P: Allow customization/hiding of the splash screen

Higher in the thread we found out that a shortcut link with the option -NoSplash (on Windows) will start the program without this incredibly garish image. I don't want to leave Photoshop running all the time, but I can usually remember to click the Shortcut as the first step when it isn't already loaded.

Lightroom "Classic" (I am really doubting Adobe's sanity over that rename) has a switch in the Preferences dialog to turn off the splash. It should be so easy for Photoshop to add this switch or just show the program icon instead of this shambles.

Please stop scaring us. Halloween is over.

ADOBE, REPLACE THIS HIDEOUS SPLASH SCREEN

I was asking support recently of taking down the splash too. But got no reasonable answer.

Add my name to the list. 

I've found the past few splash screens unsightly—but the latest splash artwork for Photoshop CC 2018 is jarring enough that I'm searching out how to disable it. Imagine if everytime you went to snap a photo you were first forced to look at an image you didn't like. I find it actually disrupts my focus when loading the software. Please provide an option to remove it. 

Sincerely,
Alex

I don't mind the link to the artist's work. I'm happy to read the name, happy they got the exposure, and perhaps would like to follow the artist. That said, if someone from Adobe wanted to spend a lunch hour designing the splash screen so the image was a component we could swap out, that would be fun. Art is, after all, very subjective, and my taste doesn't always thrill to someone else's choice.

But I wouldn't consider this important enough to take away from the needs of the rest of the app.  More a "for fun JDI" if someone at Adobe feels like it—perhaps bored on a Friday night.  '-}

As for the marketing angle—this one doesn't bother me, but the CC App always opening to Stock does. I like access to Stock in my CC Libraries, not in the CC App. I expect that complaint is falling on deaf ears, though, if it's proving at all profitable to keep it the default opening screen.

I also object to the advertising component in all of this. Next to each splash screen illustration, is a link to each artist's work, which can usually be purchased as "Stock" clip-art through Adobe's CC App. I get enough unwanted advertising shoved at me already. I pay for all of it one way or another, but I don't believe that this incessant marketing of spam every time I use a product  I've already paid for, is fair.

I also notice that some who disagree, characterize us as having nothing "more important to do." Good for them that they are so busy, they can't take the time to point this out.

This is not a convenient solution but if you launch the application from the MacOS Terminal, you can specify a startup argument of  --hide. This will launch the application without the splash screen and the application will remain minimized on the Dock. It comes up pretty fast this way.  To do this, you have to first navigate to the Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2018/ directory, or the corresponding directory on your computer.

open -a  "Adobe Photoshop CC 2018.app" --hide

Stephen - Thank you for your suggestions.

I should have been courteous. I should have qualified my remarks (as you did) with  "in my opinion".   I forgot that art is a matter of personal taste.  Fortunately we are all different. 

Given another chance, I would have simply asked that there be a way to either override the splash screen with an image of our own choice,  or disable it altogether.  

Best wishes,

Ken

Some people don't have anything more important to do. Lack of work, probably.