P: Allow customization/hiding of the splash screen

TRUE!

In response to 'eartho's comment: I have found the EASIEST way to "block" this profoundly ugly splash screen is to quickly do the Mac app-switch the moment I boot PS. With any other app also running in the background – say a web browser? – simply 'Command'+Tab and the other app, now "active", will cover the splash screen entirely. (I have found that) when PS fully opens then either the 'Start Workspace' or file targeted for the session will move to the front and I can begin my work "free"! Problem solved – sort of.

There has to be a way to change the image for this splash / load screen.  Just let me load some other image in there - my logo, a nice nature scene, something neutral and abstract, I don't really care what, but when the image is like this, for pete's sake at least give me an option...

When I launch Photoshop, I'm going to want to do something creative, and this image is not good for my creativity. I don't know if she's supposed to be abused or malnourished or a drug addict or what, but this is not good.

I don't mean this in a "wah, I need a safe space!" sense, I mean this in a "Ugh! Come on! I'm trying to work here!" sense, like if someone were engaging in disturbing inappropriate behaviour in the office.  

Adding my disgust about the splash screen to this already pretty disgustful thread. It's the scariest witch pig I've ever had to invite into my work space.

Splash images are changed with major version change which are usually on autumn.

Every time there's an update, I hope against hope...  But, when I launch Photoshop again, "Aigh! My eyes! for the love of dog...!"

I replaced the spin-disk drive on my iMac with a Solid State drive. Now Photoshop starts up so quickly that the splash screen hardly appears.  Eureka !

Actually, Adobe staff does come here virtually daily and help out, but disliking the #MeToo lady doesn't require technical help, and any way we hack their software to swap out the image isn't something they should be helping us with. For Feature Requests they may or may not comment, but I think you can see that it really wouldn't be appropriate for them to say much about this particular request.

If you care, vote, (I don't see a whole lot of votes for all this is a very long thread) but I don't see that it matters if an Adobe Staff member addresses it, and it might be rude for them comment on something as much about personal taste as this is. I may not like the image personally, but I haven't heard a great argument yet for turning the Splash Screen image over to the individual user—I can only think of the fact that we all like to customize our workspaces. Every school book that had to be covered got the user's personal touch, and from that day on, we have liked to control what we have to look at.  '-}

That doesn't mean we have a particular right for a company to make us the Splash Screen artist. Adobe could equally point out that Splash Screens are part of the "branding" that every company creates, and not something for the user to have any say in, and they'd be just as right—although in my opinion, it's not a tradition that can't be reconsidered since it's hardly fatal if we do swap out the official release image.

I actually don't want to hide the Splash screen because it provides somewhat useful information when launching—I can at least see where it appears to be hanging if the launch is going too slowly. Change the image? I can go along with that.

The point is that these are user to user forums, not Adobe technical help.

Here I am as well, searching for some way to replace or disable a ghastly image of some lady with an odd expression...

Adobe, seriously, what is the point of these communities if you aren't responding?