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Rectangle Blue Outline On My Canvas

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 24, 2021
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Newest PS | Big Sur 11.2

I have a PS document that I created with a 2500 x 2700 artboard. After shuffling some of the layers around and doing some minor edits, I suddenly noticed this rectangular blue line on the canvas. I can't select it with the Move tool, Path Selection, Direct Selection, can't hide it (CMD+H or CMD +;). I jumped back history states, but it's still there. I deleted the artboard, leaving just the layers and it's still there. I turned off all of my layers - still there.

I did just discover that when I resized the widths of two vector rectangles, both selected and equal in width, via the Properties panel, I saw the blue outline.

What is this thing and how do I get rid of it?

Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

It seems to me that may just have been the preview of the Path when the Shape Layer is selected.

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Cody25933007jvwa

Participant

In the bottom right where your layer menu is select the "Paths" tab and deselect the work path. This worked for me.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

You could also deselect the Path or uncheck View > Extras.

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

Try View>Show> And uncheck "Guides" - they might be just the blue guide lines

Chris PannyAuthor

Inspiring

I tried that. I didn't make any guides for this project.

It's only an island if you look at it from the water.

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

View>Show>Layer Edges, and uncheck it?

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you please post a screenshot taken at View > 100% with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers [with the selected Layer visible], Channels, Options Bar, …) visible?

What happes if you deselect all Layers?

Chris PannyAuthor

Inspiring

Attached is another shot at 100%. It was too big to get it all in at this zoom, but it shows the top vector shape. I turned off all of the other layers (linked images, text). Because I was under a time constraint, I had to make a new document with the same settings and just copy everything over from the old one. In the process, I overwrote the old file with the blue outline and now I'm unable to recreate the issue. At least you can see the panels.

It's only an island if you look at it from the water.

c.pfaffenbichler

Correct answer

Community Expert

It seems to me that may just have been the preview of the Path when the Shape Layer is selected.

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