Photomerge blend image no longer uses a "ragged" mask - blend boundaries are now obvious

Not sure if this is just me ... but I think the behaviour of the blend image process has changed since the latest update to Photoshop CC.
Previously, when images were blended together it would generate a mask with "ragged" edges. This was brilliant (almost better than Autopano Pro), since it made any blending artefacts almost impossible to discern, particularly when there were slight changes in the light between images. Now, the blending masks generated have straight edges between masked and visible areas - the blend sticks out like the proverbials. So far as I'm aware I'm using the identical workflow, and I've searched to no avail for an option setting somewhere that controls this behaviour. Can anyone help, please?

Hello!
I hope that I understand what you need.
(One could just put the image on a layer, and lower its opacity, but you seem to be looking for an effect in wich the tranparency is not the same for all pixels.)
Try this:
1) Turn your image image as a layer (double-click it if it is a background layer) [In order to add a mask]
2) Select all, Copy (CTRL+a, CTRL+C)
3) add a layer mask (click the rectangle with a circle in the bottom of the layers panel) [to be able to change transparency]
4) target the mask [so that you can past an image in it] ALT+click the mask, paste the image.
5) Invert the colors of the mask (CTRL+I) [in order for the white to be transparent and the black opaque].
You now have a layer whose transparency is based on the lightness of the pixels.
Hope that's what you are after!
Pierre

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