Re: Post-production position

Your own robot for Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. Hire me.

I’m PixAssist, an AI plugin that does the steps inside your Photoshop and Lightroom Classic: I build the layers and masks, put products on pure white, check AI images at 200% before they reach your client, and run the same steps on the whole folder. You tell me what the photos need in plain words. You keep the taste.

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Windows & macOS · Photoshop 2026+ and Lightroom Classic · paid Claude plan needed, billed separately

A photographer at his laptop smiles at the PixAssist robot

Watch me on the job (29 s)

Tested on Photoshop 27.10 and Lightroom Classic 15.5 · 100 tools · Works inside your Adobe apps

THE PROBLEM

The job, as I understand it

The image is the good part. Then comes the last 20%.

It’s the night before delivery. The client picked 40 shots. Each one needs the same clean-up, the same colour, a white background for the shop and a 4:5 for Instagram. And the AI render they loved has skin like wax.

Things nobody went to art school for:

Masking hair, strand by strand.
Setting up the same frequency separation, again.
Forty products onto pure white, 2500 x 2500.
Matching colour across a whole series.
AI images with waxy skin and a label nobody checked against the packshot.
Exporting 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16 of every shot.

None of it needs your eye. All of it eats your evenings. That’s the part I’m applying for.

HOW WE SPLIT IT

You decide. I do the layers.

A photographer leans back with his camera while the PixAssist robot works at the laptop

Nobody hires a retoucher for knowing where the menu is. You get hired for knowing what the photo needs. I take the other part: the masks, the layers, the series and the exports.

I work in your file, on real layers. My retouching, colour and masks land in your PSD as named layers, adjustment layers and masks. No flat images, no web app.
Your photos stay on your drive. I never upload your photos, and I have no cloud of my own. Claude, which I work through, sees file details, layer names, previews and close-ups while it works. Adobe’s AI features run in Adobe’s cloud on your account, only when you turn them on or ask for them. What leaves your computer
I check my own work. I zoom in to 200%, read the histogram, clipping and the white of the background, and tell you what I found. Sensible defaults first, your adjustments after.

SKILLS

What I can do from day one

Brief me the way you’d brief a colleague, in any language.

Photoshop

You type	I do
“Put these 40 products on pure white, 2500 x 2500, with a soft shadow.”	I cut each product out with Photoshop’s AI selection, place it on pure white and check that the edges stay white.
“Set up frequency separation and a dodge & burn kit on this portrait.”	I build the layers and check the split is lossless. The brush work stays yours.
“Remove the small blemishes.”	I remove small spots on a separate layer.
“Neutralise the colour using this grey area.”	I neutralise the colour from the point you show me.
“Match these shots to this reference.”	I match the colour of the series to your reference image.
“Refine the hair edges on the new background.”	I use Select and Mask with colour decontamination, so the halo of the old background disappears.
“Swap the sky with this one.”	I replace the sky with your photo on named layers above the untouched original.
“Remove the cars in the background.”	I use Photoshop’s Remove tool and put the result on a new layer.
“Extend this portrait to a square.”	I use Generative Expand, which spends credits from your Adobe plan. I tell you the cost first.

AI images

You type	I do
“Check this AI render before it goes to the client.”	I flag waxy skin, uneven grain and expansion seams, and show you where to look at 200%.
“Compare the bottle with the real packshot.”	I put them side by side and in Difference mode, and tell you what changed.

Lightroom Classic

You type	I do
“Add +0.3 exposure to all selected photos.”	I adjust each photo relative to its own settings, non-destructively.
“Apply my Warm Portrait preset and add keywords.”	I apply your presets and set ratings, flags, labels, titles, captions and keywords.
“Mask the sky on these 12 photos and lift it.”	I create AI masks for sky and subject and set the local sliders.
“Remove the people in the background.”	I use Lightroom’s people removal, without generative credits.

Series

You type	I do
“Run this on the whole folder and export.”	I repeat the steps on every photo, export them and give you a quality report.
“Make 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 and 16:9 versions.”	I crop or extend the background with blur, without touching the original.
“Show me how to do this myself.”	I walk you through each step with the exact values, using the menu names in your Photoshop’s language.

I come with 100 tools: 63 for Photoshop, 20 for Lightroom Classic, plus helpers for setup and checks. full list in the docs

GETTING STARTED

My first day: three steps, the first one you do once.

Install me once.
Run one installer for Claude Code or double-click one file in Claude Desktop. It adds me to Photoshop and Lightroom Classic and connects me to Claude on your computer.
Tell me what the photo needs.
One sentence is enough: “Remove the small blemishes, then give me a 4:5.”
Check my work in your layers.
Keep it, tweak it, or ask me for changes.

PROOF

Trial task, measured.

Screen recording: PixAssist edits a photo in Lightroom Classic, sped up, with a real-time counter — Behind the scenes: I edited this photo in Lightroom Classic, from flat to finished. Sped up, nothing cut. The counter shows the real time: 1:15.

Product on pure white, 2500 x 2500, with its layers.

Hair on a new background at 200%, before and after colour decontamination.

Two cars removed, on a new layer above the untouched photo.

Before and after: the same photo, flat on the left and finished by PixAssist in Lightroom Classic on the right

Screenshots from the same tests: before and after at 200%, with the layers I left in the file.

1 sentence products on pure white (about 7 s per photo)

1 sentence 3 photos masked with AI and exported (22 s)

1 sentence two cars removed from the background, on a new layer (20-31 s)

1 sentence 12 Lightroom photos on Auto, undone in one step (39 s)

4 of 255 how far from neutral grey the colour stays after white balance

Times in brackets are how long my tools ran on our test machine (specs in the docs), without Claude’s thinking time. Yours will differ with your computer, your photos and Adobe’s cloud.

REFERENCES

I’m new here, so I don’t have any yet. Judge me by the screenshots above.

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INTERVIEW

Your first interview question: “Will you ruin my file?”

Your original stays safe. I save to a copy unless you tell me otherwise.

One step, one undo. In Photoshop, each operation I do is one Ctrl+Z. In Lightroom Classic, I undo only my own changes and leave yours alone.

Stop me anytime. The Stop button in my panel halts me before the next step, even in the middle of a batch, and tells you where I stopped. If you change something by hand, I notice and carry on from your version.

Plan first, if you like. Ask “show me the plan before you touch anything” and I list the steps and wait for your go.

In Lightroom Classic, my plug-in can’t run programs, go online, or delete or move your files.

FIT

Where I’d be a good fit, and where I wouldn’t

I’m a good fit if:

You finish AI images for clients and need skin, products and labels checked at 200% before they go out.
You shoot or edit product photos for online shops: white backgrounds, fixed sizes, whole folders.
You retouch portraits and want the setup done, so you can get to the brush work.
You edit in Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, or both.
You’d rather spend the evening on the look than on the export queue.

I’m not for you if:

You want AI to decide how the photo should look. I won’t. That part is yours.
You want me to do the full skin retouch or reshape faces. I clear small spots and prepare the layers; the brush and Liquify stay in your hands.
You edit outside Photoshop and Lightroom Classic.

PRICING

Salary expectations

If I save you two hours a month, I’ve earned my pay.

I don’t need a desk or a coffee, and I don’t sell credits or charge per photo. Here’s what I’d ask for:

Try me for a week.

You add a card at checkout and nothing is charged for 7 days. When the trial ends, the plan you picked starts automatically and renews every month or year until you cancel. Cancel before then in your customer portal and you pay nothing. You’ll get a reminder email before it ends.

Not sure yet? That’s what the trial is for: run me on a real project before you pay. Charged by mistake, or I don’t work on your setup and we can’t fix it? Email us and we’ll refund you in full. This doesn’t affect your statutory rights. Refund policy

The details, from the humans:

Prices in USD, excluding tax. VAT or sales tax is added at checkout where it applies, and you see the full amount before you pay.
You’ll also need a paid Claude plan from Anthropic, billed separately, during the trial too. My work uses your Claude plan’s limits.
Adobe’s generative features use the credits in your Adobe plan. Most of my tools use none, and I tell you the cost before I spend any.
Secure checkout by Lemon Squeezy. Cards and PayPal.

Every plan includes:

Every tool, in Photoshop and Lightroom Classic
Updates when Adobe or Claude change something
Use me on 2 computers
Email support from the people who built me
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REQUIREMENTS

What I need to do the job

I said I don’t need a desk. I do need a few things:

Windows 10 or 11, or macOS 26 on Apple Silicon or newer.
Photoshop 2026 (version 27) or newer with the Creative Cloud desktop app (tested on 27.10), and/or Lightroom Classic (tested on 15.5).
Claude Desktop or Claude Code on the same computer, with a paid Claude plan. claude.ai in a web browser can’t reach apps on your computer, so it can’t work with me.
Node.js 20 or newer, if you use Claude Code (free; my installer tells you if it’s missing).
For Adobe’s AI features: an Adobe plan that includes them. Photoshop’s AI selection in the cloud is a setting you turn on in Photoshop’s preferences.

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