Cannot delete a selection in a Photoshop layer

Question

Hello,

I'm having trouble deleting a selection from a layer. I've attached a picture to show what I'm working with (unfortunately the screenshot didn't capture the selection box -- just imagine it is around one of the faces in the picture). I used the pixels in "Layer 1" to define the selection on "background copy". Then I contracted the selection by 5 pixels and tried hitting the backspace key to delete the selection (pixels) on "background copy" layer. Would not work. Tried going to Edit>Clear - would not work.

Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong, or is there a setting I might have on that I'm unaware of?

I'm inclined to think it's me because I had the same trouble on my last computer with photoshop a few weeks ago.

Thanks in advance for the help...

Bojan Živković11378569 · Accepted Answer

Do you se change after clicking on eyeball to close it on the left side of Background layer? See screenshot below.

Rob_Cullen · Answer

I will have a guess- Because you are working on the top copy layer- when you delete a face from a selection on the top layer you will then see the same face on the background layer- so nothing appears to change.

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