Remove fringe. 01

This technique works best I find with images that are dark but have a light or white fringe from the background, so can be quite limited in it's usage.


Here is the original QT Movie from The Russell Brown Show.

View QuickTime Tutorial; 10.4 MB

A quick distillation of the process involved.

1. Delete as much as possible of the background to transparency, possibly leaving you with a white fringe around the edge.
2. If you change the blend mode of the layer with the fringe to Multiply you will get an idea of the resulting edge quality.
3. Change the layers blend mode back to Normal if not already.
4. In the layers palette double click to the right of the text, this will open up the Layer Style dialogue box.

5. Tick the Inner Glow style checkbox and click on the name Inner Glow to open this into the right hand panel.
6. Change the Blend mode to Multiply and select black as the solid colour. You could also click in the main image and pick a tone from here.
7. Change the Technique to Precise this can give you a better edge.
8. The size in pixels will determine how much of the edge detail will be effected.
9. Adjust the Opacity to give you a more subtle blend.

Some parts of the image may still need to be tweeked. If so then I'd recomend this next process...