SKILL: Background Bleed

Version: 1.0 | Hermes Agent Failure Pattern Library

DESCRIPTION

Mastery of preventing and correcting background elements that intrude into the subject, or subject elements that leak into the background. Background bleed manifests as color contamination, texture migration, object merging, and environmental features attaching to the subject. Proper subject isolation is essential for clean commercial imagery.

TRIGGER KEYWORDS

background bleed, color bleed, texture migration, subject merging, background contamination, color contamination, object merging, background intrusion, fringing, color spill, background edge, subject isolation failure

CORE RULES

• Strong contrast between subject and background prevents most bleed
• Describe subject edges explicitly: "clean edge separation between subject and background"
• Name the background independently from the subject in the prompt
• Avoid prompt adjacency: don't put subject and background descriptors in same clause
• For Flux: positive isolation phrase "subject cleanly isolated from background, distinct separation"
• Color proximity causes bleed: avoid subject and background sharing similar hues
• Depth/spatial separation in prompt reduces model's tendency to merge adjacent elements