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scotwllm
Inspiring
January 23, 2023
Question

Select Subject creates unwantedy thin masks on edges of other subjects

  • January 23, 2023
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Maybe my English isn't very good, but when I load a selection and I tell Photoshop to stroke it, I expect the stroke to replace the marching ants. I certainly don't expect Photoshop to stroke other selections as well.

 

It's not even consistent with which extra stuff it outlines. In the attached, it drew in the line my leg and shoes, head and shirt, and arm crossing my torso. It leaves out where my legs and shorts meet as well as shirt and shorts.

 

Why does Photoshop do this? How do I make Photoshop stop doing this?

 

Scott

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Mylenium
Legend
January 23, 2023

Nothing wrong. You are combining individual selections based on antialiased masks. In the computer world, 0.5 + 0.5 isn't always 1 in terms of transparency and that's why you get the artifacts with the partially selected pixels as already explained.

 

Mylenium

Bojan Živković11378569
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 23, 2023

Test like this: use lasso to create a selection similar to what you have. Create a freeform selection using any tool but do not use a selection method converted from a continuous tone image.
Apply Stroke, if extra lines appears then try with preference reset https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

 

If no extra lines appears then everything is fine, when you are creating a selection from an image where some pixels are not fully selected thus no marching ants appears. When you use Stroke it fills "non visible" selection which appears as not fully opaque lines.