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The first pass lost his whiskers — the cutout treated the fine hairs as background. We restored the ones by his mouth by hand; the two tufts on his head would not come back, so we replaced the whole cutout method. On that version his owner said: now that is him.

An all-black cat is the hardest to keep from turning into a silhouette. We handle the edge and the dark areas separately, which is how the eye colour, the ear shape and the small white tuft on her chest survive. Her owner said even that tuft was there.

Cream tabby stripes are faint, and pushing contrast flattens them. For coats like this we retouch less on purpose and let the pattern come through on its own.

The generated clip grew him a long flat extra tail off to one side. Cutting it out fixed a second thing too: he had looked shorter than the other cats, because that extra width was squashing him. The redo passed, and his owner said that one was finally him.

After the cutout there was a ring of pink left under her paws — invisible at a glance, obvious zoomed in, and her owner spotted it first. Every pet now gets a full-zoom check of the paws. The ear-tipped side has to be right too, or it simply is not her. Fixed, and she said even the ear tip was on the correct side.

Black dogs are the hardest: the photo is already dark, and the cutout eats another layer, so the face goes flat. She had the same pink ring under the paws, fixed in the same pass. Her owner said the result shows her face more clearly than the photos do.

Three photos was not enough — not enough angles, so the parts we could not see had to be guessed. We asked the owner to dig out two more. The first version also missed the fact that he is male; the owner caught it, we fixed it, and that version got the nod.

Silver tabby markings live in the light-dark difference, and a cutout will happily shave them off along with the background, leaving a plain grey cat. Edge and coat get two separate passes.

A husky mask is symmetrical, and a small shift makes it a different dog. Blue eyes are their own problem: too much highlight and they read as two white dots instead of blue.

Curly coats have no clean edge. Cut too tight and it becomes a smooth ball; too loose and it drags a halo of fluff. This one is zoom-and-adjust, there is no setting that just works.

White fur shows every mistake: a cutout leaves a bright rim along the outline, invisible on a light background and glaring on a dark wallpaper. White pets do not ship until we have checked the edge up close.

Ragdoll points are a gradient — face, ears and legs darken gradually. That gradient turns into flat blocks very easily, and then it is not a ragdoll any more.

On a calico the patches are the identity; one patch off and it is a different cat. We compare them one by one against the owner photos, including the orange over the right eye.

A British Shorthair is round in the face and round in the body. Coats like this get slimmed toward a standard build — the tidier it gets, the less it looks like her — so we say explicitly: do not touch the figure.

Short legs and a big rear — get the proportion wrong and it is just a dog. Sitting is the hardest pose, because the legs disappear behind the body and a small error makes them look broken.

A mixed breed has no reference standard, so it drifts toward whichever common breed it resembles. These are built entirely from the owner photos: how the ears stand, how long the face is, all spelled out.

Long fur ends in individual hairs, which is exactly where cutouts fail: too clean and it looks like fabric, too loose and it picks up noise. Small props like the hair tie need watching too — they are easily mistaken for clutter and cleaned away.