Strange halo when using quick selection tool

It's easier to show than describe it so I added an image
Select/Fill with foreground color (white) and I get this white halo in the non-selected area
The settings in the 'refine edge' dialog , 'sample all layers' and 'auto-enhance' have no effect on this

Chris Cox wrote:
Have you tried disabling OpenGL drawing?
Tried , to no avail
Anyway I was messing around with the QST and I found the culprit - my ignorance
All this time I had the contrast in the Refine Edge dialogue set to 0 . Upping it a bit gives a nice clean selection w/out any spill

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