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PHOTOSHOP CS6 - Create New Document from Current State Bug
I posted about this in the Adobe forums a year ago and there was no response.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/15287...
I'm using Photoshop CS6 (Creative Cloud) on Windows 7. Most of the time, when I click on the "create new document from current state" icon at the bottom of the history panel, a new document identical to it will be created as expected.
But every once in a while, the new image created won't be identical. It'll be a few states behind/missing history. It never happened before the last Photoshop update I ran through the cloud back in 2014 but I don't know if that's related.
I see other people reported this here and they're being asked for the steps so it can be replicated. In my case, there's no way to replicate it. It just happens out of the blue.
The ONLY thing all of the .psd documents this happens to have in common is that they contain either masks, clipping masks, or FX and those are what disappears when the new document is created. But this doesn't ALWAYS happen with documents that include these things. It just happens at random.
And there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the files themselves at first because the new document function will work fine while I'm working with it, then it'll stop working out of the blue and nothing I do gets it to work again for that file.
Not closing and reopening the file, not closing and reopening Photoshop, not saving the file with another name or even to another layered format like .tiff. I'm attaching a screenshot so you can see what I'm talking about.
Step 1: My image (.psd) is open. You can see what the layers look like.
Step 2: I navigate to the history panel and click the "create new document from current state" button.
Step 3: The new document opens. But look at the layers. The mask is now missing.
It's incredibly frustrating to have no clue when it's going to happen or why. For now, I just saved a second copy of the image and worked with that one but I'm hoping Adobe can figure this out.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/15287...
I'm using Photoshop CS6 (Creative Cloud) on Windows 7. Most of the time, when I click on the "create new document from current state" icon at the bottom of the history panel, a new document identical to it will be created as expected.
But every once in a while, the new image created won't be identical. It'll be a few states behind/missing history. It never happened before the last Photoshop update I ran through the cloud back in 2014 but I don't know if that's related.
I see other people reported this here and they're being asked for the steps so it can be replicated. In my case, there's no way to replicate it. It just happens out of the blue.
The ONLY thing all of the .psd documents this happens to have in common is that they contain either masks, clipping masks, or FX and those are what disappears when the new document is created. But this doesn't ALWAYS happen with documents that include these things. It just happens at random.
And there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the files themselves at first because the new document function will work fine while I'm working with it, then it'll stop working out of the blue and nothing I do gets it to work again for that file.
Not closing and reopening the file, not closing and reopening Photoshop, not saving the file with another name or even to another layered format like .tiff. I'm attaching a screenshot so you can see what I'm talking about.
Step 1: My image (.psd) is open. You can see what the layers look like.
Step 2: I navigate to the history panel and click the "create new document from current state" button.
Step 3: The new document opens. But look at the layers. The mask is now missing.
It's incredibly frustrating to have no clue when it's going to happen or why. For now, I just saved a second copy of the image and worked with that one but I'm hoping Adobe can figure this out.
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pf_paul
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5 years ago
So I linked the mask, THEN created the new document, and sure enough, the new document included the mask as expected. I unlinked the mask, then tried again, and it was gone again.
I can't imagine that every single time I've done this, I had an unlinked mask since I work with images all the time and often need to unlink my masks. It's possible though. But this still doesn't explain when it's FX or clipping masks that disappear.
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pf_paul
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5 years ago
Also, I'd be curious to hear from Adobe if the unlinked mask behavior is intended and where that would be documented.
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