Feature Requests

It would be very useful to be able to reverse the gradient from within the gradient editor rather than selecting your gradient in the editor and then backing out of the editor and reversing the gradient in the properties panel. If all the editing functions were within the editor there would be much less back and forth between editor and properties panel and the process would be more efficient. As it is, I'll choose a gradient from the editor, back out of the editor and go to the properties panel, reverse the gradient, reject the gradient, reopen the editor, reopen the folder I was using, choose another gradient and repeat until I find the right one. None of this back and forth would be necessary if I could do it all from within the editor. Thanks.

I've been using Photoshop since 1993, 8 hours a day, as a medical illustrator. But for many years it has not been evolivng as quickly as it could be, compared to the other available applications. Toe be sure, one of the extraordinary enhancement, which is to be able to grab items from the layer "touched" by the mouse click, is wonderful. But other areas are frustratingly unevolved and cost as much as an hour a day in slow responsiveness. A. Please allow a super-rapid way to select several basic kinds of brush tools that are used most of the time. For me, these are the,     1. "hard edged" brush on top     2. "hard edged" brush in behind mode     3. "hard edged" brush on top without pressure sensitivity     4. "hard edged" brush behind without pressure sensitivity     3. "softest edged brush with presure sensitivity"     4. "softest edged brush with sensitivity and multiplifying

In a landscape, I frequently use rectangular Select with a Feather size to adjust foreground in relation to sky. However, the default is for the feather to vignette the whole rectangle including the canvas bounds. In a prior post I learned to go to Select>Modify>Apply effect to canvas bounds. (Odd wording, because it implies the default is for an effect not to apply to the canvas bounds unless it is checked; yet in my experience it's the oppposite. It applies by default even though when I get to the setting, it's unchecked!) 1. If the "Apply effect" setting is unchecked by default, the default feather effect (and others?) should match. For my needs, I prefer that not applying it be the default. Having it apply by default only makes sense if the user wants to vignette the selection. 2.This setting is so elemental that it should not be buried. When the selection tool is turned on, "Apply effect to canvas bounds" should be on the same settings line as the feather size slid

I'd love to see Filter layers   like those Krita  and Afinity Photo have.  Workig not over smart objects but rather whatever beneath  like adjustment layers.I like  height-to-normal map filter layer in Krita for example where you could select a height channel source . Would be super cool if we could have it in PS working over pattern preview.   Or Emboss filter working that way.Please bring it from Krita  here   or let us use SBSAR from Substance Designer for that. I still consider Photoshop a much more convenient tool in many regards  over all those Substance new ones.   Please let it  be having some value for CG artists

A problem I have all the time:I am searching for hours to find the perfect brush to paint or draw something in Photoshop. But when I come back to the project a few days later, it is almost impossible to find out which brush I used (unless I renamed it somehow, but with a lot of projects you quickly loose track and it gets a bit ridiculous). Also while working, only by clicking a few other brushes to try out something, you loose your brush super quickly due to the very limited "brush history bar". It becomes especially annoying, when working on different projects at the same time, going back and forth, because the brush history ist not linked to specific projects. Ideas:- The possibility to use the picker tool on illustrations (etc) to find out which brush was used (please!)- A better way to organize and "remember" brushes as favourites or in project files for later. - The used brushes are linked to the specific project file you are working on.  

Hi Everybody, I've told myself "I don't hate Figma, I really don't..." at the time I was lying. Just flat out lying to myself. It felt like using two left hands.  The truth is that Figma is a solid layout tool with the interactive advantage of being socially web-based.  That being said it is not a design/production tool, it is a layout tool similar to InDesign (or probably even more like Adobe XD). Can you design in it? Yes. However, the "design" is layout formatted so prototype/flowchart-based wireframes can be discussed/edited. It is not designed for storyboards. Let me be clear on this. Artboards are NOT storyboards. Artboards are a layout schema for reviewing creative. Storyboards (especially for complex animations) are compositions made in a stacked fashion like gels or a flipbook. That way when you go from frame to frame the elements are seamless and don't jitter or pixel shift. Even in just using Photoshop alone without Figma with artboards, I've ru

If you ever put a decimal value in any field in Photoshop and the decimal separator happens to be not the one you have as a default in your OS, Photoshop shows an error message and forces you to follow the settings you have on your system. This is very annoying, since both InDesign and Illustrator handle it just fine, you can type in either a comma or a period. I'm using two keyboard layouts on a Mac, and sometimes it's easier for me to type a comma rather than a period, but it's just a nightmare when I have to be aware that in Photoshop only one symbol works, while in InDesign and Illustrator I don't have to worry about it.

it's a small thing but it would be very useful. every time I use YouTube I have to give the graphics of the avatar banners etc. it would be very useful if Adobe implemented some templates with the measures already made. such as the YouTube banner, a template with the measures plus the blocked guidelines that show the central part (the one that will be seen everywhere smartphone, TV, computer, etc. etc.). the size of the avatar etc. etc. Delke pre-settings WITHOUT graphics where we then compose our graphics. Whenever I have to do graphics for social networks I always have to put the measures ok etc. it is really boring. I am a customer who pays regularly and kindly I would like this option: template without graphics for social media: YouTube, Instagram etc.

Hi there -- Finding the tool I'm looking for on the toolbar takes longer than it needs to. All the icons are tiny and they look the same. They are not in any order that I can see to make them easier to find. Can you make them text instead, or give us the option to view alphabetically ordered text rather than icons?  Same thing for the control bar at the top. I have no idea what those symbols mean. I think most graphics people nowadays have big monitors, so there is plenty of room for the text.  Scott Williams

this could be a suggestion, but for now it's a problem that's driving me crazy : how do you turn off that damn "bird's eye view" option? It's activating when i hit the space bar at certain magnifications and jumps out and disorients me. it's so annoying it's not true. it may be a good tool when someone specifically requests to use it, but otherwise we should either have the option to disable it, or disable it for the Space bar only. Seriously, this "feature" makes me seethe, it totally ruins my productivity as i'm set working at a particular area/magnification then instead of being able to scroll w/ the Space bar as we always did, the view jumps out jarringly and sometimes seems to change the tool i'm working w/ too. PLEASE, give us an option to disable it. TIA.

Please roll-back to JPEG quality percentage slider within Export As dialog.Many people want to export to an exact filesize rather than just rough presets.It's a usability downgrade for professional users.

Would like ability to save tool type, brush size, opacity, flow, and select “Apply to All Layers” (or current layer, etc.) in an action. For example, when retouching and going through various actions (e.g. dodge and burn, frequency separation, even skin tone, blemish removal, etc.)  I still have to manually apply various tool settings.  [This even occurs when selecting “Allow Tool Recording” in actions menu]. Selecting these parameters and readjusting the flow and opacity for each retouching stage take up the most time in my workflow.  They also require me to transition from editing with my stylus to typing on the keyboard and using a mouse (and back again). Would like ability to play an action that ends up with a specific tool, brush size, opacity, flow, and layer application.  This would allow me to simply click an action button with my stylus and then get right to work on editing, with all proper parameters set for each stage of my retouching workflow.&

Adobe, could you please create ONE application instead of: Photoshop, Illustrator and inDesign? Or at least Photoshop and Illustrator. Thank you!

A simple change that I think would increase quality of life use for Photoshop. It would be helpful if the document I am working on would remember the ruler units that I set for it. I am a designer that is always switching between print and web, thus changing between pixels and inches and mm quite often — several times per day.While it's not difficult to go up to the ruler and right-click to switch the units, I think with all the other information PS documents contain, it wouldn't be too difficult for them to remember the unit of measurement that was previously selected for that particular document.

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Hi,  I have an idea that can potentially be a creative way to generate interesting patterns using the gradient tool.  I was inspired by the noise gradient type in the gradient editor that offers a roughness slider. This creates sharp and discrete gradient patterns at 100% roughness. However, the smoothness slider in the solid gradient type cannot be used to generate discrete patterns.   Imagine I can specify alternating discrete patterns of black and white at every increment of 10% location (using 100% roughness) and use an angle gradient to generate a "light ray effects". This can be interesting. Thanks,Dave Wong 

The current version of the focus stacking function in Photoshop produces lousy results and needs to be revamped. (An additional integration into Lightroom Classic (like HDR and Panorama Stitching) would be adequate on this occasion.) See:https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/focus-stacking-in-photoshop-horrible-results/m-p/8960498

It would be nice to be able to thicken the grid lines to make them more visible.

I use Quick Actions more than the other options in the Properties panel (Ps 2022, Win 10). I don't want to have to keep collapsing the Transform, Align/Distribute, Canvas & Rulers and Grids categories in the Properties Panel so I can more easily see/get to the Quick Actions and the link that's there to access more Quick Actions. My idea/proposal is for Adobe Developers to develop the same kind of re-arrangement and/or viewing capabilities in the Ps Properties Panel that they've made available in Adobe Camera Raw. (I'm hoping it's code that could be ported over...). Specifically my idea envisions:(1) Giving users the ability to re-arrange the order of the functional components within the Properties Panel  (I'd personally like to be able to put Quick Actions at the top for greater visibility).  (2) Allow a mix of expanded and collapsed functional components within the Properties Panel. If we could collapse selective components in the Properties Panel (and hav

I see you took away the Export As> JPG compression's "Good, Very Good, Excellent, Great" and converted it to numbers 1 - 7.   This is an improvement but not a good fix.   We need the percentages back so that we can regain precise control over our jpgs. Please watch my screen recording to see what we're talking about.

Here is my idea to improve drop shadow:A scale slider (to scale Spread and Size options) or adding a vanishing point option.It will make them look more natural. Thank you.

As any professional user I tend to work a lot with paths. But one thing that drives me crazy is that fact, that when I have both a path and a layer active and use Free Transform the path has priority and gains focus. In some cases that probably makes sense, but I would love the ability to lock paths like you could do with layers. That would also enable us to use paths as guides. There have been numerous feature request on angled or arbitrary guides (like in Illustrator) and I would love them too, but theoretically you could at least use paths as guides. But right now that's a pain because as I said as soon as you hit CMD+T (for Free Transform) you are not working on the layer anymore, you're transforming the path (hence you transform your guide).

I work on a psd file with hundreds of layers. Each layer is uniquely numbered. It's a great feature for Photoshop to save all the layers in batches, but I'm having trouble setting the names of the files. The layers I have are named in the order of 05,04,03,02,01,00, but when you save the layer, strings in the order of 0000,0001,0002,0003,0004,0005 are automatically included in the file name. It will be in reverse of the order I want it to be. I have to do a lot of manual work to turn this around again. Users should be able to select these auto-naming features when saving a layer.Please allow the automatic naming function to be deleted, or auto-naming in the reverse order. 

Is there an opacity slider for masks , if not why not?thank you most excellently

Hi Adobe, Upon a latest tech help to fix Creative Cloud from a persistent login issue (which still has me login every..single...time I use Adobe products) , Adobe did a fine job of erasing my 2018 version of Photoshop. Now I'm stuck using the latest one, which isn't really that different, but there's one thing that is super annoying. Upon Save For Web, the Filename extension is highlighted for easy type/replace naming. The really extremely annoying thing is that it highlights the whole dang file including extension. So when I rename the file it removes the extension. (!??!) It's Save for Web -- I ALREADY KNOW IT'S A PNG.  What's worse is if I forget to re-type the stupid extension before hitting enter upon rename, I have to go back into Finder (OS X), locate the file and then add the dang extension. It then asks if I want to rename the extensinon, I select yes and then return to Photoshop. I work in ad priduction. Do you know how many times I have to save