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ronsipherd
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March 16, 2025
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PSE 2025 image resize canvas automatically creates unwanted new layer

  • March 16, 2025
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Unlike the earlier versions of PSE that I have been using (11 and 14), I find that when I increase canvas size with  Image | Resize, PSE 2025 generates a new layer which I then have to flatten if I only want one layer (to save as JPEG, say).  It's running on Windows 11.

I would like to prevent that auto-creation of a layer; is there a setting for this?

Correct answer ronsipherd

Thanks to both of you for your comments. I am juggling several variables here and beginning to understand what is happening.

Up till this week I was running Windows 10 and PSE 14. Now I am using PSE 2025 on Windows 11 in a new machine.

I see now that one major change is in W 11's screen capture utility.

Formerly (under W 10) I could save a screen snip as a JPEG file and open it in PSE; one layer.

Windows 11 saves screen snips as .PNG files and also to the clipboard; in PSE 2025, New From Clipboard or opening the PNG file both produce layers. Changing the filetype does not seem to be an option.

My best guess is that PSE 2025 sees both the clipboard version as a PNG, and they are opened with layers; I think it does the same when opening a PDF.

That just seems to be the way it is; I can learn to live with it.

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Greg_S.
Community Expert
Greg_S.Community Expert
Community Expert
March 17, 2025

I was unable to reproduce your observed behavior with Windows.  However, when expanding the canvas with an image from clipboard and performing a Save As to jpeg, the available Warning message suggests that there is more than one layer:

 

 

The warning does not prevent the save from completing.

I know nothing about Macs so will leave Jeff, the expert, to help you further.  But he may want to know the rest of your workflow, and why you are changing the canvas size.

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ronsipherdAuthor
Participant
March 17, 2025

Thanks!  I replied to myself with what I think is the answer.

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 17, 2025

Are you using Imge>Resize>Scale?

 

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ronsipherdAuthor
Participant
March 17, 2025

No, I am using Image / Resize / Canvas, which brings up the Canvas Size options panel.

But I just discovered that it only seems to occur when I create a File / New / Image from clipboard.

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Andrei_D
Inspiring
March 17, 2025

So, it's "New Image from Clipboard" and not the "Canvas Size" command that created a "layered" (not flat) document. And this seems to happen in all versions of PSE.

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