Cutting out Practice

In our last tutorial, our tutor was showing us some ways to smooth the edges of objects when we cut them out on cs5 in order for them to blend with the background. I practiced a few of these techniques on my latest photo manipulation and found they actually helped improve it a lot as well as taking up a lot less time. I usually use the pen tool to draw around the subject and then eliminate the background.

My image can also be found on my deviant art account here: http://cryingunderwater.deviantart.com/#/d5dii7v
For a lost of all the stock used.
I love editing and photo manipulations :)