How to select a small area without a low feather???

When i select a small area with the lasso tool i get the warning: 'no pixels are more than 50% selected. The selected edge will not be visible.'
I already read that the feather should me low. However if i do that, the outcome wont be nice.
I want to bleach teeth and when i use a small feather the teeth wont be selected very well. So how can i solve this problem??
(I am sorry if my english is not that well, i am from the Netherlands )
I hope someone can help me with this.
greetings stephanie

You can use the lasso tool without any Feather (set feather to 0) keep anti-alias checked and use Refine Edge to add any feathering if needed.
You might make a layer mask from the selection and then use the brush tool to refine the mask.
When you get that message you still have a selection, but elements is letting you know that any pixels selected less than 50% won't be visible with the marching ants. (the selection edge you see
when using any of the selection tools)
What version of photoshop elements are you using?
Message was edited by: R_Kelly

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