Photoshop 14.2 update quick selection tool issues

Hi there,
many strange and frustrating issues on selections with the quick selection tool after the last update. As you can see in the image when you release the selection the software shows strage pattern and it is impossible to manage the selections in any way. Very annoying. Could you suggest a very fast fix of this issue? Anyone has the same issues?

I'm using a MacBookPro late 2011, could be a problem with the motherboard. I noticed many late 2011 users have the same problems. So the possible solution is to restart the Mac and try to avoid the overheating. I think the Adobe update is not involved in this issue.

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Photoshop Crashes after quick selection tool

Did the 14.2 update today and since then i have been unable to use the quick selection tool, followed by quick mask. The PC Crashes.
Photoshop CC has worked perfectly until now
Please help, I am on a deadline for images for an online website, I so wish I had not updated
Image below shows quick mask, the selection was the top right above the frogs eye, but look at the red mask, also Task manager shown(it says Photoshop not responding)
This was the sequence of events if it helps
The Pc was working from a clean reboot.
I opened Photoshop
Opened an image off the camera
cropped to 1000px wide (72 dpi)
Quick selection
Quick mask
This is the result (happened 5 times to date so going for a coffee in the hope someone has a solution soon!)
Many thanks

I have reproduced it myself on one occasion, though it did not lock Photoshop up for me. It's been reported to Adobe.
There may be some connection to the zoom level. Out of curiosity, are you using Scrubby Zoom?
It might be prudent to try configuring Photoshop to use either the "Normal" or "Basic" drawing mode instead of "Advanced", though it is of course a bit difficult to know right away whether the problem has been worked-around.
-Noel
P.S., you said "The PC crashes"... Are you speaking of something beyond the Photoshop application locking up as you have shown above? An application locking up isn't the same as a system crash.

Photoshop CS6 - Quick Selection tool freezes Photoshop/ becomes unresponsive for minutes

After only two selections the tool becomes unresponsive for minutes.
I'm on a 2.6 Ghz retina MacBook Pro, 16 Gb RAM, and this in connection with an SSD should make this tool very good to use. Operating system: OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion", latest update.
Unfortunately, it seems to develop some kind of overload, during which you cannot use Photoshop at all. No commands like "undo selection", "quit", "close file" are accepted.
There is no beachball, no other signs that Photoshop is working on something.
Hint: it seems to happen when you option select (subtract from an existing selection).
Hint: the freeze can be shortened by a tool switch (has to be through clicking on a tool, keyboard commands are frozen as well)
Hint: the "subtract selection" move that caused the freeze appears after Photoshop comes back to life after a couple of minutes. The subtraction to the selection seems to be random, makes no sense, and is not the regular function of the tool.
First step after this freeze would be to undo the last selection, and continue working.
If you do several "add to selection" moves, they add up in a kind of waiting line. If you do the subtract from selection move, this doesn't work, and the freeze happens.
So far, I have not noticed the freeze when adding to a selection. Adding to a selection was always quick and instant. The bug must sit in the "subtract from selection" code.
On most freezes, the ants continue walking, I just had one (again with subtracting selection) where even the ants stopped walking.
I don't think it has anything to do with Photoshop working. I have used the quick selection tool regularly under CS5 on my old machine (which was a museum piece), and while I had to wait sometimes, it was never ground to a freeze/halt like the quick selection tool under CS6.

Did this work before, or has it always been this way? Not a bug or everyone with your system would be complaining. Have not seen that.
If it has always worked that way a reset of preferences will probably not do anything.
A reset of preferences will reset to factory defaults, so you will have to reset to saved workspace.
Do you have at least 10% free disk space?

Why my quick selection tool on photoshop is slow on my mac

why my quick selection tool on photoshop is slow on my mac

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The quick selection tool is freezing Photoshop CC.

Anyone else had this problem? Everything else seems to work fine but when I try to use the quick selection tool, Photoshop freezes and I have to shut it down. I can't find much online about this.
I'm on a Mac
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

Does turning off »Use Graphics Processor« in the Performance Preferences and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue?
What have you done for general trouble-shooting so far?
Photoshop: Basic Troubleshooting steps to fix most issues

I'm trying to use the quick selection tool in Photoshop Elements 12 but it keeps getting stuck on minus. How do I fix this?

I'm trying to use the quick selection tool in Photoshop Elements 12 but it keeps getting stuck on minus. I've reinstalled twice and it will work for a little while and then get stuck again. When I select something, I have one shot at it and as soon as I let go of the mouse it switches to minus and I can't add anything else. How do I fix this?

When a tool misbehaves, go over to the far upper right corner of the tool options area and click the four-lined square. Choose Reset Tool from the popout menu.

When I use the quick selection tool in Photoshop CS6 my monitor flickers

When I use the quick selection tool my monitor starts flickering what do I need to change in my set up.

I'm sorry Jeff I know better. I'm using Adobe CS6 and running Window 8.0 operating system. Thanks for your help. I also run Adobe photoshop element 11 on the same system with no problems
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I have a comment. I am very upset with Photoshop and all your tutorials regarding the quick select tool. I have watched many tutorials and read instructions until I am blue in the face. This tool does not work. It is all over the place and all of your

I have a comment. I am very upset with Photoshop and all your tutorials regarding the quick select tool. I have watched many tutorials and read instructions until I am blue in the face. This tool does not work. It is all over the place and all of your tutorials make it look so simple. How can you advertise this as a viable tool when it just doesn't work?

It is all over the place and all of your tutorials make it look so simple.
This is a user to user Forum, so you are not really addressing Adobe here, even though some Adobe employees thankfully have been dropping by.
How can you advertise this as a viable tool when it just doesn't work?
Concluding something does not work because you fail at using it is not necessarily always justified.
The Quick Selection Tool certainly has limitations, but your post seems to be more about venting than trouble-shooting – otherwise you might have posted an image where you failed to get an expected result.

Photoshop freezes when I use quick selection tool

So every time i use the quick selection tool, on any image in photoshop I get a loading symbol and then I have to force quit the application. This only recently started happening and I have had the application for a few months.
Thanks

Photoshop Elements doesn't respond when you use editing tools in Mac OS X 10.10

Why is the "Quick Selection Tool" working so slowly? - Photoshop CC in Windows 7

Every time I try to use the Quick selection tool, it takes a REALLY long time to select. I had CS5 and it was super fast, even with large RAW files. Now with CC, it takes at least 20 minutes to select a person out of a photo.
I already tried "resetting" the tool - that did not work at all.
Please help!

I mentioned working on my laptop without GPU acceleration, and how much it slowed everything down, but Quick Select was still laggy after the driver updated and GPU acceleration restored. This is a reasonable laptop with i7, 16Gb and GTX680. Thankfully, I got my main system back yesterday, and Quick select is pretty much instant.
But there shouldn't be that much difference. The big box has six core running at 4.2Ghz (under load) 32GB and GTX570, so while it is certainly more powerful, the difference in performance in respect to Quick Select is not proportional. I've just tried reducing cache levels on the big box from the '6' it usually runs at right down to 2, but it still responds instantly even with large files. I have GPU set to Advanced, and tile size to 128 on both systems.
Another odd thing is that I only have 1GB vRAM with the GTX570, where the GTX680 has 4Gb of faster vRAM. But maybe Quick select is not a big user of GPU acceleration.
So no real help I am afraid. I have looked through the GPU FAQ, but nothing helpful there. OK, I have just found a more detailed article on GPU acceleration, and it mentions a lot of features, but not Quick Select, so it could be that GPU is irrelevant. The laptop is Windows 8.1 as opposed win 7 for the big box, if that makes a difference. Can you correlate anything between our systems? I hate to post this without any suggestions, but I'm stumped.
There are tricks to aid Quick select.
Make a copy of the layer, and apply Curves and/or Levels directly to the layer, and try to increase contrast between the subject and background. Use this layer to make the selection, then switch back to the normal layer to use the selection.
I don’t know if this will work as I have just thought of it. Copy the layer, and Free Transform it to a smaller size. It will be image dependant, but Quick Select is much faster with images below about 1500 pixels wide. Use Quick select on the smaller image layer, and copy the selection to a new layer. FT it back up to size, and it should fit. This would only be useful if you are going to use Refine Edge right after, and will have obvious limitations.
Make sure you report back if you find a solution.

Quick select tool doesn't work in photoshop CS5 extended

I can't get the quick selection tool to work in CS5 it does in CS4 does anyone have an answer for this?

I can capture the image in CS4 and wallah the back ground is gone...here in CS5 I have to had draw it (which I did just rapidly for this example) then I go to refine edge get the black screen with white outlines...or using the background screen image I just get the blank background with a light outline of the image ...????

Quick selection tool problem on windows via parallels on mac book pro

Of course I am new here. I am going through lessons (Classroom in a book) and get to lesson 3 to the point of cropping the image, the quick select tool works. After cropping I get the message: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error..., This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way. Please contact ... Is it called crashing if now Photoshop closes down? Of course I googled the issue, cleaned my registry and read a multitude of opinions and advice, deciding to just work around the problem by 'saving as' at appropriate moments. I have done that lesson now often enough to know it in my sleep, however I am proceeding with the next lessons. I am NOT very computer literate, so simplistically: what is the problem, and who do I ask to fix it for me.
Friendly greetings to all you talented people - Rose

Can you assign more memory to the virtual machine (via the Parallels configuration menus)?
Photoshop CS5 has had an update recently, 12.0.1. If Help - About in Photoshop is showing 12.0.0 you should run the updater (Help - Updates...).
It may be that the OpenGL drivers in Parallels aren't up to the requirements of Photoshop. It's quite challenging to get OpenGL right in a virtual machine environment, and the virtualization companies are furiously releasing new versions with more and more graphics capabilities just so gamers will buy their software over the competition's. Try disabling the OpenGL feature via Edit - Preferences - Performance and see if that helps.
-Noel

CS5 selection tool issues

I am running Photoshop CS5 on Leopard, and I have been having problems with the magic wand tool, and the quick selection tool. The issues with both occur only when the “Sample All Layers” is off in the top menu bar. They both work just fine when sample all layers is on. The issues are outlined below.
Magic Wand Tool
The issue that the magic wand is that anti-aliasing doesn’t work at all, while sample all layers is off. I have tried it in RBG, CMYK, with smart objects, and rasterized objects; in all cases it does not anti-alias. It has done this since I first installed it.
In the example below, is the result of a mask created with a selection made by the magic wand tool.
Quick Selection Tool
The issue with the quick selection tool is that it doesn’t select what I tell it to while sample all layers is off. I have tried this in RGB, and with rasterized objects, and smart objects; in all cases this does not work. It has also done this since I first installed it.
In the example below, I tried to select the black object and it just made a big square selection.
I re-installed photoshop, and that didn’t change anything, so that rules out any install problems.
Am I the only one having this problem? I am starting to wonder, since a bug this big would probably show up in forums across the internet.
All Help would be appreciated

I tried it in CS4, and it does both of it there too, ugh. Thats weird, I'm surprised. Especially because both tools work properly when sample all layers is on, even with geometric shapes.
Something Adobe overlooked maybe? I dunno, thanks charles.

When working with quick selection tool (and not only) the whole psd file gets damaged.

Hello there,
Since I first tried Photoshop CS6 on PC I encounter the following problem: when I use quick selection tool at some point the selection gets completely random and I see parts of my artwork disapear. Even after closing the file without saving the changes I see the artwork completely corrupted, without any possibility to recover. As if parts of the image were deleted.
The problem persisted after I changed to Creative Cloud on Mac (I'm running OS X 10.8.5.)
I have just seen that it also happens when I work with regular layer masks.
I desperately need to fix this problem because I cannot keep using hours of retouching work again and again.
Hope someone can help.
Cheers
Julia

I am also having the same exact issue. This is the third time this has happened in about six months. I use the quick selection tool and I see a alpha mask that looks truncated and it show random parts of the image in the mask which has nothing to do with the selection. But the worst part of this is that my retouching layer the only other layer comes back completely empty even if I try to save the file in various other file types like tiff and it comes back empty. I'm losing a lot of retouching time here. I also hope some else has an answer.
Thanks
Mike

When I click on the "quick selection tool" and try to select something, it just "draws a line"

When I click on the "quick selection tool" in Photoshop CS5, and try to select something, it just "draws a line" as if the diameter were very thin and it dones't select anything.
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Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
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Photoshop 14.2 update quick selection tool issues

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