Derek R

Thanks for the info on brushes, and everyone's input in this. I've been experimenting and I've found the following to work best at suppressing the halo effect I was seeing. As I stated in my OP, I'm a newbie so there may be issues with this methodology but for what it's worth I did the following. 1) Make selection of subject 2) Refine selection 3) Create a layer copy of the selection 4) Invert original selection to select background 5) Create a layer copy of the background selection 6) Place background selection layer below the subject selection layer 7) Apply Gaussian blur to the background selection layer Following Carl123's steps didn't seem to have an effect on the halos on my test image, but this might have been due to me not communicating what halos I meant effectively.

Hi, Sorry for being so late to get back to you on this. Do you mean to inpaint inside what would be the subject selection or outside? Also what attributes (approximately) would you give the inpainting brush? Thanks for your help it is much appreciated.

Hi, Newbie to pixel editing here. I've been trying out blurring a slightly distracting background using the following steps. 1) Select subject using brush 2) Refining selection 3) Inverting Selection to select the background 4) Applying Gaussian blur Using this process anything beyond a <2 pixel blur produces a distinct halo-blur of the subject edge beyond the edge of the actual subject. I've tried checking and unchecking preserve alpha with no obvious effect and trying different types of blur. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks, Derek

I'm suffering the same problem RAW file processed in DxO Photolab, then edited as TIFF in Affinity, before being finally exported as a JPEG from DxO, then renders as a black image in View NX-I. I expect it's a combination of Nikon's usual dodgy programming and something unusual that Affinity is embedding into its output files.