For this one I'm going to show you the 3 ways you can remove that horrible white outline from your image.
Now this can be with green.
With just..
The normal background and just in general
Remove the outline after you've cut your image out.
So here's an example, we have our self the image and
This is with the background.
Looks completely normal.
Looks fine
And let's say you've cut it out
And it looks like this, where the edges..
You could still see the background.
The first simple way to do this is to contract
The selection.
So what I mean by this is, is if you hold CTRL or COMMAND if you're on a MAC
And then left click on the thumbnail to get yourself a selection.
This will give you the marching ants.
You can see that we have a little tiny gap right there
And we can easily close this if you go to..
Select.
Go to Modify
And then go to contract.
And then in here
Select how many pixels you want it to contract by and we're going to go with 10.
So we're going to go ahead and press OK.
We also need to get our self a..
Mask.
So if you click on the mask button.
And there we go.
You've pretty much removed that white outline.
The second way to do this is, same as last time if you hold CTRL or COMMAND and then get yourself a selection around the cut out.
You want to go to the second tool
And you want to go into Select and Mask
And you pretty much want to scroll down a little bit more.
Make sure Opacity is on 100%.
You can select a preview.
I would recommend having it on a black..
Overlay.
Just to make it easier to see
And then we also want to zoom in with the zoom icon right there.
Just to see it a little bit better.
You want to scroll down to the Edge Detection.
So for this one we're going to give it a radius of
Let's say about..
10 pixels.
That will do.
But it doesn't look very good. It just looks very..
Transparent.
So to fix that all you have to do is scroll down
Go to Global Refinements.
You want to go ahead and get yourself a little bit of Feather
And then you want to increase the Contrast
To 100%.
So as you can see, this has now smoothed it out.
But we also want to increase the Feather a little bit more.
Increase the smoothness.
And then finally, make sure you use the Shift Edge and you put this..
To a minus, let's say 50.
And there we go.
We've now removed the outline.
So basically what this does is, Radius is how much of distance you want it to apply.
Smoothness is how smooth you want the edges to be.
This one isn't really necessary right now
But if you did have an image with rough edges
Then you can use this to smooth it down and make it more rounded off on the edges.
You have Feather which basically gives it a bit of a feather (soft edges).
But it plays with contrast so these two work together
In order to get that good result.
So you'll need to give it a bit of a Feather
And then also increase the Contrast.
But Contrast we normally put it to 100% anyway.
And then finally the Shift Edge. This allows you to either..
Dig
Deeper into the cut out
And cut off the edges.
Or you can do the opposite direction and have a
Plus number which will then
Give you more of a outline.
If you wanted a outline.
So we're happy with this, if you want to you can hold Spacebar, look around the image. See what the parts
Look like.
Let's say for example you weren't happy with this area right here.
Let's say it's too much rounded off.
Then you can easily decrease the smoothness.
And as you can see this will now
Be more around it.
If you wanted to you can also use the Polygonal Lasso tool. Right here so if you right click
You'll see the Polygonal Lasso tool.
And then you can simply hold ALT or OPTION key.
Left click once.
Then left click here.
Then keep on left clicking, you can let go of ALT.
Get yourself a selection here.
Once you've gone to the very last one, you can either go to here
Then when the circle pops up you can left click.
Or you can hold CTRL and then connect it up from here.
So what this basically will do is, it will cut that part out
But as you can see we now need to just..
Slightly re-add this bit right here.
So sometimes it will do this, that's basically loading
It's completely fine.
You don't have to worry about it.
We're just going to
Put this back on
And there we go.
And yeah! that's pretty much it, so once you're happy with all your changes
You can then scroll all the way to the bottom.
Go onto "Output To".
And in here you can either select "New Layer"
Or you can select a "New Layer With Layer Mask".
This will allow you to control that mask if you wanted to.
But for the sake of it, we're just going to go with New Layer.
And then go ahead and press OK.
And there we go, as you can see
We've now removed the outline.
And then the very last one is more of an optional one. So if you right click on your
Cut out, go to Blending Options
And then in here you want to get yourself a Stroke.
So once you've got yourself a Stroke, you want to set this to let's say 10 pixels.
You want to make sure it's on the inside for the position.
You want to set it on a black colour
And then in the blending mode, you set this to
Screen.
And there we go it's cut it out as you can see.
Because basically the way that this works is..
It will use that mode and that effect
To cut out
That outline that you've just created.
So it's kind of like working backwards you're creating an outline to get rid of the outline.
But it does work so as you can see
If we look at the image.
It's nice and soft around the edges, there's no outline.
It looks really good and clean and that's what you want that really good result.
Now this method is not 100% always recommended
Because it has two major flaws.
And the first one is, let's say you had
An area like this where you needed to remove.
You would use the Polygonal Lasso Tool.
For example.
You would select it.
And once you've got yourself the selection
Go back to the very last one.
Hold CTRL
And then left click to select it.
You would then press DELETE but as you can see
That Delete
Will also apply to the outline.
And the worse thing is about this one is if you press CTRL + Z to undo
And CTRL + D (De-Select).
If you tried to convert this into a smart object
It will reveal the stroke
Outline.
And yeh that's pretty much it. I hope this video was helpful. This was a short one. I wanted to show you all
A nice little trick that you can do
To make your cut outs a lot better and smoother
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