I need help with weird Layers issue. Might be a bug??

[Guest]

Hi everyone, I am having weird issues with my layers in both CS6 and CC 2015. Whenever I make a change to one layer (adding a filter, inverting the image, anything) that is the layer that photoshop will continue to display. If I select another layer, the layer I just changed will continue to display. It is like photoshop freezes and is unresponsive to the selecting of other layers. I found this problem weird and just happened recently. I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue. I am running mac sierra 10.12.6. MacBook pro (retina, 13-inch, mid 2014). 2.6 GHz intel core i5. PLEASE anyone with a possible solution to this.

[davescm]

Can you show a couple of screenshots demonstrating the issue and including both your image and layers panel

Dave

[Guest]

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the reply. Here are some of the screenshots. Here as you can see I inverted the background layer and I could not display it on the screen. However when I inverted the layer 1 photoshop displayed it. I then selected the background layer but photoshop was still "stuck" on layer 1. If I add more layers, photoshop will still be stuck on layer 1.

[davescm · Accepted solution]

Hi

Your screenshot looks normal.

Both layers are opaque - so with blending mode set as normal and opacity 100%  only the top layer will be visible. Imagine looking down through the stack - the only way you will see a layer below is if you introduce transparency on the upper layer (either on the layer itself or via a mask)

Dave

[davescm]

I should have added - you can temporarily switch off the visibility of the upper layer by using the eye symbol in the layers panel

Dave

[Guest]

Thanks for the replies. I 100% understand what you are saying. I see where I was confused. For some reason I used to think when you select a layer photoshop will display that layer. Thanks for the clarification!

[davescm]

Hi

No problem. Selecting the layer means that is the layer you will act on (e.g. brush onto/ move etc)

Dave