Wasted Retouch Hours On Explorations

Wasted Retouch Hours On Explorations in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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The moments that lead here

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

I'm trying to stop wasting retouch hours on layouts that never move past the 'explore' stage.

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Become — change the pattern

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Over the last ten exploratory layouts, we burned retouch time and then pivoted when the director…
Over the last ten exploratory layouts, we burned retouch time and then pivoted when the director picked a different composition. Show me the pattern that causes this rework, and recommend one change to how I brief compositions that will save the team time across a whole campaign. Include the exact language I should use in the art brief so photographers and retouchers align from the start.

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