Soft fade
This puts a nice fade around a picture rather than just a
harsh sharp edge. The picture we are using is below:
Click on Marquee tool and keep the mouse button
pressed until a side menu pops out, select the elliptical marquee
tool from this menu.
Now using the mouse drag a appropriate elliptical
selection around the children in the picture. If you stuff it up
just use Ctrl+D to de-select and try again. You should have
something like:
From the Select menu select Feather (or Ctrl+Alt+D),
and enter a feather radius of 15 pixels. Click ok. Don't worry
nothing happens. Now we want to invert the selection by clicking on
the Select menu again and selecting Inverse, or Ctrl+Shift+I.
Adjusting the amount of the feather radius will effect how big a
blur you get on the edges of the picture. 15 is quite a lot so you
get a clear idea of the result.
Click on the background colour to select the colour
you want the background of the picture to be. In this example I have
just left it as white but you could select any colour.
Press the Delete key to remove the selection we have
created, leaving behind a nice soft edge.
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