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What is hieroglyph glued inside my document? How do I remove?

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December 21, 2022
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This appeared and is not on a layer but is glued visibly inside my photo document. After system restart and other attempts I am not able to remove this. What is it? and how do you remove it?

TIA,

Ken

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Correct answer J E L

@Ken Nielsen, lol, it's the Greek Koppa, isn't it? Although some Egyptians do consider the Greeks to be their children.

c.pfaffenbichler

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The pixels that constitute the object do not seem to conform to screen pixels so I suspect they have to be image pixels, possibly on »another« Channel.

J E L

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@Ken Nielsen, lol, it's the Greek Koppa, isn't it? Although some Egyptians do consider the Greeks to be their children.

Ken NielsenAuthor

Legend

I mark this correct because all are correct and I just wanted to choose one. After shutting down and letting it sit overnight I opened the document and it was still there but it was on the background layer and I was able to maquee select and hit the delete key and it's gone. At least I hope it's gone and will not come back when I re-open the document after saving... I think we're rid of it. How it got there and why I could do nothing with it yesterday is beyond me... this is the Winter Solstice today so that should explain it... Thanks everyone for your help. It was not a type layer.... oops, there I go contemplating what on earth... ?

Thanks to each of you and Happy Holidays.

Ken

jane-e

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@Ken Nielsen wrote:

I opened the document and it was still there but it was on the background layer and I was able to maquee select and hit the delete key and it's gone.

Just for the record, something similar happed to me this morning.

I had selected something in a document with two layers, but even after deselecting the marching ants would not go away on the right and bottom of what I had selected. After a few minutes I realized that the "marching ants" that wouldn't go away had become pixels on the background layer, and I could remove them. This isn't something that should have been able to happen, but it did.

Jane

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

So, you cannot clone it out?

Ken NielsenAuthor

Legend

Yes, but only after letting the file sit overnight and opening the next day the heiroglyph became like a 'stamp' on the background layer so I was able to marquee select on the background and hit the delete key and that removed it. All is well but strange never seen before occurance.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Try going to Preferences/Technology Previews and check "Disable Native Canvas".

This seems like an artifact from another document, which has been noted and resolved by this pref change.

Did that remove the image?

melissapiccone

Community Expert

Weird - you tried just erasing, or covering it white? It's not on a layer? What if you move your layers around, does it stay in the same place? what if you create a new document and move your layers to the new doc?

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jane-e

Community Expert

It looks like an unformed Color Sampler ("I") marking. It's probably not, but try choosing the tool, then "Clear All" in the options bar to see if it goes away.

Jane

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you please post a screenshot taken at View > 200% with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible?

Edit: I wonder if it might be a Spot Channel.

davescm

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I've never seen anything like that - are you able to post the document itself? PM me if you prefer.

Dave

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