Crop Bug When Pasting Live Curves Adjustment

[jubro]

I have a problem when pasting a copied curves adjustment to a different image, see attached image.

As you can see, grey transparent borders have appeared on the image I have pasted to. These borders can also be seen on the thumbnail of the curves adjustment in the layers panel.

If I make further changes to the pasted curves adjustment they affect the whole image, not just within the grey borders.

I assume this is some kind of crop anomaly that has been copied over from the previous cropped image, though it does not appear, (as you can see in the layers panel), on the levels adjustment that I pasted as part of the group of two live adjustments.

I want to copy and paste these adjustments onto several other images, rather than having to re-create them each time.

Thanks.
 

[David in Яuislip]

I get a simillar effect if the curves adjustment is done when there is an active selection then the layer is pasted onto a larger image but it all works properly if the curves adjustment is copied to Assets then applied to another image from there.

[NotMyFault]

Might be related to:

 

[jubro]

On 12/20/2021 at 2:54 PM, David in Яuislip said:

I get a simillar effect if the curves adjustment is done when there is an active selection then the layer is pasted onto a larger image but it all works properly if the curves adjustment is copied to Assets then applied to another image from there.

Thanks for your reply David.

I tried saving the curves live adjustment layer as an asset and ran into a couple of issues.
1) Once I had saved it, there was no visual indication that the asset was saved to the list (no icon/thumbnail of any sort), but I noticed the copied adjustment layer, incidently, when I passed the mouse cursor over the seemingly empty asset list. A piece of floating text appeared, indicating its presence by its adjustment name.
2) I then dragged the asset copy of the adjustment layer (the mouse cursor changed to indicate I was moving the asset) and dropped it onto the second image, but it had no effect, even though it appeared in the layers panel and I situated it accordingly.

In the end I went back to the original pasted copy of the curves layer on the second image, and discovered that the blue bars (of the cropped curves layer) were showing over the top of the second image. So, I just expanded the bars to cover the entire second image and the effect of the curves adjustment followed, affecting the whole of the image.
 

[jubro]

On 12/20/2021 at 5:59 PM, NotMyFault said:

Might be related to:

 

Thanks for your reply NotMyFault.

In the end I found a work-around:

I went back to the original pasted copy of the curves layer on the second image, and discovered that the blue bars (of the cropped curves layer) were showing over the top of the second image. So, I just expanded the bars to cover the entire second image and the effect of the curves adjustment followed, affecting the whole of the image.

[David in Яuislip]

1 hour ago, justinpbrown71 said:

I tried saving the curves live adjustment layer as an asset and ran into a couple of issues.

Yes, we all do, it's a pain. Try this

[jubro]

15 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

Yes, we all do, it's a pain. Try this

Great!!! Thanks for the insight, David. I appreciate being introduced to Assets. I never new this facility existed. Thanks very much for your help.

[Old Bruce]

5 hours ago, justinpbrown71 said:

Great!!! Thanks for the insight, David. I appreciate being introduced to Assets. I never new this facility existed. Thanks very much for your help.

Be aware that if you start to load too many things in then it will use more memory all the time. The biggest cause is storing many large raster files.