How to get edges smooth in Ps?

[kenyonm47777079]

Hi,

I can seem to get my edges smooth.  Can you help with this?

Ken

[Abambo]

Do you mean this effect?

• Make your selection
• Select->Modify->Feather: Enter a corresponding number of pixels and
• create your mask / copy paste to a new layer etc.

[Chuck Uebele]

Can you post a screen shot? PS has pixel edges and not vector edges, so there will be some jagging which is minimized by anti-aliasing.

[melissapiccone]

What edges? Are you painting with a brush? What are you trying to do? We need a screenshot and more information to help you.

[kenyonm47777079]

Hi

I'm simply trying to get white background with my images but the edges come out crappy and ugly.  You see at the top

[Dean_Utian]

Hi kenyonm,

Your issue is more to do with the selection than the smoothness. What have you been using to select the area to delete?

My suggestion is to use a combination of selection tools:

• Quick Selection tool
  To select your object. However, if the edges blend into the background, you could run into problems like what you have. You could then remove from the selection using other tools.
  
  
• Magnetic Lasso tool
  Manual selection by drawing points.
  
  
• Selection brush
  Selects areas by drawing with a brush. You can adjust the size of the brush.

See details on all tools at: Photoshop Elements Help | Use tools to make selections

[Abambo]

The problem is the selection you're using: magic wand probably.

The magic wand does not know anything about the object and sees only colour differences. Anything that matches a certain value gets selected.

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Dean%20Utian 's help page is a great starting point.

On such geometric objects, however, you could use the pen tool (I never managed this one, but I've seen people doing wonders with the pan tool) for a vector selection, or you could draw a mask (quick mask, but I would prefer layer mask) with a hard brush. You need to know that setting a brush point, moving to the next corner and <shift>-clicking draws a straight line between those two points. I've done hours of selecting machines like that by having a background that was only slightly different to the foreground. Sometimes I even had to guess what machine is and what background is.

[Nancy OShea]

Abambo  wrote

On such geometric objects, however, you could use the pen tool (I never managed this one, but I've seen people doing wonders with the pan tool) for a vector selection

If you have 30 minutes, I recommend this Pen Tool tutorial.

Master the Pen Tool in 30 Minutes | Photoshop In-Depth Tutorial - YouTube

[melissapiccone]

Are you using the newest version of Photoshop? Try using the select subject tool. With the magic wand or the quick selection selected, the button will be at the top of your screen in the options bar. You might have to do a tiny bit of cleanup in select and mask, but it does a great job.