Extract Clean Foreground — AI Prompts for Adobe Photoshop

The moments that lead here

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

Lift the downtown protestor cleanly off its noisy street background so the image can appear on the paper's feature page.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

Cut the downtown protestor cleanly out of the noisy street background and deliver a masked layer…

Cut the downtown protestor cleanly out of the noisy street background and deliver a masked layer with refined hair and hard-edge feet so the subject can be placed on the feature page.

Improve — make it easier to accept

Prepare the cutout so the picture editor can drop it into layouts without fuss: produce a layer…

Prepare the cutout so the picture editor can drop it into layouts without fuss: produce a layer mask with refined hair edges, add a soft 1–2% hair fringe opacity mask for print, and include a flattened PNG proof and the PSD with mask intact.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

PhotojournalistAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Lightroomalso: Isolate Protestor From Backgroundalso: Lift Subject For Feature Use

Next to this one

Other cut-out work people do in Adobe Photoshop.

Cutout Quality Bottleneck Cutout Standards Planning Distracting Sculpture Background Erase Reflected People Extract Character Extract Model From Wall Extract Product Extract Sculpture Photo Extract Student Portrait Faster Cut-Outs Without Loss

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.

The rest of the map

Same library, five ways in.

Work Atlasthe whole map, interactive Careers1,949 jobs and their real tasks Soft skillsthe human part of the work Activities500 things people do Prompt Librarybrowse every prompt