Hi Rocky,
There are various things you can do to remove a halo. I suppose the easiest is to go into Select and Mask and contract the selection by a few pixels. However, the method I would use would be to create a new empty layer above the masked layer of the dog. Now create a clipping mask by holding down the 'alt' or 'option' key and clicking the dividing line between the two layers. If you don't know how to do that just go to the Layer menu and click on 'Create Clipping Mask'
1) Once done select a small soft brush
2) Set the layer blend mode of the blank layer to color (sometimes Hue is better but it requires experimenting)
3) Set the flow for the brush to about 25%
4) Now you need to select a color in the dogs coat close to the edge near the halo. Just hold down the 'i' key and click and that will select the color quickly . On the blank layer paint over the halo with the brush . Because the layer is clipped it will only appear to paint over the non transparent regions of the dogs coat where the halo is and it will not extend outside into the cutout region. Make sure you only paint close to the halo otherwise you will start to paint into the dog itself and it will look fake. Don't try to paint out the entire halo with just one sampled color, instead move around the halo painting and re-sampling the color of the dogs coat as you go. If you make a mistake there is no problem because you are painting onto a blank layer and so can just use the eraser tool to remove anything that doesn't look right.
This is actually a pretty simple technique, but if you want an even simpler one just lock the transparency of the pixels on the dog layer and paint out the halo directly with the method above . This is just by-passing the clipping layer step but it is a permanent modification and not as flexible.
Terri
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