Photoshop layers are there but I can't see anything

Question

I've spent all night working on this layout for a client and I'm 100% sure I saved my work — every 5-10 seconds of work I save.

That said. I open up Photoshop today to get some work done I notice that although my layers are there and named, they don't show on the document/canvas.

For example, if I have a text layer with red text, I select the layer and the color thing above in the property pane turns to the colors I gave all my headers — but the actual content (the text in this case) is nowhere on the page.

Keeping on with the troubleshooting, I hit Ctrl0 so I can see the whole document. Then I mouse over one of the layers layers that is acting weird, I mouse over the layer thumbnail, I hit Ctrl and click it so that it can auto select the content on that layers and again, nothing.

Any ideas as to what could be happening?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 14 '15 at 05:22

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This might be caused by bugs in your graphics card driver. Go to Preferences (Ctrl+K) → Performance and uncheck the "Enable GPU" option to see of that would help.

Updating the driver may also work.

edited Jan 14 '15 at 05:22

Giacomo1968

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answered Mar 25 '14 at 12:01

Aravind

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 07 '14 at 09:34

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Check if layer filter is not activated (the little red square).

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edited May 07 '14 at 09:34

Matthew Williams

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answered May 07 '14 at 09:11

wik

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 07 '16 at 22:17

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Did you use by any chance the "timeline" to create a gif?

I had the same problem. The layers were there but showed white on the canvas. Try opening the timeline option.

Go to Window > Timeline to open the Timeline panel.

Hope this works.

answered Jun 07 '16 at 22:17

Rocco

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 29 '16 at 14:53

I had the same issue, even "Select Pixels" showed the outline in place, and no layer was above it. It turned out, the layer's opacity had been set to 0% for some reason... Not sure why I would have done that (or if I hit some shortcut by accident that caused it?), but bringing opacity back to 100% worked for my particular case.

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 14 '16 at 05:30

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-> Windows
-> Workspace
-> Reset Pallette Location

I was trying to edit some text but my layer text was gone. The reset palette location brought all my layers back to the canvas. I must have accidentally turned layers off somehow.

edited Dec 14 '16 at 05:30

Journeyman Geek

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answered Jun 09 '16 at 18:41

Dannington

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Dec 13 '16 at 17:21

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In the layers box, the Red button is a toggle which hides and displays layers. Try clicking it if your layers have disappeared:

Red layer toggle button in photoshop

edited Dec 13 '16 at 17:21

Gareth

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answered Dec 13 '16 at 12:11

UserExperience

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Photoshop layers are there but I can't see anything

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