Feature Requests

There is no way to set top left as the default transformation point for all transformations in a document. I design websites and I usually only need to resize with a reference point at the top left to keep the x/y location of the objects top left corner constant.

I'd like to see a preview of the text/paragraph styles i've created, so that i can easily select the style i desire to use. It's easier to say: 'Oh i really like that purple heading, i want that applied to layer x.' rather than 'What header was the purple one again?' Quick and dirty example below:

Please please please add sub pixel aliasing to fonts! When creating a mock UI I can never make it look great, especially when working with body text / smaller fonts.

I'm usually not the one to complain about visual changes to software, but with a power tool such as Photoshop, such changes need to be very well thought out and crafted. With Photoshop CS6, I don't think that is the case. I feel the layers palette was much easier to scan in CS5, because the icons and the separating lines are much better defined. In CS6, they all blend into the background of the layers palette and the separating lines between layers in the layer palette, while slightly less subtle and more prominent, are really just more distracting than helpful. I think the lines between layers in CS5 layers palette was much easier to scan and it worked really well with many nested groups (where the white part of the line to the left indicated (roughly) the position of the layer within groups). As someone who works with documents that can have thousands of layers, this change is really quite painful. Something like the layers palette should always be optimized for very fast scanning

Dear Sirs. I work a lot with Photoshop Cs and find the following thing could be imporved/changed, it is easy to work and will cause less mistakes/errors while working. When busy with artwork and one wants to add a couple of guides "New Guide" everytime you want to add one more Guide, the pre-set has gone back to Vertical. Mostly when doing guides, you do all the horizontal ones and then the vertical onses, so that means each time you add a new guide, you have to really concentrate: do I need vertical or horizontal. It would be much easier if the preset kept the setting of the last choise. So if i add a new Guide and I choose Horizontal, then when I do another New guid, the preset should still be at horizontal. If you speak to people who use this a lot, they will confirm this. I do not request money for this tip, a new version of photoshop CS 5.1 would not be rejected though! Kind regards Frits van Diermen. Frits@FDL.eu Image is not available

I've run into situations where I need to make a merged copy of all of the raster layers, but want to exclude the effects of the adjustment layers. It would be great to have this functionality similar to the clone tool's ability to exclude adjustment layers from the sample area.

I do a lot of web page layouts with Photoshop. Sometimes i'm in the situation where I actually need to change the colors of some of the layers to inverse. It is really disturbing to open the color selector multiple times for all of the layers and click the colors, or pasting the HEX. I would just like to press "CTRL + I" to inverse colors of all the selected layers. Also I would like paste, or drag and drop the colors straightly into a shape layer from swatches without opening the color selector tool.

Getting sick of constantly changing the unit type from inches to centimetres in the Image Size dialog window. Every time I open Image Size dialog, it's reverted back to inches (if my rulers are set to pixels). P.S. Also getting sick of photoshop.com and adobe.com not saving the cookie/session — I have to log in every time after I close a browser window or even a tab (happens in all browsers). If you guys require proper web coders, just let me know — I'll recommend a couple dozen for you.

it is a big big pity that we can't do an easy pdf presentation now with photoshop.

I think stroke blend modes should affect the layer that it's applied onto - currently it knocks out the image and applies the effect to what's behind it. http://edw.me/3p0a3Y1N2U0a1r0v1R08 At least make it optional if anybody does want to cut through the layer with a stroke.

I desperately wish there were an option to just resize the brush with the HUD, I don't want to make my brush less opaque or change the hardness and I can't seem to not accidentally vary the opacity/hardness while trying to just resize the brush. Why isn't there a subtree of options for the brush HUD? X HUD brush size X HUD opacity X HUD hardness Very much wish there was some more options with this feature, as it is it mostly causes me grief because of how useful it *could* be.

Feature Suggestion: I need a way to change the color of multiple shape-layers at once. How about you select multiple shape-layers and then drag and drop a color-swatch onto them?

It would be nice with the ability to load a custom image for the iris (aperture) in the Lens Blur filter. This would allow more realistic and artistic options for custom blur/bokeh shapes.Realistic bokeh is not a perfect clean shape. It is not perfectly symmetric and clean, and it can have pronounced or soft edges.---Example implementation: Example realistic images that that could be loaded:Example of an artistic bokeh shape:---Other possible (related) features:* Chromatic aberration settings.Example from DOF Pro plugin: http://www.dofpro.com/cagallery.htm* If you want to go all the way, and I consider this overkill, have different iris shape for "front" and "back" blur. At this point we could start saving the settings as lens profiles... Example of how front/back bokeh can differ: (image from http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/bokeh/)

Why doesn't PS have an autosave function? Every time the application crashes, i lose a work of mine, which i've been practicing for hours.

Enable dashed strokes

Add the following feature: "Free Transform Re-sample option". Give the user the option to choose which kind of re-sampeling he/she wants to use on their transformation (bilinear, bicubic etc).

Right now Color Dynamics is kinda useless because it creates a motley sausage when used. It'd be amazing to have dynamic of color applied to a single stroke rather than to every single sample of the brush. Image is not available

i recomend add missing ability in Liquify filter . everywhere in photoshop you can change brush size by simply pressing Alt + right mouse button and moving from side to side.. it is exhausting that in liquify it is impossible 😞 and you have to set it mannually! thank you for fixinG! and for saving our life time 😄 Chris from Poland

I would love the addition of 'Pixel' to the 'Snap To' family. It seems like this feature would have been a shoo in from the onset of Photoshop with it being a bitmap based image editor...

I use the Blend If sliders all the time - but when I close the d-log I have no idea if I have applied them unless I open up the Advanced Blend options to check. It would be GREAT if there was a signifier (even a tiny one) that showed i the Blend If sliders had been adjusted. Please note: I understand that the layers panel already has a lot of icons on it...but Blend If needs to be more visible and/or discoverable.

This filter is a wonderful filter and I have been able to achieve some amazing effects using it. Yet there are a couple of improvements that could be made. First when applying the filter you get a dialog box that has a preview with the ability to adjust settings and where the lights are placed. This would be easier to use if the preview was larger or better yet full screen like you see with the Lens Correction or Liquefy filters. Secondly, unless I am applying a lighting only to one layer I like to apply it last to the overall picture by creating a layer and choosing "Apply Image." Yet after I finalize the lighting I realize that I need to correct a mistake or make a change and I must make the change then go through the process again to apply the lighting. It would be wonderful to be able to use the lighting filter as am adjustment layer or something similar. Thus as you are creating and working with the photo you can adjust the lighting as you go and see the effects as you create.

Right now if I want a gradient filled shape layer with a circular shape it seems I have to create a gradient fill layer, then add a vector mask, then draw my vector shape into that vector mask. Perhaps in the options bar of the shape layers we can have a check box or fill option for Solid/Gradient. Then it'll go to the default gradient within that vector shape. That would be suh-weeeet! 🐵

It would be wonderful if I could CMD+E shape layers without having to rasterise them first. I end up having to select shapes from each layer and copy and paste into a new layer.

I think it would be extremely helpful for there to be some sort of indicator (like a small initial) on each layer in the layer palette that has a blending mode applied to it. So at first glance of the layer palette you can find for example, which layer(s) have the Soft Light blend mode applied and which are set to multiply, etc. In my case, as a retoucher, that would save a lot of hunting through huge layer stacks looking for the one layer where the dodging and burning is done on a Soft Light layer, especially when working on someone else's file. Also, this could help immensely when we receive layered files from an agency where we have to go in and figure out what is what and where certain pieces are before even beginning the retouching.