CS6 - Where has my adjustment curves window gone!?

[Angie Sobota]

Hey everyone - long time PS junkie, first time PSG visitor.
I apologize for the bombastic questioning at the freshman mixer, and promise to keep the questions in the questioning forum from now on

But, while we're here...

Upgraded my software, and now a menu seems to have gone awol...
I select the "curves" option from the adjustment layer icon. A pop-up "properties" window appears (business as usual), but instead of curves, I find levels menu (!?!). Upon closer inspection, I can switch between "Levels" and "Masks" in the properties menu, but can't seem to prompt a curves menu.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[IamSam]

Hello and welcome to PSG.

A screenshot is worth a thousand words.


If you have levels adjustments appearing in your properties panel, then that is a levels adjustment layer you have selected.

When you select a curves adjustment layer, then you will see the curves adjustments in the properties panel.

 

[Angie Sobota]

IamSam, thanks for the quick reply!

What you said is exactly right.... "When you select a curves adjustment layer, then you will see the curves adjustments in the properties panel."
That is what I expected. Yet, when I choose a curve adjustment layer, the menu that PS prompts in the properties is the levels menu.
I have double, triple, and quadruple checked that I am, indeed, selecting the curves adjustment.

 

[IamSam]

Your properties panel matches the layers panel...........you have a levels layer selected so that is what your properties panel is displaying.

This is the icon for a curves adjustment layer......


I'm sorry, check my edit!

 

[Angie Sobota]

IamSam, The levels layer that is selected in the screenshot was created by choosing "curves" from the adjustment layer menu at the bottom of the layers palette (strange, right?). However, I tried doing it through the adjustment panel as you had suggested (not my usual route), and it works just fine (YAY!).

Thanks for the suggestion, and the unexpected work-through! Would still be interesting to know why that particular menu route seems to be screwed up...

 

[IamSam]

If you press this.........


...this....


....or this.....


...you should get this.


If any of these are not working properly, then you need to reset your preferences.

 

[IamSam]

I've seen and heard of Ps doing some strange stuff, but this is a first. I know I was scratching my head. I hope resetting your prefs cures your problem. Good luck.

 

[MrToM]

Its strange that the 'Half Moon' icon for 'No Thumbnails' is displayed yet the screenshot clearly shows thumbnails in the layer.

That screen shot isn't using a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio either which may indicate that the OP has changed something else in the UI which has affected the layers panel.

Weird!

Regards.
MrToM.

EDIT:
Found this...

https://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/photoshop-newbies/43572-adjustments-layer-shows-wrong-icon.html

I don't think it will help but it shows it has happened before.....ish.

 

[IamSam]

I remember that thread, this is something different.

I can reproduce what was happening in the other thread.



That was more about the half moon icon which is a product of the thumbnail size. This was small thumbnail.

 

[IamSam]

In the other thread, they were hitting the levels adjustment layer icon and getting a levels adjustment layer in the layers panel.

In this thread, Angie was hitting the curves adjustment layer icon and getting a levels adjustment layer.

 

[MrToM]

Yeah I understand the two are different...I just threw it in in case it stirred any thoughts....never mind.

The icons must be a 'Mac' thang then......I get the proper icon for all but 'No Thumbnail'....in CS6, but cannot replicate the wrong parameters for an adjustment layer.

I guess a 'reset' is in order as you suggested.

Ho hum.

Regards.
MrToM.

 

[IamSam]

Yeah, I've never seen this before. It would be a glitch of some kind that a reset should fix. I don't know.

 

[IamSam]

Hello Angie, did the reset solve your problem?

 

[Steve]

Angie, as Sam already said, try resetting the preferences file.It cures a lot of strange behavior in PS.


Start Photoshop and immediately hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows)
or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS X).


Then, click Yes to the message, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?"

Let us know if it worked