Feature Requests

As an avid user of Adobe Photoshop, I have always admired the power and versatility of this industry-leading software. However, there is one aspect that I believe could greatly enhance the editing experience, particularly when working with large photos or graphics in raw or lossless formats. That enhancement is the implementation of Level of Detail (LOD), a technique widely used in modern 3D video games. I've listed several of the potential benefits that incorporating LOD into Photoshop could have, and how it could revolutionize the editing process for professionals and enthusiasts alike. 1. Improved Performance:Working with large, high-resolution images can often be a challenge in Photoshop, as the software needs to load and process every pixel, even if we're only viewing a small portion of the image. By implementing LOD, Photoshop could dynamically adjust the level of detail based on the zoom level and the area of the image being edited. This would significantly improve performa

It makes no sense that ctrl-J (on the whole or on a selection) will not work on a locked layer. In no way does ctrl-J alter the contents of the locked layer, so why can't you make a new layer from the selection? To do so, you first have to go unlock the layer and relock it (if you so choose) after you Ctrl-J. Tedious and not intuitive. 

I'll be honest, im working on vector illustration and then porting it to photoshop to create water colors using filters. it woul dbe cool to make brushes that habve pressure mapping so you can making density rings that are organic and relate to the pressure of your digital drawing pen.

Have a cursor option in the Cursor preferences menu to have an icon in minature of the tool offset from the crosshair or brush outline. This helps for those who switch between tools often (i,e, clone stamp, eraser, paint brush) to know at a glance what tool you are working with, since the appearance between all those look identical. As an option, so that this graphic doesnt get in the visible way, it may disappear when you engage with the tool by clicking and dragging, since concievably you know which tool you have engaged by that pont so no need to keep it visible. This is indicative of how capslock can change between cross hair mode and tool cursor outline mode. 

Whenever the user performs an action, alert them when that action does not perform any visible or tangible affect. I can not tell you how many times I have tried to paint something in and didn't realize I was painting completely outside of the selection, because the selection was hidden. This causes disrorientation, because you think something isn't workng properly or you set some function that isn't visible, but in reality you did something that had no affect. 

Using Camera Raw there does not appear to be a hotkey for the filter by buttonIs there a keyboard navigation to get to this point? 

Could a future Photoshop please make the sponge tool to lighten a specific color? 

Animation is the main thing I use Photoshop on. I’d love to able to do animations  on my iPad like I do with my desktop with Photoshop.

The generative fill comes with a layer mask, however, doesn't automatically select what's been generated, you have to then select the generation and then mask out what AI tried to blend in. For the most part, the generations are great but the blending it does isn't always the best and you just want the creation, not the blending of the background because this makes it hard to apply this effect to a series while keeping the same look. It would help if AI is going to blend the background and add shadows/etc., that it automatically selects the subject in the mask.

Es wäre gut wenn man die Bilder aus lightroom importieren könnte, ohne dass man es zuerst herunterladen muss. Ich sehe es nicht ob ich es machen kann und wenn es möglich ist, wo findet man das? Eindeutig ist es nicht. Bis jetzt muss ich das Bild von Lightroom ins Photoshop aufmachen. / Danke

It would be great to have the magic wand tool in the Select and Mask workspace. There are often times when the smart selection misses holes or other areas that would be easily selected by the Magic Wand. Unfortunately, the magic wand is not available in the Select and Mask workspace. 

I have two side by side artboards for a before and after photo composition. Need to add a cerntered watermark, half on one photo, half on the other without merging layers/artboards.

It's time to update some of the icons in the tool bar. The icons for certain tools are virtually identical - see [Quick Selection and Brush] and [Spot Healing Brush and Remove tool]. The icons are supposedly there to make it easy - instead of having to memorize a gazillion keyboard shortcuts or setting up actions. Maybe color coding the icons could help.

Hi everybody, I work on a 15" MBP and screen size is persistently a thing. One item in Photoshop that has not overgone any change in change since...I think I've used it it is Layer Style panel. There is so much dead space in this window that covers canvas and other settings while making adjustments to layer styles. It would be really nice if Adobe took some time to economize this window some. Off-hand, there are few things they could nip and tuck in this window to make it less cumbersome. e.g. the space on the right of the style buttons as well as the style settings, and a whole row of space at the top dedicated to the name of the layer/folder (which doesn't really need to be there). If Adobe could make this window more laptop-size friendly that would be really nice. Thanks for reading.

Once an object/content is created by the AI, it could be interesting to have an easy and quick tool (maybe in the regulations panel) to easily adjust saturations, tone curves, and so on.

The jpg artifact removal neural filter does a wonderful job, but it would be nice to have a preview.As it currently behaves, as soon as you turn the neural filter switch on, it automatically starts processing at the highest strength.  If I want to compare the results of each strength, I need to run them all separately, and perhaps output them all to their own layers, and deleting the two that aren't the best. Ideally, the user could select an area of their layer to preview, and photoshop would remove artifacts from just that area, and ask which strength to complete the task with.  This would save me a great deal of time; running this filter on a M2 Ultra mac studio can still take a minute or longer, depending on the size of the image.  Currently, if you wanted to run the filter on each strength and choose the best output, you'd need to wait at least three minutes to do so.  That really breaks my flow when I'm using the program.Furthermore, it's easy to break ph

I was never really sure what the "Smaller File (8-Bit)" option did in the Export As window until I read up on the PNG format. For the longest time I was confused becuase I assumed the "8-Bit" there meant 8 bits/channel, which is usually what people mean when they say that. And also many people see the 8 bits/channel mode in the Image > Mode menu. I would never have guessed that it meant 8-bits worth of color indices in a palette, therefore only 256 colors total. Even after reading how PNG has a few modes such as indexed pallete vs TrueColor, the "8-Bit" wording is still confusing. And the "smaller file" wording implies a kind of compression, and doesn't nearly convey the magnitude of the change, going from 16 million colors to just 256.  The current wording also doesn't make it obvious why semi-transparent pixels are changed to opaque. Changing it to say "256 Colors" should solve all of these and make it immediately obvious what the option does. And I came across

Would you consider adding an AI-powered feature that lets people generate faces by combining two photos? Also a face swapping feature is helpful.

It would be great, if we could isolate artboards (like in illustrator), so that "generative fill" (and other things) would not try to take the other artboards into account. Right now i generate a smartobject for the background - but since this then has to fit into the different artboards, there is a lot of moving around involved whenever i change this background. Oh - and of course i'm open to other ideas concerning this issue 😉

I'd love to see a neural filter that could simulate a reflection on a layer and distort it based on the layer if that makes sense. For example see the attached image. The door in the background is a reflective surface so if you could duplicate the layer with the products, distort them based on the underlying image of the door with it's raised images and create a reasonable reflection of the image or just transmit the color that would be good. Perhaps an option to just transmit the main color would be good - so around the purple bottle of liquid a hint of purple as if light through the bottle hit the door. Another possibility might be to allow a layer to be affect the Outer Glow effect. I can do this manually of course and create believable results but it takes time and a 'good enough' result using a filter would be useful for some images.

I know this is beta, but you should be aware that in this version, when using a Wacom tablet the brush tool remains at 100% hardness regardless of brush properties settings. It does fine when editing with a mouse.

The field blur is useful, but far to difficult to use efficiently.  I would like to see it enhanced to provideSet the blur amount to a value that is persistent so additional pins they DON'T go back to 15 px.Enable duplicating pins so a user can create multiple pins with the same blur QUICKLY.Enable selecting multiple pins so they can be moved or COPIED as a group.The other filters in the blur gallery could use equivalent enhancement. 

It would be great if Adobe adds more shapes in the beta version like stars, moon phases and the sun

Hi,Generative ai tools must haves:negative prompt,initializer fidelity (a ratio that how the initial view in the area affects the generation)prompt fidelity.

Here's a nice feature from Affinity which Photoshop lacks.It's a live color range mask editable anytime (like an Adjustment layer or the Blend if).   the screenshots are from today's Viktor Fejes Youtube stream