Zoom in to 200-300%, then trace around the edge of whatever you want to cut with the pen tool, laying down anchor points as you go. Then, when you have the outline traced with a path, go to the paths palette (next to layers and channels), and Ctrl+click the path. This will transform it into a selection, and you can layer mask/erase/whatever. You can do basically the same thing with the polygonal lasso. The advantage of the pen is that you can adjust your selection much more easily.

That sounds much more tedious than the eraser. But I'll give a shot just the same , Thanks.

It is tedious, but you get excellent results. Remember kids, if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well, and things worth doing well in Photoshop take time.

definatly, well said wink:

When you youngsters get old and arthritis sets into your hands and your prostate swells up so that you can't sit long without taking a leak, you'll switch to the magnetic lasso. biggrin:

By that time, mice will probably be obsolete.

its all about the magic wand ...

just select the area you want to cut with the wand ..then fade it out