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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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Inspiring
January 10, 2019
Thank you so much, this actually worked 01/09/19 😄 

Inspiring
December 28, 2018
The boundary box is missing when I transform!! Why??? Adobe please fix PSD. I resorted to go back to my CS3 system.
Inspiring
December 24, 2018
i have the same issue as well, running photoshop with macOS High Sierra. this issue is huge and a time suck. hoping for a fix soon!
Inspiring
December 20, 2018
Why is there no update on this issue? The workaround of turning off the coprocessor and opening a new RGB first DOES NOT WORK. When I try to use the text tool anytime (even in a first created new RGB doc), NOTHING HAPPENS, except I create dozens of text layers. I can draw a box but can't click inside and type. I never get a flashing text cursor. This is a big deal. Why isn't it fixed already? This thread is dead 2 months now.

PS CC 2019 20.0.1
High Sierra 10.13.6
Inspiring
December 13, 2018


When I select the lasso tool and place points on the artboard you can't see the line placed by either mouse or pen. 
You have to randomly cross over the area where you placed the first point to connect the lasso. It's supper annoying. 
Known Participant
December 13, 2018
macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra), Photoshop CC 2019 (20.0.1).
Inspiring
December 10, 2018


Ever since the update,

> I cannot view bounding boxes
> Cannot view transform tool edges or text box edges
> Cannot view the text being selected/highlighted

Particularly frustrating because literally no work can proceed without being able to control these.
Inspiring
December 10, 2018


The transform handles are not showing in my screen on the most updated photoshop.  I also checked the show transform controls on option bar that is not helping either.
geentee
Participant
November 24, 2018
Thank you Hannah. This workaround solves text selection as well as control tools and layer selection issues I've been having. The other workaround suggested was to disable GPU acceleration, which also does the trick
Legend
November 16, 2018
Preferences > Type... uncheck "Fill new layers with placeholder text"

^^ it's a preference, so that's the how it works. If you don't want placeholder text, uncheck it. Thanks