Junior Overstyled Badges

Junior Overstyled Badges in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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I've been asked to create a small library of badge treatments the juniors use, and they keep over-styling them.

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Become — change the pattern

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Across the last [N=30] badges the team produced, most of the rework has been 'too digital' with…
Across the last [N=30] badges the team produced, most of the rework has been 'too digital' with heavy shadows and bright strokes. Show the pattern in what makes a badge feel tactile versus flattened, and give me one pared-back layer structure and one guideline about stroke/shadow ratios so juniors stop over-stylizing badges.

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