How to create a soft edge on a photo

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Oct 19, 2008
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Greetings,

I have a question on how to create a soft edge on a photo, but I want to blend that photo on a custom color background. I have this photo, I used the ellipse marquee tool to select the part of the image I want to use and have choosen the feather and pasted the final image into a new document. The edges of the photo come out white. I would like to blend this image into an Illustrator document I’m working on and it has a red/orange/yellow gradient for the background. When I tried to create the same gradient in photoshop, it worked great. The only problem is that the image is now covered by the gradient (foreground = red, background=orange). The image with the white edge is on it’s own layer, separate from the gradient.

Any suggestions on how to create what I’m trying for?

Thanks,
C

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