Preserve Journalistic Integrity

Preserve Journalistic Integrity 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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Decide which retouches cross the line for a news portrait and set an editing workflow that preserves editorial integrity.

2 ready prompts

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Execute — do the immediate task

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Decide which retouches cross the line for a news portrait and set an editing workflow that…
Decide which retouches cross the line for a news portrait and set an editing workflow that preserves editorial integrity: document allowed adjustments, create a layer mask workflow that preserves original pixels, and export a flattened and a layered TIFF for archive.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before finalizing the editorial retouch policy, make the rules clear to editors: define allowed…
Before finalizing the editorial retouch policy, make the rules clear to editors: define allowed fixes (spots, exposure, dust) versus prohibited changes (changing expression, body shape, age), require a visible layers PSD preserving originals under a 'RAW_ARCHIVE' group, add a short checklist for every portrait indicating which rule was applied, and save both flattened TIFF for publication and layered PSD for records.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

PhotographerAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Bridgealso: Define Editorial Retouch Policyalso: Set News Portrait Workflow

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