I'm looking for someone experience in Photoshop who has some knowledge on how to take a person, place, or thing from one photo and add it onto another photo and it look as nice as possible. I know the basics and for the most part my pictures come out looking fairly good but I wanted to know if there were any techniques out there that I was unaware of. Something tells me I'm taking the long way to do this when there's probably an easier and a bit more well thoughtout process involved. My biggest problem are the edges of the photo you're putting it...somehow make it blend better with the background picture. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank You.

I am by no means an expert but try two things

1. Ensure the edges are clean on the picture you are moving
   
2. Once added, zoom in and use either cloning brush or even the spray paint to soften the edges. I prefer the clone brush for that
   

Use the Extraction tool found under Filters. It refines your selection, cutting off each layer being more preisse each time. Alternatively if the background color of the image you want on top is flat then use the magic paint brush, or just erase forever with a small brush.

in cs3 you can use the magic wand to pretty much do anything, its seems to have psycic powers.