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Photoshop: Selection not visible outside canvas size
I work in layer-heavy large photoshop documents, and it's important for me to have extra bleed imagery that is often outside the visible canvas. I often use cmd-click on layers to see how much extra imagery I have outside the canvas. In one of the latest updates to photoshop, when I do this, the selection outline is only visible within the canvas, and not in the area outside. It makes it so I have to increase my canvas size to see how big and what shape the layer I've clicked on is. It's an extra step that slows down my workflow, and I would really appreciate it if viewing that selected area outside the canvas would come back. Thank you.
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alex_furer
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But why don't you extend the canvas and use guidelines to crop it at the end? I do that all the time. And to see/evaluate the design I have a passport layer on top of everything that I switch on when I need to see the final design only. An advantage of this is that you can set this passport layer to the color which will surround your final design. Things look different on white, black, orange or any other color than the dark gray surrounding in Photoshop.
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tim_franz_30oohqhxymt3x
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earth_oliver
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tim_franz_30oohqhxymt3x
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I just tested it out on an older machine in the office that still has CS6 on it. Eartho, you are now seeing a selection outside a canvas for the first time in your life. Exciting times. Selection view exists in photoshop CS6 when you cmd-click on a layer to select it. I also turned on Layer Edges to test that (something I never use typically), it's the purple rectangle that shows the outer barrier of the imagery hidden outside the canvas size. I also just had a co-worker test it on his machine that has CC 2015, and it was consistent with my CS6 test. My current working machine has CC 2015.5, and I tested it with the same file, the selection edge disappears when it's outside my canvas. I also noticed that the little animation that typically happens on a selected area was not happening as well, so it may be related. So, I think it's a bug that has occurred in an update somewhere between CC 2015 and 2015.5.
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alex_furer
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And indeed, you can see selection outside the canvas. At least the way I tested it.
I took a 100 hard brush and painted on a transparent layer. I then scaled that layer up and when I ctrl-click on that layer it displays the selection outside of the canvas. Even after saving and re-opening the image.
So yeah, I am sorry to have said what I said.
Nevertheless, when I painted with the brush beyond the canvas it didn't load the selection outside of the canvas. Meaning, when you initially paint outside the canvas, the content gets cropped to the canvas boundary.
So, it's probably either the technique that messes with you. Meaning that the image got cropped somehow, or it might be the 2015 version you are using.
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tim_franz_30oohqhxymt3x
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ben_mcrae
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When I am trying to create and extra part of my photo canvas I can no longer see the area I have created with the crop tool. In the past it was black or white, now I don't see anything, but if I was to select it with a bounding box it is there. How can I make that area reappear?
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kelsey_hallatt
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I have a layer with an image that extends beyond the canvas. When I "Select Pixels" for that layer, the marching ants do not appear. However, the info panel is showing that a selection has been made. On another layer, that is completely contained within the canvas, when I "Select Pixels," the marching ants do appear.
I'm currently following a tutorial that shows the marching ants appearing in the first scenario, so why won't they appear for selections beyond the canvas?
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