Tool's area effect exceeds selection

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April 18, 2018
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What I'm doing is selecting area, inverting it (around object) and using gradient transparent-to-black to create some sort of shadow. It used to work perfectly fine, but now it's sharpening edges of object outside of the selection. Fix please?

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Lumigraphics

Legend

If you need precise selections, use the pen and not quick select. What is happening is that the selection marquee only shows areas that are 50% selected, IIRC.

Try adding a Levels Adjustment layer above your image layer. Drag the Black slider WAY to the right, you'll get a much better view of what areas are what shade of grey or actually 255 white.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

First thought that comes to mind is some feathering other than 0 px (zero) was set in the tool options bar for the particular selection tool before you made the actual selection.

What version of photoshop and operating system are you using?

Which tool did you use to make the selection?

Example of Feather for Rectangular Marquee Tool

gamec62629436Author

Participating Frequently

I thought of feathering but all feather options are set to 0. I used quick selection tool.

It was all working great until today. I'm using macro for this specific thing so it should go smoothly as usual.

Windows: 7 64

Adobe Photoshop: 19.1.3

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you please post screenshots taken at View > 100% and with the pertinent Panels (Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible?

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