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Get used to working on the base layer of a clipping group. Make sure it is selected in the layers palette in order to use the blur or smudge tool as I am using here.

Yes, it’s a different way of thinking Ctrl click on the layer to view the selection.

Now you can go ahead and add some more pop-out effect if you want by using the same technique. Use the lasso on ‘add to selection’.

Here I’m using the quick mask mode to get a little smoother selection. I’m customizing a brush here and bringing down the hardness level to give it a softer selection. Quick masking is covered in depth in the Basic Photoshop Training program. Use black as your foreground color to deselect the area outside of her arm.

Press Q to exit the quick mask mode and you have the new selection.

Now go to the yellow layer in the palette and alt backspace to fill it (use the i-dropper tool to re-select the same color after temporarily turning off the white fill layer). Now you have the expanded stroke layer.

You may have to nudge it over with the moVe tool 2 pixels to the right if you want the stroke effect to show up.