The moments that lead here
If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.
I scanned a client’s ink line drawing and the strokes look muddy; they want me to paint on top but expect crisp lines in the final by tomorrow morning. This is my first time cleaning a detailed hatch drawing solo and I'm nervous I'll erase character in the lines.
1 ready prompt
Written for the moment this actually comes up.
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I'm about to clean a scanned ink drawing so the strokes are crisp for painting over. Diagnose the…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I'm about to clean a scanned ink drawing so the strokes are crisp for painting over. Diagnose the fastest safe approach that preserves line character: levels/curves threshold, selective dodge/burn, or manual inking? Tell me which to try first, one adjustment value to start with, and one thing I must not do because it will lose the original hand.
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 Photoshop
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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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