The fan rattled once, as if to say, Always .

“Sir, the client needs 500 product images by evening,” his team lead, Meera, said, not looking up from her quad-monitor setup. “High-res. Background removal. Drop shadows.”

The fan coughed, then spun steadily.

One day, disaster struck. A new client, a luxury watch brand, sent a batch of RAW files. Each file was 85MB. Karan’s PC took eight minutes to open one.