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Remove a hairline scratch across a photo that would become obvious after plate making.
2 ready prompts
Written for the moment this actually comes up.
Execute — do the immediate task
+Remove the hairline scratch across the photo by cloning and patching over the affected area, blend…
Execute — do the immediate task
+Remove the hairline scratch across the photo by cloning and patching over the affected area, blend texture and grain to match surrounding pixels, inspect at 200% to ensure invisibility, and save as a lossless TIFF for plates.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before handing the retouched image to quality control, make the repair defensible—keep the retouch…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before handing the retouched image to quality control, make the repair defensible—keep the retouch on its own layer, include a 200% before-and-after crop, preserve original grain where possible, and note any areas where restoration altered fine detail.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Who does this, and with what
The same task is different work inside a different job.
Prepress TechnicianAdobe Photoshopalso: Retouch Plate-Ready Image
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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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