Casey - I looked to see if somebody replied to this, but didn't see it. So I apologize for the duplicate if that is the case.
I believe what you are talking about is the "bounding box" - the tiny dotted lines that are around anything you select with the move tool. When you are getting the error message that "this layer is not directly editable" when you try to erase it, that is because you are probably on the layer below it, either a locked layer or the original background layer. To get rid of it, you will need to have the "Move Tool" selected (the arrow), then click on "Show Bounding Box" at the top. If you do not see this, go to Window and make sure that "Options" is selected. Then just uncheck the box. There are times when it is useful to have the bounding box showing, but certainly more times than not when it is a pain in the a**. When you do go back to edit this line, make sure that you highlight that layer to edit. I find that when working with the line tool that it isn't easily "selectable" by clicking on it, and usually selects instead the locked background behind it. Also, the type of line that you use (shape layer, path, fill pixels) determines the ease at which you can edit it. Sorry if this is way off - HTH! Todd -----Original Message----- From: Casey Crookston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: Photoshop 7.0 Question: How do you draw a line? >>What kind of "oddly" are you talking about?<< When you drag a line, say a white line, it is wrapped in thin black line, almost like marching ants, but w/o the marching. It was driving me nuts trying to figure out how to get rid of it - thought it was an actual part of the line as if I had it set to put a border on it, but then I realized that when you click off of the layer it goes away. But still, when you click back on the layer to edit it, change the color, etc, this obnoxious thin black wrapper comes back. WTH? I hate this thing and I want it to go away for ever. Also, when I tried to erase a section of the line it wouldn't let me, said something like "This layer is not directly editable." I had to merge it with another layer before I could edit it. Yuk. Sio, I'm not talking about the pen tool, although I already went through the exact same frustration you described. I'm sure there are good reasons that these changes exist in 7.0, but it will just take some learning time to figure out how to work with them. Of course, the built in Help tool is 100% utterly useless, as it is in all applications. Casey ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
