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Jagged Student Cutouts

Across the last batch of student-cut portraits done by helpers, where do we most often fail—edges, stray hairs, or lig…

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DBecome — “help me grow”Across the last batch of student-cut portraits done by helpers, where do we most often…+
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?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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

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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.