I hope you guys are up for a challenge, because you wont be able to google this.

I just got a new iMac, which is an awesome creature! It'll definantly survive if Darwin is right! Nevertheless, I'm on my trial with Adobe's Master Collection and my Photoshop CS5 is playing up.

I make a document in Photoshop and everthings fine to start out with.This is what it looks like:

Then I insert a random image:

Which still is good. Then I pick my Magic Wand Tool (W) and BAM! My entire workspace looks like it's transparent, where it really isnt! As you can see on the above picture (test2), the document is only 286*301. But All of a sudden my workspace looks like this:

Like you can see on this image, Photoshop threats my images as if everything was in perfect order. But if I work on a transparent background in Photoshop, then all of a sudden there's no boudaries for my image.

Am I really the only one who's tried this before? I tried to search on Google, but as soon as you put in 'transparent' and 'workspace' in google, then it gives you 100.000.000.000 results on how to set you workspace background so you can't see through it (to your desktop) in CS5.

Thank you.

Zeth

Something simular happened to me with vue on my PC. It ended up being my graphics card wasn't compatiable.

Thanks for the reply, but it can't be that. I sit in an office with 2 other computers exactly like mine and they don't have the problem.

My colleagues say that it must be a glitch, but it's just a mission to re-download or re-install the mastercollection. That's not something you 'just' do. I haven't tried that, though. Would that help?

i know i say this a lot, but one thing you can try before any "re-install" is to toss your PREF file. The preference file hold a lot of info while you play around in Photoshop and sometimes it get corrupted. 

whenever PS gets wonky on me, nine-outta-ten times, it clears up after getting rid of the PREF file. (PS will rebuild it next time it launches...) 

hope it helps,

:)
retrocity 

Do you know where I can find this PREF-file? What's the exact extension? I want to try it :)

Thanks!

Now I tried deleting the PREF-file. In case people don't know, then it's (on a Max) holding down SHIFT, OPTION and COMMAND while it starts op. Then it'll ask you if you want to delete the PREF file.

   I didn't work. Any other ways I can possible fix this?

Attached Link: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/06/photoshop-cs5-update-12-0-1-now-available.html

I hadn't tried that. So I did that, and it does the same thing. Any other good ideas?