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Straighten and correct distortion from a photographed artwork so it aligns to the plate grid and prints square.
2 ready prompts
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Execute — do the immediate task
+Straighten and correct the photographed artwork so it aligns square to the plate grid: straighten…
Execute — do the immediate task
+Straighten and correct the photographed artwork so it aligns square to the plate grid: straighten the horizon, use perspective crop to correct keystone distortion, snap edges to the document guides, and save a corrected TIFF for plates.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before the proof goes to the plate room, make the geometry verifiable—provide a before-and-after…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before the proof goes to the plate room, make the geometry verifiable—provide a before-and-after overlay showing corner coordinates, note any pixel loss from cropping, ensure the corrected image aligns to the plate grid with 3 mm bleed, and call out if a reshoot is preferable.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Who does this, and with what
The same task is different work inside a different job.
Prepress TechnicianAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Camera Rawalso: Align To Plate Grid
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Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
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