Damaged Scan Deadline

Damaged Scan Deadline in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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The moments that lead here

If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

The print vendor needs a clean file by tomorrow morning and our only artwork is a stained, folded scan that the client insists on using.

1 ready prompt

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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The client insists we use a stained, folded scan of original artwork and the printer needs a clean…
The client insists we use a stained, folded scan of original artwork and the printer needs a clean file by tomorrow morning. I'm worried the scan's texture will either be lost or look fake. Tell me, quickly, which damages I must repair now and which textures I must preserve to keep the artwork feeling original, and give me the exact order of steps to prepare a print-reproducible master.

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