Prepare Print Mockup

Prepare Print Mockup in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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1situation
1role does it
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The moments that lead here

If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

Turn a hand-drawn sketch into a clean, printable composition ready for production mockups.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Turn my hand-drawn sketch on paper into a clean, printable composition for production mockups: scan…
Turn my hand-drawn sketch on paper into a clean, printable composition for production mockups: scan and open the image, straighten and crop to 300 dpi print size, adjust levels so lines are solid black on a white ground, save as a flattened TIFF and a layered PSD.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before finalizing the sketch for mockups, make the drawing easy for pattern-makers and printers to…
Before finalizing the sketch for mockups, make the drawing easy for pattern-makers and printers to use: clean up stray pencil marks, increase line contrast while retaining subtle hatch texture, add a 3 mm bleed and a labeled 300 dpi TIFF plus a layered PSD with a hidden raw-scan layer for reference.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Craft / Fine ArtistAdobe Photoshop (Pen Tool / Image Trace Prep / Clean-Up)Adobe Illustratoralso: Vectorize Hand Sketchalso: Clean Up Sketch Artwork

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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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