Annoying Gray Boxes

One frustrated reader shouts:

"Where did these little gray boxes come from and how do I get rid of them????"

Ahhhh the Slice Boxes again. Careful what you click...

We get this all the time. In a Photoshop Class at JMU, students are forever lamenting about the boxes appearing for no logical reason. Once they appear you think you can't get rid of them.

Those boxes appear when ever you click the SLICE tool. Yes, we know it's crazy, but that's the way Photoshop works. Even if you're not slicing anything, the boxes appear ready for your slice.

If you accidentally click that tool, whether you notice the gray boxes immediately or not, you can go to the menu: View > Show and choose Slices. That should make them go away.

:-)

Comments

[sanktcolonist]

Oh. My. God. These gray boxes showed up today and I had the sense of googling for a solution, and this fixed it. I remember a couple of years ago when I actually eventually uninstalled Photoshop because of these gray boxes and used Photoshop Elements again.

[P Shah]

THANKU SO MUCH. I AS SO ANNOYED WITH THESE SLICES. I THOT OF RE INSTALLING PSHOP. THANKU AGAIN.

[Garage Door Replacement]

I always thought that was true until I talked to my brother. He has a different opinion.

[Marcus]

Ya i've found this myself, after a while, thanx for the info though
Chris Reid, if i understand your question u need to draw a circle with an outline of a different color is that right?
well if so, what u can do is draw teh circle of the color u want it filled and then apply a "STROKE" effect of the desired color, u can find this feature by double clicking the layer u have the circle on u will see that STROKE is the last effect u can apply there chose color position and size, hope to be of help

[Rachelle]

Hey with the circle thing, Once you have your Circle spilled in, keep in selected then go Edit>Stroke> then pick your Pixel Size depending on how Far in you want your border to be, then below that you should be able to pick a colour.

-Rachelle

[MICHAEL LEE]

Thanks guys!! Another gray box (slice) victim who had pressed the wrong button. I had been trying to eradicate these demons to no avail for the last few days!
In 5 secs you fixed my problem !!
Have posted your site on my fav list permanently.

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[Christopher Reid]

Thank you so much! I have been able to get rid of these before but they appeared again and i didnt know how to get rid of them again and i have never known what to search for help, and FINALLY i got rid of the slice box!
Thanks Photoshop911, ill be recommending you and you will be at the top of my favourites list! ;)

Thanks Again,
Chris

[Kevin Barrett]

Thank you, I have at last got rid of those boxes! Now I am still struggling to draw a plain and simple circle with a border the size I want. The only way so far has been to draw two circles, one black and a smaller one white, please HELP!
Thanks
Kevin