Prevent Composite Firefighting — AI Prompts for Adobe Photoshop

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

I want to stop firefighting composites that should've been planned on set.

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Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Become — change the pattern

We're repeatedly asked to composite subjects into locations post-shoot and it eats time matching…

We're repeatedly asked to composite subjects into locations post-shoot and it eats time matching shadows and perspective. Show the pattern in what kills believability — inconsistent light angle, missing contact shadows, or scale mismatches — and give me one pre-shoot checklist item and one compositing shortcut that will make these requests less painful.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

PhotographerAdobe 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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