Extract Character — AI Prompts for Adobe Photoshop

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If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

Lift a character off its photo background so I can place it into a new scene.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

Isolate the photographed character by using automatic subject selection, refine and apply a layer…

Isolate the photographed character by using automatic subject selection, refine and apply a layer mask so the figure sits on its own layer, and save as a masked PNG for compositing into the new scene.

Improve — make it easier to accept

Deliver a clean cut-out the art director can drop in — run automatic subject select, refine mask…

Deliver a clean cut-out the art director can drop in — run automatic subject select, refine mask edges on hair and clothing, add a 1–2 pixel feather plus a thin matte choke to avoid halos, and provide the result as a masked PSD and flattened PNG with the original filename.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Illustrator / Digital ArtistAdobe PhotoshopTopaz Photo AIalso: Isolate Subject Cutoutalso: Remove Photo Background

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Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.

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