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Here is the first ugly masking job did using the Pen Tool shown with a white BG for visualization. (Mind you it was done in a hurry for demo purposes)

Note the areas pointed out by the green arrows are sharp and rough.

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Here's how I fixed them.

Select the layer mask. You do this by clicking on the layer mask itself and you will see white brackets around the mask.

Then select your Polygonal Lasso tool.

Make 3 selections that look like this.

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Now select your Brush Tool.

Set your brushes hardness to 0%

Set your Opacity to 30% and your flow 1%

Color set to black.

 

Make your brush fairly large and work slowly.

Brush it until it's smooth.

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Cmd/Cntrl + D to deselect.

Doesn't look too bad with just a plain white background.

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