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Removing the Background from a Picture in Photoshop Elements 3

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Refining the Selection mask

Switch to the paint brush--color does not matter. Make sure your mask layer is the active one and start painting with 100% opacity to fill in the parts of the baby that were erased earlier.

Hide the black fill layer and toggle the background on and off to check for any other areas that might need to be painted back in. Then just paint on the mask layer to fill them in.

If you see any remaining unwanted pixels, switch to the eraser and take them out. You can switch back and forth between paintbrush and eraser as much as need to get the selection just right.

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