P: Weird "Quick mask" when I click on layer thumbnail after drawing directly on mask

[lorilinstruth]

I often alt+click on a mask thumbnail to view the mask and draw on it directly. Then I click back on the layer thumbnail to see the results. This always used to work fine. But since a recent update, now when I click back on the layer thumbnail, it's like I've added a "quick mask" with a red overlay. I can not for the life of me figure out how to turn this off. I randomly click on other layers and eventually it goes away.

What is happening here, and how I turn this off? I've tried clicking the "quick mask" icon in the toolbar and that does nothing. Also the Q shortcut does nothing. Windows 10, photoshop version 24.0.1

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Ged_Traynor]

Hi

Just checked and I can replicate the issue with Photoshop version 24.01, seems like a bug to me, I noticed that clicking on the layer below seems to resolve it.

[Jeff Arola]

Happens here on both Photoshop 2022 (ps ver 23.5.3) and 2023 (ps ver 24.0.1) rrunning on macOS Ventura 13.0.1

When that occurs press the backslash key or press the eye to the left of the layer thumbnail

Looks like the Layer Mask channel is not turning off visibility when clicking on the layer thumbnail.

[CShubert]

Thanks all, we can repro and will have the team look into this.

Thank you,

Cory

[lorilinstruth]

Whoa, thank you! Now I can easily turn it off when it happens, until they get it fixed. 

Cheers,

Lori

[lorilinstruth]

Thanks for looking into this! Good luck to the team 🙂

Cheers,

Lori

[CShubert]

Hey all, look for a fix for this bug in an upcoming release.

Thank you,

Cory

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

For now if you were to alt+click back onto the layer after isolating the mask it behaves normally.

[Bojan Živković]

Thats what I am doing all the time: Alt + click on mask to exit mask view. I learned something new. Never, ever tried to click on layer thumb to exit mask view.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Thats how I learned - alt+click on the mask to isolate the mask, alt+click to go back.

Its the same behavior as alt+click on the visibility icon to isolate a single layer and alt+click the same to show all again.

[PECourtejoie]

Hi, could @lorilinstruth and all affected users go to their Creative Cloud app, click the check for update button, and if available, update Photoshop to 24.1.1, which is supposed to fix this issue: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/fixed-issues.html

Please report if the update solves your problem.

[Mohit Goyal]

Hi all,

We're happy to announce the release of Photoshop 24.1.1. This update includes the fix for this issue. To see the list of all fixed issues, click here

To update Photoshop to 24.1.1, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop. More detailed instructions for updating

Let us know if the update resolves the problem for those affected, and share your feedback.

Thanks,

Mohit