Refine Edge in Photoshop CS6 superior to Fluid Mask 3?

I have been using Fluid Mask 3 since Photoshop CS3.
But, recently, looking at a tutorial at a retouch DVD I bought, it seems that the CS6 version of Refine Edge is superior to Fluid Mask.
It seems to have a far more advanced algorithm, and the fact you can work in layer mode with actually seeing what you are masking off in real view, it seems to me it's time to ditch Fluid Mask 3.
What's your take on this?

no difference.
i have tried to check and uncheck everything...
if i adjust the sliders, i get NO Preview... but when i click OK, the resulting photo has been completely ruined by the tool...
I tried deleting preferences...no change
the weird thing is that this problem was very sudden. Just a few weeks ago, I was using refine edge with NO PROBLEM. it is my GO TO tool for extracting people out of pictures...
but then one day, it just stopped working...
Do i need to reinstall CS6???

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I have been using refine edge with no problem for months.
everything worked great!
I was able to extract out hair and edges very, very, very well...
but about 2 weeks ago...something changed... the refine edge brush no longer works.
When I click on Refine Edge... instead of a brush icon, I get the CIRCLE with a SLASH and my system keeps dinging because the tool is just not available.
I deleted my preferences...but it is still a problem
NOW... when I adjust the sliders, i don't see a preview of the adjustments...
Please help!!!!

no difference.
i have tried to check and uncheck everything...
if i adjust the sliders, i get NO Preview... but when i click OK, the resulting photo has been completely ruined by the tool...
I tried deleting preferences...no change
the weird thing is that this problem was very sudden. Just a few weeks ago, I was using refine edge with NO PROBLEM. it is my GO TO tool for extracting people out of pictures...
but then one day, it just stopped working...
Do i need to reinstall CS6???

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Thx

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I made a Quick Selection of a person and am using the Refine Edge tool with the goal of extracting the person from the image so I can place her somewhere else.
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every time i try to refine the edge of a mask, it begins to erase my picture instead of adding in the hair etc. i tried this on several computers at school and it did the same thing, so it isnt my computer/software. my teacher has sat down with me several times and said im not doing anything wrong. this has NEVER worked for me and im extremely frustrated. PLEASE help

no difference.
i have tried to check and uncheck everything...
if i adjust the sliders, i get NO Preview... but when i click OK, the resulting photo has been completely ruined by the tool...
I tried deleting preferences...no change
the weird thing is that this problem was very sudden. Just a few weeks ago, I was using refine edge with NO PROBLEM. it is my GO TO tool for extracting people out of pictures...
but then one day, it just stopped working...
Do i need to reinstall CS6???

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I'm assuming I changed a setting somewhere because it was working fine before, but I have no idea what to check.
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Photoshop CS6 crashes constantly on 2 very different macs, but CS5 running very stable!

hi
our photoshop cs6 (with latest update to 13.0.4) keeps crashing daily and is not stable at all.
so we would work with cs 5 again, as this version is very stable and wont crash even once in a year.
we are daily/"9-5" working at a photographers´ studio and use 2 different macs:
- brand new mac pro 6-core (2010/Westmere) with 48GB RAM under system 10.8.3
- old mac pro with Two 2.66 GHz Dual-core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" from 2006 with 16GB RAM under system 10.7.6
(both with standard equipped/shipped graphics cards)
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- frequent crashs: using "motion blur"
- frequent crashs: using "refine edge"
- sometimes using "transform tool"
during our tests, we found out, that "disable graphics card" (photoshop>settings>performance) in the mac pro from 2006, would prevent a crash, when using "refine edge". in the latest mac pro from 2010, we did not find any solution to prevent a crash.
a "crash", we define as follows: during the mentioned tasks, photoshop is gone from the screen in the blink of second, and an osx sign appears "photoshop has crashed"..
thanks for your time..

Instructions for submitting crash reports with your email address: http://adobe.ly/gNJWVY
As Chris states, this will help us track down your issue.
I agree is Christoph, I would suggest leaving OpenGL/"Use Graphics Processor" enabled and twiddling the Advanced settings for Drawing Mode to "Basic." Then restart Photoshop and see if the problem still persists.
That setting is the main difference between CS5 (Basic) and CS6 (Advanced).

Photoshop CS6 issues seriously impairing productivity

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.

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.

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