anyone good with photoshop, I'm having a weird problem

[YuberNeclord]

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this but I do need advice. I'm using Photoshop CS6 for mac on one of my schools computers and it's doing something, well weird.

Ok so I've got these trees that I'm planning to use in the foreground for a shot(I'm composing an animation in after effects).

Now what I want to do is take the leaves of the trees and put them on different layers and then bring the file into after effects so that I can animate the whole thing a little bit. So what I tried to do was select what I wanted to put on a new layer with the polygonal lasso tool.



I then pressed "command X" to cut the selected bit out and then I pressed "command V" which automatically pasted it on a new layer. For some reason it pasted it in the middle of the image and not where it originally came from(If someone knows how to fix this as well then that would be great).

So I grabbed the layer and moved it back into position when I noticed that it ended up like this:

Ok, so what the hell? It should fit perfectly, there shouldn't be a gap like that. I'm guessing I'm losing a pixel of information somewhere between my cutting and pasting, something that I've never seen happen before. So any ideas on how I can get it to not do that?

 

[Eleuthera]

The left over white line is because you cut with "anti-aliasing" turned on. Why it pastes in the middle I'm not sure...

 

[YuberNeclord]

The left over white line is because you cut with "anti-aliasing" turned on. Why it pastes in the middle I'm not sure...

hmm I unchecked the Anti-alias box in the options panel and I'm still having the same problem.

*EDIT*
I've just tried doing the same thing on my macbook using CS5. And it's doing the same thing. I'm guessing it's something to do with the file itself?

 

[Eleuthera]

The left over white line is because you cut with "anti-aliasing" turned on. Why it pastes in the middle I'm not sure...

hmm I unchecked the Anti-alias box in the options panel and I'm still having the same problem.

Hmm... that fixed it for me when I was trying to replicate your problems.

 

[YuberNeclord]

Yeah it's really bugging me. I started playing around with different solutions, such as exporting it out as a png or a jpeg then reopening it in photoshop and it was still doing it.

I even copied the whole thing, put it in a new photoshop file and it was still doing it.

All the while I'm doing this I'm creating new photoshop files and seeing if they were having the same problem, and they weren't. In the end the only solution I found was to take a screenshot of my desktop and put that in a new photoshop file. That worked.

I'm losing some resolution in the process but it's basically green blobs anyway so it shouldn't matter that much. I'd still like to know what's causing this though.

 

[Davatehi]

There is a command to paste an object in the same place you copied/cut it from. On windows it's ctrl+shift+v. So I assume the shortcut in mac would be command+shift+v.

As to why there is a white outline I have no idea and I can't find a solution. Well, I guess you could scale the part you cut out up a little so it cover the gap.

 

[YuberNeclord]

There is a command to paste an object in the same place you copied/cut it from. On windows it's ctrl+shift+v. So I assume the shortcut in mac would be command+shift+v.

Yep, command+shift+v works perfectly. Cheers

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

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Interesting, I did all the same things you did (except using CS5) with the exact same results, at first I thought it was just a display issue to let you know the shape has been cut out (exporting from Illustrator into Photoshop will do this), so I saved as a jpg and could still see the lines. It seems to be just a quirk of Photoshop.

I managed to solve the problem by adding a "center stroke" to the cut out shape. This basically adds back in the pixels that you lost. You can stroke an object by going to Edit ---> stroke. I used a width of 5 pixels and "center" for location. You'll still see the line in your display, but when you export to a different format (your jpg or png), it will be gone.

 

[YuberNeclord]

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Interesting, I did all the same things you did (except using CS5) with the exact same results, at first I thought it was just a display issue to let you know the shape has been cut out (exporting from Illustrator into Photoshop will do this), so I saved as a jpg and could still see the lines. It seems to be just a quirk of Photoshop.

I managed to solve the problem by adding a "center stroke" to the cut out shape. This basically adds back in the pixels that you lost. You can stroke an object by going to Edit ---> stroke. I used a width of 5 pixels and "center" for location. You'll still see the line in your display, but when you export to a different format (your jpg or png), it will be gone.

Cool thanks for the info.

I've been using photoshop for years and I've never run across this problem before. I got this image(as well as a bunch of others)from another guy who is doing some graphics for me. Next time I see him I'm going to have to ask him what version of photoshop he's using, maybe it's got something to do with that.


At least I've got several options to fix the problem, now I can get back to putting this all into after effects.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Have you tried zooming in so you can adjust you cutting with a much more percision?

I just can't see it cutting it smaller unless you havn't set it in properly or used anti aliasing when you cut it.