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Excessive Hand-Cropping Time

Half my week disappears to manually importing and cropping photographer folders. Over the last [N=10] shoots where I h…

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DBecome — “help me grow”Half my week disappears to manually importing and cropping photographer folders. Over the last…+
Half my week disappears to manually importing and cropping photographer folders. Over the last [N=10] shoots where I handled images, where do I repeatedly spend the most time — selecting frames, choosing crops for each template, or re-exporting for different sizes? Recommend one change to my import workflow that saves time but preserves the editorial crops art direction expects.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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Too much time lost hand-cropping shoots

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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.