The soften tool allows you to take the “edge” off the border of an object. You can use it for both images and text. In the examples below I also used some other effects.

original

soften edges

soften with color change


original


soften with washout


change color to light blue


Plain font


soften edges


more softened with shadow


picture “trimmed” to rectangle


Reshaped to “wavy” (notice jagged edges)


soften edges

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