Reflection And Shadow Accuracy — AI Prompts for Adobe Photoshop

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I need to assemble a hero composite for the launch trailer and the client will scrutinise reflections and shadows in the hero frame.

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The launch trailer hero needs a composite that reads as one photograph, with product, reflection…

The launch trailer hero needs a composite that reads as one photograph, with product, reflection and shadow all convincing. The production budget won't cover a full studio reshoot. Tell me which element — accurate shadow shape, correct reflection blur, or surface contact points — will sell the illusion fastest, and give me a focused technique I can brief the retoucher to lock that element in across the hero comps.

Who does this, and with what

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Art DirectorAdobe 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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