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I need to lift a character from a phone-shot portrait; the client wants them placed in a painted environment tonight. Hair is messy and I'm new to fine edge work under a tight deadline.
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Written for the moment this actually comes up.
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+Given a quick turnaround, tell me the fastest defensible way to cut out a character with messy hair…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+Given a quick turnaround, tell me the fastest defensible way to cut out a character with messy hair so it will sit in a painted scene without reading like a paste-up. Diagnose whether a combination of manual masking plus edge painting or an aggressive automated selection then refine will give me the best balance of speed and realism, and name one step to double-check before I hand it off for painting.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Who does this, and with what
The same task is different work inside a different job.
Illustrator / Digital ArtistAdobe Photoshop
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