Feature Requests

I make a lot of actions with the Actions panel. When I test out my new action, I go into the panel’s menu and change the speed so I can more easily debug my complicated baby action. But then I have to change it back, which is annoying. It would be great to see this:Within Actions/Playback Options, add a checkbox to add the “Performance” items to the bottom of the Actions panel. When checked, buttons corresponding to the three speeds, Accelerated, Step by Step, and Pause For:x, would appear. OR, just leave them there permanently without a checkbox to add, there’s certainly room for them.

We can save a “New Brush Preset” but if the new preset has the same name as an existing one, Photoshop Doesn’t Ask  if you want to replace it, like it does with files, workspaces, etc. So you end up with another version (with an automatically appended number) and then you have to delete the other one.It just seems logical that PS should ask if you want to replace it if the name is the same.

As @D Fossee pointed out, the eraser tool is pixel destructive so layer masks have become a more efficient and flexible way to “erase” I’d like to see the Eraser tool automatically create a layer mask and “paint” to that alpha instead of destroying the pixels. Since we’re at it, holding the tilde key could paint to the layer mask instead of switching to the destructive eraser tool. Or perhaps you could remove the destructive Eraser tool altogether since it seems to be ‘unused’ by so many illustrators nowadays. Thanks for the consideration! 🎉

Add a thumbnail preview inside the Artboards panel, similar to PowerPoint slides, so designers can quickly identify each artboard visually without navigating back and forth on the canvas.This would help designers:Quickly know where they are Spot missing or unfinished artboards Export the correct artboard faster Review layout consistency at a glance Save time in multi-artboard projectsPlease add visual thumbnails/previews to the Artboards panel, similar to PowerPoint slides, so designers can quickly identify, review, and export artboards without constantly navigating across the canvas.

Add a thumbnail preview inside the Artboards panel, similar to PowerPoint slides, so designers can quickly identify each artboard visually without navigating back and forth on the canvas.This would help designers:Quickly know where they are Spot missing or unfinished artboards Export the correct artboard faster Review layout consistency at a glance Save time in multi-artboard projectsPlease add visual thumbnails/previews to the Artboards panel, similar to PowerPoint slides, so designers can quickly identify, review, and export artboards without constantly navigating across the canvas.

I would like to request an improvement to the confirmation dialogs shown when using AI Denoise and AI Sharpen in Photoshop.Currently, every time I intentionally use AI Denoise or AI Sharpen, Photoshop displays a confirmation dialog explaining that the feature uses a Topaz partner AI model and may consume generative credits.I understand that this information is important, especially for first-time use. However, displaying the same confirmation dialog every single time interrupts the workflow unnecessarily. These features are selected and used intentionally by the user, so repeated confirmation becomes more of a disruption than a useful warning.Please add a “Don’t show again” checkbox to these dialogs, similar to other Photoshop warning dialogs. Ideally, the warning should appear only the first time, and users should be able to re-enable it later from Preferences if needed.Requested improvements:- Add a “Don’t show again” checkbox to the AI Denoise confirmation dialog- Add the same optio

In recent versions of Photoshop, the Crop Tool no longer automatically snaps to the actual pixel bounds of a rotated image in the way it used to.Previously, when rotating slightly and then cropping, the crop frame would naturally align to the real edges of the image content. This made it easy to avoid leaving unintended empty/black edges in the corners.Currently, the tool instead assumes that the user may want to expand the canvas (e.g. via Generative Expand), and does not respect the true pixel boundaries in the same way. This makes precise cropping slower and increases the risk of leaving small artifacts (e.g. thin black triangles in corners).Request:Please add an option (or restore default behavior) for:Automatic snapping of the crop boundary to the actual rotated pixel edges A “strict pixel bounds” mode that ignores AI/expansion assumptionsWhy this matters:In photojournalism and other documentary contexts, it is essential that images are not altered beyond basic adjustments. AI-gen

I'm trying to switchover from Adobe Bridge to Lightroom for tracking and sorting photos. I have literally hundreds of keywords, lots of species and common names, in Bridge.  I need a proper photo catalog again, and Lightroom is what's there.  But....it turns out Bridge will happily export those keywords to an .xml or .txt file, but Lightroom will not import them directly because Lightroom disallows punctuation characters in keywords.But after I worked with text edit to remove/replace all of the forbidden characters, and imported the xml file into Lightroom, it did import them, but kept all the formatting stuff...So each of these lines came out as keywords<?xml version="10" encoding="UTF 8" standalone="yes" ?><keywords version="2">    <set name="Characteristic" disclosed="false">        <item name="Geolocator screenshot" />        <item name="inset closeup" />        <item name="Landscape" />        <set name="macro" disclosed="true">           

One of the things I have noticied over using several Adobe apps over the years is the level of documentation between the apps. Having an extensive background in various database and OS software the developers for the most part provide comprehensive Release Notes and Changelogs with their apps. This allows the user to see what has changed and when. There is a myriad of reasons why this is important. However, this logic does not seem to apply to all Adobe Teams. In fact on of the Adobe Employee responded in one posting in this community group pointing to a "Summary" when asked about Release Notes. The request for Release Notes and Changelogs have been made a number of times, and have went unanswered. I came across a good article today describing the purpose and differences between them. Can only hope Photoshop management takes a minute to review the article.https://featureos.app/blog/best-changelog-and-release-notes-software-featureos

I updated to Photoshop version 22.5.0 and just noticed that File > Export > Export As has a majorly dumbed down JPEG quality menu. Photoshop is for professionals. Having accurate control over quality is import for optimizing to a small file size. Giving a few choices (and not even telling us what quality they are) is not acceptable for a pro app. I know for now I can go into prefs and use the legacy version, but please bring back the quality percentage!   I also posted this on the Photoshop Feedback website which I think is a more appropriate place to discuss this, but wanted to see what other people think. It's probably best to comment there so Adobe knows. Photoshop Feedback: Bring back JPEG quality percentage to Export As dialog    {Moderator edited title - PS-71391}

Love the new turntable feature. But it feels like its missing a feature to export to AE.That would be very cool!

I would like to show the actions listed in the Action panel with different colors similar to what I am able to achieve with menu items. I believe this used to be possible, but I can not find out how to achieve this feature. I do not want the actions displayed in button mode. I want to see the list as shown in the figure below.  

This is needed urgently! The skin smoothing filter should have been designed to include the neck and chest area from the beginning. It's useless without it! Who doesn't have a neck???? Once can't apply skin smoothing to the face alone and leave put the neck. Especially for women, older people. Arms would be nice to include as well. You guys need to design these filters holistically. Please add at least the neck and chest areas to the skin smoothing filter as soon as possible. It's been asked here before. How can you ignore this? Your response is much appreciated. Thank you!

Heya, so for context, I'm a digital media major in my collage, I also love drawing using photoshop, so I want to formaly ask for a new feature to be added in photoshop. I know you can make custom guides in photoshop using the rulers, so I'd like to ask if we have have a form of guide presets, for example I'd like to be able to scroll over to guides, click on a bottun and I suddenly have a rule of 3's guide up and on my canvas, this will be handy for compositing/drawing backgrounds for my comics, or for aligning groups of characters in a sort of photographic sense. another preset that would be nice to have, is a golden ratio preset, this can be helpful for illustating flowers, and other things. It would also be nice to be able to have both an auto snap feature, for example if I have a blank canvis it'll automatically align itself to the whole canvis, and a Manual set feature, so I can manually get a rule of 3 guide or a golden ratio guide, in a small section of the canvas of my choosing

I hate to float the idea of adding yet another warning/nag popup to Photoshop, however, this should have been there since Actions were first added to Photoshop.    I am proposing that when a new Action Set is created, that a pop-up window be triggered warning the user that unless the set is saved to .atn file, that the action is only temporary and may be lost/reset.   This proposed nag screen would have a "don't show again" checkbox. New users don't appreciate this fact and need to be warned at least once. Knowledgeable users can simply check the box to ignore.   The forum is littered with "lost actions" topics, which could have been avoided by explicitly making this point.   So many wasted hours of end-user work in recreating lost Actions could be saved with this simple warning. So much frustration that could have been avoided.   Users should read the manual, but this clearly isn't the case.   Examples topics to add weight to this request (and there

The performance of brush tool is a disaster for artists using photoshop to create illustrations, latest version of photoshop is so sluggish brush tool feels like dragging mud. (Even after smoothness to 0). This needs to be fixed it’s serious we are using Photoshop for our jobs, Adobe do your work please, Ps version 27.6 and still a disaster of a brush tool. 

Would be great to be able to toggle a layer in PSD so it is a guide layer and not part of the output of the file, similar to what we can do with layers in AE.

One thing I would find super valuable would be enhanced brush controls in Photoshop. I know there are mixer brushes, but those don't achieve what I would like.  I would love:- Ability to have texture rotate and change size while drawing- Customize how much a brush multiplies or other adjustments- ability to add a smear type of function to brushes so that they smear in real time- overall more control of outcome 

Why is webP not available under Save for web? this would make the work of web developers easier./Ewa Catewicz

Remove tool needs a shortcut key toggle to turn on off 'remove after each stroke' and or a modifier key held while using the remove tool to enable or disable the 'remove after each stroke'. The having to go up to click the little square to turn on or off is a pain.

New Guide: Please change back the add guide feature to default to the measurement system the file is set up with! I use guides a lot for print formatting and have a shortcut set up, and the input windows changed with the last update. It also used to automatically let you type into the "Position" box, but you now have to click it to start typing, and you have to specify the unit of measurement if you want the guide placed with something other than pixels. 

Overview: Add the ability to select objects in a document using a natural language text prompt — for example: "blue shirt", "all yellow cars", "the person on the left". This would allow selecting specific objects by their visual description rather than manually using lasso, color range, or other existing tools.Requested functionality:Select a single object by text description Select multiple matching objects simultaneously (e.g. "all red apples")Why this is different from existing tools:Select Subject — selects the dominant subject automatically, no control over which object Color Range — selects by color only, not by object type or context Object Selection Tool — requires manual click/drag, no text inputNone of the current tools allow describing what you want to select in natural language.Use case example: A retoucher working on a product photo wants to isolate a specific clothing item — for example a brown jacket — without manually tracing it. Typing "brown jacket" should produce an

With AVIF being supported in modern web browsers the need for AVIF as a save as option or export to option would be very helpful.  For those of us that still use Photoshop as a primary graphic editor (even for simple web sites) this will become more and more important as JPG's are replaced.

I often taking HDR screenshots on XBox Series X gaming console and on my PC with 4K HDR monitor!Those pictures look amazing and they are higher display quality than usual PNG or JPG images. Can’t compare.But I can’t edit them in Photoshop for what I’m paying Adobe CC subscription each month. I hope that Adobe responsible team for this feature be able to make. Photoshop can edit or make some HDR file formats but not a .JXR format files.I would like that developers, implement JXR files support in Photoshop.Thanks.

Hi guys,It often happens that when I have a layer selected and switch focus to its mask to paint, if I make a mistake and press Undo, the focus automatically jumps back to the main layer. If I don't notice it immediately, I start painting on the layer itself instead of the mask.My colleagues and I all face this same issue. The "Undo" command shouldn't change the selection target. While this behavior might be handy when going back many steps in history, it’s very annoying when you are simply painting on a mask.I’ve noticed that this happens frequently, though not every single time. Could we have an option in the Preferences to toggle this behavior?Something like: [ ] Include focus/selection change in Undo history