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Thumbnail-Friendly Retouching

The campaign goes live on mobile and at thumbnail size I fear blemishes and dull teeth will cost click-throughs. I nee…

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CDecide — “help me choose”The campaign goes live on mobile and at thumbnail size I fear blemishes and dull teeth will…+
The campaign goes live on mobile and at thumbnail size I fear blemishes and dull teeth will cost click-throughs. I need teeth whitened and eyes brightened but can't let it look unnatural. Tell me the targeted steps to brighten teeth and eyes so the image feels clean at social scale, and the one visual test I must run to make sure it still reads human and not edited.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

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The hero needs to feel fresh and friendly at a glance and the model's small flaws are distracting at thumbnail size

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Advertising & Promotions Manager

Questions people ask

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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.