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Credibility Lost To Rebuilds

Over the last year I patched seven front-page images by generating missing sky or crowd and two were flagged for looki…

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DBecome — “help me grow”Over the last year I patched seven front-page images by generating missing sky or crowd and two…+
Over the last year I patched seven front-page images by generating missing sky or crowd and two were flagged for looking artificial. Help me see the pattern in when generation works versus when it betrays the story, and propose a strict decision rule I can use on assignment so I only reconstruct frames that will survive editorial and reader scrutiny.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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I keep rebuilding missing corners and it's costing me credibility; I want a better rulebook

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Photojournalist

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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.