Inverse selection issue

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Using macbookpro OS 12.5 with Photoshop 24.7.5

I have a file with three artboards — the main board and two resource boards. The main artboard has 10 layers.

I had no issue with selection before but now, when I make a selection and then choose "inverse" to select everything else, instead of selecting everything else in that layer, it ends up selecting all three artboards (see attached screen shot). Any idea what is happening and how to stop this?

mpkadobe · Accepted Answer

CMass

I was able to figure out that the large rectangle is the canvas. When I first imported the original ine drawing, a canvas was automatically made at the size of that drawing. I used New > 'Artboard from Layers' to make an artboard for that layer, and then added 2 more artboards so I could place other images off to the size to use as color resources. I then added 10 layers to the original line drawing as I added color to various parts of the drawing. Up to that point everything was fine.

Somehow, the canvas size jumped up to include all three artboards. Don't know how that happened but I deleted the 2 resource artboards and resized the canvas to fit the original drawing and now everything works again. I would like to have those resource images in the same workspace to make color transfer easier but I am afraid to make new artboards to put them back. As I wrote before, artboards are very easy to use and navigate in Illustrator but not so in Photoshop.

mpkadobe · Answer

Turns out all three artboards seem to be on one large rectangle but I can't tell what that is or how to delete it. Is it an artboard of some sort? Artboards are very easy to use and navigate in Illustrator but not so in Photoshop.

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