Drafting and planning - cutting out of awards on film poster

One key feature on my film poster is the awards listed on the bottom. when constructing my film poster I came across a slight problem which could be very costly to the authenticity of my film poster. the white background contrasted heavily against the darkness of the image creating a problem shown below.

This was overcome by cropping the background out on page plus, however the magic wand tool on page plus left behind very slight white parts of the background. To overcome that problem, I decided to add an effect called outline which blended in the white parts of the image into the outline solving my problem.