Stop the Fringe: Three Ways to Clean Up Messy Selection Edges in Photoshop

Stop the Fringe: Three Ways to Clean Up Messy Selection Edges in Photoshop

Fringe is the enemy. That gross little halo of color that clings to your subject after you’ve cut them out - the ghost of the background they came from - has killed more composites than any other single thing in my workflow. I’ve been there a dozen times: I spend an hour on a careful selection, drop the subject onto a new background, zoom out to admire my work, and there it is.