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Prep Step Crop Mismatch

Weekly emails keep needing last-minute cropping because images lack safe zones for headlines. Identify the recurring f…

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Weekly emails keep needing last-minute cropping because images lack safe zones for headlines. Identify the recurring failure in our capture and prep (framing, safe area communication, template mismatch). Recommend one concrete change to either the email template or the shoot brief that will eliminate rework and make images ready on first pass, and explain how to implement it with store photographers.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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Our weekly email crops often force awkward re-crops and last-minute fixes; it's slowing approvals. Where do we keep losing time in the prep step, and what's one change to our template or capture notes that will stop this from being an emergency every Friday?

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