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Prevent Composite Firefighting

We're repeatedly asked to composite subjects into locations post-shoot and it eats time matching shadows and perspecti…

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DBecome — “help me grow”We're repeatedly asked to composite subjects into locations post-shoot and it eats time…+
We're repeatedly asked to composite subjects into locations post-shoot and it eats time matching shadows and perspective. Show the pattern in what kills believability — inconsistent light angle, missing contact shadows, or scale mismatches — and give me one pre-shoot checklist item and one compositing shortcut that will make these requests less painful.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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I want to stop firefighting composites that should've been planned on set.

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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.