FUCK ADOBE!

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  • Nairn1

    Nnngh, this is ... odd.

    In Photoshop, I have a rectangular thing in the centre of a document, and it's layer is otherwise transparent. When I go to filters to distort it - either using pinch or the filter menu - the fucking thing's off-centre. Given I want to have a consistent, centred distortion, this presents a problem.

    Only cludge I can think of to get around it (I'm in a hurry) is to fill the transparent area, forcing the bit I actually give a shit about, into the centre. This means I then need to clean up around after distorting, which is ... irksome

    I can't even begin to get my head around whatever logic is underpinning this problem.

    These filters are Photoshop 101.

    Fuck Adobe.

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    • is there something else on the layer you don't see and therefore the center is off?uan
    • No, that was the first thing I thought of. Weird thing is, if I change doc size, the offsetness of the centreing changes.Nairn
    • i blame a stray pixelhans_glib
    • fuck, it's true.uan
    • What do you mean, uan - you've replicated it at your end??
      @hans - Nope, it can' tbe because of way rectangle was added, but I checked anyway. 'tis odd.      Nairn
    • yes i tried with a rectangle, centered to the stage and filter-distort-spher... center it uses is not the center of the layer nor the doc...uan
    • !!!
      What version are you on? (lol, I just checked - i'm still on 2014 on this machine - perhaps I should upgrade...)
      Thanks, uan.      Nairn
    • version 2017.1.1.
      you can select the content, expand the selection by some hundert pixels and then it works as you would think it should.      uan
    • CMD + T
      If the Transform bounding box is bigger than the rectangle you have on the canvas then you have a stray pixel or something on the layer.      Centigrade
    • Are you on an artboard? A lot of filters get thrown off by artboards because the document is actually much bigger than the ab but you can't see its bounds.zarkonite
    • so it looks like you're centered on the ab but you're, for example, way on the left side of the entire doc.zarkonite
    • Thanks guys, but nup — this doc was as simple as simple could be — flat source cropped bitmap, added rectangle fill... pain in the arse glitch.Nairn
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