Polished-But-Real Portrait — AI Prompts for Adobe Photoshop

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Presentation to the client is tonight and the portrait needs to look polished but not airbrushed — it's the founder's niece and the family will notice if she looks fake.

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I have to hand a retouched portrait to the account team for a client presentation tonight. The…

I have to hand a retouched portrait to the account team for a client presentation tonight. The founder's niece is in the shot and they want her to look polished but still like herself; I'm nervous about going too far and making it look airbrushed. Tell me which three retouch moves are acceptable for this kind of family-sensitive image, which fixes cross the 'do not' line, and give me a one-line note I can pin to the file for the retoucher to respect skin texture.

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