Quick selection tool problem (CS5)

Everytime I use the Quick selection tool in CS5 I always seem to get a unsmooth edge and also white lines (please see photo attached below).When I use the pen tool I dont get this problem. Any ideas guys? thank you very much.

This is pretty normal. The Quick Selection tool is looking for borders between pixel values and, if they are not well defined, you get a fuzzy edge.
The pen tool puts clear vector lines where you draw them.

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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...).
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-Noel

OpenGL seemingly deactivates after use of quick selection tool (PS CS5)

Before using the quick selection tool, I am able to smoothly zoom in and out by holding Ctrl+Space and dragging with the mouse.
If I use the quick selection tool, however, the marching ants line turns into a strange box. I no longer am able to zoom smoothly but instead with the technique above I draw a rectangle which I zoom into. This indicates to me, that OpenGL has been deactivated. I want my smooth zoom back!
I noticed that the preferences always show OpenGL as active, no matter which of the above "state" I'm in. I tried updating my AMD graphics card's driver without success. I found a post describing similar OpenGL problems on the same graphics card and installed the linked driver; the post was 2 years old, but it worked. Re-installing more recent version (Catalyst-Version 12.6) brought the problem back. Newer versions of the driver seem all to suffer from the same problem.
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reseting Photoshops preferences (Ctrl+Alt+Shift at start),
deactivating OpenGL (reactivating only works after restart and problem reappears) but I miss the smooth zoom.
I hope I could clarify the problem and thank you for reply!

I seriously can't download version 13.4...
This is my input for the driver search on their homepage (I'm German, that's why some words are German...):
This is the result I get from the above input:
I have not a single clue, how I am supposed to download another version than the current. AMD makes it really difficult for me.
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Hello, Recently when I've gone to use the Quick Selection Tool I see no "marching ants" and CS5 crashes a couple of seconds after finishing the brush stroke. I've replaced the graphics card and installed the latest GPU driver. I uninstalled Photoshop and reinstalled it. My system description is below my sig. Has anybody seen this behavior?
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Hi Noel,
Yeah, I kind of made a long story short. I have a display anomaly as well. Two different display cards, two different driver families. Here's the URL for that thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2974532#2974532
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There is something badly wrong with my system, but it only shows up when using PS CS5. Is there a diagnostic for driver conflicts?
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Quick Selection Tool Problem - Cursor Stuck in Subtract

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I somehow caused the quick selection tool default to be "on always" in the subtraction (minus - ) position; I am able to access the add (plus +) position by using the shift key , but this causes some problems as those are not the defaults keys for this tool or program for that matter.
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Quick Selection Tool problem

My Quick Selection Tool seems to be extremely quick to select the entire image. Even with a very small size and very slow movement, I am having a hard time selecting what I intend to. I don't remember having this problem a week ago.
Is there a sensitivity level or something I am missing? I do have the quick selection tool selected (not the wand) and I have reset the tool.
I appreciate any help. Thanks.

I think I was having a trackpad tap-select snafu. I seemed to be able to scrub/protect an area with the minus selection tool before actually selecting anything and thought that was neat. But I can't replicate the behavior so I'm sure it was just me doing as I do. Maybe to OP can provide a link (the double-q seems interesting).

Quick Selection tool in CS5 doesn't select everything

I hope I am posting in the correct place. If not, please tell me where to post my question, thanks.
I am using the quick selection tool to select my image. When I click on 'Refine Edge' it looks great. When I output to a new layer or new document, etc., parts of the image are missing.
For example, I have an image of two girls (attached). When I click 'Refine Edge,' it looks just the way I want. But if I choose to put it into a new document or new layer, the red-haired girl's hands and legs disappear. This isn't the first time this has happened - I just finally got frustrated enough to ask for help. Thanks and let me know what I am doing wrong.
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Quick Selection Tool Problems in CS5-PC-Win7

1) I am trying to use the QST to outline a butterfly and macaw. Problem is that while in the process of outlining the image, the QST stops at some point in the particular image outline form and goes to selecting the image square from corner to corner.
The image that I was before trying to outline looses the "crawling ants" and just the rectangular border is now outlined.
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2) Next how do I create a new layer with mask so I can adjust the background?Thanks!
Dan

You're trying to convert a Selection into a Layer Mask?
Try exactly these steps:
1. Make your selection of the foreground object (i.e., that which you want VISIBLE).
2. Press the Refine Edge button.
3. Make sure the Output To: selection is Layer Mask or New Layer with Layer Mask.
4. Complete the Refine Edge function.
5. Note carefully, in your LAYERS panel, what it created.
-Noel

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I remember being able to select anything on the canvas with my Quick Select tool in CS5.5 Photoshop Extended. Recently, making the switch to CC, the Quick Select tool will show my slection as I drag along the canvas, but once I release the mouse, the selection seems to be reduced to the visible pixels. I was intentionally trying to fill the transparent sections with my effects as well.
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I see how my question can be kind of vague, sorry about that.
I have an image with a transparent background and a layer with, as stated below, pixels missing. With the wand, when I select a section of the layer that has no pixels, it selects every transparent section of that layer within the canvases borders. Thing is, I only wish to select a particular transparent section without touching the existing pixels. My hands are not as gifted as I would like them to be when painting a mask unless I zoom in ten-fold for every inch of the image.
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Thank you.

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For the sake of clarity and to save people time, Todd is asking about the behaviour of the Patch tool when using it to repair the area next to the young lad's head. Todd gets a blurred dark tone pretty much regardless of the options he uses.
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Regards,
TL.

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