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Reflection And Shadow Accuracy

The launch trailer hero needs a composite that reads as one photograph, with product, reflection and shadow all convin…

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CDecide — “help me choose”The launch trailer hero needs a composite that reads as one photograph, with product,…+
The launch trailer hero needs a composite that reads as one photograph, with product, reflection and shadow all convincing. The production budget won't cover a full studio reshoot. Tell me which element — accurate shadow shape, correct reflection blur, or surface contact points — will sell the illusion fastest, and give me a focused technique I can brief the retoucher to lock that element in across the hero comps.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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I need to assemble a hero composite for the launch trailer and the client will scrutinise reflections and shadows in the hero frame.

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Art Director

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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.