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Why isn't the application frame appearing in floating windows in Photoshop 2019

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July 14, 2019
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When working with multiple floating windows, the application frame is not in each window, it is only in the initial window. When I went to preferences and then unchecked "Open documents as tabs" and "Enable floating documents window docking" and then I created a second document that wasn't a tab, but was floating, it didn't have an applications frame, but the first frame has one. In the 2018 Photoshop version, each floating document had its own application frame. How do I make it so that there is an application frame automatically opening on the top of each floating frame, as it did in the 2018 version?

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Correct answer Conrad_C

When I do that it does not show up under the main headings at the top. It shows up in stead on the frame of the floating image, but not on all floating images just the first one I open.

There's always been just one options bar. It's like the other panels on the Window menu; there's only one Tools panel or Layers panel. You can grab the left edge of the options bar and drag it to another position, but there's still only going to be just one.

Jeff Arola

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What operating system are you using?

Could you post some screenshots to illustrate?

ChitownartistgirlAuthor

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I am using Mac Sierra 10.12.6.

Here is a screen shot that shows that the floating window on the left has an application frame on top and the other doesn't. I can't get it to appear on the floating window on the right.

ChitownartistgirlAuthor

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Melissa's answer is correct. There is only one application frame, so not every document window gets it. That's why they call it a singular "application frame" — it's one frame, for the application. If it was per window, they'd call it a window frame.

Any window pulled out of the application frame becomes a floating window. Those don't have an application frame, they only have window controls.

Chitownartistgirl wrote
In the 2018 Photoshop version, each floating document had its own application frame.

Not on the Mac, at least. The way it works now is how it always has.

gener7 wrote
By Application Frame, you must mean the MacOS feature where each open file has a title, the red, yellow, and green buttons at the top, scroll bars and zoom levvel at the bottom.

No, that's a description of the window frame, not the application frame.

The frame I am speaking of (perhaps I don't know that correct terminology) has the brush size on it and also lets you adjust the transparency, size of type, if you are using type, and other controls. In the 2018 version I thought that the "control frame" or "control bar" was attached on each floating frame. I could be confused and those controls were at the top underneath the top headings of FILE EDIT IMAGE LAYER TYPE SELECT FILTER 3D VIEW WINDOW HELP in the 2018 version. Is there a way to have the control panel show up underneath the main top category headings, instead of just being attached to only one, and not all of the floating windows? If it is only attached to one of the floating windows, and not the other, then I sometimes have difficulty finding the particular floating window that it is attached to. It would be easier if it is at the top under the main headings.

gener7

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By Application Frame, you must mean the MacOS feature where each open file has a title, the red, yellow, and green buttons at the top, scroll bars and zoom levvel at the bottom. CC 2019/20.0.5 has these for every document window.

If I don't understand post a screenshot.

If not, try a Preferences reset

ChitownartistgirlAuthor

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The "reset preference on quit" command, messed it up even more, now I can't get the application frame on either of the floating windows and instead there is an application frame with its own window but with no image inside...very weird.

Jeff Arola

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The preferences were probably corrupted and needed resetting anyway.

Go to the Photoshop CC>Preferences>Workspace and check Open Documents as Tabs

Then go to Window and uncheck Application Frame

JJMack

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The Application frame is always present on Windows Mac users can hide I believe the Photoshop application frame. On window I use floating image windows They can float in Photoshop Application window and also On my second display. I have CS3, CS6, CC 2014, CC 2018 and CC 2019 installed. and use floating image windows in all of the. CS3 does not have Tab edting all it does is floating image windows

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