2 Easy Tricks to Remove White Edges or Fringes from Cut-Outs in Photoshop

2 Quick and Efficient Techniques to Remove Edge Fringe or Outlines from Cut-Outs and Masks in Photoshop! While making a selection, we often end up with an annoying outline or halo around the edge which disturbs compositing. Learn how to easily remove those outlines or fringes using the basic features of Photoshop.
In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to use the smudge tools to refine your edges along with some masking and selection tricks. Hope this tutorial helps you. Thank you for watching!
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My favorite way of dealing with fringes is to create an hue/saturation adjustment layer. Set it to some dark brown color, or whatever fits best. Put a mask on it and then just paint over the fringed. Effectively what you are doing is that, instead of removing the fringe, you change the color of the fridge to something that makes it look like its a natural part of the image.

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A similar way is 'inner glow' set to multiply. But I will sure try your way as well.

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Great tutorial. It is something that everyone has encountered so I find it very very useful. I am curious how didn't you mention the "Feather" option in properties which almost automatically will remove the fringe all around. Feather has has the ability to be edited as well with contrast and gives sharp or soft results depending on what numbers you entered.

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