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Egor Chistyakov
Egor Chistyakov
Inspiring
February 2, 2017

P: Animated selection border (marching ants) is not drawn beyond canvas

  • February 2, 2017
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In CC2017 (first video) you were able to see a selection border for parts of your image that go beyond your canvas. So, if you crop an image (disable 'Delete cropped pixels' first), and then Ctrl+click on the layer thumb in Layers panle, you will see the whole border around the layer pixels.

 

Later, and now in CC2022 (second video), We don't see the whole border, but only the part of it that fits into the canvas — which is ridiculous and useless. Now we have to call Free Transform to check a layer’s extension, or use Reveal all (and revert back then).

 

If it's 'indended', please reconsider your intentions, because it's just harmful.

If you just missed it — please fix it.

    2 replies

    fastfingers
    fastfingers
    Known Participant
    November 2, 2021

    Glad you're pointing this out. It's been like this for a number of years, not just CC2022.

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    February 2, 2017

    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.

      alex.furer
      alex.furer
      Known Participant
      February 2, 2017
      As far as I remember, please correct me if I'm wrong, it never showed selections outside of the canvas area. It does when you first select it. I noticed that the other day and I am under the impression this is change in newer versions of Photoshop.

      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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