What is the ruling on designing based on real images of animate beings, such as humans?
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The permissibility of designing on photographic images of animate beings—meaning writing on them and so forth—is the default rule, unless it involves altering creation or another -prohibited matter, such as the owner of the image not giving permission for its publication, or the appearance of awrah (private parts) in it.
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