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youthful_Sunshine15B9
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June 18, 2013
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Photoshop CC Live Shapes Properties Bug (also in 2022)

  • June 18, 2013
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Checking out the corner radii controls on vector shapes and it looked to be working, until I created a couple of other shapes. The Properties box inconsistently changes for the same kind of shapes.


Link to vid to show my problem: http://cl.ly/PheD

 

Looks like I can't go back to edit the shape for some reason. What would cause this? It's like the shape has suddenly stopped being a Live Shape.

 

Cheers!

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    Correct answer Jeff Arola

    What happens if you use the Path Selection Tool to select the shapes instead of the Move Tool?

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    J453
    Legend
    December 28, 2021

    @ryjostudio Not a bug. It looks like you have this warning dialog turned off: 

    When you modify the shape manually like you do in your video - instead of parametrically, Photoshop no longer recognizes the shape as a "Smart" shape.

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      ryjostudio
      Participant
      December 28, 2021

      Here is a video of this issue on something as simple as modifying a single anchor point on a shape.
      https://www.loom.com/share/dede1b51898740f6bc40f06e306d964a

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      J453
      Legend
      November 14, 2021

      @default83le9f9hn2vl I'm not able to reproduce the the OP or prior issues in this thread. Can you provide steps to reproduce or a video that demonstrates the problem in Photoshop 2022 v23.0.1? The properties panel has changed and improved a lot over the past 8 years.

      BevansDesignNTE
      BevansDesignNTE
      Participating Frequently
      November 7, 2019

      I just upgraded to PS 2020, and this bug is STILL not fixed. As far as I know, the problem has existed since the Properties panel was introduced. We've got at least 6.5 years of reports in this thread alone.

       

      Adobe, fix your bugs. They're really piling up.

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      default83le9f9hn2vl
      Participant
      November 7, 2021

      Nearly 2022, this bug is approaching decadal status. Very cool, Adobe! Very cool.

      PECourtejoie
      Community Expert
      PECourtejoieCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 8, 2021

      Changing this discussion into a bug report thread for the team to notice it.

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      gregm79397554
      Participating Frequently
      May 15, 2017

      So I'm having same issues as the original poster and its 5 years later? Why can't we transform live shapes without losing all properties? Why do you intermediately lose the ability to make live shapes that have properties? I have other grievances with Photoshop, but after using Z Brush and Modo I realize how badly this software is aging. Please step up your game Adobe.

      Picons
      Picons
      Participating Frequently
      January 3, 2018

      This is really a joke Adobe. This bug consists more than 5 years, and nobody fixes it? How valuable our we (the users) to you?

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      marce_amsa
      Participant
      March 2, 2017

      For me was something really dumb, for some reason the "show transform controls" box was desactivated.

      Just activated it back again.

        santz
        santz
        Participant
        March 31, 2015

        Jeane, the way you decided to implement this is not to handy. It would be great if the next update this comes as it was and no as it is right now.

        Thanks!

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        kelmil125
        Participant
        March 25, 2015

        Any further developments on this? I originally tried this fix:

        How to change between Live shapes to masks properties in Photoshop CC - Graphic Design Stack Exchange

        Which worked just fine for a while. Now I am back to masks all the time and no options to switch. I make my vector art in AI and copy and paste it into PS as a shape layer. I love the properties tab, it's so great except when it decides it wants to be masks only. Can't we get a little toggle button at the top of the panel to pick either shape or mask?

        Anyway, any advice or new tricks would be greatly appreciated.

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        cinusik
        Participant
        February 5, 2015

        Bug still not fixed, now even ALT + click on shape layer trick do not work - Adobe - please fix this annoying bug.

        tP-Jeremy
        tP-Jeremy
        Participant
        October 22, 2014

        Still same thing for me.  It was working last week and now when I select my shapes with the Path Selection Tool or the Direct Select tool the only one the Live Shape Properties comes up for is rectangles.  Nothing else works.

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        1tice2001
        Known Participant
        October 23, 2014

        Yeah, actually I'm encountering the same thing as you now. There's a limited tool strip in the control panel that comes available when you select with the path selection tool, and apparently the problem with not being able to select a shape if it's linked to another layer has been sorted out, but now the ffucking properties panel shows nothing even upon drawing a shape initially! Oh... don't like the bad language, Adobe? Then fix the goddam problem! How hard can it be????

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