Photoshop Beta just added a new AI tool called Enhance Edge, built to clean up the color fringing that shows up around hair and fur after you cut a subject out. It works with one click, but it costs generative credits every time you use it, and it needs an internet connection to run at all.
In this tutorial, we show you exactly what Enhance Edge does — honestly, including where it falls short — and then the manual way to fix the exact same problem for free, using a clipping mask and the Brush tool, with more control than the AI version gives you.
CHAPTERS
0:00 New Enhance Edge Tool Overview
0:23 Setting Up a Compositing Test
0:58 Checking the Layer Mask
1:18 Why Use Enhance Edge At All
2:20 Revealing the Color Fringing
3:11 Using Enhance Edge in Photoshop
4:01 What Enhance Edge Actually Does
5:40 The Free Manual Fix Begins
6:35 Sampling Color and Darken Blend Mode
7:19 Comparing Free vs. AI Results
8:23 Final Verdict: Credits vs. Free
THE STEPS
1. Duplicate your background layer and...
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