@Adamde-Ste-Croix @John Kriele both of you should check your Windows Firewall settings to make sure Adobe, Firefly and Photoshop are allowed. ... View more

To ellaborate on @Ged_Traynor 's post - you cannot remote deactivate a license and Adobe Customer Support are unable to assist (also cant remote deactivate and have stopped adding additional activation counts as of last year).   Unfortunately if you are getting that error when trying to install on your new machine you are out of luck. ... View more

@barbara_1999 one thing to check is your Windows Firewall settings to make sure you are allowing Adobe, Photoshop and Firefly access. Normally when you see this it is a server or network connection issue upstream. ... View more

Well that was unfortunate.   ... View more

Someone is going to get tasty treats... "Gingerbread house on a Christmas table; gingerbread people dancing around the table; fireplace in the background gives warmth to the room; dog licking it's lips staring at them"   ... View more

@Jente Willems Photography misplaced angst - its up to the software developers (like Face App) to create the plugins, not Photoshop's responsibility. ... View more

That was the issue with Meta's audit. It was false flagging items and they fixed it. Educate your clients if you used AI and be honest. If you didn't use it let them know. As @D Fosse and I pointed out - Adobe embeds this information in the file for users to check against. ... View more

@Swandive stream I'm guessing this was the Meta post. That has since been rectified by Meta - they first removed the feature then adjusted it. What people are complaining about now is if you do any AI work in an image it is tagged as using AI. If that is something you are concerned about - don't use it. AI is available in Photoshop but not "baked into" every tool. ... View more

Check your firewall/Windows Defender settings to make sure you are allowing Adobe access. ... View more

The biggest takeaway from your post is education is key.   20 years ago people freaked out over the Clone Stamp tool and before that using Photoshop at all to manipulate photographs. Be upfront and have honest conversations with clients about their principals and AI usage. If they don't want it - don't use it.    As for your statement about "using existing images from elsewhere" - I would suggest you read on how AI generates images and trains on existing image but does not recreate or "use" them. There is a big distinction between those two words.   Next you are taking monumental leaps in fearmongering theoreticals stating "Client just might say that the work is AI...so they are not going to pay the freelancer". They could also say "you didn't create this" today and not pay an artist. This is not based in anything factual.   In short AI is a TOOL not a replacement for quality creativity. Using AI responsibly and transparently is nothing to fear. There are means (getting better each release) to track AI usage in Adobe created images using Content Authenticity. But it is also a repsonsibility for freelancers to communicate with clients about usage to best agree on appropriate content. ... View more

@Mr. Rudeen what is the actual printable area of your printer - not the PS preview. Could it be they are printing but cut off? ... View more

How many assets are you trying to batch at one time? Try a smaller subset and see if it fails. ... View more

Unfortunately that most likely will not happen given the success of Creative Cloud subscriptions. If you don't want a subscription or connection to the internet to validate, you should look into the Photoshop Elements 2024. I suggest 2024 as the new Elements/2025 releases are now a 3-year subscription as well. ... View more

@Matthew37119986i6si your arguement makes no sense. Photoshop is not a virus. Genuine Photoshop can be run without creative cloud if it requires creative cloud it's a virus and needs to be deleted. This is 100% not true. Current Photoshop cannot be run without a Creative Cloud subscription. Earlier CS versions with perpetual licenses are on borrowed time as the activation servers are no longer supported either meaning even if you wanted to run CS5 and earlier on a new system - you couldn't activate it. ... View more

@pown_raj0176 See my response above and post your system info from the help menu. ... View more

Sounds like an issue with the plugin as that is not normal PS behavior. ... View more

If you have an Activation limit message you are out of luck. As you found out Cust Care will no longer extend activation or remote deactivate CS5. ... View more

One big tip is if you leave anything remaining when using the Remove Tool or Generative Fill the AI will think it needs to replace instead of remove. Keep your selections loose around the subject and not tight. ... View more

@julian_0687 https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/network-endpoints.html ... View more

@rod_shgfx this is misplaced angst - it is the plugin manufacturers responsibility to keep up with the parent software not the other way around. The tail doesn't wag the dog so to speak. Contact the vendor. ... View more

@Starsson it's not necessarily that it's considered "pornographic" - it's that the current algorithms cannot determine the differences yet. Once it is trained up enough I'm sure Adobe and others will lax some restrictions or users will start to find that bikini pictures (example) are suddenly allowed. ... View more

UPDATE: Please try now and report back if you still are experiencing issues. The server connections appear to be restored and I am able to generate in PS again. ... View more

Not sure if its helpful but the Firefly site appears to be unaffected. You may be able to use the Generative Fill function ("inpaint") to remove or add selective areas. Also the Remove tool seems to still work as well. ... View more

Uninstalling/resintalling will not make a difference - Firefly AI is dependent on server connections, cloud, etc. all online issues nothing to do with anyone's local setup. ... View more

Hi all, we're noticing the same on our systems and have escalated with Adobe. Hope to have more information soon. In the meantime I would check status.adobe.com to see if an update comes up. ... View more

@brendanb91966149 can you give some screenshots of the image and prompts (if used)? ... View more

@Starsson no offense, but thats a very simplistic view of a complex issue which is why some solutions are limiting outputs. Unfortunately limitations like this affect everyone without exception. Until an AI can detect with absolute certainty and identify intent, algorithms will restrict erroring on the side of too limiting rather than allowances. ... View more

AI competitors to Firefly - Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Topaz, CoPilot, Midjourney, even Canva are all cloud based and do not require you to build a local system to support or run them. Some require subscriptions but also have free-to-use options to test with.   The links I posted were examples offered through the Adobe Exchange - they aren't spam but also vary in support and updates for latest versions, etc. If you do your own research you can find stable plugins for Photoshop or use the competitor solution outright.   Either way, we all can debate the merits of "censoring" nudity in Adobe Firefly AI but until a realistic solution to prevent it's misuse beyond the "honor system" is avaible and flawless, I doubt things will change. Adobe has to limit their liability due to misuse both in training AND generative results.   Read up on the current lawsuits going on with other companies and you can quickly see why Adobe took the stance they did with their AI. If you don't agree with it - use one of the many competitors that still allow nudity.     ... View more