WeezyGee

Hmmm... after shutting down my computer and restarting again today, this border problem is no longer happening. I guess it must be a setting? But I can't figure out what it could be. I could have sworn that I quit Photo yesterday, restarted it, and problem kept happening. Today, after restarting the computer, it's not happening.

Here's some sequential screenshots documenting what I'm talking about above:

After looking at the two photos above, it seems that the border was not added, as I thought, but it was there all along maybe.... but the edge of the selection has changed. But this brings up another issue - it seems that the lasso does not create a clean edge - it creates a faded edge. If I were to cut out a shape from a layer, then copy and paste it directly back in the same place, I am left with a very thin white border between the original layer and the layer that I cut and pasted.

Here are a couple other photos... the first one shows using the wand to select the empty space on a layer that has not been merged with another. The second photo shows the same thing after merging with another layer. I did try to selec the color of the apparently empty/transparent pixels - the color sliders jiggle a little bit, but the dropper/swatch color does not change from whatever the previous color was.

Oops - there's a step 4... 4. On your newly merged layer, if you select the negative space around your art/object with the magic wand tool (tolerance set to 99), this is when the clear/empty pixel border appears. If I were to do the same thing to the layers before they were merged, I would get clean edges. Attached are some screenshots of me recreating the issue.

Hi, I've noticed that when I merge 2 or more layers, a clear "outline" a few pixels wide is added to the newly created object/layer. 1. Using the lasso tool, I make a selection from one layer (original photo/background usually), and I paste the selection into a new, blank layer. 2. I repeat step one. 3. I merge the 2 new layers created in steps 1 & 2. The contents of this layer is no longer "clean" - it has a clear/empty border/outline of around 3 pixels or so added all around the merged art/object on this layer. Not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but it's definitely a major pain, cause depending on how I use this new layer, I have to clean up the edges all over again. I am using the latest version of Photo on the latest version of Mac OS.