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I don't know what key I may have hit by mistake, but in Photoshop CC, a light blue border appeared around the image file I was on, and subsequently all files opened show this also. How do I undo?
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Right-click on that blue border and Select "Default" from the context menu. Usually Shift-clicking the Paint Bucket Tool on the area changes it to a custom color picked from the Foreground color in the Toolbox. So if it was set to blue, that's what will happen.
»am not finding in preferences. Where is that?«
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Chances are you enabled the slices preview for web output by using an associated tool liek the knife. Turn it off in the View menu.
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If the reply from @Mylenium fixed your issue, please mark that reply as the correct answer so that others in the same position know that there is a "fix".
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Could also be View>Show>Layer Edges
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neither slices nor layer edges was checked.
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Can you post a screenshot of what your seeing?
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Screenshots would indeed seem helpful.
What are the Interface Perferences settings?
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scrrenshot & interface settings
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Right-click on that blue border and Select "Default" from the context menu. Usually Shift-clicking the Paint Bucket Tool on the area changes it to a custom color picked from the Foreground color in the Toolbox. So if it was set to blue, that's what will happen.
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Or change »Standard Screen Mode« in the Preferences.
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While the foreground color shows blue at the left now, it did not at the time the blue border appeared. I think it became that color when I clicked on the border later. but clicking on the border and choosing default changed it to black. I couldn't remember what it was like before the blue and wanted to do the other suggestion of setting to standard mode but am not finding in preferences. Where is that?
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»am not finding in preferences. Where is that?«
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Here's what you get when you right-click the background:
For some strange reason, the "custom" option defaults to a bright blue. I've always wondered why...;-)
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What’s the area called anyway?
In some applications I think it is called Pasteboard, but in Photoshop?
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I don't know. In Lightroom it's just "image background", in Bridge it's "backdrop". Take your pick 😉
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c.pfaffenbichler wrote:
In some applications I think it is called Pasteboard, but in Photoshop?
In those applications we can also see things we put in that area. I wish we could do that in PS !
~ Jane
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I think there has been at least one Feature Request on the issue so you are not alone with that wish.
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Chris Cox let out the exact term, but it's kind of abstract and I forgot it. Some call it the "pasteboard" which isn't correct, but it is relateable. You can drag notes into that area, but I think that's about it.
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»Chris Cox let out the exact term, but it's kind of abstract and I forgot it.«
I don’t think I am up to the challenge of digging up Mr.Cox’ old posts just to find out the proper name.
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Don't blame you at all. Needle in a haystack comes to mind.
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gener7 wrote:
You can drag notes into that area, but I think that's about it.
When I started using Photoshop any image that was dragged partially into that Nameless Area would get that portion chopped off and deleted.
Fortunately, that's no longer true and we can drag images in and out of the non-printable area. We just can't see that area as we can in other applications.
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I name thee the Twilight Zone
<wave magic wand>
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Maybe it's just called Canvas
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Ged_Traynor wrote:
Maybe it's just called Canvas
But wouldn’t the Canvas (as in Image > Canvas Size) and the space outside it both be called »Canvas« then?
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Hence the twilight zone...it's none of them, and both, at the same time. Quantum physics.
Maybe we should just call it Schroedinger's Cat? It's either there, or not, depending on whether we look.
OK, I'll go away now. I really don't have a clue what to call it 😉


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