Protect Layered Texture

Protect Layered Texture in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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

I’ve been doing show identity work for years, but the assistant is now owning final files and keeps outputting flattened PSDs that ruin the texture I worked for. There’s no rush today, but I want a better hand-off that protects my craft yet makes marketing’s life trivial. Tell me which parts of my workflow to harden into a template, what I can safely automate, and a crisp rule for when to hand a layered master versus a print-ready PDF.

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Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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I create ink-based show identities and want a living template that preserves texture, supports…
I create ink-based show identities and want a living template that preserves texture, supports versioning, and reduces back-and-forth with the gallery marketer. Diagnose which steps should be automated (scans, line cleaning, global tone), which must remain manual (line repair, expressive edge work), and propose a file structure and export sequence that keeps an editable master, a web set, and a printer-ready PDF without loss of character. Give one policy I can impose on the team so my originals aren’t flattened by someone else.

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