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Photoshop CC Live Shapes Properties Bug (also in 2022)

Community Beginner ,
Jun 18, 2013 Jun 18, 2013

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Checking out the corner radii controls on vector shapes and it looked to be working, until I created a couple of other shapes. The Properties box inconsistently changes for the same kind of shapes.


Link to vid to show my problem: http://cl.ly/PheD

 

Looks like I can't go back to edit the shape for some reason. What would cause this? It's like the shape has suddenly stopped being a Live Shape.

 

Cheers!

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Community Expert , Jun 18, 2013 Jun 18, 2013

What happens if you use the Path Selection Tool to select the shapes instead of the Move Tool?

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Jun 18, 2013 Jun 18, 2013

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Hi Jack,

I moved your discussion from the Creative Cloud forum to the Photoshop forum, where you may get more relevent help more quickly.

Could you please post a screenshot of your layers panel?

Michael

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Jun 19, 2013 Jun 19, 2013

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Jun 20, 2013 Jun 20, 2013

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I have also found this when copying a live shape using the layers panel. When I select the copy the live shape properties are not available. Seems that using the direct selection tool usually switches it back.

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Jun 18, 2013 Jun 18, 2013

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What happens if you use the Path Selection Tool to select the shapes instead of the Move Tool?

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 19, 2013 Jun 19, 2013

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Selecting the shape with the Path Selection Tool seems to reset it and turn it back in to a Live Shape — but it doesn't stay that way. Really strange.

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New Here ,
Jun 22, 2013 Jun 22, 2013

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Hi,

This bug goes a lot further than what you have stated, if you select the live shape from the tool menu on the left it removes the properties and the width becomes the width of the space.

Very strange issue's happening.

These silly bugs needs sorting out ASAP.

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New Here ,
Jun 23, 2013 Jun 23, 2013

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Hi Guys,

I have same problem with my CC. Live shape properties just missing when I select shape object.

Cheers,

Michal

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Guest
Jun 24, 2013 Jun 24, 2013

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Yes I only managed to get the live shape properties to work when reselecting an object once. Pity as this was the feature that made me want to upgrade.

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New Here ,
Jun 25, 2013 Jun 25, 2013

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I've got the same problem. When alt-copying a live shape all seems fine, but when I copy the shape via the layer panel the live shape properties disappear!

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Explorer ,
Jun 25, 2013 Jun 25, 2013

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Stop the insanity.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/996863_10151754854240719_844700773_n.jpg

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Explorer ,
Jun 25, 2013 Jun 25, 2013

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It appears that PS is losing the shape's designation as a rectangle with round corners – if I create a triangle immediately after making a rect with round corners, it loses its original options.

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New Here ,
Jun 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013

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I get exaclty the same issue - although right from the start I never see the correct Properties panel for Live Shapes. I also see the MASK panel as shown in the post above

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New Here ,
Sep 11, 2013 Sep 11, 2013

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https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/996863_10151754854240719_844700773_n.jpg

Keith has hit the nail on the head. What's the point of live shape properties if you can't access them once the document has been closed. Unless I am missing something I have this same issue, and it's infuriating. Does anyone have a fix for this, or an eta on a fix.....

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New Here ,
Sep 11, 2013 Sep 11, 2013

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I updated to the latest CC the other day. I have noticed the past few days I have not had the problem any more. It all works fin for me.

I believe you have to use the select tool (A) , but make sure you have selected "Path Select" ( the black pointer with the white outline) and not "Direct Select" of the 2 options

Then when you select  the shape, in the properties panel select the "live shapes properties" button to the left of the "mask" button at the top. I have noticed it always goes back to the mask tab, so have to always click the properties tab.

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New Here ,
Sep 11, 2013 Sep 11, 2013

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Awesome! Thank you SO much, I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. The live shape properties where driving me batty.

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New Here ,
Dec 02, 2015 Dec 02, 2015

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So I finally managed to fix my problem - I was drawing shapes and they showed NO properties.

Edit>prefs>general> reset prefs on quit

all behaving properly now

Hope this helps

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New Here ,
Dec 23, 2015 Dec 23, 2015

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Many thanks 

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 07, 2016 Mar 07, 2016

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sadly, this did not fix it for me

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New Here ,
Dec 07, 2016 Dec 07, 2016

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The same here, I can see the color, stroke and even size, but forget about the Border Radius, I've seen every video, and I can't find where to edit the shape.

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New Here ,
Sep 11, 2013 Sep 11, 2013

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Simply use the hollow point tool, select a point on the live shape, and see the "live shape properties" reappear...

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Explorer ,
Jun 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013

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I am also experiencing the same issue.

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New Here ,
Jun 28, 2013 Jun 28, 2013

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Same problem here. It's indiscriminate. Sometimes it only shows Masks rather than Live Shape Properties. Very annoying.

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Explorer ,
Jul 01, 2013 Jul 01, 2013

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Wondering why there has been no response about this issue. Still seeing it occuring today.

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New Here ,
Jul 01, 2013 Jul 01, 2013

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My issue was somewhat skewed by the fact that Adobe seems to have 'stealthed' Adobe CC in as opposed to the cloud based CS6 we are signed up for. That feature works fine in CC but not in CS6, so we had to download and install that version now.

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