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I have a photo of a boy in a white shirt with trees in the background. I want to blur the trees. I select the boy using the Selection Brush. Invert the selection. Add a gaussian filter. The back ground blur works fine except that there is now a white "glow" around the boy. I expected the boy to be excluded from any blurring, What am I doing wrong? Why are the edges of the boy not completely excluded from any blurring. Thanks.

How did I do this? See png attachment. Designer? Photo? I can't reproduce it. The question regards the color. Note that the paint job reflects the number of times I painted a space; in the middle of the image, I get "staggered" brush strokes. How did I do that? More importantly, when brushing in the color it doesn't color inside the Space Needle. Do I need to make inside of the Space Needle transparent AFTER I brush the color in? Help? I cannot figure out how I did this. Thanks. bill Space Needle Line Drawing Transparent Redo.afphoto