How do I Make Baground One Solid Color?

I'm taking pictures of my daughter in front of a black sheet of fabric, but the final image does not show it as one solid sheet of black...because of the light, some parts of the background are lighter than others, and there are some wrinkles visible.
How do I use Photoshop Elements to make the background solid balck (or any other color I might want) without having to carefully trace around the outline of my daughters body, which is especially difficult around the hair.  Is there a way to do this so she does not end up looking superimposed?

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Ususally there are several ways to do things in this program. I am providing you with details of my work flow. I selected a picture (actually a scan) with a complex background, ending up with the foreground and black background. The print screen also shows you the layer structure.
Open picture, duplicate background layer, shut off visibility of the background layer by clicking on its eye icon, and work on background copy layer. This way, if you want to start over again, you can delete the newly generated layers, and you are back to square one.
I accessed the magnetic lasso tool with feather=2px, anti alias checked, width=5 px, contrast=3%, frequency=57. I went around the 3 ladies, laying down anchor points. If you want to go back on the anchor points, do that by hitting the delete key on the keyboard.
(Some people like to use the lasso tool with the add selection box at the top highlighted, applying short intervals between mouse clicks.)
After the selection is made, go to Layer>new>layer via copy
Place a blank layer between background copy layer and layer 1, and fill this with black. Now you can see the selection well, and touch up a spot here and there with the eraser tool
Make layer 1 active, then CTRL+left click the layer thumbnail in this layer. You should see the "marching ants"
Go to select>modify>contract 2 px
Go to select>inverse>hit delete on keyboard
Go to select>inverse
Go to select>deselect
Steps 7-10 are directed to getting rid of the fringe which you describe in your post, and the numbers can be tailored to suit.
Hope that this helps you.

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