can I make the 'offstage' area visible?

Hi,

I wand to add some help text to the area left from the visible area of the document. Is there any way to make them visible for me? Would also be nice for picture parts outside this area.

TIA

Herbert Meister wrote:

Hi,

I wand to add some help text to the area left from the visible area of the document. Is there any way to make them visible for me? Would also be nice for picture parts outside this area.

TIA

If I have understood your problem correctly, this can be done by enlarging the canvas size.
If I haven't, sorry.

HTH

Herbert Meister wrote:

Hi,

I wand to add some help text to the area left from the visible area of the document. Is there any way to make them visible for me? Would also be nice for picture parts outside this area.

TIA

Image>Reveal All. But you can't go back if you make any changes. You would have to use Image>Canvas Size.

Also, this has to be done with Layers, not a flattened image.

Ragnar wrote:

If I have understood your problem correctly, this can be done by enlarging the canvas size.
If I haven't, sorry.

Ah, I meant to show the area out of the canvas size. To know what is still there and to add some helping elements that won't be visible in the final document. But I guess it is not possible.

"Herbert Meister" wrote in message

Ragnar wrote:

If I have understood your problem correctly, this can be done by enlarging the canvas size.
If I haven't, sorry.

Ah, I meant to show the area out of the canvas size. To know what is still there and to add some helping elements that won't be visible in the final document. But I guess it is not possible.

The canvas can extend outside the layer, though this is not a great way to do things since it is hard to toggle back and forth, and the extra info can easily get lost during editing.

Another thought to get the functionality would be a hidden layer. --
Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com

"Herbert Meister" wrote in message

Ragnar wrote:

If I have understood your problem correctly, this can be done by enlarging the canvas size.
If I haven't, sorry.

Ah, I meant to show the area out of the canvas size. To know what is still there and to add some helping elements that won't be visible in the final document. But I guess it is not possible.

If it is for another person using PS, then you can add a note to the image (press the N key), or a layer and switch off the visibility.

"Image>Reveal All" will automatically expand the canvas to the space occupied by all the picture parts outside the current canvas, but after this you have to go back in history to return to the real canvas size, so this is not a "Show it/hide it" function that I think is what you were looking for but it can be used as if were, so you click on image>Reveal All, see the hidden parts, then click CTRL+Z and you are in the original image again.

Reveal All leaves all the layers unchanged except for the background image, but this is how the background image is supposed to behave.

Y dijo Herbert Meister, el 05/03/2008 10:56:<br>

Hi,

I wand to add some help text to the area left from the visible area of the document. Is there any way to make them visible for me? Would also be nice for picture parts outside this area.

TIA