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Raising Compositing Standards

Composites that land poorly cost us trust and extra shoot days. Looking at [N=30] problematic composites from the last…

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DBecome — “help me grow”Composites that land poorly cost us trust and extra shoot days. Looking at [N=30] problematic…+
Composites that land poorly cost us trust and extra shoot days. Looking at [N=30] problematic composites from the last year, where do we repeatedly fail — insufficient reference lighting, missing shadow passes at shoot, or poor file handoff? Recommend one change to the shoot brief or retouch checklist that will dramatically reduce compositing fixes in post and save production days.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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Raising our compositing bar to eliminate repeated fixes and reshoots

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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.

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