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Selections with large feather values


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Maybe this is reported before, but I cannot find it. It is not a bug, but a flaw.

Make a small selection with one of the selection tools and type in a high feather value like 1024px. The marching ants vanish instantly, but that a selection is active you can see by the result while painting inside the "selection". Deselecting the invisible selection reverts everything back to normal.

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9 minutes ago, Wosven said:

The bug is that you can't know there's a selection because there's no marching ants?

Yes, it looks like if the selection fails, but it is active. I think this is not a bug, but an imperfection.

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I think the flaw or imperfection is that in this scenario the entire region will be less than 50% selected, and it’s ‘by design’ that there are no marching ants around a selected region unless its ‘selectedness’ is 50% or more.

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Photoshop warns when you try to make a selection with a Feather setting too big for the selecton and says that the edges will not be visible - I'm pretty sure we've had this logged as an improvement for a while. I'll find it and give it a nudge!

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