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02/23/2009 11:38:03 AM · #1 |
ok, really dumb photoshop question, but It's driving me up the wall!
I have Elements 6.0, I'm just trying to put a frame around the picture. When I increase the canvas size, it is greying out the box where you tell where to get the canvas extension color--so it's not adding color to the new part of the canvas.
Help! It should be something obvious, but it's eluding me.
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02/23/2009 11:58:24 AM · #2 |
I have had this happen to me in CS3 and have had to close the image and reopen it. Drives me batty...
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02/23/2009 11:59:38 AM · #3 |
Thinking on it further, if you have an *actual* problem, it may be that the image is set with a transparent BG and so it will not accept color. When you add the no-color border, does it show a checkerboard pattern around the image or what?
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02/23/2009 12:06:34 PM · #4 |
Yes, it shows the checkerboard pattern.
I've already played with this image before, and didn't like my results after awhile. So I went back to the original and played again. I have no problem with the first iterative that I played with, but I do with this one.
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02/23/2009 12:19:42 PM · #5 |
| This happens when you don't have a Background Layer. I've run into this when I decide to do a Layer for Background on the background layer for whatever reason. Get yourself a background layer in there and you're good to go. One way would be to use the Layer/New/Background from Layer option on your bottom data layer. |
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02/23/2009 01:13:12 PM · #6 |
| perfect! that was it exactly. Thanks! |
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02/23/2009 01:14:44 PM · #7 |
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02/23/2009 02:16:44 PM · #8 |
Yup, I didn't get back to it in time. Another thing that happens sometimes, is I'll copy an image to clipboard, then open a new document (which will default to the size of the clipboard image) and forget to fill the BG with a solid color in creating the new document, then I have all those issues.
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02/23/2009 02:18:30 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Yup, I didn't get back to it in time. Another thing that happens sometimes, is I'll copy an image to clipboard, then open a new document (which will default to the size of the clipboard image) and forget to fill the BG with a solid color in creating the new document, then I have all those issues.
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As soon as you paste in the clipboard data, just "flatten layers" and you'll have an ordinary PS document with a Background. |
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02/23/2009 02:26:06 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Yup, I didn't get back to it in time. Another thing that happens sometimes, is I'll copy an image to clipboard, then open a new document (which will default to the size of the clipboard image) and forget to fill the BG with a solid color in creating the new document, then I have all those issues.
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As soon as you paste in the clipboard data, just "flatten layers" and you'll have an ordinary PS document with a Background. |
Right, it's just that I won't REALIZE I have a problem until I try to add border or do something else that doesn't work on a transparent layer. Once I stop scratching my head (I am *slow* on the uptake sometimes) I go "DOH!" and do just that.
R.
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