ATTENTION! All Photoshop Professionals.

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ATTENTION! All Photoshop Professionals.
Hello World I' am issuing a challenge to any one who would like to become one of my top Photoshop editing friends, and hopefully even real friends as well
I’ am simply searching for people who would (FREE Of Charge) like to volunteer there services by helping me with the more advanced Photoshop skills that I simply just do not posses…
My Photoshop challenge at this time would be to magically cut me precisely out of a JPEG image, leaving only a smooth edge around my whole body, with a transparent background.
The person OR persons who do the most professional job will become my new Photoshop friends with chances of becoming my real friend, and or freinds as well
I’ve attached the image within this message.
Good luck everyone, I hope to see your talent
Please respond to this message Via My E-Mail
Thank You and GOD Bless.
Signed: Chris Riss
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Sorry Hunt but I do not have a higher quality version of the image.I will try your instructions though.
GOD Bless & Thank You once again.
Signed: Chris RissWww.ChrisRiss.Com
Chris, 
I'm on my laptop tonight, but will do as you request come tomorrow AM, when I start up the workstation with the Wacom tablet. I do not want to fight my laptop's funky-a__ mouse for a Layer Mask. Give me until about 9:00AM MDT and I will post my results, plus give you a step-by-step set of instructions.
If you wish to go at this yourself in the meantime, do the following:
1.) Open your image in PS, and Dbl-click on the Background Layer in the Layers Palette. Accept the default to convert it to a regular Layer with whatever name you want, say "Chris_Image."
2.) Use the Lasso (or Magnetic Lasso) to do a rough outline Selection of the image.
3.) Press ShiftCtrlI to invert this Selection
4.) Choose Selection>Save Selection and choose Layer Mask for Chris_Image Layer.
5.) In the Channels Palette, chose the Layer Mask Chris_Image Very Important
6.) Hit B for Brush Tool and choose a Brush that is semi-hard, not hard, but not fully soft either
7.) Use the and keys to adjust the size of the Brush and use the X-key to switch between black and white to paint-in, or paint-out on the Layer Mask. Use the Magnifier to get in close and work slowly.
8.) Last touch might be to add a touch of Gaussian Blur (Filter) to the Layer Mask, but this is like salt in soup - to taste.
If I had the Wacom hooked up down on the patio, I'd probably have been done, by the time that I typed this. Unfortunately, I have three other things going, so will wait until tomorrow AM and just use the workstation with its Wacom.
Good luck, and do try this yourself. You can then compare my results to yours.
Hunt
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