Guide Reader Focus

Guide Reader Focus in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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Brighten only the subject's face in the crowd to guide readers' eyes to the interviewee without changing the rest of the frame.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Brighten only the subject's face in the crowd using a painted mask and curves so the interviewee's…
Brighten only the subject's face in the crowd using a painted mask and curves so the interviewee's face guides the reader's eye without altering the rest of the frame.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Make the edit unmistakably local and ethical for the copy desk: dodge the interviewee's face with a…
Make the edit unmistakably local and ethical for the copy desk: dodge the interviewee's face with a soft mask and subtle curves lift, keep skin tone natural, and export a proof with mask visible and a note of the exact exposure stop change applied.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

PhotojournalistAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Lightroomalso: Brighten Subject Facealso: Isolate Interviewee Lighting

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