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Hunter Wade
Inspiring
June 11, 2022
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Mask Overlay appears but not the outlines. Cannot move or resize masks.

  • June 11, 2022
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I'm not sure how to say it.  Theres a super short video attached if you aren't riding your buggy on my trail from the explanation that follows. 

The circumference of a radial mask usually has a black marker and a smaller black circle inside showing the feather area. Linear gradients usually have 3 black lines denoting the center and boundaries. They can be moved or resized. I'm not getting anything but the red overlay when I place a mask. 

This is what I get for a day now. Restarted LRC, restarted creative cloud, checked for updates. Nothing has fixed it. 

So while I can see a red overlay, everything else is a guess and if I don't happen to magically lay out the mask boundaries perfectly despite not seeing them, I have to delete it and start again since there's no black lines. I've attempted clicking in the places the lines would be and nothing happens. 

I'm on the LRC 11.3.1
Windows 10
i7 7700 3.6ghz
32g ram
1Tb SSD
250G SSD
1 Tb HDD
Nvidia 1070

    Correct answer Hunter Wade

    Hi Hunter!
    Welcome to the LRC community. 
    Press ctrl+shift+H
    let me know if that works. 

    3 replies

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    June 11, 2022

    Glad you figured it out and posted the solution.

     

    For those who don't remember keyboard shortcuts, your screen recording shows that you had Show Edit Pins set to Never in the bottom-left corner of the toolbar at the bottom:

     

    Setting it to Always or Auto will cause the mask-component handles and outlines to show.

     

    If the toolbar isn't showing, do the menu command View > Show Toolbar.

     

    Alternatively, you can change the setting of Show Edit Pins by doing the menu command Tools > Tool Overlay.

     

    Also, thanks for posting the screen recording -- if only more people would take the time to do, problems would get resolved so much quicker.

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    Hunter WadeAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 11, 2022

    Hey. Thanks for the reply. 
    I pressed Ctrl+shift+H as suggested and the mask outlines reappeared and can now be edited. 
    I suppose you spent more time reading the forum than I did. 
    I appreciate the support. 

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      Mason5F86
      Participant
      August 7, 2024

      Thank you for this.

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      Hunter WadeAuthorCorrect answer
      Inspiring
      June 11, 2022

      Hi Hunter!
      Welcome to the LRC community. 
      Press ctrl+shift+H
      let me know if that works. 

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