avoiding 'glow ' around extraction

[bch33]

When you cut out (extract) a picture to place it on a different background, what is the best way to avoid the little glow that shows up around the extracted image? If I feather it, its real glowy, if I don't feather it, it's too harsh. Is there a happy medium?

Thanks,
bch

 

[Dilyias]

Once you select the image you want to "cut out", expand it a few pixels, say 10 (depending on the DPI you are working with), don't feather it when you copy it. Then paste this as a new layer on top of the "background" you wish to meld it with. While still in this new top layer, use the eraser tool with a round fading brush to manually touch up the edges and help blend in the newly pasted image with the background.

Hopefully this was helpful!

 

[bch33]

Yes, very helpful
Thanks much
bch