I am having the exact same problem and I thought I was doing something wrong or pressed the wrong keys that disable all of those options. But it was working last night, so I am not sure what is going on. I will restart my mac and see.
I went to the Adobe site and had a chat with a very knowledgable support person. We did a share screen and she went to the (Mac) Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop 2019 Settings/Adobe Photoshop Preferences... and renamed it _old. When restarting Photoshop it created a new Preferences file, and everything worked perfectly. I also restarted the machine to test if it still worked, and no problems after that. She explained that probably my file was created with Photoshop 2018 (which it was), and that the Preferences file got corrupted. Hope this helps you guys too.
I followed a few of the recommend fixes and none seemed to work for me so I connected with the Adobe support chat and screen-shared, they were able to fix the issue by reseting all my tools. That worked for me.
I followed a few of the recommend fixes and none seemed to work for me so I connected with the Adobe support chat and screen-shared, they were able to fix the issue by reseting all my tools. That worked for me.
Resetting the tools didn't work for me. It did that, then turned the graphics processor back on, and it happened again. Turned the graphics processor off and it works great.
I did that and it didn't fix anything for me. The only consistent fix has been to turn graphics processing off. I turned it back on and the problem came back... until I turned it off and restarted Photoshop.
I have tried all these things to get my Text highlight or even the text cursor to show again. Nothing worked. I guess I will try uninstall and reinstall to see. This is getting SERIOUSLY annoying since Adobe just raised their prices for team users too.... pay more, get worse.
Come on Adobe. Stop breaking things in your software. I had to revert to Premier 2018 as well since 2019 broke my upgraded project files.
FYI: I am running OS 10.13.6 and upgraded all my Adobe software to latest version. So far, I am far from impressed and more things broke than got better.
I encountered this issue after uninstalling and reinstalling to fix the "bounding box missing" bug. So far I've tried all of the suggestions in this forum (legacy compositing, tool reset, graphics processor on/off) with no result. I just uninstalled and reinstalled and now it's working, but I'm afraid of it causing another bug again.
I had this problem too (as well as having no visible transformation frame), and found that just by creating a New Document, and highlighting text within that document, it seems to get things working properly again.
I had the same issues. I couldn't see any of my transform controls and I couldn't highlight text or see my text cursor. I could still DO everything, but it was all invisible, difficult to edit, and driving me nuts.
What DID NOT work for me was:
1) resetting photoshop
2) resetting my computer
3) toggling options like "show transform controls"
4) logging in and out of my Adobe account
5) updating photoshop
What DID work for me, in this order, was:
1) Holding "command + k" to open preferences
2) Selecting "Reset Preferences On Quit"
(at this point my transform controls were back, but my text highlighting/cursor was still not working on existing files)
3) Creating a new document and using the text tool
(somehow this allowed my text to work properly on new and existing documents)
Super annoying because you'll have to reformat the windows and settings you like in photoshop, but ultimately ended up fixing it for me. This is working at least for now. Spent way too much time trouble shooting this issue this morning.
109
Replies
AdChoices