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Workflows: Photo & Imaging

Repeatable, step-by-step AI workflows for Photo & Imaging.

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Getting clean hair cutouts out of Photoshop's Select Subject and Select and Mask

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One click gets you most of a portrait cutout. The hair is where it falls apart. Pulling together Adobe's documentation and several independent tutorials, here's how to choose between Cloud and Device, refine the edge without turning hair into a helmet, and deal with the color fringe that's usually left behind.

Photo & Imaging

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Upscaling a photo for a bigger print, from Super Resolution to Generative Upscale

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Lightroom and Photoshop now give you several ways to enlarge a photo, from free Super Resolution to credit-based Topaz Gigapixel and Bloom models. Pulling together Adobe's documentation and several independent tests, here's how to choose one by subject, prep the file, and check the result where it counts: on paper.

Photo & Imaging

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Syncing Adobe Lightroom's AI masks across a whole shoot without babysitting every frame

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Lightroom doesn't copy an AI mask from one photo to the next. It copies the instructions and redraws the mask on every frame. Pulling together several independent guides and Adobe community threads, here's how to batch subject, sky, and people masks so they actually land where you meant them to.

Photo & Imaging

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Getting clean removals out of Adobe Lightroom's Remove tool, from stray objects to reflections

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Lightroom's Remove tool now packs Generative Remove plus one-click Distraction Removal for people, reflections, and dust. Pulling together Adobe's own guidance and several independent guides, here's how to pick the right mode, brush it properly, and know when to hand off to Photoshop.

Photo & Imaging

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Getting composites out of Harmonize in Adobe Photoshop that hold up at full size

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Harmonize matches a pasted-in subject's light and color to its new scene in one click. Pulling together Adobe's own tutorial and several hands-on guides, here's how to set it up, where it goes soft, and how to finish the job by hand.

Photo & Imaging

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Getting consistent brand imagery out of Midjourney with style references and moodboards

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Style references, sref codes, moodboards, and personalization all promise a consistent look, and they behave quite differently. Pulling together Midjourney's docs and several practitioners' write-ups, here's how to build a look that holds across a whole campaign.

Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic

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Getting clean, trackable mattes out of DaVinci Resolve's Magic Mask

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Magic Mask can isolate a moving person or object without rotoscoping, but most frustration comes from over-guiding it and fixing the wrong frame. Pulling together several guides, here's a workflow from first click to a cached matte you can grade against in real time.

Motion & Video, Photo & Imaging

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Photoshop's Generative Fill does a lot more than resize and remove

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Most people who use Firefly inside Photoshop know two moves: fill a resize, erase an object. A look across Adobe's own documentation and independent tutorials turns up a model picker, a free removal path, and a reference-image workflow most people never open.

Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic, Web