Thanks again, Matt. Last week I had a similar problem with the borders of a mask and you are giving me now three different methods to solve it. Thanks a lot!

This was brilliant!!! Will now be one of the most powerful tools for my Photoshop tool box - never knew about it till now. Thank you.

Matting > Defringe? Matt, you are our saviour! That's a great new technique for me. Thank you. :)

Thanks for your suggestions. I'd tried everything I knew of, and I'd been scouring the internet for solutions. Then I came upon your video. The last option using "defringe" did the trick. So many things, and that was the one that worked. Who knew? I now realize I should've made a step-by-step guide for future reference. I go through so many steps, and I'll forget from one day to the next what I did last time. Thanks again for the assistance. You saved the day!

Excellent, as usual Matt. Timely too - I just returned from vacation with a number of images that will require sky replacement (with lots of trees to deal with!). This will be very helpful. Thanks!

Wow, brilliant stuff, Matt! Thanks very much.

EXCELLENT!!! With capital Letters, Matt, I love your vids, and your courses as well, you are my master teacher!

GREAT video Matt. I've been struggling with the fringes of the trees in my photos. Now I have some great tools to eliminate those pesky fringes. Thanks

Lovely tools... as usual, thanks Matt !!!

Awesome tutorial, thanks Matt.

Great video, Matt! Thank you!

Brilliant, did not know about the defringe. Thanks Matt

This is an awesome training video, thank you!!!!!

What a great tutorial on fringing! Who would dislike this, duh!

Thanks so much! Too many takeaways to count. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for this great tutorial.

Great demo, thank you

really useful Matt thank you

Thanks Matt the matte was great!

Matt! Crushing it again!

Great tip Matt!

What a great tip !! Thank you so much.

Oh yeah, great stuff Matt, thank you from down under in the land of OZ.

Good for the beginners

that defringe option is insane!

Great video!

Nice! Thanks Mat....

you are the King...

Just make a mask, then roughly select the area ON THE MASK where the fringing happens, then in the properties panel for the mask, give it up to 1 pix feather OR blur it, then hit command+L for the levels on the mask and drag the black slider to the right until the fringing is gone. (Maybe then also reduce the feather of the mask back to 0 pix for a really sharp edge). This way you don't have to paint to much with the smudge tool. OR put a blank layer on top with a clipping mask in color blend mode. The pick the color underneath and paint on the blank layer. This way you color the fringes with the help of the clipping mask.

Great tips, thanks MK! One other *big* problem I see with sky replacements is replacing just the sky but not its *reflection* in any water below!

super tuto ! I always wondered if ON1 with its chizel and blur tools had created tools not existing in photoshop. smudge... is the answer. what about the blur tool in same section ? useful in selections along edges ?

Neat!!

Always enjoy your very well produced and educational videos. Rather than go to the layer mask, press control and then Control J to make a selection of the woman couldn't you have just applied the layer mask? To me that seems much faster. And, if you worried about being destructive to the layer you could just make a copy of that layer so that if you needed to use it later....

For some reason I can NOT get Refine Edge to work for me. I must be doing something wrong, especially seeing how easy it was for you in this video! I just get reverse selections (tried both + and - brushes!) and fluffy funky stuff. I end up just using alpha channels instead. It's slower, but at least it works for me!

Minimum and maximum let you do the same as the defringe but with more accuracy, as you can go for decimal of pixel, and you can do it straight on the mask.

If after masking out a maybe a green background with ‘decontaminate color’ selected you still have contaminated green near the fringe can you take a clipped and hue and saturation layer with refined green hue selected to mask out the green gunk?

Hi Matt. Love your work. It’s very helpful. I’m having a weird issue only with your last two videos. My Apple TV crashes and restarts just after you finish introducing the video. It’ll only play a few seconds once you transition to the screen capture. Weird. I watch hours of KZfaq on my Apple TV and this only happens on you last two videos. Any ideas?

Do watch the direction of the light, those clouds are illuminated differently. I was interested in how you were going to fix the reflection....

Eeek! Vampire clouds! They don't have reflections! ... Yes, I know, not a full retouch. But I still thought it was amusing. Good tutorial, including methods I don't normally use. Thank you.

Not sure this question directly relates but here goes. When I sharpen an image in Topaz Sharpen AI from Photoshop, I do so from a layer in PS. Sometimes when I leave Topaz, the sharpened object looks like a cutout on the background, in other words, the subject's edges look like a composite even though it isn't. How can I soften the sharpened subject in PS? I tried select and mask and smudge but as best I could tell, that did nothing. Any suggestions?