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Layers are greyed out cannot after dragging into new window

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 24, 2021
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Hi forum.

1) I have encounrted a weird issue. I'm dragging a group folder into another window ( holding shift and dragging into new window). For some reason, the folder is there, but the layers with the objects wont show up. And the option to even select the layers are greyed out. And yes, in my other document there are visiable object, they layers are not empty. What's going on?

2) on other occasions, they appear while dragging into the new window. I save the document, and when I open it up, nothing is there.

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PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi, is it using Photoshop 22.3?

Jumpenjax

Community Expert

This is a added note to the last post from Jumpenjax.

I should have added you can click and drag the highlighted layer onto your art board.

Lee- Graphic Designer, Print Specialist, Photographer

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

cmd-A and aligning to vertical and horizontal center should also work if the issue is that the Layers’ content is off-canvas .

Jumpenjax

Community Expert

It is hard to see by your picture. I had a problem like this a while back and could not understand what was happening. What I found since, was that it actually was there it was just off my art board. Try to zoom out and go file transform. You should see your layer highlighted out on the paste board.

Lee- Graphic Designer, Print Specialist, Photographer

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I can't see any clues from your screen shot. Try a different method like right click > Duplicate and choose eith a diffent _open" document, or New. If the issue persists past that, there is something going in in the source document like:

Were the layers clipped to other layers that were not copied across?

If you copied the layers to an existing document did it have the same image mode?
I am not sure how bit depth would affect such a move, but my guess is not at all. The bith depth would just be changed to match.

A screen shot might be more helpfull if you showed the full layers panel for both documents, and a full screen shot of the workspace.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

What are the Layers Panel Options?

What are ALL the Groups’ Opacity and FIll settings?

Please select a Layer, hit cmd-T and post a screenshot with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Paths, Options Bar, …) visible.

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inquestflashAuthor

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Control + T wont even do anythnig. The layers are there but greyd out. The Opacity from the other document is at 100%! this is the first time this is happening to the current document. I opened up another file tried the same method and it works, just this document suddenly has gone corrupt.

UpDate: I did an edit contents, and a new document opened up so the shapes are all there, then I dragged dropped them into the document again, saved closed, reopened the file and they're there. Ill just have to live with this file.

Kind regards.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

»I did an edit contents,«

Your screenshot shows Shape Layers, not Smart Objects, so what about »Edit Contents«?

Please post the requested screenshot already.

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