Whenever I use the move tool with a mouse or cursors, to relocate an image or text on the same layer, it duplicates. It leaves a ghost of that image or text or sketched object, behind in the original location.
I've also tried Command T to select it then move it....sometimes that is successful but not always.
Then I click on the relevent layer to turn off what was left behind but that doesn't turn off the original location of the image but there is no layer with that ghost.
So to remove old location of the image, I have to click another unassociated layer on and off to remove the ghost image.
At first I thought it may be a memory issue but it seems ok.
Is there something new in Photoshop that I haven't ticked/unticked to stop this? There just isn't any logic to this.
Adobe was rewriting the core compositing code to Photoshop. While they were doing this, they provided the Use Legacy Compositing option incase there was a bug and someone needed to revert to the old compositing engine. I believe in this last release, the rewrite is complete. So that might be why people are seeing issues with the old legacy compositing.
I have what are seemingly the same issues, Photoshop 2020 on Mac but running High Sierra, can't find "Use Legacy Compositing" in the preferences., only use legacy "New Document" interface, but checking and unchecking that has no impact. As in this thread, I'm left with a ghost image from any layer(s) I create or paste, or type I create inthe layer below, if I click so as not to view the layer below, the ghosting disappears when I click to view once again, but as soon as I view the new layer, the ghosting appears once again, making it impossible to work and necessitating in me using an older version of photoshop. Tired everything I know, but nothing removes the ghosting.
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