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I’ve been restoring and retouching for years and want to set clear rules for assistants about what constitutes acceptable restoration versus creative rewrite. There’s no deadline, but I need a defensible policy that preserves provenance and is easy to explain to curators. Tell me what to allow and what to forbid for archival pieces and for product shots, and give a short explanation I can paste into a process note.
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+I need a principled retouching policy for the studio: define what level of dust/scratch removal,…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I need a principled retouching policy for the studio: define what level of dust/scratch removal, content removal, and tonal shaping is acceptable for product photos, fair images, portraits, and archival material. Distinguish between restoration that preserves provenance and creative reconstruction that changes an object’s story. Provide a concise, curator-ready explanation I can attach to any restored image describing what was done and why.
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