[photoshop-beginners] Re: Help with Removing Background

One way is after extraction,
Ctrl+Click on the layer to select the extracted image, then
add a mask of the selection, finally
Gaussian blur the mask to get the fuzzy edge you want.
Does not damage the original as erasing will do and is easier than trying to paint the edge.
However, you may fine tune the fuzzy edge by painting desired changes into the mask.
God bless you always, all ways,
Paul

--- In photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com, Catnip Leaf <catnipleaf@...> wrote:
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> Help! I recently got PhotoShop CS4 and am about to use it to change two photos for a friend. The version I had before was Version 7!!! It's also been a long time sinc I have used PhotoShop and I am not sure what I have to do to erase the background and leave the single figure in the foreground. The photos are of a friend's daughter but there are people in the background. She asked me to erase all the background and put a fuzzy edge around her daughter. Can you help?
>

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