Avoid Over-Brightening Habit

Avoid Over-Brightening Habit in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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I want to reduce the recurring edits where I over-brighten faces under pressure

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Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Become — change the pattern

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Editors sometimes send images back because faces look selectively lit after my local brightening.…
Editors sometimes send images back because faces look selectively lit after my local brightening. Across the last [N=40] such edits, where do I commonly slip into over-processing, and suggest one refined habit—masking practice or a visual test—that prevents me from pulling faces too far forward while still guiding the reader's eye.

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