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Isolate Map Features

Lift buildings, roads, and water features off the aerial photo so each can be styled separately: auto-select buildings…

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The same job, four heights

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AExecute — “help me do it”Lift buildings, roads, and water features off the aerial photo so each can be styled…+
Lift buildings, roads, and water features off the aerial photo so each can be styled separately: auto-select buildings, roads, and water in turn, create a layer mask for each selection, and save as named layers Buildings, Roads, Water with masks intact.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Make approvals faster for the cartography team by refining each automatic selection with a…+
Make approvals faster for the cartography team by refining each automatic selection with a quick edge mask pass — preserve roof eaves and narrow road shoulders, remove haloing at water edges, and deliver a short note listing areas where manual touch-up was needed for the GIS analyst.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

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Lift buildings, roads, and water features cleanly off an aerial photo so each can be styled separately.

Who does this

1 roles
Cartographer / GIS Mapper

Questions people ask

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Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Photoshop — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.