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morgand4513094
morgand4513094
Participant
March 27, 2017
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Elements 11 - How do you remove a bounding box?

  • March 27, 2017
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Does anyone know how I can remove bounding boxes from my layers on Elements 11 on a MAC?  All of the bounding boxes on my layers are showing on the final product and it's driving me crazy.  Thank you. 

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    ashishs74391763
    Participant
    January 1, 2019

    You can convert each layer into a smart object and then copy/paste the smart object to your background. The bounding box will no longer be present.

    MichelBParis
    MichelBParis
    Legend
    January 1, 2019

    ashishs74391763  wrote

    You can convert each layer into a smart object and then copy/paste the smart object to your background. The bounding box will no longer be present.

    How do you do that in Elements 11 without any externa add-ons?

    99jon
    99jon
    Genius
    March 27, 2017

    The bounding box should disappear when clicking the green checkmark e.g. when transforming, scaling, re-sizing etc. If the move tool is selected try switching to another tool e.g. click on the hand tool.

    morgand4513094
    morgand4513094Author
    Participant
    April 1, 2017

    Thank you for the taking the time to reply.  I'm probably making a total rookie mistake as it's my first time.   I tried your suggestion but it didn't work.  I still see the bounding box outlines in my background.

    99jon
    99jon
    Genius
    April 1, 2017

    Are you using a layer mask? For example I used the lasso tool to outline the head of the guy on the far left and then pressed Ctrl+J to copy the selection to a new layer. I then dragged with the move tool to position it over the guy in the center – click image below.

    Holding down the alt key and clicking to add a layer mask blocks out everything with a black mask. Selecting the brush tool and with the foreground color set to white, I simply brushed over the head to reveal just the face and hat ignoring the outline of the original selection.

    You could use the same method for each layer.

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