Adobe seems determined to make me not want to use Photoshop any more - changes to selection edges
Over the last handful of years, I've repeatedly been frustrated by changes Adobe makes to the workflow in Photoshop. I've had to find ways to work around the changes to do what I've always been able to do before. The lastest case of this is with selections using the magic wand tool. In the past, I've been able to use it to create a selection (for example, if I'd created a shape of a solid color and coverted that shape to a layer, I'd then select that colored area with the magic wand.) Once I have that selection, I'd invert it, and then use the eraser tool to clear out parts of a different layer. I used this method many times to create the appearance of an object as behind "coming out from behind" another layer. It was simple and easy to do. But now, despite having the "anti aliasing" checkbox checked, every time I use the magic wand tool, I get a jagged edge. Smoothing it doesn't help. Chat GPT provides lists of multiple ways to work around this that add too many steps to the work flow. I understand that a product like photoshop is trying to aim at a wide range of kinds of users, but it's getting exhausting having to figure out whether changes are bugs or "new features". I've stuck with photoshop because it's been so familiar and lets me work quickly. But adobe is lessening the value for many users in the way they go about changes. I've just wasted an hour or two today trying to find out if I can undo this change in the settings and it doesn't appear that I can.
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