Repeated Plate Restoration Failures — AI Prompts for Adobe Photoshop

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repeated plate restoration errors damaging trust

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Become — change the pattern

I've been restoring plate scans all month and keep underestimating when a scan needs rescanning…

I've been restoring plate scans all month and keep underestimating when a scan needs rescanning rather than digital repair; the press crew ends up seeing marks I thought I removed. Help me see the pattern: what signs in a scan tell me to stop retouching and request a new scan, and give me one technical habit to adopt so my cleanups reliably hold through dot gain and plate making.

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Prepress TechnicianAdobe Photoshop

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