MatureMomG

New to this software. 1.I'm trying to crop an image to an ellipse. I have the ellipse, but the square edges are still there (meaning the elliptical outline is indicated, but the image remains rectangular). I want the final image to be oval. 2. I want the final image to be feathered (I think that's the word), with blurrry edges. When I hit select:feather, and use the default of 5000, I see no change. Up it to 10,000, still see no change. Feathering does refer just to edges, correct? TIA, Kathy