P: I have no text cursor/highlight, no bounding boxes, or selection edges working on CMYK documents

[Quackyboy]

I just updated photoshop to 2019 20.0 and now the text tool is misbehaving. I see no cursor and I can't select tpe. There is just nothing. I obviously disabled the stupid lorum ipsum nonsense, so when I click with the text tool, there is absolutely no indicatation that anything is happening. My coworker has the same problem and reset his preferences which fixed nothing.
Running Sierra 10.12.6

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

i have the same issue as well, running photoshop with macOS High Sierra. this issue is huge and a time suck. hoping for a fix soon!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

The boundary box is missing when I transform!! Why??? Adobe please fix PSD. I resorted to go back to my CS3 system.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Thank you so much, this actually worked 01/09/19 😄 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I've tried all these fixes, and still no transform controls. I'm running on a PC, Windows 10, latest update. RGB files. I can't even find the checkbox where I can turn on the transform controls.

[J453]

Are you selecting Edit > Transform...? Or in the Move tool (top tool in the toolbar)? If the later, you can click "Show Transform Controls" in the tool options bar across the top.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

macOS Mojave 10.14
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I'm having the same problem, with any kind of layer/file. Transformation Controls not showing even though all the boxes are ticked.
I'm on Mac Mojave with the latest Photoshop CC 2019 installed.

I tried all of the following:

• Ticking / Unticking / Ticking again Show Transformation Controls: didn't work
• Ticking / Unticking / Ticking again Show Extra: didn't work 
• Opening an existing RGB document or new RGB document, first thing as soon as I start Photoshop: nothing
• disabling OpenGL drawing in Photoshop's preferences: nothing
  

It's unbelievably frustrating to work without Transform Controls/Bounding boxes, the most I could do was to get Layers Edges to show (View > Show > Layer Edges), but that still doesn't help when trying to transform layers. 

I am thinking to go back to CC 2018!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I tried leaving the Graphics Processor checked but clicked on the advanced tab and turned the graphics processor to "Normal" mode. It fixed the problem with text highlighting and bounding boxes showing up in CMYK mode. Hopefully that will help in still having a Graphics Processor.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

MacOS High Siera Photoshop CC 20.0.02 The fix of turning the Graphics Processor to Normal mode in the advanced tab fixed the problem in CMYK

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Photoshop 20.0.2  Windows 10.  Turning off GPU sometimes fixes the issue. Document was always RGB, never CYMK.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Mac OS 10.14.3
Photoshop CC 20.0.3

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Thank you for the workaround. It does work. Amazing that this is still an issue.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

i found an easy workaround: i notice the problem occured only when i work with CMYK document. all i need to do is open an RGB document and just keep it in the background. works everytime.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

High SIerra

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hi Hannah, this workaround hasn't worked for me. I am using macOS Mojave. Any advice?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

adobe is doing very bad thing with the user interface..... Transform tool
change with Shitf key thats is STUPID after a lot of versions u change that. AMAZING just waiting for a new patch without those trash changes 

[davetwo]

After 20 years of pro use. These latest ‘updates’ are making me consider abandoning Adobe completely. It’s all bugs, no real working advantages. The 2019 release of PS is shameful.

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MacOS Mojave 10.14.3
Photoshop 20.0.3

[Evert K]

Just upgraded to Photoshop CC 2019 and i'm noticing some display bugs with a range of tools.

 

• The lasso tool doesn't display your selection while drawing. When adding to the selection, you can see the selection you're drawing. The quick work around is draw a small selection and then draw your real selection by shift-dragging. But it's just annoying.
• When using the brush tool you very quickly get a 'spinning balls' cursor, instead of your brush size. This makes precision painting a real pain, as you can no longer see the edge of your brush.
• Then there is the free transform tool. You used to get a bounding box with points around it from where you can drag the different transforms. Now you have to go and guess where to place your cursor to do anything. It makes the transform tool quite unusable. The 'fix' is to turn off graphics acceleration in your preferences, but this used to work just fine in previous versions with GPU acceleration.

 

My guess is that Adobe has changed the way tools are rendered on-screen (The rectangular marquee selector is now coloured, for instance), but clearly more work needs to be done.  These problems persist along a range of iMacs and MacPro's at my office, all are running macOS Mojave and are no older than 5 years.

 

Below is the system info for my particular iMac



Thank you,

Evert

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Same issue here, I can't add a photo credit using the type tool, so I decided to not waste any more time looking for a simple solution from Adobe. I decided to Canva or RelayThat to the add text.

[geentee]

I updated to MacOS Mojave last weekend, and now none of my selections are highlighted or outlined, and transform controls (the little boxes you can select to stretch or re-size objects) are no longer showing. I can guess where the control boxes are, and then resize objects, but it's hit and miss. Same for text selections; selected text is not highlighted but I can edit text by typing after guessing the selection.

For example, if I select a layer, select the move tool, make sure the "Show Transform Controls" is selected, there is no visual prompt in my edit window to show that any item is selected. Yet I can move the object (with no visual clues or guides for the selection), or I can select a corner by guessing where the small box selection would be, then scale or stretch the object. Again, other than the object changing shape, there are no guides or lines to show me bounding boxes, alignment to other objects etc.

I'm running Mac OS 10.14.1 and Photoshop CC 20.0.1. I've tried switching between Mojave light and dark modes, but this has no impact. I've also rebooted several times.

Help, this is a pretty fundamental problem; I'm running blind!

Thanks

Gareth

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Mojave 10.14.4

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Yes!! This finally worked.  It was driving me crazy!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I'm using Photoshop V20.0.4 on an iMac with the latest version of Mojave. While working on a CMYK document, I was attempting to draw a selection with the Polygonal Lasso Tool. The outline does not appear as I'm drawing however, so it's impossible to know where your outline is. To "fix" I have to open an RGB document first, then switch back to the CMYK document in order to draw the outline. I know this was reported previously, possibly as far back at v20.0.0. I just wanted to confirm that it is *still* broken. As I'm working more and more with CMYK documents, I'd like to ask if there is any chance of a fix for this within the foreseeable future.

Thank you.

[Rhett_McDaniel]

An answer on a message board that actually worked!!! Thank you!