Adjustment Layer Icon

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Ken
Feb 12, 2007
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I have a question about the icon for adjustment layers. Sometimes when I create an adjustment layer I get an icon that represents what type of layer it is, and sometimes I get a generic half-white half-black circle regardless of what type of layer it is. As far as I can tell, I get the different icons randomly (though I’m sure it’s not actually random).

Can anyone explain what causes the generic icon to appear? Is there some meaning attached to this? It’s not a critical issue–I’m just wondering…

Thanks in advance.

Ken Fleisher
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edjh
Feb 12, 2007
Ken wrote:
I have a question about the icon for adjustment layers. Sometimes when I create an adjustment layer I get an icon that represents what type of layer it is, and sometimes I get a generic half-white half-black circle regardless of what type of layer it is. As far as I can tell, I get the different icons randomly (though I’m sure it’s not actually random).

Can anyone explain what causes the generic icon to appear? Is there some meaning attached to this? It’s not a critical issue–I’m just wondering…

Thanks in advance.

Ken Fleisher
It depends on whether the Canvas is in Landscape or Portrait mode and what the proportions are.

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Ken
Feb 12, 2007
On Feb 12, 11:53 am, edjh wrote:
It depends on whether the Canvas is in Landscape or Portrait mode and what the proportions are.

Thanks so much for explaining it! I knew there had to be something causing the difference.

So, is there any practical reason for doing this? I find it much more useful to always have an icon that represents the layer. What was the logic behind this decision?

Thanks again.

Ken Fleisher
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Ken
Feb 12, 2007
After playing around with it a little, now knowing that orientation and canvas size have something to do with it, I figured it out. When the canvas is horizontal AND it’s long enough AND small thumbmails are displayed, then there is not enough room in the palette to display the full icon, so the small circle is displayed instead. You can always change to a medium or large icon to always show the full icon. To me, this is a bit of a strange UI, especially for Adobe who is generally so good at UI, but at least now I understand it.

Thanks again for the reply.

Ken Fleisher

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