It should default to whatever the setting was when Photoshop was last closed. ... View more

It sounds like you have inadvertantly changed one of the selector buttons. Could you post a screen shot of your  color picker? ... View more

Go to https://www.adobe.com/apps/all/all-platforms and download the Creative Cloud desktop app. From that, you can install and update Adobe Creative Cloud apps, like Photoshop. ... View more

What goes up must come down.   ... View more

In previous versions of Photoshop, the option for transparency was shown in the Gradient editor, but it never had any effect on Gradient Maps. ... View more

What is the file format of the image, a .PSD? Could you post a screen shot showing the Layers panel? ... View more

What is the file format the other software saves in, and what are the pixel dimensions of your image? Are there any other layers in your Photoshop document? ... View more

If you right-click on on image in Bridge, is there an option for 'Open in Camera Raw'? What happens if you click on it? ... View more

Same thing with the Shear filter. The tiny interface hamstrings a filter that would be useful otherwise. ... View more

Another way is setting the options for the Line tool to Pixels.   ... View more

In your screen shots, the scaled down pattern is still tiled seamlessly. The background layer looks like one instance of the pattern. If your goal is to have a new, smaller pattern, hide the other layers, and scale the image down with Image Size, and Edit > Define Pattern. Be sure not to save the scaled original.   One advantage to doing this is getting finer control on the scaling amount. Image Size lets you scale to fractional percentages, but a scaled Pattern Fill layer is restricted to whole numbers. ... View more

If you go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Pattern, you get this dialog: And when you click OK, you get a dialog that allows you to scale and rotate the pattern:   ... View more

@Peru Bob  That makes sense. I'd always thought activations were by app, not global for a device. ... View more

If you are logged into your Adobe account, go to Manage Account. In the top menu, there is an item Plans and Payment > Activated Devices, which gives an option to deactivate that device. I did this on a recently retired computer.   It's doubtful I will install CS6 on my new computer, so I can't be certain it worked, but my old one doesn't show on the list of Activated Devices anymore. ... View more

Look in Window > Workspace. ... View more

Okay, this seems to work: with the box un-checked, reset the current Workspace, or load a different one. ... View more

Go to Edit > Preferences > General, and in the Options section, un-check the Auto Show the Home Screen box. ... View more

Photoshop has a feature called Photomerge that you can use for this. First, when taking the pictures, make sure you have quite a bit of overlap between adjacent frames, like 30%. It also helps if there's good detail — open water and clear skies don't work well. Including some objects on the floor and ceiling might help, too. Once you have the photos, open them all up in Photoshop, and File > Automate > Photomerge (down there at the bottom of the menu). Choose Cylindrical: objects in the room may have that 'panorama effect', but the wall will be mapped to a flat rectangle.   Once you have the merged photo, there are a number of ways you could select and mark areas of certain colors, but a lot of that depends on the particular image and colors. ... View more

If the initial feathering value is zero, you can control the feathering  by using Gaussian Blur in Quick Mask mode, which you can refine with the various tools under Image > Adjustments.  ... View more

" Just using a mouse you would need to draw out a Path then stroke the path with pen pressure checked."   Like this: While the stylus offers more control, stroking a Path is good for long smooth strokes   ... View more

@Jeff Arola That was indeed it. ... View more

What app is the second picture? ... View more

It looks to me that a Shape made with the Shape tool is a "Live Shape", and shows a bounding box if the Shape or Path Selection tools are selected, but not the Direct Selection tool. Paths and Shapes made with the Pen, and converting Text to Shape, do not. If you drag one of the nodes with the Direct Selection tool, a popup says "This operation will turn a Live Shape into a regular Path. Continue?" The bounding box will go away, but the Shape has been altered. I don't know any easy way to convert to a regular Path without altering the Shape. ... View more

What you describe sounds like using the Pen tool to create a Shape. ... View more