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Der Fuchs
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June 3, 2012
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Remove Bounding Box (Photoshop CS6)

  • June 3, 2012
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Hey

since Photoshop CS5 (Mac), there is always shown a grey bounding box around the content of the selected layer, when I move it. For CS5 there exists a plugin, that removes this terrible box, but it doesn't work anymore with CS6.

Can anyone help me to get rid of this awful "feature"?

Thanks a lot

Philip

Example:

http://bilder.bseroyal.de/box.gif

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    Correct answer Frank Heller

    Ohh. Now I know what you're referring to. The box that appears when you MOVE an object. Gotcha. Yeah, hopefully there will be an updated plugin to deal with that. There's nothing within Photoshop, that I know of, that will turn that off.


    Here's a time-saving direct download link:

    http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/mac/13.x/Optional_Extensions_Plug_Ins_Release.dmg

    Place the "DisableDragBoundingBox.plugin" into your Plug-ins folder, relaunch and it's fixed. This was driving me nuts for weeks.

    SInce I never want to see that bounding box under any circumstances, this plug-in does the trick. The caveat is: once installed, there is no way (that I can find) to toggle the bounding box back on. So if you do need it, you'll have to remove the plug-in. Thanks, Philip, for that Help page link.

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    ashishs74391763
    New Participant
    January 1, 2019

    The plugin isn't compatible with CC 2019. Instead, you can convert the wanted layers into smart objects. The bounding box will then be invisible.

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      Whoopty JJ
      New Participant
      October 18, 2021

      Yup, it's 2021 and it's pretty wild that this is still happening. I just had to duplicate my text layer (in case they need edited later) - turn off one of the text layers, convert the other text layer to a smart object and boom, pdf export works perfectly. Pretty frustrating.

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      webfrogsCA
      New Participant
      May 12, 2016

      I tried Frank Heller's and Howard Pinsky's approach in the latest version of CC. They both work just fine. However, with the Ctrl + H option, I had to hit it twice to work. I installed the plugin and everything is just good now. @

      Howard Pinsky
      Adobe Employee
      Howard Pinsky
      Adobe Employee
      June 3, 2012

      Try Command/Ctrl + H, or Command/Ctrl + Shift + H.

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        Der FuchsAuthor
        Participating Frequently
        June 3, 2012

        Hi Howard

        that doesn't work. This box is no "extra" I could select from the menue. I know that there is an option to show the borders of the selected layer, but this is something else, that also occurs but on a Mac.

        Philip

        Howard Pinsky
        Adobe Employee
        Howard Pinsky
        Adobe Employee
        June 3, 2012

        Is it on all layers, or just text? Looks like Layer Edges (View > Show > Layer Edges), but Command+H should have dealt with that.

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