P: PS 25.4 (Win/macOS) Moving a Layer and clipped layer inside a group mask causes rendering issue

[Jeff30645650b0m6]

Adobe Photoshop Version: 25.3.1 20231212.r.241 46eb480 arm64 (also occurs on beta)
Operating System: Mac OS 14.2.1
System architecture: Apple M2 Pro, HybridCPU(8:4) (also occurs on personal M1)

PLEASE view attached video before commenting.

When both a layer and it's clipped layer are moved inside a masked group:

• The display updates as if the mask is also selected and moved
• Disabling and enabling the group mask corrects the display render as does saving, closing and reopening the psd
• Moving the layers near the boundries of the document may display duplicate sections
• Disabling graphics processor and/or native canvas and relaunching photoshop does not correct issue

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[Sameer K]

I can recreate this on Windows, too. Shared the details with the team.

On the other hand, try using Free Transform (CTRL/CMD + T) for now.

Thanks!

Sameer K

[Mark.Dahm]

Thanks for this report. Can you try turning off GPU compositing in Preferences > Performance > Advanced and see if it's still naughty?

[Marvelous_Flower1587]

It happens with GPU Compositing off and GPU off.
If one turns visibility of Layer on/off the screen updates.

Also seems to happens in previous versions. 

[Larry29731486lwom]

This has been a problem for at least the last 5 major versions of Photoshop, perhaps much longer since it's been so long I've forgotten when it started. Maybe around when they switched to the CC subscription versions? It doesn't have to be a clipped group either, moving anything at all inside a mask causes the described symptoms. But not 100% of the time though, just most of the time. I haven't delved into exactly how to reliably recreate it.

[Mark.Dahm]

There may be a tendency to leave older issues like this alone; it's deep in the bowels of the compositor, and going in there is risky for a wide range of other operations. But we have it on the backlog now to look into, and will give it a shot. This will likely take a good month or so do get a read on the situation and pull together a response; thanks for your patience.

[p.sarnecka]

Hi,

I've stumbled upon a bug that frustrates me A LOT. When I move a layer partially outside an artboard and then move it back, it gets temporarily cropped. The false crop goes away when I turn layer visibility off and back on or move the layer using keyboard arrows.

When does it happen:

- layer is inside a group and I move the whole group

- I move multiple layers containing smart objects

- I use mouse/touchpad, not keyboard arrows

I'm on MacBook Pro Sonoma 14.3, using Photoshop 25.4.