What Are these and How Do I Get Rid of Them

[Leslie Moak Murray]

Photoshop 2024: These little rectangles with arrows and numbers appear all over the art I'm working on and they don't move and I can't get rid of them because I don't know what they're called. What are they and how do I make them go away? Thank you!

[davescm]

Those are the boxes you see when you move a selection with the move tool. They show the direction and distance moved. However they should vanish when the move stops i.e. when you lift the mouse button.
Have you tried resetting the move tool (with the move tool selected, click the reveal arrow at the left of teh options bar)

Dave

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

That looks like a bug that's been reported for Photoshop 2024 (ps ver 25.11)

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-win-macos-ps-25-11-coordinates-box-stuck-w...

[davescm]

Thanks Jeff - I hadn't seen that.

Dave

[Leslie Moak Murray]

Thanks, Jeff, yes that's it. I don't know who comes up with this stuff or why they thought it was a good idea but more and more, Photoshop feels like it was made by a bunch of IT guys who are not creatives and have NO idea how people use Photoshop or work with images. I am ready to jump off a building. I already tried quitting Photoshop but it doesn't help. When you have deadlines to meet, this is just not funny. And don't even get me STARTED on the "contextual taskbar"!!!!  It took me weeks to get rid of those stupid things because how was I supposed to know what they're called so I can even FIND how to get rid of them! PHOOEY A bunch of IT guys trying to justuify their jobs. Phooey.

-EDIT- By the way, I'm in Windows and it's happening here too (I see your link had to do with Mac OS)

[gener7]

For the time being and unless you really need the Coordinates box, try disabling it:

Preferences > Tools, and at the bottom, set Show Transformation Values: Never

Restart Photoshop to be safe.

I tried it and I haven't seen the problem show up when trying to move a locked layer.

[gener7]

For the time being and unless you really need the Coordinates box, try disabling it:

Preferences > Tools, and at the bottom, set Show Transformation Values: Never

Restart Photoshop to be safe.

I tried it and I haven't seen the problem show up when trying to move a locked layer.

[Leslie Moak Murray]

Thanks!

[gener7]

Glad to help out and hope the problem stays away until there's a fix.