PS 2015.5 - Refine Edge tool? Missing?

[EG-Design]

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

[philipking]

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]

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]

Ha ha! Excuse me for being a few moments behind the times!

[denbykev]

Select and Mask is still horribly slow and unusable in CC2018.

Refine edge workaround has also been slowed down since CC2017 version and pressing P to toggle between original often stays selected.

To be honest, refine edge has not worked properly since Photoshop CS4 and has got worse every version since it was broken in CS5…

[cyberwasp]

Hmmm, refine edge works great for me in ver 19.0.1

[bobmike]

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]

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.

Dave