Select Modify Expand is rounding my corners out of nowhere.

I was working on something the other day that may or may not have something to do with this where I was going to Select>Modify>Feather.
Whenever I try to make any type of selection, be it Ctrl+clicking the thumbnail, rectangular marquee tool, or pen tool, It has rounded edges for no reason. I have no feathering on, I have no anti-aliasing on. I tried going to Select>Modify>Feather and changing it to 0 but, it won't let me go below 0.1 and even still, that shouldn't be affecting my selections unless I choose it for each individual selection right? It's just frivolously rounding my edges. I tried deleting my preferences file and that didn't help either. I'm on Photoshop CC btw. The corners seem to be fine until I Select>Modify>Expand. I can't tell if the feather's just so low that you can't tell before the expand or if it's the expand causing the edges to round off. I have been using this method for months now and Expand has never rounded my edges until today.

I know that there's alternatives but, what I want to know is why I have never gotten rounded corners from expand until today when everyone is telling me that getting rounded corners from expand is actually how it's supposed to work. I know for sure that all the feathering options are at 0 but, it's not feathering, it's just rounding and, I know for sure that I was using Select>Modify>Expand to increase the size of specific shapes, most recently for layer masks. I can't think of anything I could have hit that would have caused it to just change out of the blue like this.

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BR / Ilya.

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Hi All,
Apologies if this has already been discussed somewhere previously, but I'm getting very frustrated that I can't seem to easily accomplish what should be a very simple task:
I am using CTRL+A to "Select All" and then trying to contract the selection by X pixels. Apparently my only option after a Select All command is to use the "Border" command, but this always seems to feather the selection, no matter what I do. I know there are some "workarounds" to get the selection I want, but seriously, this is so dead simple of a task I'm going bonkers here.
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Howdy.
Is it just me or did this used to be a lot easier in earlier versions of PS?
It's not just you. It's pretty easy in CS3.
The screenshot is after Ctrl+A has been applied. The Contract command is still active. And the selection will not be feathered.
According to MTSTUNER's link (thank you), CS3 is the only version that will do this. Sometimes it's good to be behind the curve.
Maybe the referenced script will fix you up. I don't know anything about scripts, but I do know a little about actions. So out of curiousity, I hacked together an action which should work in CS5. It's based on expanding the canvas, contracting the selection, then cropping back to the original size. It looks like a long way to go to accomplish something so simple, but Ps does it all in the blink of an eye.
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9. Delete. Delete the top layer, which should be the contracted channel. (This doesn't affect the selection.)
10. Delete. Delete the top layer, which should be the Stamp Visible layer. Now we're back where we started, but we have a contracted selection.
Stop Recording.
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