punched out layer piece floating around

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Dec 9, 2004
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I had a plane solid image of a triangle that I wanted to make into a triangle with a triangular center punched out (ending up with an image that looked like a 50 inch triangle made up of 2 inch wide tape, ie. a triangle open in the middle). I used the Photoshop feature that allowed me to punch out an image on the layer below with an image on the layer above all the way to the background.

I am left with the punched out piece floating around that I can’t easily get rid of (but it becomes transparent if left in place, so thats what I did) and the punched out area still looking like it is "selected" (dancing outline outlining it).

One, how can I turn this off. I have pressed enter (trying to "confirm" it, double clicked, etc.)

Two, how can I get rid of the punched out piece. Pressing delete does not do it and I am afraid to try other things right now since I can use what I have. I just don’t like to leave this operation "half done".

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edjh
Dec 11, 2004
Eric Anderson wrote:
I had a plane solid image of a triangle that I wanted to make into a triangle with a triangular center punched out (ending up with an image that looked like a 50 inch triangle made up of 2 inch wide tape, ie. a triangle open in the middle). I used the Photoshop feature that allowed me to punch out an image on the layer below with an image on the layer above all the way to the background.

I am left with the punched out piece floating around that I can’t easily get rid of (but it becomes transparent if left in place, so thats what I did) and the punched out area still looking like it is "selected" (dancing outline outlining it).

One, how can I turn this off. I have pressed enter (trying to "confirm" it, double clicked, etc.)

Two, how can I get rid of the punched out piece. Pressing delete does not do it and I am afraid to try other things right now since I can use what I have. I just don’t like to leave this operation "half done".
I am not quite getting what you did. What is the "Photoshop feature that allowed me to punch out an image on the layer below with an image on the layer above all the way the background"? There are several ways of doing this. Can you explain better what you did ? Is the piece on its own layer? If it is, just drag that layer to the trash.

I have a feeling you made something very simple into something complicated.

Have you tried merging layers or flattening? If something is selected, use Ctrl-D to deselect it.


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eganders
Dec 11, 2004
I can’t blame you for not knowing what the heck I did. I was in such a hurry to get something out that now going back, I don’t see the same behavior. I will come back and ask if I can recreate it and then explain it. What I did is create a layer on top of the background that contained a semi-truck. I then imported a bitmapped orange triangle and sized it. Then I duped the layer and reduced the triangle on the dupped layer and punched it through to the background which made the triangle look like it was made of 2 inch tape on the back of the truck. When I did, it appeared that I had another transparent triangle on top of the first transparent one (But since I can’t seem to duplicate it now, I am not sure). Anyway, just for reference, I have a pointer to a screenshot of what my desktop looks like. If I can explain myself later, I will let you know. I can’t seem to get rid of the dotted box (that looks like a selection) around the triangle.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/eganders/workinprogre ss.jpg
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edjh
Dec 12, 2004
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I can’t blame you for not knowing what the heck I did. I was in such a hurry to get something out that now going back, I don’t see the same behavior. I will come back and ask if I can recreate it and then explain it. What I did is create a layer on top of the background that contained a semi-truck. I then imported a bitmapped orange triangle and sized it. Then I duped the layer and reduced the triangle on the dupped layer and punched it through to the background which made the triangle look like it was made of 2 inch tape on the back of the truck. When I did, it appeared that I had another transparent triangle on top of the first transparent one (But since I can’t seem to duplicate it now, I am not sure). Anyway, just for reference, I have a pointer to a screenshot of what my desktop looks like. If I can explain myself later, I will let you know. I can’t seem to get rid of the dotted box (that looks like a selection) around the triangle.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/eganders/workinprogre ss.jpg
Uncheck Show Bounding Box in the Options Bar.


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