Extent of adjustment layer is automatically set to entire document

[SixSphinx]

It appears that any adjustment layer or mask is given an extent that covers the entire docment. While this is logical, the extent of the adjustment layer is taken into consideration when exporting "selection only," which is not logical, since the adjustment layer is arbitrarily large. This causes lots of problems, especially when exporting documents, but also in the UI itself.

For instance, here's a group with a rectangle that has a layer effect. It's in a document with multiple artboards.

Here's the same group with an adjustment layer. The thumbnail of the group is now useless, because for some reason it's trying to show me the extent of the entire document.

 

And here's the result of exporting the group as a "selection only."

 

I then have to open this file in Photo, clip it, and save it again.

Nesting the adjustment within the rectangle isn't an option, because then the adjustment doesn't apply to the layer effect.

Can someone please help me understand what I'm doing wrong? I usually have to create a second copy of the rectangle just to clip the adjustment layer. But I don't feel like that should be necessary, when the extent of the adjustment layer has no real significance, it's just "large enough to cover everything."

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Care to post an example file?

[SixSphinx]

Yes, thanks for responding. Here's the file.

temp.afdesign

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There's one way to do what you want but can be cumbersome when using more items.
Create a duplicate of the rectangle>lose the fx>make it a mask for the group>export selection area or selection only.

[walt.farrell]

For your specific case, all you need to do is make sure the HSL Adjustment is nested to the Rectangle you want it to affect.

Currently you have:  

Just drag the Adjustment down so you have:

 

[lepr]

On 7/26/2023 at 8:01 PM, SixSphinx said:

Nesting the adjustment within the rectangle isn't an option, because then the adjustment doesn't apply to the layer effect.

There is a simple solution.

You currently have the HSL Adjustment as a member of the Group.

Drag and drop it onto the thumbnail (not the label) of the Group so it becomes mask-nested in the Group, as in the attached document.

temp fixed.afdesign

 

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Just drag the Adjustment down so you have:

Unfortunately and as mentioned by the OP before, this way the adjustment does not affect the rectangle's stroke. You see in both your screenshots it remains green while only the fill gets affected.

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4 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Unfortunately and as mentioned by the OP before, this way the adjustment does not affect the rectangle's stroke. You see in both your screenshots it remains green while only the fill gets affected.

Yes, that is what I found also.
I did try @lepr 's approach but didn't try hard enough apparently.
That's why I came up with the clipping mask option

[SixSphinx]

2 hours ago, lepr said:

There is a simple solution.

You currently have the HSL Adjustment as a member of the Group.

Drag and drop it onto the thumbnail (not the label) of the Group so it becomes mask-nested in the Group, as in the attached document.

 

This is it. Thank you for your help. Masking the group and not the rectangle is the key. Edit: Actually, thank all of you who replied. I really appreciate it.