Feature Requests

While I don't really use the 3D tools in PS, the Lighting Effects is very useful and important to me. I use this to create a light on my subjects in portraits. I really hope that this tool would not be removed from future PS. 

The “select people” is great, it’s amazing, because you can automate the selection of clothes, shoes, accessories and things like that… However, it only works if PS finds a face first…Sometimes, users need to use that tool but the photo is cropped and not showing a face, so it won’t detect any face, therefore not showing those options, “but they’re there”…People consider allowing us to select those things even if Photoshop didn’t detect a face first

Add New Adjustment Layer  Shadow and Hightlight  Adjustment Layer Feature in Photoshop

Using PS Ipad Pro: i would like to request a feature like that of Procreate where you can EASILY save sets of swatches, favorite brushes, clear layer gesture, alpha lock.

Currently, the Rotate View Tool performs a GPU-based canvas view rotation without affecting document geometry. Guides remain locked to document coordinates and do not visually rotate with the canvas view.For precision workflows (architecture, product photography, horizon correction), this creates a visual disconnect between the rotated view and guide alignment.Proposed EnhancementIntroduce an optional preference:“Display Guides Relative to View Rotation”When enabled: Guides visually rotate together with the canvas view Guide positions remain document-coordinate based No change to actual document geometry Purely a rendering-layer transformation This would function similarly to how overlays or GPU-rendered UI elements adapt to canvas transformations.Technical RationaleSince Rotate View is already handled at GPU/display level, applying the same transformation matrix to guide rendering should be feasible without altering document data structures.This maintains backward compatibility

I want to create a repeat tile image in the mobile version of PS, for a repeat print however this tool is only available on desktop.

Why just horizontal or vertical guide lines? why don't you introduce angular guides or perhaps a function like the one in illustratore "make guide" ?

This is a no-brainer that should make its way ASAP into 13. Provide users with a way of tweaking their brush settings and then SAVING OVER an existing brush preset, rather than having to create a new one. The brush preset system that has been in place since 5 is a broken user experience. You always create a "throwaway" brush (tip) when you Define Brush Preset, and then you customize its settings and create a New Brush. Then, if you don't like those settings and want to improve them, you are stuck having to create yet another brush preset, and eventually deleting the others. Come on guys, we need something just a little more polished. It's been over ten years now. Fix some basic stuff before launching into crazy new directions like 3D. For the most intuitive user experience, the workflow should be revised. Creating brushes should be a two-step process: 1. create a "brush tip" - these are the sampled pixels only, with no Brush configuration data attached 2. create a "brush" - by selectin

In Photoshop’s main document view I use Z + left mouse drag (Scrubby Zoom) for fast, smooth, continuous zooming while retouching.However, inside Filter → Liquify, zooming with the same workflow is not smooth: it updates in jumps/steps, feels laggy, and is significantly slower and less comfortable. Please make zooming inside Liquify use the same continuous “scrubby zoom” behavior as the main canvas (including tablet pen mapped to LMB), so the zoom speed and smoothness are consistent across Photoshop. Steps to reproduce  Open any image in Photoshop. Hold Z and drag with Left Mouse Button → zoom is smooth and continuous. Go to Filter → Liquify. Hold Z and drag with Left Mouse Button → zoom changes in noticeable steps/jumps.  Expected resultLiquify supports the same smooth continuous zoom (Scrubby Zoom) as the main Photoshop canvas: fast, fluid, precise zooming. Actual resultLiquify zoom is stepped/jittery and slow; not smooth like the main canvas. Why this mattersLiquify is used for

In the 26.11 release, the Tone Curve UI has become a mess. Inside the curve graph, there is an unnecessary gradient background that professionals don’t need, and there is no option to turn it off. More critically, in CMYK mode the Yellow and Black curves are almost completely invisible, yet this was released publicly. This really needs to be fixed.   Yellow channel curve in CMYK mode.   Black channel curve in CMYK mode (drawn in white, completely invisible)   

I find the General setting "Resize Image During Place" a bit misleading, since in reality it only downscales, and does not upscale in relation to pixel dimensions. I take it the current functionality accounting for PPI is very important to people working on print, but perhaps somewhat useless and even a pain for others, who work solely on digital, etc. Hence, I propose the following improvement: Under "Resize Image During Place" add a sub-setting "Upscale to Match Document PPI" (or "Fill Canvas up to Document PPI", just "Ignore PPI" or whatever is a proper name) that would make the "Resize Image During Place" to ignore PPI and work only with pixel dimensions, thus also upscaling the placed image to fill the Document until it meets either Document borders or its full size in Document's PPI, which ever comes first. This new sub-setting would be enabled only when "Resize Image During Place" is checked, and otherwise disabled. Something like this: Perhaps another option

When I use the Color Sampler Tool and place sample points, the Info panel shows point readouts as #1, #2, ….I need these point readouts in HSB, but Photoshop keeps defaulting them to RGB, so I must manually change RGB → HSB for every new point. This becomes repetitive and wastes time.Please add a preference so the Color Sampler point readouts (#1/#2/…) can either:  be set to a default mode (e.g., HSB), or remember the last used mode and apply it to new points.  ❗Note: this request is only about the placed sampler points (#1/#2/…), not the color readout when simply hovering the cursor. System infoPhotoshop 27.3.1 (arm64), macOS 26.2.0, Apple M2 Max, 32 GB RAM 

By now I have muscle memory using the old classic system when using adjustments. But Photoshop has been adding more buttons to this and I would like it to be more customizable. Either being able to turn visibility on/off buttons or move the buttons around.Thank you for reading.

As is shown on the picture, I think a sub menu could really help artists with a million brushes find their brushes.

Please, just lik they are applying in CSP and procreate, it would be so much more friendly to artists who uses Photoshop for their works.

I would like the history panel snapshot to remain visible at the top at all times. Currently when the panel gets full, you have to scroll back to get the snapshots visible. 

Photoshop currently lacks the ability to natively open multi-layer EXR files, typically only loading the combined "RGBA" layer and an Alpha channel.While Windows users have access to third-party plugins like Exr-IO, macOS users have no viable equivalent. Currently, my workflow requires me to open renders in Affinity Photo just to export them as PSDs for Photoshop.This constant switching is a massive productivity drain. While I prefer Photoshop’s toolset, Affinity’s native handling of multi-channel EXRs makes a strong case for moving my entire pipeline there.Request: Please implement native, multi-channel OpenEXR support that preserves layer names upon import.

If you really want to LIBERATE our creativity, ACCELERATE our work and DRIVE new mediums, then liberate all left handed people from the weight of finding extra solutions to navigate and work fluently in your apps. Thanks! Yes, I'm also saying this because Photoshop for Ipad looks such a Right handed app. So please have mercy on us left handed people!!

I love the stroke, i use it everyday, but there are things that keeps bugging me - maybe it's just me and if that's the chase then i have to live with it but.... 1) Could you make the outside stroke corners sharp, not round.. I always place the stroke on the inside to fix this but this shrinks what ever im framing / stroking a bit in size (cause the stroke "steals the space") 2) How about custom strokes? Use shapes, smart objects as strokes? 3) Multiple strokes? I know you can do this with a smart object, but why only one stroke, why not 2, 3? Would give a useful effect on shapes, text and so on? Thanks 🙂 Ps: Could you add rearrange layer effects so i could switch the effects simply by rearranging the order.. That would be cool..

Please add an option to enable overprint for the stroke fill of a shape. This is useful when you need the shape’s color to remain visible beneath a transparent stroke. It would also help simulate a contour highlight or gloss effect similar to the new iOS style.👉VIDEO  

Would be great to have an option that will lock opacity when resizing my brush with alt+right click drag, There is one for brush hardness, but never found one for opacity!

When using the healing brush or patch tool it creates workflow friction to have to change the diffusion by having to select it in the option bar and drag the slider or select the number. This could be alleviated by changing the keyboard number pad behavior in these instances from master opacity change to diffusion. This would bring the healing brush more in line with its siblings and cousins (clone tool, brush, history brush) where keypad input changes the parameters of the tool rather than the master opacity while the tool is active.Master opacity change is rarely needed in this instance and is often the source of accidental input that is potentially destructive and not noticed until later. This seems like a change had it been implemeted from the start would never have been questioned. I think no one is clamoring for the healing brush to be the only brush tool where master opacity remains accessible in the keypad.

I am referring to the presets tab to the left of the single adjustments. When I use a preset it always adds a mask even with that setting turned off. I have my own presets I use for color correction and I most often do not need a mask when using the presets nor do I need it grouped. It add unnecessary items to the layers panel (masks and groups) and I like to name my layers.  

Not only photoshop, all of softwares by adobe.Many artists who using adobe products don't want to using & supporting generative ai at all.we have rights to opt-out from these things like generative ai tools in software, unwanted ads and nofitications.

It may not be feasible (at least for now) to add Liquify to Photoshop on the iPad, but how about Transform> Warp as a workaround?  (Being able to manipulate an image using Liquify — or Warp — is a basic image editing feature.)