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1. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
Curt Y Nov 13, 2013 7:52 AM (in response to HakanErn)If you are right clicking on background and then selecting layer on background that is OK. When the box comes up make sure the mode is normal and opacity is 100%. If opacity is at 0% you will have transparent image.
Hope this helps.
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2. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
HakanErn Nov 13, 2013 7:55 AM (in response to Curt Y)Hi Curt,
Thank you for prompt reply. Unfourtunatly - these settings are the ones that are there when the problem occur. I have Opacity set to 100% and mode normal...
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3. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
Curt Y Nov 13, 2013 8:00 AM (in response to HakanErn)Odd, what happens if you select Duplicate Layer with right click on background layer (from the layers panel).
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4. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
HakanErn Nov 13, 2013 8:04 AM (in response to Curt Y)The layer is duplicated, and when I make background layer invisible by clicking "the eye" no image is visual anylonger, but both layers are still there in layers panel, showing the image
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5. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
Curt Y Nov 13, 2013 8:08 AM (in response to HakanErn)If you click the eye on an layer it is not longer seen by PS. This allows one to see what effect overall image would have if that layer was not present.
So if eye is not visible then neither is layer.
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6. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
HakanErn Nov 13, 2013 8:16 AM (in response to Curt Y)Sorry, bad explanation from me! What I do is to click "eye" on background, but eye is still visible on the duplicated layer - still also this layer (the duplicated layer) disappears
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7. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
Curt Y Nov 13, 2013 8:26 AM (in response to HakanErn)What are you trying to do or accomplish?
You may be getting bogged down with the wrong workflow as clicking the "eye" just turns the layer on and off.
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8. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
HakanErn Nov 13, 2013 8:36 AM (in response to Curt Y)I just want to edit the jpg by removing a white background from a picture of a banana...:)
But - when the layer is "background" it is not possible to edit (it is locked) and when I make it an ordinary layer, it disappears.
I have done it hundres of times before (but not with a banan every time..:) ) without problems...Just cannor figure out what setting I might have changed...
I have also tried other original images that I have worked with before, and they now behave the same way.
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9. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
Curt Y Nov 13, 2013 8:43 AM (in response to HakanErn)Yes, you can not edit background. You need to change it to a layer. Are you doing it like this http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-convert-a-background-into-a-layer-in-photos.h tml.
If you stil have problems then send a screen shot of your setup. Use the camera icon in the reply box to upload saved screenshot.
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10. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
HakanErn Nov 13, 2013 11:20 PM (in response to Curt Y)Good morning Curt,
Yes that is the way I do it. See this screencast: http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cIX2ibVPrI -
11. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
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12. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
dpacker_sc Mar 27, 2014 10:23 AM (in response to HakanErn)I'm wondering...did anyone ever offer you an explantion for this? I've been using Photoshop since the early days and have been having this crazy thing happen to my images since upgrading to Photoshop CC. The difference is that my image area fills with black, even though I can still clearly see the image in the layer list.
With me, it's happened at various stages of editing with different tools, different files types, etc. There's no specific thing I do that causes it to happen.
Usually I can close my image (without saving) and re-open it. Not today. Today when I open it, it's still black. The crazy thing is that I can open the same image in Photoshop CS6 and it's fine.
If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would be most appreciative.
My Photoshop is up to date. My iMac is completely up to date.
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13. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
Chris Cox Mar 27, 2014 12:56 PM (in response to dpacker_sc)Sounds like you're experiencing display driver problems.
Are you using MacOS 10.9 (that has a lot of display driver problems), or a more stable OS version?
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14. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
dpacker_sc Mar 27, 2014 1:04 PM (in response to Chris Cox)HI Chris,
Yeah, I'm using 10.9.2. Just goes to show that I don't always need to update my computer like they tell me to do here at work!
I actually found another thread a little while ago where someone was having a similar problem and the suggestion was to turn off the Use Graphics Processor option. I don't know if that fixed my problem completely, but I was able to open my image (but I had also closed my Photoshop and re-opened it).
Thanks!
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15. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
Chris Cox Mar 27, 2014 1:48 PM (in response to dpacker_sc)Yeah, Apple is still working to fix/stabilize the drivers on MacOS 10.9 - so you may need to turn off GPU usage until they get the patches released.
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16. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
casinclaire Oct 6, 2014 6:16 PM (in response to HakanErn)Hello, HakanEm.
I just had the same problem you described back in March and, in Googling for a solution, saw this thread. I wanted to tell you, I was feeling very frustrated reading through the responses of folks trying to tell you how to operate Photoshop, as if you might not know what you were doing. I'm sure they were all just trying to be helpful, but I knew I had gone through all the same steps as you and I, as you, also know that I know what I'm doing, so I was about to scream politely on your behalf, LOL.
I read through the whole thread, however, and near the end, someone named "dpacker_sc" posted a response and mentioned the "Use Graphics Processor" option. He/she said he/she turned this option off and re-started PShop and the problem was solved. I just tried this, except I didn't turn the option off -- I just switched it from Advanced to Basic (I figured if this worked, I might still get some benefit from it). I then restarted PShop and was at last again able to change my Background layer name in the normal way I always have, and just as you were trying to do, without causing the image to disappear.
You may have already tried this Graphics Processor trick, but if not, it is under the Performance tab of Preferences. And thanks to "dpacker_sc" for mentioning it! (It is a very odd thing that this setting -- which I've never touched in the past and wasn't even aware of, but which must have come @already selected in my CC upgrade -- would do such a thing. And what a very obscure solution for someone to ever have figured out!)
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17. Re: Changing background to layer - image becomes 100% transparant...
Chris Cox Oct 6, 2014 6:54 PM (in response to casinclaire)Turning off the GPU usage in Photoshop just means you are avoiding the bugs in the video card driver, and disabling several features in Photoshop that require the GPU.
Updating the video card driver to solve the bugs in the video card driver is still the correct solution.
With MacOS though, that means waiting for Apple to release an OS update.
On Windows, updating the video card driver is something you do every few months as part of basic system upkeep.




