does feathering an edge not work anymore?

Question

I used to use feathering to fix bad pixelated cut out edges, by using a feather radius of around 3 pixels and creating a mask to feather the edge, now it just seems to still show the hideous pixelated edge - is there a way I can get a better result?

Usually the edge would disappear with the feather.

c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted Answer

You are Layer Masking over an existing Transparency – so there are effectively two Masks.

Instead of loading the transparency to apply as a Layer Mask please try Layer > Layer Mask > From Transparency and apply a Feather to the Layer Mask then.