Feather behaviour in APh when filling a selection with a gradient

[Steve Wimbledon]

Hi, Can someone explain the way a contrasting border appears around a marqueed selection if there is any feathering set. I wanted the gradient to fade out and blend with the layers below but the wider the feathering, the wider the border. I've resorted to blurring a hard edged selection on its own layer but wondered if this is a bug or I'm just not doing it right? This with 6 pixel feather on freehand (polygon) selection

[walt.farrell]

What method are you using to fill the selection with the gradient?

[Steve Wimbledon]

The gradient tool. Just a basic one colour at each end selected with dropper. The outline appears whether it’s done directly on an existing pixel layer or when on a layer of its own.  

[Callum]

Hi Steve,

When refining your selection if you untick Matte edges does this issue still occur?

[Steve Wimbledon]

I haven’t gone into Refine Selection in this document, I will check later and let you know… thanks

[Steve Wimbledon]

OK, yes it's still exhibiting the same contrasting border with matte turned off whether the feather is set in the selection tool's own menu or the 'refine' dialog. Thoughts? I know I can blur afterwards to achieve the desired effect but this seems to be behaving badly 😛 Thanks all

[Steve Wimbledon]

It appears to be connected with the original colours that fill the selection before the desired ones are set. So the Gradient tool always starts with a white to black, then I have to select the ends and pick the colours I need it to be. The white/black that first fills the area is what's making that border. On A, I started at the bottom left and dragged out to the right and on B, I did the opposite. Tried setting colours before doing any dragging or positioning and then had to bring the handles in from the corners of the document. This still left an edge with the colour that first filled the selection before I repositioned the handles. Hope that gives an insight to whatever is going on?! 

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