Jagged Student Cutouts

Jagged Student Cutouts in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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The moments that lead here

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

I train student helpers to cut out portraits and we waste time redoing poor masks that look jagged in prints.

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Across the last batch of student-cut portraits done by helpers, where do we most often fail—edges,…
Across the last batch of student-cut portraits done by helpers, where do we most often fail—edges, stray hairs, or lighting mismatch—and what's one simple rule and one exercise I can teach them so their masks are consistent and paste-in ready for roster pages?

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The same task is different work inside a different job.

Teacher (classroom materials)Adobe Photoshop

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