Solid color block over text box while selecting text

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February 8, 2024
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Hey guys,

First time poster here. I'm experiencing this bug quite frequently in Photoshop (latest version):
There's a solid block (usually gray, but sometimes white (?) or another color) which sticks to my text box when selecting text in it. In order to see the text, I have to zoom in/out, but many times, the block still stays even on some of the other zoom views. Anybody else experience this?

This happens both when I have the Use Graphics Processor checked on and off, so it's probably not a graphics card issue (I hope)?

If somebody can give me a hint on what I could do to help alleviate this issue, I'd be very happy.

OS: Windows 10.

Thank you!

Windows

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Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Since it seems to be a random issue, a reset of the Photoshop preferences may solve the problem:

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

plasticvisualAuthor

Participant

It doesn't seem to happen only with text. I am now experiencing this with a block of solid color over graphics as well. This is supposed to be a Vector Smart Object.... Strange.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Maybe what your seeing are Alternate Glyphs.

In Photoshop go to Edit>Preferences>Type and uncheck Enable Type layer glyph alternates.

plasticvisualAuthor

Participant

I appreciate the answer, but it's not that, the box doesn't appear over the selected text only, it appears even outside the text box sometimes.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

I don't believe that's a bug, but rather highlighting the text so you know it's selected.

After you select some text you can press Ctrl+H to hide the highlighting of the text.

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