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PS 2015.5 - Refine Edge tool? Missing?

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June 21, 2016
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Hi,

With the new update of Photoshop it appears that the Refine Edge tool has been removed or changed into something else?
Anyone shed some light on this? Its a tool that I would always use to quickly adjust my selections when editing photography.

Closest tool I can see that looks the same and is in the same location as the Refine Edge tool is Select and Mask. This is under the right click of the selection.

Cheers,

Adam.

EG Design

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Correct answer Terri Stevens

Yes it has been retired , just when I learned how to use it Seriously I'm not up to speed with the new release yet, but Jesus Ramirez has posted a set of videos on the new features

How To Use The Select And Mask Workspace In Photoshop - YouTube

or to see many of the important ones

Photoshop CC 2015.5 Tutorials - YouTube

I think there are also links in Jeff Tranberry's post above to a number of videos by Jule Anne Kost who is always worth watching.

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bobmike

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I'll be honest, I am working on a job right now, I just need the old tool back, it did the job in 10 seconds, now I have to mess with this, if it aint broke, don't fix it, I now have to manually try to smooth her hair in this cut out. I wish I had my old photoshop back. And of course, I need this work done asap. There are so many things that do need to be added to PS. A brush that paints noise, or paints texture or paints blur would be great, and when you go to window, to look for a file, small thumbnails of the images would make it faster to find the file. I am almost sick that the refine edges tool is not there. It worked so well and so fast. Wow.

davescm

Community Expert

Did you read the earlier posts?

The old refine edge is still available. With a selection made go to the select menu and then hold down shift while you click on Select and Mask.

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breiber

Participant

Please.

PLease.

Bring back refine edge.

I understand where you were going with this... but this has SERIOUSLY slowed down my workflow...
I took the time to learn all the new tools ... so that's not it. (Keep in mind... taking the time having to learn it is also time lost). Something that would normally take me ten minutes is taking an hour. The separate window is seriously bogging down my computer also.

I normally not someone to verbalize my complaints but this is ridiculous. I don't understand why you would change smoething that already works really well.

philipking

Inspiring

Refine Edge is still there, but hidden. See my reply above, from 14 July. I've just checked latest version (2017.1.1) and it still works.

davescm

Community Expert

The latest version is no longer CC2017.1.1. CC2018 was released today.

Your point is still accurate though the old refine edge is still available. With a selection made go to the Select menu then hold down Shift and Click on the Select and Mask menu option.

Dave

philipking

Inspiring

Refine Edge is still there in latest versions, just hidden. Make your selection, then go to the Select menu, and hold the shift key while selecting Select and Mask. Bingo! Refine Edge panel opens.

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Klizzama

Participant

Oh Thank you! thank you! thank you! I don't know how you knew but you saved my life! (well, a good portion of today's work day) I wish you could see how happy I am!!!

Something like this??? !!!

philipking

Inspiring

I'm pleased to have helped you and to see you're so happy!

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ericg57047570

Participant

try this code, it changed a lot but you should be alright ctrl+alt+R/cmd+opt+R

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MinaaMagued

Participant

Tip To get Refine Edge tool back again in Photoshop 2017 - YouTube

Guys Follow this trick to get back to the old refine edge tool! it is so fuckin easy

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markd48202431

Participant

I love the way no one ever dose the Refine edge tool demo and then has a ago putting the image on a dark solid colour background...

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Cristi Kerekes

Participant

You can still access the old refine edge tool very easily in Photoshop CC. Here is how:

whamalamaboom

Inspiring

I just wanted to write in thanking Adobe for hearing the community. The patch notes from the latest update for Photoshop (which I downloaded a week or two ago) mentioned improvements to Select and Mask. Sure enough, when I tried it after the upgrade, it worked fantastically!

I'm really glad because the tool as it was before was practically unusable for me in my work. Now, I'm fine with it. I hope they continue to listen and even better, I hope they engage the community more to see what the feedback may be before things are rolled out.