Eraser Tool erases outside of selections.

[bretth14947816]

My eraser tool bleeds out of my selections, I have Select -> Feather set to 0.1

Pictures below for example.

I am going insane, please someone help me.

[John T Smith]

Please post the name of the program you use so a Moderator may move this message to that forum

-A program would be Photoshop or Dreamweaver or Muse or Premiere Pro or ???

[bretth14947816]

This is in Photoshop

[Kanikas]

Moving to Photoshop​

[Peru Bob]

Try resetting the preferences and/or tools.

[Lukas Engqvist]

The marching ants do not show the selection, they represent the threshold of 50% selected. Since selections are 256 levels there are 128 levels of selection inside and 128 levels selection outside the marching ants. If you want to see the selection better enter pick mask mode, or endure Select and mask workspace where you can better understand the non binary selections by viewing them as a mask or quickmask etc.

[Trevor.Dennis]

It's difficult to assess this without knowing the zoom level, but that does look to be more bleed than you'd expect.  With angled and curved lines, you'd see some anti alias effect, but on square to canvas bounds, you should see a clean edged.  The screen shot below is zoomed in to 800% and shows zero bleed on the square selection, and barely any on the round.

So you have to take account of what Lukas has said, and think about how the selection was made?

If it was with the Marquee tools, then I'd check the Options bar for feather.  A i pixel feather produces this (same zoom ratio)

If the selection was made with Quick Select, Magic Wand, Colour Range, Focus etc. then all bets are off.

[bretth14947816]

Anti-alias is turned off, my feathering is set to 0. I believe this particular selection was made utilizing colour range. Does this mean that if I want to make a clean edge I have to use the marquee tools?

[Lumigraphics]

The easiest way to see how the edges of your selection look is Quick Mask (Q key) and zoom in. If there is feathering, you'll see it there.

[Omar.Fathy]

Photoshop by default use the Anti Alias technique. Anti Aliasing is a software technique for diminishing jaggies - stairstep-like lines that should be smooth.

To have the accurate selection without edge smoothing / anti aliasing, make sure that you have anti-alias unchecked and feather set to [0] .

Feathering also add pixels from outside your selection depending on the value of it.