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1. Re: How to get panel to display thumbnails sized to layer bounds instead of relative toentire document??
Mylenium Dec 18, 2011 11:26 PM (in response to Astara_)I think it's supposed to work this way - vector layers are basically always full document size and the path only determines the rasterization and visibility of the content based on the path area's fill rule. Not saying that there could be no way to determine the bounding box on the fly and use that for thumbnails, but I'm sure there is a certain reasoning/ rationale behind this behavior. I guess it's also a matter of preference - in Illustrator it's just like that and it drives me mad, because you never see where stuff is relative to the artboard...
Mylenium
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2. Re: How to get panel to display thumbnails sized to layer bounds instead of relative toentire document??
Astara_ Dec 19, 2011 12:18 AM (in response to Mylenium)That's definitely NOT the case in Photoshop...
If you use the 'move tool', and you have "show transform controls turned on', it will show you the
corners of the layer -- the actual size of the layer...
You can verify this by going in and and creating a paint layer, say 1000x1000.
Now create a shape some small fraction of that... Any closed vector and attach it to the
layer, with Layer->Mask->Vector.
now check out the size in 'move tool' -- it will be 1000x1000.
Now go into image blending options and uncheck 'transparency shapes layer'.
Now, the layer is shaped by the vector -- not the transparent edges where your canvas ended.
Now, if you use move tool, you will find the 'corner' of the layer positioned around the vector, not
around the 1000x1000 layer you just created.
To round out the demo, save a copy of your mask if you want, and go into the mask panel
and select 'vector'. At the bottom, of the panel there is a tiny graphic of an arrow pointing down
onto a 'plane', (or layer). indicating to apply the vector mask to the layer. Do so.
Now go into blending options and recheck the 'transparency shapes layer.'
Try move again... Now note the bounding box is the SAME size as it was with the vector
attached... because you truncated the rest of the layer with the mask. You now have a smaller
object... that is that size... (I know... all this is very basic to a community professional), BUT
my point now, is that if the outline box that small bitmaped shape w/o the vector mask is only
say 100x100 (vs. before it was 1000x1000... and if it's the same size as BEFORE you
applied the mask WITH the vector there (but shaped/w/transparency off). Then I would assert
that the since the outline box is showing the size of the layer -- the size of the layers are the same.
Therefore, the vector takes up the full size of a layer that is shaped by that vector mask.
p.s. has Mylène put out any hits since your pseudo?
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3. Re: How to get panel to display thumbnails sized to layer bounds instead of relative toentire document??
PECourtejoie Dec 19, 2011 1:32 AM (in response to Astara_)Astara_,
Your request would rather be to have the thumbnail of the masks to react to the clip thumnail to layer bounds?
Or to have the thumbnails of layers to be shaped by the masks, vectors or pixel based?
Here, with CS3, I do see the entire layer contents, and it is never hidden by the mask, whether transparency shapes layer or not, and the masks, vector and layer, are always shown relative to the document.
I would suggest posting in the Feedback site ( http://feedback.photoshop.com ), explaining your issue clearly, and how it affects your workflow, or just the continuity of the app.




