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Step Nine:
Now, we have a pretty common problem
to deal with here: along the edge, where
the brighter rocks meet the darker sky,
there's a little bit of a white fringe happen-
ing (I zoomed in here to 100%, so you can
see it better). Luckily, that's fairly easy to
fix, without having to take a tiny brush and
paint all along that edge (which is how we
used to do it, and we still sometimes do
that for a little touch-up, but this isn't
a little touch-up).
Step 10:
We're going to shift the edge of our
mask a few pixels, so you don't see that
white edge fringe any longer, and we'll
let Photoshop do all the heavy lifting.
Go under the Select menu and choose
Refine Mask . This brings up the Refine
Mask dialog you see here. First, to make
seeing this white edge easier, from the
View pop-up menu up top, choose On
Black and now it really stands out, so you
can see it clearly for what you're going to
do next. In the Edge Detection section,
turn on the Smart Radius checkbox and
drag the Radius slider to the right until
the white edge is almost gone (I dragged
to 8.2). Then, under Adjust Edge, drag
the Shift Edge slider to the left (as shown
here) until the white edge disappears (as
you see here, where I dragged to -25),
then click OK. See, that was fairly easy.
Again, if after doing this, you still notice
a white pixel or two here or there, just
take a very small brush (you're still at 50%
Opacity with this brush) and simply paint
over it to hide it.
 
 
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