continued from "Building the Crop" Note: some of these dialogs may appear differently on your computer, or may vary according to the version of Photoshop you are using. The "feathering" technique however doesn't change.

Making the Feather Under the Selection menu you can set the amount of feathering you wish. (In this case we set it to 10.) Higher numbers, mean wider the spreads of feathering. If you hit the delete key, the photo becomes nice and softly bordered. The finished piece is shown at left. If you SAVE the selection, you have it to use again, perhaps on another photo. If you convert it to a quick mask, you can paint more masking into it. Let's see what else can we do...