Photoshop CS6 issues seriously impairing productivity

Question

Ever since I purchased CS6, I have encountered these 2 issues, thought they weren't a big deal and carried on, but I found myself in the past few months always using at least 6 extra steps to do what could previously be done within 1 sec with a very simple additionnal option within the menus.
- Rounded Rectangular Selection :
The rectangular marquee tool previously had a little box which added the possibility of transforming the current selection radius to instantly have a rounded rectangular selection. Now we have a "Refine Edge" tool which does not even do anything when the selection is used on the full canva and does not even affect the selection within the selection boundaries, using the radius option will add a radius to the selection.
- Contract Selection
We can contract a selection if it is partially outside of the canva, but cannot if it is perfectly fitted on the edge, why disable the option? It would have taken 2 second to add an extra condition allowing a normal mode contract if all 4 edge have been selected. We lost this functionality just to add a minor feature allowing the selection to be contracted on only the sides that were not touching the edges.
A correct implementation would have allowed both, not cut one to add another.
Both issues are pretty much linked to the same thing and this is getting really frustrating, I just signed on for the forum because I couldnt handle this never getting patched, I feel like I should have sticked with an older version instead.

Answer 1

ShaZe wrote:
- Rounded Rectangular Selection :
The rectangular marquee tool previously had a little box which added the possibility of transforming the current selection radius to instantly have a rounded rectangular selection. Now we have a "Refine Edge" tool which does not even do anything when the selection is used on the full canva and does not even affect the selection within the selection boundaries, using the radius option will add a radius to the selection.
Think you wrong there you could  feather  cornors some in prior versions and get somewhat rounded corners but you should have been using the rounded rectangle tool to do what you want in all versions of Photoshop. Put the rounded rectangle tool into Path mode then turn the path into a selection of you need a selection when a Path, Shape or or pixel fill will not do.
- Contract Selection
We can contract a selection if it is partially outside of the canvas, but cannot if it is perfectly fitted on the edge, why disable the option? It would have taken 2 second to add an extra condition allowing a normal mode contract if all 4 edge have been selected. We lost this functionality just to add a minor feature allowing the selection to be contracted on only the sides that were not touching the edges.
Many complained about this.  When there is a select all selection when the canvas size is selected the only modify selection option availavle for use is now is border.  If all you want to to is contract the selection by some number of pixels its easy to do.  You modify border 4 px then do selection invert.  You could make an action to automate this the first step would be an interactive selection modify border that is followed by the invert selection.