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How to turn off the artboard function in Photoshop

Community Beginner ,
Jul 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015

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Hi, everyone! My name is Arthur,

and I am trying to turn the Artboard feature off. I can't find a way to do that. Could you help me to turn the Artboards off?

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LEGEND , Jul 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015

Yep select all your layers in the layers panel and move them above the artboard then select the artboard and hit delete.

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New Here , Dec 01, 2020 Dec 01, 2020

Hi All, Please select the Layers Tab (Right Click) > Select Ungroup Artboards.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015

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What do you mean by turning it off? You don't have to use art boards. If you have one in a document, you can delete it or it and it's contents.

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New Here ,
Aug 20, 2021 Aug 20, 2021

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You can't delete it now it seems, and you can't move off your content.  It appears that you're stuck with this idiotic artboard functionality that neuters the crop tool.  "Great work Adobe!"  Can someone please have a usability intervention on the photoshop team?  Who are these people, microsoft?  

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New Here ,
Sep 28, 2022 Sep 28, 2022

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How do I use the crop tool with the new artboard functionality?

 

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New Here ,
Sep 28, 2022 Sep 28, 2022

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Ah, I was able to get crop to work by deleting the artboard.

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New Here ,
May 16, 2022 May 16, 2022

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hey- im having a same but different. i can ungroup and delete artboards, but the thing is- I have to delete them everytime I make a new .psd 😞 help!!

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LEGEND ,
Jul 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015

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Yep select all your layers in the layers panel and move them above the artboard then select the artboard and hit delete.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 25, 2015 Jul 25, 2015

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Thanks, a lot!

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016

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This doesn't work for me, I'm unable to move layers out of the Artboard...

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Community Expert ,
Oct 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016

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Guillermo,

What version? What happens when you try the above steps? Screen shots of what you are trying would be helpful.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016

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Hey jane-e,

thanks for your replay. It just drop them back onto the artboard folder, no way to move them out.

I can´t provide screenshots of the action sorry since nothing happens when trying to make that movement.

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Community Expert ,
Oct 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016

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Right-click the name of the Artboard and select Delete.

You will get this message. Select Artboard Only. Repeat for each Artboard.

You will end up with just the layers.

This is in 2015.5.1. If it does not work, list your version!

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 18, 2016 Oct 18, 2016

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Hey jane-e,

I can't click on Delete Artboard, no option:

Screen Shot 2016-10-18 at 09.14.47.png

Here is my version, same as yours:

Screen Shot 2016-10-18 at 09.15.20.png

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Community Expert ,
Oct 18, 2016 Oct 18, 2016

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Hi Guillermo,

Thank you for the screen shot—I saw that you have one Artboard and I had two, so I tried it again, and this is weird. With one Artboard, "Delete Artboard" is grayed out, as you saw.

Here's what works: create a second Artboard from the panel menu.

Right-click your first Artboard and delete it, leaving the contents.

Right-click the second Artboard and delete it. (This now works.)

Did I say that it's weird? Anyway, it just worked for me. Tell me if it works for you, and I would say it is a bug!

Does it work this way?

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 18, 2016 Oct 18, 2016

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Hey jane-e,

that way worked!! Seems to be a Bug as u suggested.

Thanks a lot! Much appreciated

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Community Expert ,
Oct 18, 2016 Oct 18, 2016

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You are welcome—and I agree that it shouldn't work like this!

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New Here ,
Oct 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016

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I have been fighting with this for 20 minutes. Such a silly bug! Thank you for the fix!

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Community Expert ,
Oct 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016

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Glad it worked for you, too!

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 24, 2016 Oct 24, 2016

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I found a quicker way to solve this issue:

SImply right click over the artboard and select 'Ungroup Artboards', that option dissolve all existing Artboards

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New Here ,
Sep 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021

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You have the best solution: use ungroup artboards. Thanks for this!

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New Here ,
Mar 29, 2021 Mar 29, 2021

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This worked for me! Thank you so much!

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New Here ,
Sep 17, 2021 Sep 17, 2021

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Good One Bro!!

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New Here ,
Dec 28, 2017 Dec 28, 2017

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Me neither.

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New Here ,
Jun 20, 2017 Jun 20, 2017

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Thank you!

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 15, 2022 Sep 15, 2022

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didn't work! at all!

 

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