Cut Paste

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Felice
Jul 15, 2003
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Hello,

There must be a mistake in my technique, since whenever I select, feather, cut and paste there is a ghost line. What is the proper way to do this procedure?

Thanks very much.

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Catherine Gardner
Jul 15, 2003
It may have something to so with the degree of your feathering. How about posting one of your examples and then someone might be able to better assist you. 🙂

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"Felice" wrote in message
Hello,

There must be a mistake in my technique, since whenever I select, feather, cut and paste there is a ghost line. What is the proper way to do this procedure?

Thanks very much.

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jaSPAMc
Jul 15, 2003
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:18:39 -0700, "Felice" found these unused words floating about:

Hello,

There must be a mistake in my technique, since whenever I select, feather, cut and paste there is a ghost line. What is the proper way to do this procedure?

Thanks very much.
Don’t feather!

If you must have a soft edge, then do it by selecting the pasted image, invert selection and clear.
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Felice
Jul 16, 2003
Would you be kind enough to expand on the procedure you mention below?

"edjh" wrote in message
Felice wrote:
Thank you all for the responses.
/snip/
If you must have a soft edge, then do it by selecting the pasted image, invert selection and clear.

Layer Mask would be a much much better way.


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edjh
Jul 16, 2003
Felice wrote:
Would you be kind enough to expand on the procedure you mention below?

"edjh" wrote in message

Felice wrote:

Thank you all for the responses.

/snip/

If you must have a soft edge, then do it by selecting the pasted image, invert selection and clear.

Layer Mask would be a much much better way.

With your selection running click the little broken-line circle icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. That will make a Layer Mask on your layer which will now show only the parts inside the selection, rendering the rest transparent. You can use these masks for many different effects. You can blur them, control the anti-aliasing (feather) with Levels , run filters on them. You can mask or not mask parts of Layer Styles (controls in the Layer Styles dialog). You can change a Layer Mask’s size and position and opacity. Basically they are channels applied in a special way. Layer Masks have an almost infinite variety of uses.

Best of all, if you don’t like what you’re getting you can trash or edit the mask. Since you haven’t erased or deleted anything, all your original image is still there "under" the mask.

Check it out in your manual or Help files. One of the most useful tools Photoshop has to offer.


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http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html

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