MyPhotoSoft: Software for Your Digital Life
Saturday 05th of July 2008


     News           Reviews           Forum           Gallery           Tutorials           Contact Us   
all articles
MyPhotoSoft RSS
feed image

 

 

Home arrow Tutorials arrow Tips and Tricks arrow Shading the selection in Adobe PhotoShop

 

Shading the selection in Adobe PhotoShop Print E-mail

Shading SelectionWhether you’ve made a selection by Photoshop tools or used a plug-in you’d want  your selection to look nice and smooth on a new background. If the edges of the selected image were not softened or feathered during the process of selection you may shade them in Photoshop.

To do that open Select menu and choose Feather

select menu

 
In the opening dialogue window type in a number of pixels to be feathered (2-5 are usually enough)

setting feather parameter

 
Now you can copy your selection, paste it into a new environment and evaluate the result

No feathering

Feather 5px

Feather 15px

Feather 50px