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Clean Fur Transparency

Produce an alpha‑masked PNG of the character with clean hair edges so it composites over video without halos: refine h…

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The same job, four heights

do it · improve it · decide · become
AExecute — “help me do it”Produce an alpha‑masked PNG of the character with clean hair edges so it composites over video…+
Produce an alpha‑masked PNG of the character with clean hair edges so it composites over video without halos: refine hair selection, paint mask edges where needed, and export a 16‑bit PNG with transparency to the compositing folder.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Prepare a hair‑edge mask the compositor will accept: run select-and-mask to capture fine…+
Prepare a hair‑edge mask the compositor will accept: run select-and-mask to capture fine strands, manually paint mask where fringe issues appear, create a bleed/non‑bleed pair (0px and 2px), and include a 2x zoom edge sample and PSD with named masks for handoff.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

1 of them
Paint clean alpha edges around hair and fur so a character can sit over video backgrounds without halos.

Who does this

1 roles
Motion / Multimedia Artist

Questions people ask

honest answers

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.