Photoshop layers are there but I can’t see anything

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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?

Best Answer

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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Is this a common issue?

Yes. The name embedded in the font itself may vary if the font is from a different provider, or a different version or variant of the font. Some fonts are available with different names, depending on their use (or limitations of the platforms on which they might be used).

Is it that the two font names aren't EXACT matches?

That's exactly it.

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Get the right font. Whoever supplied you with the PSD file didn't supply you with the correct fonts. This is probably best because if the font you have doesn't have close enough metrics, you could end up with subtle changes that can cause problems throughout the entire document. That said, reflow is generally not an issue in a Photoshop document.
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Create a substitution rule in Windows. This isn't recommended, but if you look in the Registry at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes, you should be able to take a guess at what do to. (Value Name = Missing Font, Value Data = Font You Have)

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You could use python psdtools package for this:

from __future__ import print_function
from psd_tools import PSDImage

psd = PSDImage.load('my_image.psd')
print("file has {} layers".format(len(psd.layers)))

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