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donp30872227
donp30872227
Inspiring
March 29, 2022
Question

Layer opacity selection

  • March 29, 2022
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Does anyone know why you can't manually fill in an opacity for layers in the current version of Photoshop CC? Now I can only use scrubby sliders or the slider bar. I prefer to put a number in the opacity section but it only takes a number up to 9. Very strange. Thanks for your comments.

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donp30872227
donp30872227Author
Inspiring
March 31, 2022

When I use the scrubby slider then I can input my preferred level of opacity from the numbers keyboard and no beeping. Also reverted to the previous version with the same result. Very strange. Thanks to everyone with your comments and suggestions.

Earth Oliver
Earth Oliver
Legend
March 29, 2022

tap the numbers faster to enter specific amounts. 

- tap V for move tool

- quick tap numbers for opacity amounts.

 

this is the way it's worked for decades.

    donp30872227
    donp30872227Author
    Inspiring
    March 29, 2022

    I've been using Photoshop since 1990 and I've never had this problem. Tapping faster doesn't work for me. Something changed in the updated version. Must be a bug of some sort. Thanks for the suggestion.

    donp30872227
    donp30872227Author
    Inspiring
    March 31, 2022
    @donp30872227 wrote:

    Jane,

    BTW, do you know an "easy" way to delete the preferences folder to rebuild and get my preferences back?

     

    Instead of deleting preferences, you can move or rename the preferences file. PS will create a new file on re-launch, but if it doesn't solve the issue, then you can then restore the original file.

     

    Navigate to Photoshop's Preferences folder.

    macOS: Users/[user name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop [version] Settings

    Windows 10: Users/[user name]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop [version]/Adobe Photoshop [version] Settings

     

    Details here:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

     

    Another thing you can do is to back this file / folder up on a regular basis. Add the date to the name. Then you can restore a previous version when you rename it and put it in the correct location again.

     

    As for me, I delete Preferences often enough that I've gotten pretty fast at putting things back together. It was slow and tedious the first couple of times and I had to use notes in the early days.

     

    Jane

     

     


    I renamed my preferences folder and Photoshop created a new Pref. folder. Now when I use the numbers keys it will put opacity in levels of 10, 20 ,30 etc. Example, I want to enter 53 percent, I press the 5 number key and before I can enter the 3 it has already entered 50% and it beeps. Lately Photoshop is beeping at many things that I can't see is the problem. When I change tools, when I want to change layer opacity, when deselecting an object. This behaviour started with the last update. Very annoying.

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