Layer Thumbnails

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rt66
Aug 27, 2006
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Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
Windows XP-Pro w/SP2

When I create a new adjustment layer, the new layer thumbnail on the layers tab has a small circle in the middle, half white and half black.

This only happens with photos taken with my Canon EOS 30D. With my old camera, an Olympus E-10, the layer thumbnails have an icon that is related to the layer.

Is there anything going on here that I need to be concerned about? The layer functions appear to work normally, except for the icon.

Thanks in advance for your reply(s).

— Mike
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nomail
Aug 27, 2006
wrote:

Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
Windows XP-Pro w/SP2

When I create a new adjustment layer, the new layer thumbnail on the layers tab has a small circle in the middle, half white and half black.
This only happens with photos taken with my Canon EOS 30D. With my old camera, an Olympus E-10, the layer thumbnails have an icon that is related to the layer.

Is there anything going on here that I need to be concerned about? The layer functions appear to work normally, except for the icon.

You can set the size of the icons (and how they look) in the layer preferences.

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edjh
Aug 27, 2006
wrote:
Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
Windows XP-Pro w/SP2

When I create a new adjustment layer, the new layer thumbnail on the layers tab has a small circle in the middle, half white and half black.
This only happens with photos taken with my Canon EOS 30D. With my old camera, an Olympus E-10, the layer thumbnails have an icon that is related to the layer.

Is there anything going on here that I need to be concerned about? The layer functions appear to work normally, except for the icon.
Thanks in advance for your reply(s).

— Mike
This has to do with the orientation of the image, landscape or portrait, and the ratio of the dimensions. Rotate the image 90º, make an AL and see the difference.
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rt66
Aug 27, 2006
Eureka! Thanks for the valuable information. It turns out that the proportion of the CMOS sensor on the Canon 30D is 3:2. And therein lies the problem. If I crop the photo to almost any proportion other than 3:2, the layer thumbnails are again displayed as they should be. But at 3:2 or anything close to 3:2, they disappear again.

It does seem kind of bizarre though and I have to wonder what Adobe’s thinking was. I wonder too if later versions of photoshop resolved this issue.

At any rate, thanks for the good information.

— Mike

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Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
Windows XP-Pro w/SP2

When I create a new adjustment layer, the new layer thumbnail on the layers
tab has a small circle in the middle, half white and half black.
This only happens with photos taken with my Canon EOS 30D. With my old camera, an Olympus E-10, the layer thumbnails have an icon that is related
to the layer.

Is there anything going on here that I need to be concerned about? The layer functions appear to work normally, except for the icon.
Thanks in advance for your reply(s).

— Mike
This has to do with the orientation of the image, landscape or portrait, and the ratio of the dimensions. Rotate the image 90
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edjh
Aug 27, 2006
wrote:
Eureka! Thanks for the valuable information. It turns out that the proportion of the CMOS sensor on the Canon 30D is 3:2. And therein lies the problem. If I crop the photo to almost any proportion other than 3:2, the layer thumbnails are again displayed as they should be. But at 3:2 or anything close to 3:2, they disappear again.

It does seem kind of bizarre though and I have to wonder what Adobe’s thinking was. I wonder too if later versions of photoshop resolved this issue.

At any rate, thanks for the good information.

— Mike
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Still that way in CS. I think it’s to conserve space in the Layers Palette when there are lots of layers. It doesn’t really matter that much.

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