When extracting hair, the Refine Radius Tool is grayed out in Photoshop cc

Maybe they've changed the process for the Refine Radius Tool but my version of cc does not allow me to further refine the extraction.

Hi Ron.  Yes you can adjust the brush size with the square brackets.  I use the express wheel on my Intuos 4.  But more importantly, I don't think there is any reason why Refine Radius would be greyed out from a usser error point of view.  You could try resetting your preferences by restarting Photoshop while holding down the Shift Alt Ctrl (Shift Opt Cmd) keys.  But it could also be a video driver problem.  Go to the card makers site and make sure you have the very latest driver for it.  
Do you have a tablet?  I sometimes have a sticky brush problem with mine, and have to tap the stylus on the tablet to free it up.  That could cause problems with brush size, but I doubt it would cause the Refine edge button to be grey out.
What OS btw?  Is it Windows 8?  There seem to be a few people with video driver problems with Windows 8 and CC

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