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menu (as shown here, above). That tells Photoshop that the area you selected earlier with the Lasso tool is to be protected and can only be stretched in cases
of dire emergency (either then, or anytime you stretch the thing too darn far!). Again, this is to give Photoshop a heads-up before you start stretching, so
you get better results.

Clone Stamp Tool: Getting Rid of “Halos” Along Edges
Halos, bright lines that appear right along the edges of things in your image, are the bane of image editors everywhere. They sometimes appear naturally in
nature, but most of the time they’re a by-product of our post-processing. These awful telltale glows can appear more pronounced when you apply a lot of
tonal contrast, a lot of clarity, or just push things a bit when processing HDR images. While there’s no good way to get rid of these within Lightroom, this
is easy work for Photoshop thanks to two tools that work great together.
Step One:
Here’s our processed image, and you can see that there’s a wide, soft glow around the outside of the rock formation in the foreground. When we zoom in
(in the next step), you’ll see a brighter, thin, hard white glow right along the edges. Both are pretty bad, but actually fairly easy to fix.