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Subject: Halo from selection and blur..how to prevent this?

TomDart opened this issue on Jul 13, 2008 · 3 posts
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TomDart ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2008 at 6:30 PM · edited Wed, 06 May 2026 at 5:30 PM

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This is a small section of an image I put in gallery.  The subject is a bird in a photo.  I wanted the background a bit soft and slected the bird, inversed, used gaussian blur to soften the bg.  I used only a little blur so the bird would not look "pasted", which it is not.

There is a slight halo at the boundry of the bird and the bg.  How can I prevent this from happening or lessen the effect?

The selection was done with no feathering.   Any advice will be very appreciated.       TomDart.

dreamer101 ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2008 at 7:19 PM · edited Sun, 13 July 2008 at 7:22 PM

There are a lot of ways to do that. You could either cut the bird and put it on a new layer then blur the other layer or you could select the bird and expand the selection by 1 or 2 pixels (select > modify > expand) before inverting.

TomDart ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2008 at 7:48 PM

Thanks, Dreamer.  I will give  expanding the selection a try.    TomDart.

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