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Foreground Walk-Through Obstruction

We need the event hero photo in the layout today and there's a passerby crossing where the headline will sit. I don't …

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CDecide — “help me choose”We need the event hero photo in the layout today and there's a passerby crossing where the…+

We need the event hero photo in the layout today and there's a passerby crossing where the headline will sit. I don't have time for a full recreation or reshoot. Advise the fastest, lowest-risk approach to remove that person for a presentation comp, say what will look acceptable on-screen versus in print, and warn me what repair will fail if we later need a high-res print.

when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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The layout needs the event hero today and there's a person walking through the frame where copy will sit; we can't reshoot.

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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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