Hover layer bounds is now in Photoshop beta!

@Pete.Green  I have been using this for a while now, and mostly like it. 

I am finding the border difficult to see at times, depending on background, so it would be good to have some control of the colour.  Perhaps in Preferences > Guides Grid and Slices?

The border does not appear if the layer is covered by another higher up the stack. This is when hovering over an object in the document window.  The blue outline does appear when selecting the layer.   i.e. If the copy merged (green highlight) is turned on, the blue outline does not work on layers lower down the stack.

Note I have temporarily set the UI to light grey to make the dark blue border more visible.

I love that a hovered over object's layer is highlighted in that solid blue, but here again, only if not covered by a layer higher up the stack. Note that the copy merged/overlay layer is turned off in this screen shot.  This is a huge help at times.

Note: I was embarrassed into naming the layers before making thses screen shots.  This only has 51 layers, but the statue with guitar SO is another 60 layers, so I was getting a bit lost and appreciated the new feature.

So I would love to be able to set this to All Layers, and be able to change the bounding box colour.

not at all usefull for me, very annoying...  i remove it at once.

Since the last update my mouse wherever is hoving highlights all different layers in blue bounding box on the current document and on the layer window it turns blue, its incredibly annoying and horrible designing, I need to turn it off but I cant find where!

I keep hiding extras with command+H but the outline blue frame keeps showing up around my layers when I open new files and it's so annoying that I can't turn it off permanently. 

Hello people,

Im having this issue which is driving me crazy.

I am editing and wherever I move my coursor there's a blue selection following, as you can see in the layers pannel. It also creates blue boxes on the artboard. I have been trying to turn this off because it also makes it hard to work, the selection is weird.

I have been working with Ps for 8 years and I never had this problem before.

if anybody knows I will be very grateful!

While I'm not 100% sure about how to implement this feature in specific cases, the general idea looks very useful to me. I think that some kind of ability to quickly and easily identify which layer/group corresponds to what visual element(s) can really facilitate editing and navigating through documents with many layers.

I've tried it on the beta and I'm looking forward to seeing it in the standard version! Thanks.

@Trevor.Dennis and @marliton many thanks for your initial thoughts, and glad you're enjoying the functionality so far!

Regarding the "selecting the top-most layer when layers have overlapping pixel content at the mouse position", we're working on a solution for that to be able to select the layer content underneath as well, but that didn't quite make it into the first iteration of Hover bounds in beta yet, stay tuned for that it's coming soon!

If other thoughts on ways this could be improved come to mind, let me know! I'm all ears 🙂

Regards,

Pete 

That is actually really cool.  I especially like how it highlights the layer in the layers panel.   The old trick of right clicking was OK, but if you had several layers under the cursor position, and you were not super good with naming your layers, you had to guess which was the layer you were after.  It does not highlight the layer if it is already selected, and AFAICT if two or more layers have content at the cursor position, it only highlights the upper one.

I also especially like that it shows the outline of the layer's off-canvas content — I can think of a few forum threads asking for that.  It would be nice if there was a quick and easy way to select the highlighted layer.  Right now, I can only think of moving the mouse to the Layers panel, or reading the highlighted layer's name, and right clicking and selecting it from the fly-out list.   That might sound nit-picking, but my periferal screens are currently both in landscape mode (because I have been using PremPro) so it's a looooong way to the layers panel and back.

Still a very welcome new function Pete, and much appreciated.

Simple but useful. Tks!