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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?

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  • Does the appropriate image appear in the layer's thumbnail? When you hit Ctrl + T, does any bounding box show up (even off of the image canvas)? May 9, 2012 at 18:47
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    I'm guessing that you have an opaque layer at the top which is hiding everything behind it. Have you tried hiding all the layers and then unhiding them one at a time?
    – paradroid
    May 9, 2012 at 18:48
  • @paranoid, yes i hid ALL the layers and one by one went turning them on/off and nothing. @ breakthrough, yeah no bounding box comes up. ive never had a problem like this b4.
    – somdow
    May 9, 2012 at 21:04

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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  • Why was this down voted? I'm not a Photoshop expert but this seems legitimate?
    – DrZoo
    Dec 29, 2016 at 21:38
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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.

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    While this may answer the question, it would be a better answer if you could provide some explanation why it does so.
    – DavidPostill
    Jun 9, 2016 at 18:59

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