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19. You might notice that some of the edges are soft and blurry after cleanup. Click the Edge Tou-
chup tool, or press T. This tool sharpens edges. Drag it along blurry edges to make them crisp.

WARNING Do not use the Edge Touchup tool on hair because you want wispy edges to remain
blurry at this stage.
20. Continue working around the entire image, cleaning and touching up edges as needed. Click
OK when you are satisfied with the results in the preview. The Extract dialog box closes, leav-
ing you with just the selected portion of your image, as in Figure 4.7.

Figure 4.7
The extracted figure

Correcting Artifacts
You have completed the first part of the extraction process. You have roughly extracted a figure, but
you need to correct some artifacts before this figure is quality entourage.
1. The Background layer was automatically converted to a normal layer (Layer 0) because it has
transparency. Rename Layer 0 to Woman Standing. Click the Create A New Layer button on