how do I feather the cut when I cut out a path?

[petedecember]

Greetings folks--
When I cut out something from a picture, say a person, I want to feather the edges so it looks a little more natural.  Does anyone have any idea how to do that?  Currently I am using a path to do the cut, although I would be open to other suggestions.
Thanks in advance for you help.

[Ofnuts]

The path is not the cut. What does the cut is the selection you get from the path, but you can feather that selection a bit (Select>Feather) after you obtain it from the path and before you use it for the cut.

[petedecember]

Thank-you, Ofnuts! That sure helps me out.

[rich2005]

My suggestion: Use a layer mask. Path to Selection -> Layer Mask from selection.

Then you can edit the layer mask without destroying the image. Example apply a gaussian blur, although I prefer to dive in at a pixel level with a small fuzzy brush. All sorts of things you can do.

https://i.imgur.com/HnmL7VR.jpg