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(use 2 pixels for a higher-megapixel image), click OK, and that fringe is gone! (Photoshop
basically replaces the outside edge pixels with a new set of pixels that is a combination of
the background it's sitting on and your subject's edge, so the fringe goes away.)
Step 16:
Here's a trick I stumbled upon years ago when making composites (back when we used
channels for stuff like this). This trick gives you more detail and brings back some of those
lostwispsofhairbybuildingupsomepixels.It'sgoingtosoundreallysimpleanditis.Just
press
Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J)
to duplicate your layer (the one with your subject). That's
it. Just duplicate your subject layer, and it has a “building up” effect around the edges of
her. Suddenly, it looks more defined, and it fills in some of the weaker wispy areas. If for
