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thomas_bredenfeld
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 4, 2026
Question

Photoshop 2026 (27.8.0) Generator: hidden hard limit of 10k width for output?

  • July 4, 2026
  • 4 replies
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Photoshop version: 27.8.0
OS: macOS 13.7.5
Hardware: MacBook Pro 2019 / 32 GB RAM / 8GB AMD GPU

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new Photoshop document: 12000 × 6000 px
2. Add a full-canvas layer/group
3. Enable File → Generate → Image Assets
4. Name layer:
   test.png

Result:
Generated image output is 9999 × 4999 px instead of 12000 × 6000 px.

Additional tests:

* Explicit naming:

  * test.png,12000x6000
  * test.png,15000x7500
  * test.png,16000x8000
* PNG and JPEG tested
* Deleted generated assets folder
* Restarted Photoshop
* Fresh PSD created
* Same result every time

Observed behavior:
Generate Image Assets appears to clamp the exported image to approximately 10,000 px maximum dimension and proportionally rescales the image, sometimes producing 9999 px instead of 10000 px.

Expected behavior:
Generated asset should match requested dimensions or source dimensions.

 

    4 replies

    Sameer K
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    July 7, 2026

    Hey, ​@thomas_bredenfeld & ​@Stephen Marsh

    The generator's pipeline requests a pixmap from Photoshop's rendering engine and clamps it to maxDimension (default: 10,000 px) before handing it off. So, this behavior is by design for memory/performance guardrails in the Generator architecture since its introduction.

     

    I hope that helps. 
    Thanks!
    Sameer K

    thomas_bredenfeld
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 7, 2026

    hi ​@Sameer K ,

    thank you very much for your explanation! 

    So may it be possible to adjust this in future PS versions? 

    Or at least throw a warning when firing up a generator export from a too large PSD file or with too large image export dimension?

    In between I found another solution for my needs by writing a PS script, but i like the straight forward approach of generator when it comes to templatable image export routines.

    Sameer K
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    July 8, 2026

    Thanks for understanding. I’ll add this thread as a feedback for furture intakes. 

    For now, glad to know that you have a functioning workaround this limit.

     

    Thanks!
    Sameer K

    Stephen Marsh
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 5, 2026

    Interesting, has it always been this way?

     

    Save for Web has a known 8,192 px limit on the longest edge.

     

    Export As, which I believe uses Generator, has a 15,000 px limit on the longest edge.