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Guide Reader Focus

Brighten only the subject's face in the crowd using a painted mask and curves so the interviewee's face guides the rea…

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The same job, four heights

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AExecute — “help me do it”Brighten only the subject's face in the crowd using a painted mask and curves so the…+
Brighten only the subject's face in the crowd using a painted mask and curves so the interviewee's face guides the reader's eye without altering the rest of the frame.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Make the edit unmistakably local and ethical for the copy desk: dodge the interviewee's face…+
Make the edit unmistakably local and ethical for the copy desk: dodge the interviewee's face with a soft mask and subtle curves lift, keep skin tone natural, and export a proof with mask visible and a note of the exact exposure stop change applied.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

1 of them
Brighten only the subject's face in the crowd to guide readers' eyes to the interviewee without changing the rest of the frame.

Who does this

1 roles
Photojournalist

Questions people ask

honest answers

Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Photoshop — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.