline. A gold watch is on her left wrist visible near the clasped hands. Her hair is long, blonde to light caramel-brown with darker roots and deeper lowlights, falling naturally over both shoulders in loose waves, occupying approximately 32–68% width, 24–68% height. Hair strand and wave boundary detail is preserved — no silhouette simplification.

Face bounding box approximately 42–59% width, 27–44% height. Face centre approximately (50.5%, 35.5%). Face height approximately 17% canvas height. Head and full hair mass approximately 36–64% width, 24–58% height, head and hair height approximately 34% canvas height. Visible subject height approximately 53% canvas height.

Microphone and boom arm — exact geometry.

The microphone is a large black cylindrical broadcast condenser-style microphone with a foam or mesh grille head and a shock mount assembly at its base. Microphone body colour charcoal near-black

#151514, matte surface. Microphone plus mount occupies approximately 35–50% width, 46–66% height, optical centre (42.5%, 56%). The microphone head occupies 41–49% width, 46–57% height. The shock mount assembly occupies 35–49% width, 53–64% height. The microphone is oriented predominantly vertically, positioned just left of centre in front of the presenter, at approximately the mid-chest to chin height of the figure. The boom arm enters the frame from the left edge at approximately 0–44% width, 40–57% height and runs diagonally from the left edge toward the microphone, optical centre of boom arm approximately (22%, 48.5%). The boom arm is black articulated tubular metal construction and exits the left edge of the canvas. Microphone scale approximately 20% canvas height including mount.

Foreground desk.

The desk is a warm honey-toned wood surface occupying the full canvas width at approximately 0–100% width, 70–100% height. The desk surface colour warm honey-orange-brown

#C8915A to

#E5AB6B in highlights. The desk fills the entire lower portion of the frame and bleeds off the left, right and bottom edges. On the desk surface: a laptop computer at approximately 0–42% width, 65–88% height, three-quarter perspective view, warm grey metallic lid and keyboard deck, bleeding off the left edge; an open notebook with ivory cream pages at approximately 52–91% width, 74–93% height, warm ivory

#EFD596 page colour, with a decorative line geometry visible on the right page and a pen placed diagonally across the open pages; a foreground lit candle in a clear glass vessel at approximately 70–81% width, 87–98% height producing a warm amber flame bloom and bleeding toward the bottom edge. All desk objects are environmental detail subordinate to the portrait and title.

Surface finish.

The surface carries no added film grain, no digital noise, no paper tooth, no halftone, no scanlines, no distress, no chromatic aberration, and no geometric decorative overlay. Specular highlights appear as small natural photographic accents on skin, jewellery, watch face, microphone hardware, laptop surface and candle glass — not graphic glow effects.

Secondary typography.

No subtitle, no host name, no episode identifier, no season label, no network credit, no URL, no social handle, and no platform text anywhere on the canvas. The only readable text is YOUR PODCAST HERE as fully described above. No additional readable words, letters or marks anywhere.

Closed palette — 15 photographic control colours.

#361204 deep warm shadow,

#553415 dark walnut,

#927250 wall taupe,

#C8915A honey desk wood,

#E5AB6B light wood and skin highlight,

#835C37 chestnut midtone,

#A75E23 burnt-orange blazer,

#C6793B blazer highlight,

#AF7035 caramel hair midtone,

#6F3F1B hair shadow,

#EFD596 ivory textile and paper,

#151514 microphone and equipment charcoal,

#FFF0AE neon tube core,

#F58A2A neon outer glow,

#4C552A plant foliage. Continuous photographic tonal interpolation within these families. No additional hue families introduced. Deep shadow and near-black regions must not be lifted toward mid-grey. Warm amber system must not be neutralised. Title-to-background luminosity delta must remain approximately 34–43 at the non-glowing wall reference.

Layout and reading order.

Compositional primary axis at x≈50%. Title occupies the upper third. Portrait occupies the central lower zone. Desk fills the bottom. Reading order: neon title first driven by highest luminosity structure and uppermost placement; face second driven by facial recognition and skin-to-background separation; microphone third as near-black silhouette over lighter clothing; clasped hands and desk objects fourth as foreground warm-toned base. Negative space approximately 16–20%, distributed in the gaps between title lines, in the open wall area flanking the head and in small zones beside the shoulders. All four canvas edges are bled by the photographic scene — boom arm bleeds left, laptop bleeds left, desk bleeds left, right and bottom, background furniture bleeds left and right. Title top margin approximately 5% from top edge. Face is safely centred with at least 18% margin from left and right edges. Lower 8% of canvas carries only desk surface, candle base and floor — no critical identity information placed there.

At 55 pixels wide this cover must read as: a bright three-line orange-yellow luminous title block in the upper third above a woman in an orange blazer seated behind a microphone in a warm brown candlelit studio. The neon title collapses to a warm glowing three-band mass — individual character reading at this scale is not required but the three-line structure must remain visually distinct. Face and orange torso silhouette remain the portrait recognition anchor. The microphone reads as a dark vertical form in front of the figure. All jewellery, hair strand detail, notebook lines, candle vessel detail and plant leaves may collapse to colour mass at 55 pixels.

Genre register is interview and conversation carried by the centrally positioned broadcast microphone, the direct-to-camera seated presenter gaze, the desk-based studio environment and the word PODCAST rendered at maximum luminosity in the upper zone. Secondary register is business and lifestyle carried by the laptop, notebook, pen and warm candlelit styling. Brand personality is bold-accessible: warm orange neon dominant, burnt-orange blazer echo, warm candlelit amber environment, direct frontal symmetry, high-luminosity title.

Preserve the identity and likeness of the depicted person exactly as shown in the reference photograph. Palette is closed to the 15 colours listed above. The only readable text is YOUR PODCAST HERE exactly as specified — no additional words anywhere. Surface is full-colour photographic with no illustrative, graphic, or dimensional conversion. Lower 8% of canvas is kept clear of any critical element.