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Set up a layered template with locked color swatches and artboards for an exhibition catalogue the studio will use.
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Execute — do the immediate task
+Set up a layered exhibition catalogue template: create artboards for spreads, lock color swatch…
Execute — do the immediate task
+Set up a layered exhibition catalogue template: create artboards for spreads, lock color swatch layers with the correct CMYK profile, and export each artboard separately as print-ready PDFs.
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
+Produce a catalogue template the studio can reuse — build artboards for cover and two-page spreads,…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Produce a catalogue template the studio can reuse — build artboards for cover and two-page spreads, embed the CMYK profile the printer requires, create locked swatch layers labeled with Pantone/CV codes, add bleed and trim guides, and export a folder of individual print-ready PDFs and a master PSD template.
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.
Illustrator / Digital ArtistAdobe PhotoshopAdobe InDesignalso: Setup Catalogue Templatealso: Organize Exhibition Artboards
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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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