Newbie help in selection and editing

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hi guys,
im struggling to edit an image of robin hood statue. basically, i wanted to sharpen the statue and blur the background a bit. used magic tool, tried to refine the edges of my selection which looked ok-ish..and well, when i flattened, i get a 'halo'..:bang:
i know it could happen but im really struggling to find a way to remove the faint green line around the head. is there any *straightforward* way for noobs like me? :)
Full image:
IMG_0899.jpg


Cropped part:
IMG_0899_crop.jpg


many thanks! :D
 
Is that the original image, with the green fringe?

Anyway I just had a quick go and did it like this: Carefully selected the statue, then copied the image (Edit>Copy). Then I pasted it to a new layer (Edit>Paste), then I 'grew' the image slightly (Edit>Transform>Scale), just enough to cover the green fringe. Finished off with a sharpen.
 
hi sloper, many thanks. no, this is *after* my editing...** idea is great :D:D:D lemme give a quick try :D
 
This all depends what you need this image for. I don't think that this would be a problem in a small,,, say 6X4 print. I'm not a big fan of magic tools, and although i'm not the greatest manip. artist, i would have preferred to use a 'layers' tool for this. Erasing the background for a new one. The 'out of focus' hand on the bow would be a bigger problem for me.
 
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Frankie_flea said:
This all depends what you need this image for. I don't think that this would be a problem in a small,,, say 6X4 print. I'm not a big fan of magic tools, and although i'm not the greatest manip. artist, i would have preferred to use a 'layers' tool for this. Erasing the background for a new one. The 'out of focus' hand on the bow would be a bigger problem for me.
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thanks frankie. im not sure whether i understood your explanation. i vaguely remember something like this when i tried my hands on adobe long long ago. but steves method worked well for a noob like me as i never perfected the selection tools. i just selected the head and made it 0.8% bigger as he suggested. was a quick fix indeed! :thumbs:

thanks to both of you. very kind! :D

oh. and btw: i wanted to make the hand partly out of focus. thought it would look cool..no?
 
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Yes Frankie, Photoshop offers more than one method to do most things. I did expect someone would be along immediately after I posted, to point out a 'better' method.
As I said, my go was a quick one, and I thought it worked ok. Whether it's good enough for quanta's purpose, only he can tell :)
 
thanks edsport. i already saw this. but his finishing left a lot of other stuffs inside the flower which can be avoided with resizing, right?
 
not sure what stuff you mean got left inside the flower? the tutorial was more about the issue of 'the halo effect' not so much how you do the selections.

you will have trouble resizing an image like above, because there are so many parts to it, (its not just an easy object in the middle).
The technique i used in the tutorial works especially well in a picture like this.
You have to make the object that will remain in focus smaller on the blur layer or the halo effect will be seen as a result of the blurring. How you make it smaller is not really an issue, but cloning is pretty simple as you are going to blur it anyway, so the cloning can be pretty rough.
 
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