Refine Hair Edges

Refine Hair Edges in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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Refine hair and tiny edge details around a subject cut-out so it reads natural when scaled up for print.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Refine hair and fine edges on the subject cut-out by using select-and-mask, paint a refined edge on…
Refine hair and fine edges on the subject cut-out by using select-and-mask, paint a refined edge on the mask, and save a high-resolution masked PSD suitable for print scaling.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Make the cut-out hair hold up in print — run select-and-mask with radius and decontaminate edges,…
Make the cut-out hair hold up in print — run select-and-mask with radius and decontaminate edges, hand-paint hair flyaways on the mask, create a 300 dpi masked PSD and a 100% zoom PNG for printing review, and include a short note listing areas retouched.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Illustrator / Digital ArtistAdobe PhotoshopTopaz Photo AIalso: Polish Cutout Detailsalso: Scale-Ready Edge Work

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