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April 17, 2026
Canvas Size experience is basically broken in 27.5 release
- April 17, 2026
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The recent 27.5 release got updated Canvas Size modal, and it has several bugs that affect my workflow, which requires gradual pixel-perfect changes of canvas size in various directions (my units are pixels most of the time).
I use relative changes to canvas size, so ‘Relative to current dimension’ checkbox is ON for me most of the time, and in this case the bugs I get are:
- Canvas Size modal opens with default values of width and height set to 1 pixel. Should be 0.
- The width and height inputs do not accept 0 value — it gets reset to 1, meaning if I want to change canvas size in one direction, anyways I’ll get 1 pixel added to the other.
- It’s not possible to set negative values now, which used to work before, and at times it’s more convenient and precise way to ‘crop’ canvas, rather than using the Crop tool.
- The values step now is 0,01 pixel, which is meaningless in most scenarios. It used to be 1 pixel, and it should be, as it allowed to use keyboard up and down arrows for quick pixel perfect adjustments.
See attached video demonstrating all 4.
What I discovered later: if I uncheck ‘Relative to current dimension’ checkbox and check it again — I get the right behaviors (except bullet 4 with increment step). Those all are apparently bugs to be fixed.
System:
Photoshop 27.5.0
macOS 26.3.1
MacBook Pro, 16-inch, 2023
