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Tight-Deadline Hair Extraction

Given a quick turnaround, tell me the fastest defensible way to cut out a character with messy hair so it will sit in …

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CDecide — “help me choose”Given a quick turnaround, tell me the fastest defensible way to cut out a character with messy…+
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.
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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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.

Who does this

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Illustrator / Digital Artist

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.