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Passionate_Dream98A4
Participant
October 21, 2020

P: Photoshop 22:0: Text selecting/editing UI not displaying in CMYK, LAB modes

  • October 21, 2020
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When I select the text or try to edit some text in a CMYK file it doesn't show anything showing whether or not I selected that text.

I can edit normally, but without this information it gets a little complicated to know what I'm selecting or not

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Wabber_HM
Inspiring
October 26, 2020

I am also getting this in PS 2021. Disabling GPU Graphics Acceleration is a temporary workaround. CMYK or RGB doesn't seem to make a difference with this issue.

Some system info:

Adobe Photoshop Version: 22.0.0 20201006.r.35 2020/10/06: 4587a1caa63  x64
Number of Launches: 122
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Version: 10 or greater 10.0.17763.475
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:3 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 2
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2808 MHz
Built-in memory: 16210 MB
Free memory: 8898 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 14829 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %

Participant
October 26, 2020

I cannot select text or see the text box in the new photoshop 22.0. The only way to edit the text is to delete it and do it again. I am on a mac using oS Catalina. I have restarted photoshop, restarted my computer, the problem is still there.

Legend
October 26, 2020

Hi Sarah, did you restart after changing the pref?

Inspiring
October 26, 2020

This work-around did not work for me.

Participant
October 24, 2020

I updated from PS 2020 to PS 2021, and made a paragraph text box. Immediately, I noticed that there was no bounding box surrounding the paragraph text box. However, moving around to the edge of where I thought the text box dimensions were, the cursor changed it's look, indicating that the text box could be scaled and rotated. This also applies to point text when holding down Ctrl to modify scaling and rotation. Additionally, all of the other editing functions are completely invisible such as cursor location and highlighting text within the text box. 

This issue is persistent across multiple program close/open cycles, as well as computer reboots. For reference, I'm running on the latest updated version of Windows 10.

Inspiring
October 24, 2020

I currently can't highlight text and can't see the bounding box after making a text box. The problem is not because it's point text, and in the previous version that did not happen. Photoshop automatically updates, I was previously using Photoshop 2020, but I am now using photoshop 2021 which is the one I am having problems with.

Known Participant
October 24, 2020

In the old version of PS when you wanted to edit part of a text layer, you could highlight the words you wanted to change and type over them.  In the new version, there is no highlighting, so it is hard to tell if you have selected the words you want to change.  (The program does still let you edit, but you can't be sure you are in the right spot until you start to type.  This is a time waster.)

Inspiring
October 21, 2020

Since I upgraded to PS 22 last night, when I open text document created in PS, it will not longer show flashing cursor on text. I have to guess where the cursor should be. This is horrible. 

Legend
October 21, 2020

Thanks. Engineering is aware of the issue and looking into it.

Currently the only workaround is to disable "Use Graphics Processor" under Preferences > Performance.