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Why is my selection feathered?
Feathering a selection blurs the edge of the selection. The selection can then be copied and pasted to create a new image or copied and pasted onto an existing image to create a composite image.
How do I feather quick selection tool?
If you need to feather a selection after you’ve drawn it, do this: From the Select menu, choose Modify > Feather. In the little dialog that appears, enter the amount of feathering you want to apply. There’s no preview, so you have to guess how much “Feather Radius” to use.
How can I stop or disable anti-aliasing in Photoshop?
If you save the selection to an alpha channel you can see the selection opacities of every pixel, and thus see your actual selection. This isn’t really a bug; it’s just how Photoshop handles selections. Selections are alpha masks in Photoshop CS+, and they behave as such, so they can have pixels that are only 1/127th selected.
How does anti aliasing smooth out the edges of a selection?
Anti-aliasing smoothes the jagged edges of a selection by softening the color transition between edge pixels and background pixels. Because only the edge pixels change, no detail is lost. Anti-aliasing is useful when cutting, copying, and pasting selections to create composite images.
How does a feathered selection work in Photoshop?
Feathering blurs edges by building a transition between the selection and surrounding pixels. This blurring can cause some loss of detail at the edge of the selection. You can create a feathered selection with the Elliptical Marquee, Rectangular Marquee, Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, or Magnetic Lasso tool.
What’s the difference between anti aliasing and feathering?
Firsly feathering and anti-aliasing have different meanings, though for small a feathering radius the results are similar. “Feathering” effectively means fading the selection boundary out slowly, and is slightly different to “anti-aliasing” which means using intermediate values to smooth out jagged edges.