Feather a selection in CS3 gives unexpected reults

I have just upgraded to Photoshop CS3 from (CS2) and have discovered a very annoying problem with the feather command:
In previous versions (CS2 and earlier), if you select a part of an image, including borders, and then apply the feather command, then the selection edges along the borders were not feathered but the selection edge inside the picture (and bordering another part of the picture) was feathered. (The selection may be a rectangle or an irregular shape. In either case it is just the selection edge that is INSIDE the image that is feathered, and the selection edges along the border of the image are not feathered.)
Result: you get a rectangular selection with one edge feathered. (Or with a slightly irregular shape if the selection border within the image is not a straight line.)
Very useful if e.g. if you want to darken the sky in a high contrast sunny-day image.
Now to the problem:
In CS3 feathering occurs on the entire selection, including those parts of the selection that are along the edges of the image.
Result: you get an oval shape selected where all edges are feathered. And you cannot use that to darken e.g. the sky.
If this is hard to understand, here's a visual explanation:
http://westcoastimaging.blogspot.com/2008/01/fixing-photoshops-feather-command.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/6ryznh
(An excellent explanation. Follow the link at the bottom of that post
to request that Adobe should change back to the way feather used to
work, if you agree this is a problem!)
Very annoying that all of a sudden the feather command has changed.
Question:
1. Is there a fix so that it works "as before"?
2. Do you know of any other clever way (work-around) to do the same thing in PS CS3 in just a few clicks?

Works for non-horizontal straight lines. Works for ellipses intersecting the boundaries. I'm not verifying your constraints.
A variation you might try: Before feathering, extend the selection beyond the border at least 2.7x the feather radius you intend to use. When you then modify the selection with a feather, there'll be no feathering at the border.

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1 I am attempting to append some paragraph, character and object styles whilst no documents are open, in order to have them all load for every new document I open. These are from a document named 'style sheets' which I created to store my ongoing styles.
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Try here:http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/834/cpsid_83499.html
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The second cause is when applications are set to run in Rosetta mode. For this case, see solution 3.
SOLUTION 1: REVERT TO MAC OS 10.6.2 OR EARLIER
For assistance in this process, please contact Apple or your Apple reseller.
SOLUTION 2: OBTAIN A NEW SYSTEM SERIAL NUMBER
For assistance with this, please contact Apple or your Apple reseller.
SOLUTION 3: DISABLE THE OPEN USING ROSETTA OPTION
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Adobe is working with Apple to understand the issue and determine a course of action to resolve it.
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From the Apple menu, choose About this Mac.
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Hi,
Select for update gives wrong results. Is it a bug?
CREATE TABLE TaxIds
TaxId NUMBER(6) NOT NULL,
LocationId NUMBER(3) NOT NULL,
Status NUMBER(1)
PARTITION BY LIST (LocationId)
PARTITION P111 VALUES (111),
PARTITION P222 VALUES (222),
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Insert into TAXIDS (TAXID, LOCATIONID, STATUS) Values (100102, 111, NULL);
Insert into TAXIDS (TAXID, LOCATIONID, STATUS) Values (100103, 111, NULL);
Insert into TAXIDS (TAXID, LOCATIONID, STATUS) Values (100104, 111, NULL);
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This is a bug. Got to be a bug.
This should be nothing to do with indeterminate results from ROWNUM, and nothing to do with read consistency at the point of statement start time in session2., surely.
Session 2 should never return 100101 once the lock from session 1 is released.
The SELECT FOR UPDATE should restart and 100101 should not be selected as it does not meet the criteria of the select.
A statement restart should ensure this.
A number of demos highlight this.
Firstly, recall the original observation in the original test case.
Setup
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Table dropped.
SQL>
SQL> CREATE TABLE TaxIds
2 (TaxId NUMBER(6) NOT NULL,
3   LocationId NUMBER(3) NOT NULL,
4   Status NUMBER(1))
5 PARTITION BY LIST (LocationId)
6 (PARTITION P111 VALUES (111),
7   PARTITION P222 VALUES (222),
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SQL>
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SQL>
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SQL>
SQL>
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SQL> Insert into TAXIDS (TAXID, LOCATIONID, STATUS) Values (100102, 111, NULL);
1 row created.
SQL> Insert into TAXIDS (TAXID, LOCATIONID, STATUS) Values (100103, 111, NULL);
1 row created.
SQL> Insert into TAXIDS (TAXID, LOCATIONID, STATUS) Values (100104, 111, NULL);
1 row created.
SQL> Insert into TAXIDS (TAXID, LOCATIONID, STATUS) Values (200101, 222, NULL);
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SQL> Insert into TAXIDS (TAXID, LOCATIONID, STATUS) Values (200102, 222, NULL);
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SQL> commit;
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SQL> Original observation:
Session1>SELECT taxid
2 FROM   taxids
3 WHERE locationid    = 111
4 AND    NVL(STATUS,0) = 0
5 AND    ROWNUM        = 1
6 FOR UPDATE;
     TAXID
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Session1>
--> Session 2 with same statement hangs until
Session1>BEGIN
2   UPDATE taxids SET status=1 WHERE taxid=100101;
3   COMMIT;
4 END;
5 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Session1>
--> At which point, Session 2 returns
Session2>SELECT taxid
2 FROM   taxids
3 WHERE locationid    = 111
4 AND    NVL(STATUS,0) = 0
5 AND    ROWNUM        = 1
6 FOR UPDATE;
     TAXID
    100101
Session2>There's no way that session 2 should have returned 100101. That is the point of FOR UPDATE. It completely reintroduces the lost UPDATE scenario.
Secondly, what happens if we drop the index.
Let's reset the data and drop the index:
Session1>UPDATE taxids SET status=0 where taxid=100101;
1 row updated.
Session1>commit;
Commit complete.
Session1>drop index NI_TaxIdsStatus;
Index dropped.
Session1>Then try again:
Session1>SELECT taxid
2 FROM   taxids
3 WHERE locationid    = 111
4 AND    NVL(STATUS,0) = 0
5 AND    ROWNUM        = 1
6 FOR UPDATE;
     TAXID
    100101
Session1>
--> Session 2 hangs again until
Session1>BEGIN
2   UPDATE taxids SET status=1 WHERE taxid=100101;
3   COMMIT;
4 END;
5 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Session1>
--> At which point in session 2:
Session2>SELECT taxid
2 FROM   taxids
3 WHERE locationid    = 111
4 AND    NVL(STATUS,0) = 0
5 AND    ROWNUM        = 1
6 FOR UPDATE;
     TAXID
    100102
Session2>Proves nothing, Non-deterministic ROWNUM you say.
Then let's reset, recreate the index and explicity ask then for row 100101.
It should give the same result as the ROWNUM query without any doubts over the ROWNUM, etc.
If the original behaviour was correct, session 2 should also be able to get 100101:
Session1>SELECT taxid
2 FROM   taxids
3 WHERE locationid    = 111
4 AND    NVL(STATUS,0) = 0
5 AND    taxid         = 100101
6 FOR UPDATE;
     TAXID
    100101
Session1>
--> same statement hangs in session 2 until
Session1>BEGIN
2   UPDATE taxids SET status=1 WHERE taxid=100101;
3   COMMIT;
4 END;
5 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Session1>
--> so session 2 stops being blocked and:
Session2>SELECT taxid
2 FROM   taxids
3 WHERE locationid    = 111
4 AND    NVL(STATUS,0) = 0
5 AND    taxid         = 100101
6 FOR UPDATE;
no rows selected
Session2>Of course, this is how it should happen, surely?
Just to double check, let's reintroduce ROWNUM but force the order by to show it's not about read consistency at the start of the statement - restart should prevent it.
(reset, then)
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2   from
3    (select taxid, rowid rd
4      from   taxids
5      where locationid = 111
6      and    nvl(status,0) = 0
7      order by taxid) x
8   , taxids t
9   where t.rowid = x.rd
10   and   rownum = 1
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Session1>
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Session1>BEGIN
2   UPDATE taxids SET status=1 WHERE taxid=100101;
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5 /
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Session1>
--> and then
Session2> select t.taxid
2   from
3    (select taxid, rowid rd
4      from   taxids
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6      and    nvl(status,0) = 0
7      order by taxid) x
8   , taxids t
9   where t.rowid = x.rd
10   and   rownum = 1
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Session2>Session 2 should never be allowed to get 100101 once the lock is released.
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jmw107 wrote:
Hi -- I am developing a script in which a user chooses one of three predetermined sizes for an image from a dialog. This displays the crop selection but does not crop until the user has a chance to change the crop area (but not the size).
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I do not understand exactly your above description about user has a chance to change the crop area (but not the size). Do you mean they can move the position of the fixed crop size or the can position and size a part of the image to the crop area. If it is they can move and size part of the image into the crop area. I do that a different way. I set up a layer above the layer the image is on to act as a crop mask. Then I put the user into an menu File>Place dialog where the user select the image which Photoshop then open into a smart object layer below the cropping layer. The user is then in the Place interactive transform dialog where they size and position the part of the image the want within the cropping area. When they commit the place transform I delete the layer used as a cropping mask and add a layer mask to the smart object layer to mask all but the crop area. I don't actually Crop the layer after the process runs the image is still intact and a smart object layer with a cropping layer mask. The user can if the wish to tweak the image still without quality loss.

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