Cat
Esteemed Contributor

I'm not sure how to explain this issue, but the vast majority of my products have artwork that extends beyond the bleed, so it gets the little yellow alert - which is fine, I know to just ignore it. The problem is that anything with the yellow alert thing also gets highlighted in pink, so it makes it hard to figure out which layer is active. Literally dozens of times every day I end up deleting or copying or moving the wrong layer because I think that the artwork is the active layer when it isn't.

Here's a screenshot:

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The active layer is really the text at the bottom, but on first glance it looks like the artwork is active. Could it maybe just have the yellow alert without the outline, or change the color of the outline to a thin gray line or something to make it visually clear that the artwork is not the active layer here.

3 Comments
Windy
Honored Contributor II

I second the motion.

SnowOwlMoon
Contributor

You should be able to see the active layer, including the "yellow alert layer", under "Layers" on the left hand side bar.  I've run into the same problem, and just check which layer I'm on.  And in the "Layers" panel, I can easily move between layers to fix something like moving, resizing, etc.

 

Cat
Esteemed Contributor

@SnowOwlMoon Well, I know how to find the active layer, that's not the problem. The problem is that usually when I'm opening an existing product, I'm doing it to quickly grab the artwork or some formatted text to put on another matching product, and at first glance the pink lines are confusing. So I inevitably grab the wrong layer and end up cursing at my computer. It would just be nice if it was more obvious so I didn't have to keep making the same error day in and day out.