Quick mask selection always feathers.

[ATP Textures]

I use quick mask to select my main subject, create a new layer mask, and then add blur, to make my main subject stand out.

I have recently upgraded to CC2019, from CS6. Big jump, I know.  In CS6 quick mask selection, it has always kept a hard edge, unless I add feathering via the slider, which prevented hazing between the main subject and the background. 

PS 2019, with the same settings ( Feather 0%, Contrast 100%, Hard Brush 100% ) always feathers, no matter what I do!  I use the quick mask for almost all my images and the problem is very frustrating.

Am I missing a key point somewhere? I don't understand why everything I select is always feathered when feathering is not on.  Please help! Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers.

[Bojan Živković]

Which technique you are using in Quick Mask mode? Painting with Brush? Perhaps your brush has soft edges which are retained when converting to selection.

[federico platon]

I think you are talking about a tool, namely Quick Selection Tool, as described.

Quick Mask is a View Mode, that allows editing using paint tools..

I think I understand the situation, if you are assured the tool has 100% hardness, but it does not work correctly:

1. Reset Tool or All tools (icon tool at left)

2. Reset Preferences (Restart Photoshop while holding Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+Shift

[aaacikbas]

I did all those but whenever I use quick selection or lasso tool it always feathers like 3 pixel in and out even though hardness is set to 0 and anti-aliasing is off. However when I do a rectangular selection it's absolutely perfect without any feathering whatsoever. I don't recall it doing this in the past but for some reason it does now ! Please help me !!

[federico platon]

Reset the Tools.

Select each tool that it's feathering and in the left end of the Control bar on top, right to its icon there is a menu to Reset that tool.

Please try this.

Namely, for Quick Selection tool in the Size menu, check that Hardness is set to 100%.

For the lasso Tool, which uses a Feather value on the Control bar, check is 0px

Or else reset the Preferences of Photoshop if that does not work.

[aaacikbas]

Thanks for trying to help ! It  improved the situation but didn't solved the issue, anything else that I can try ? 

[kuroberrii]

I'm still having the same issue. Would love to know if you have found any solution.

[284957937]

This link might be helpful: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/76610/photoshop-feathers-selections-even-though-i-...

Go to "Refine Edge" or "Select and Mask" and increase "Contrast" to 100.