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We repeatedly get pushback for portraits that either read amateur or over-retouched and I want to stop both extremes.
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Become — change the pattern
+Across recent portrait comps we swing between amateur fixes and heavy-handed smoothing, and both…
Become — change the pattern
+Across recent portrait comps we swing between amateur fixes and heavy-handed smoothing, and both lose client confidence. Identify the pattern in how we brief retouch that creates those extremes, and recommend a single standard I should institute for skin work plus the quick visual check that proves it's hit the right balance before a presentation.
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