Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers, 2014 Release, 2nd Edition

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Chapter 8: Layers, selections and masking

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make soft edges crisper and remove artifacts along the edges of a selection, which are typically caused when using a high

Radius setting. When compositing photographic elements you usually want the edges of a mask to maintain a certain degree of softness, so you don’t necessarily want to apply too much contrast to a mask here. Some images may need a high contrast, but you are usually better off relying on the

Smart Radius option combined with the refine radius and erase refinements tools to refine ...