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Hi eveybody :

       When selecting TEXT>drawing text box on diplay, I notice an "Empty Layer"
keeps showing.  When I type my text, it shows up in the Empty Layer.  But I can't
see the text on the display. I'm trying to add text to a photo.
garystan
document.oncontextmenu = null; document.body.onpaste = null; document.body.onselectstart = null; document.onselectstart = null; document.ondragstart = null; document.body.oncut = null; document.onmousedown = null; document.body.oncontextmenu = null; document.body.oncopy = null; document.body.ondragstart = null; document.body.onmousedown = null;

Some things to check

(1) Is what you expect
(2) Is layer visibility off
(3) Is layer opacity set to zero
(4) Is the layer mode other than normal.

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There are more that should be obvious but...
Text off the canvas, use View -> Show All
Text layer under a solid layer, move text layer up
black text on black background / white text on white background.....

Otherwise post a screenshot of what you have:

since you havn't replied I assume Rich mentioned your problem? Be nice to let him know if you have it sorted now.

The "empty layer" is the text layer. And I have also had it that I couldn't see any text and found out that I had it set too small (size) to see.