Feathering

[bluntlarry]

After using the Selection brush and then using refine I keep getting Feathering around the subject. Help appreciated .

[R C-R]

Is it actually feathering or just that there are pixels that are still not included when you refine the selection?

EDIT: also, why do you have "Soft Edges" enabled?

[user_0815]

Try turning off contrast edge detection in the refine process. Then it will only refine the original election edges. 

[R C-R]

22 minutes ago, user_0815 said:

Try turning off contrast edge detection in the refine process.

I do not see anything by that name in the Refine Selection window. Do you perhaps mean what in the English version is called "Matte edges"?

[user_0815]

Yes, the checkbox at the very top. 

[AffinityJules]

What you're experiencing is left over junk when using the refine tool after making a selection. Personally I keep well away from the refine tool because it always disappoints and needs improvement. It works with some images but is disastrous in others. And how a tool can place elements outside of the boundary/parameters that have been set are totally beyond my comprehension. I've never understood it. 

[jdvoracek]

I have been a LOT HAPPIER with refine since I learned what each of the controls does by practice after studying Help > [search]Refining pixel selection edges. Sometimes I do just skip refining selections, but not for hair, trees, etc. GL!

[bluntlarry]

 

first thank you all for your advice.

And as you see I reduce the ramp in refine, and it seems to have worked. 

 

[RNKLN]

In addition, you can always use the paint brush on the mask layer and 'paint away' the pixels outside the main object.