COULD NOT TRANSFORM BECAUSE THE INITIAL BOUNDING RECTANGLE IS EMPTY.

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April 16, 2021
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i have received this error when i am now using the liquid dispersion action on photoshop CC. i hve used this action plenty of times in the oast with no issue and all other actions work. i thought it could be a corrupt image so i tried on several with the same error messgae. i then uninstalled and reinstalled the action with no success. i uninstalled and purchased the action again from a different vendor but had the same issue which leads me to belive it is something to do with photoshop not the action file or any image.

can anyone offer a fix please.

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Top5FAC

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JJMack

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You need to look at at the documents layers to see why you receive this error message. Did some selection tool fail the select some pixels. Is some area selected in a layer empty that there are no pixels to transform. Why are there no pixels in the targeted area? What is the document missing?

JJMack

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Actions have dependencies can you post links to the Action and the document it failed on? The action may have added an empty layer so there is nothing to be transformed.

If you highlight the first step in the action and hold down the CTRL key and click the play button each time you click the Play button one step will play. So you can step through the action a step at a time see hoe the action works and find when the problem happens. The action may have failed to select pixels to paste into a layer it added. I see it is a paid for Action. Never felt the need to buy they are easy to record. It could be a poor action or the document did not meat some requirements.

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Miss GJCAuthor

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if you could help it would be great

i have attached the link to both the image and the action

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2bt30tt2vx4qt6/miguel-andrade-potCPE_Cw8A-unsplash.jpg?dl=0

[link to action that OP purchased and is available for sale removed by moderator]

ive spent days trying to figure it out, im not great as PS but its annoyed me as all other actions work and this does not work on ANY image so you can try any image

thank you in advance

Gemma

JJMack

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That action failed on the first step on that document. The first thing it does is hide the current layer. You can not hide the background layer if its the only layer in the document. So I added an empty layer. Then the Action failed to select layer cut so I named the empty layer cut. Then the action failed because cut had no content so I filled cut with white. Then the action failed to select a brush. So I loaded the brushes the came with the action. Then the Action failed to select a layer named brush so I added an empty layer named brush. Then the Action failed because the brush layer was empty. So I added some brush strokes to the brush layer. Then the action fiat to select a brush, The Brush was not in the set of brushes that came with the action. So I delete all. The document had around 40 layers and the action had many step after the missing Brush step.

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