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February 22, 2019
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Images Automatically Placed within Frames

  • February 22, 2019
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Having issues with frames. I have currently have a frame as a placeholder in my photoshop document. I deselect the frame layer, then place my new image in the document (because I DON'T want it in the frame). Once I confirm the placement of the image, it places it within the frame. I DON'T want it in the frame, because I need to move it elsewhere. I had to turn off the frame layer and move the frame layer just to place the image, because even when the frame layer is invisible, my placed image still gets placed within the frame.

Also, when I unlock an image and I have a frame layer in my PSD, it immediately gets placed in the frame layer. I don't want that image in the frame. Even when the frame layer is invisible, the newly unlocked image is placed into the frame.

Is there a way to have frames and images co-exist without automatically cropping them due to a simple overlap? I wish PS operated like InDesign, where simply overlapping an image and an empty frame doesn't automatically place them in a frame. It's frustrating when building templates with placeholding elements.

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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February 22, 2019

The Frame tool uses place to place in images.  If you had and empty frame layer and used placed  Even if you have deselected the empty frame layer.  If you used placed Photoshop may has assumed you were filling the empty .  Place is also a strange beast. It resamples image files based on the active document's resolution and the placed in file's  print resolution and may scale scale the created smart object layer to fit on canvas.  The Frame tool has Problems scaling the image because it uses Place.  The Frame tool also renders the Frame mask on the left side of the layers'  palette rather then on the right side where the other possible masks are.  Which IMO mess up the look if the layers palette.  I chose to edit the toolbar remove the frame tool and disable it K shortcut.   I have been framing Image layers since CS2 without the need of any Frame tool  to mask the layer.  Photoshop has no Problem masking layers.  I find the frame tool more a problem  not something that is useful.

I'm better off without a Frame tool

JJMack
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