Applying feather on image

Hi,
I have been using feather on image photo to create the all corner faded edges however after I upgraded to ver CS6, I encounter this problem when I applying the same method using feather (radius: 15-20) on the image photo and did an inverse, a warning message popped out "Warning: no pixels are more than 50% selected the selection edges will not be visible". Hence, cannot apply any feather on the image, can explain why is this so? My image is a full solid color layer.
Thanks!

Before you inverted the selection, the feather was such that no part of the image was 'less' than 50% selected, so that after you tried to invert the selection, no part was more than 50% and it was unable to continue. But that is nothing to worry about. Just use one of any number of work-arounds to make your fether work the way you want it to, and a good way to do that is to make it controllable, and adjustable.
I prefer to use Layer masks, so that you can use the Masks Properties to adjust the mask. You could do this with a Curves or Levels Adjustment layer, to darken or lighten the corners as per your requirments. Then use the Eliptical marquee tool to create an oval selection, and with the layer mask selected, fill with black. Now turn off the selection (Ctrl/Cmd d) and apply Gaussian blur to feather the black oval.
With the mask selected you can now use the Mask Properties panel to fine tune the mask. If it is too thin use Levels directly to the mask to harden the feather. Free Transform will make it bigger or smaller. Note Free Transform will not work if you have black on the outside of the mask, but you could temporarily invert the mask to get round that.

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