Hello, please provide more information about what you want to see included in the cover image. Should the reference image you uploaded be used to create the background?

Hello. I have included here a Creative Direction Brief to provide clarity on what I am looking for:
Creative Direction Brief
If Heaven Forgot Us
Official YouTube Banner
Overall Objective
Create a cinematic, emotionally powerful, hyper-realistic piece of artwork that immediately establishes the identity of If Heaven Forgot Us as a premium modern rock/metal band.
The artwork should feel like it belongs alongside Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, Dayseeker, Spiritbox, and Starset, while remaining visually unique.
The image should tell a story before anyone hears a single note.
This should look like a scene from a $250 million film, not digital concept art.
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Core Emotion
The artwork should represent the tension between:
Despair vs Hope
Forgotten vs Remembered
Darkness vs Light
Death vs Redemption
Isolation vs Purpose
The viewer should immediately wonder:
"What happened here?"
instead of
"That's a cool background."
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Artistic Philosophy
Avoid fantasy.
Avoid obvious religious symbolism.
Avoid clichés.
Instead create visual metaphors.
Everything should feel believable.
Everything should look physically real.
Someone should almost believe this place exists.
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Color Palette
This is critical.
I do NOT want a black banner.
I want luminous color.
Primary Colors
Warm Golden Sunrise
Slate Blue
Stone Blue
Weathered Ivory
Silver Steel
Soft White
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Accent Colors
Warm Amber
Pale Cyan
Subtle Copper
Tiny hints of Orange
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Blacks
Only true black inside shadows.
Everything else should be dark blue, slate or charcoal.
The image should feel alive with color.
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Lighting
Lighting should be the hero.
Think:
Roger Deakins
Greig Fraser
Denis Villeneuve
Large shafts of sunlight breaking through massive clouds.
Volumetric lighting.
Atmospheric haze.
Bloom.
Subsurface cloud lighting.
Light reflecting off wet ground.
No blown-out highlights.
Natural HDR.
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Environment
Massive open landscape.
Destroyed civilization.
Ancient architecture.
Modern architecture.
Neither completely futuristic nor medieval.
Somewhere timeless.
A place humanity once called home.
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Composition
A lone figure stands near the bottom center.
Small.
Almost insignificant.
Walking toward the horizon.
The viewer follows them.
The image should feel enormous.
Everything should lead the eye toward the light.
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Symbolism
Instead of crosses or angels...
Represent Heaven through:
Light
Scale
Architecture
Clouds
Distance
Hope
Represent forgetting through:
Ruins
Silence
Weather
Abandoned places
Broken pathways
Empty monuments
The image should ask questions instead of answering them.
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Scale
Everything should feel gigantic.
Clouds hundreds of feet tall.
Cathedrals disappearing into fog.
Mountains.
Reflective water.
Impossible depth.
Tiny human.
Huge world.
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Texture
Nothing should feel digital.
Use:
Natural stone
Weathered marble
Wet concrete
Fog
Dust
Rain residue
Metal oxidation
Real cloud formations
Everything should have believable physical texture.
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Sky
The sky should be breathtaking.
This is the emotional centerpiece.
Towering storm clouds.
Warm sunrise.
Blue atmosphere.
Golden light.
Moving weather.
Hope breaking through despair.
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Foreground
Reflective wet stone.
Water puddles.
Broken pathway.
Tiny pieces of debris.
Subtle reflections.
No clutter.
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Atmosphere
Film grain.
Mist.
Dust particles.
Tiny birds.
Atmospheric perspective.
Depth.
No oversharpening.
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Logo Placement
The logo should not overpower the artwork.
It should feel integrated into the scene.
Elegant.
Premium.
Minimal.
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Banner Safe Area
Design specifically for YouTube.
Canvas:
2560 × 1440
Keep ALL important artwork and typography inside the center safe area:
1546 × 423
Nothing important outside that region.
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Overall Quality Target
This should feel like:
A frame from Dune
meets
the emotional atmosphere of The Lord of the Rings
meets
the realism of The Batman
meets
the cinematic color grading of Blade Runner 2049
without directly copying any of those works.
The goal is a timeless, emotionally resonant image that still looks world-class five years from now.
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Final Impression
When someone lands on our YouTube page, I don't want them to think:
"That's a nice banner."
I want them to stop scrolling for a moment and think:
"Who is this band? I need to hear what they sound like."
The banner should feel less like promotional artwork and more like the opening frame of an epic story—one that invites the viewer to step into the world of If Heaven Forgot Us.

Hi, i have a creative brief that I have added for reference. I have 2 additional image examples as a reference for what I am looking for. what is the best way to send to you?

Hi, thanks for all the additional information! You should be able to upload the extra images to the brief, in the files section, like you did with the first file, so please have a look.