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Quackyboy
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October 17, 2018

P: I have no text cursor/highlight, no bounding boxes, or selection edges working on CMYK documents

  • October 17, 2018
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I just updated photoshop to 2019 20.0 and now the text tool is misbehaving. I see no cursor and I can't select tpe. There is just nothing. I obviously disabled the stupid lorum ipsum nonsense, so when I click with the text tool, there is absolutely no indicatation that anything is happening. My coworker has the same problem and reset his preferences which fixed nothing.
Running Sierra 10.12.6

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    lottiemay
    Participant
    October 26, 2018
    Also, when I am in select and mask and choose to change out the background with a color or gradient, it is always black.  Help!

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    lottiemay
    Participant
    October 26, 2018
    I see that one was able to disable the lorum ipsum nonsense in my just installed Photoshop CC 2019. How can I remove it? It's annoying!
    Hannah Nicollet
    Community Manager
    Hannah NicolletCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 26, 2018
    Hi Everyone,

    Please see the instructions here for the workaround for this issue. Open a new document in RGB and your text highlight and cursor will appear, even in other documents.

    Thanks,
    Hannah

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    J453
    Legend
    October 25, 2018
    Hi Beverly, you don't need to work in RGB, you only need to open a single RGB doc and then it will work correctly in your CMYK doc.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    October 25, 2018
    I tried it in RGB and it works fine. However, I cannot work in RGB as color separation is a big deal for our press. I am constantly adjusting files that were built in RGB when we specify CMYK. The life of a graphic designer, right! 🙂 
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    christinaa64005600
    Participant
    October 25, 2018
    In my case, I could see the text highlight after turning the Graphics Processor off (Mac OS High Sierra) even when editing CMYK files.
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    christinaa64005600
    Participant
    October 25, 2018
    Mac OS High Sierra; Adobe Creative Cloud 2019.
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    J453
    Legend
    October 25, 2018
    That's the workaround: Known Issues: Text tool highlight/selection, pixel selection edges and transform edges aren't visible
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    October 25, 2018
    Yes I was opening a CMYK psds. Now even with the "Preferences>Performance and turn off "Use Graphics Processor" I don't see highlighted text. Also the option to turn it back on is greyed out?
    I can see highlighted text when I open a new RGB document but it's maybe because I can't switch my Graphics Processor back on?
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    October 25, 2018
    Same problem on macOS 10.13.6 and PS CC 20.0.0. RGB documents work as they should only happens in CMYK documents.
    Edit: I just realised after opening the RGB document and going back to my CMYK document eversthing worked again. I didn't even shut down/restart anything. weird...
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