P: Allow customization/hiding of the splash screen

This specific image gives me horrible headaches and migraines, I shouldn't be forced to see any picture that hurts me, this is not right.

Allow us to put an image that helps us, or don't have an image there. It's that simple.

Help! The website at http://psccicon.azurewebsites.net/ is down! Is there a way to create our own data file?

I agree with the above comments. The most simple solution is to add a way to disable the opening screen, or to choose another picture, or even make your own splash screen. Pictures do have an impact on people, an impact that varies dramatically between individuals. For example, children in particular can react with fear when contronted to certain pictures, and my spirit will be subdued when encountering art on the walls of hospitals, which depicts or appear to depict people in sad or tragic situations. There are reasons why media do not publish pictures of victims of war or accidents, besides a will not to infringe on private integrity. Any piece of art can contain disturbing elements, which also is part of the artist's intention.

Yes, you are correct!  And if I haven't made it clear where I stand on the "give us end-users the power to control that damned splash screen"  I will say here that I TOTALLY AGREE: gimme a button !!  

Completely agree. The funny thing is that we could continue talking about how subjective beauty is, and while (philosophically) photoshop's final purpose is to help creativity flow, in reality it's just a cold collection of tools/scripts/commands, a 'powerful' software package... that lacks a checkbox that could read "enable/disable splash screen".

The solution could be so simple that we wouldn't even need to be arguing anything here.

ReinMan, don't forget that we are the Client here, we're paying for something we can comfortably use. Our money paid that ugly splash that brought us here.

One thing I've learned, or I should say "had more firmly established in my own mind", is that one person's ART is another persons GARBAGE.

I've been a "Creative" (paid my rent with my garbage/art 😉 for over 30 years... and this discussion of this image has brought my above awareness back into my life.  I'm not gonna be so hard on myself when someone doesn't like what I do.  I'm sure somewhere out there, SOMEBODY liked the same image...  though I hope that "somebody" is my PAYING CLIENT!

I'd say... use the splash for something inspiring, not the opposite.

The current opening splash screen in PS (CC) does not explain itself, except for the presence of a beautiful woman. Without knowing the creator's intentions, I cannot understand the added artefacts in any other way than as to demonstrate the maker's skillness with the tools in PS. For that reason, I can ignore the splash screen, which anyhow does not display itself for any prolonged period.

However, I would appreciate a picture that explains itself or talks to the observer, as serious and good quality art should do, although it might not be the favourite by everybody. Why not somehow add some verbal description or message by the creator, particulary when a picture is not straightforward. Since PS is a tool to work with pictures, it should also be fine with opening screens, which demonstrate some technique or possibility available in PS.

I'm glad it worked 🙂

That did it! I Zipped "IconResourses.idx" and the "High" and "Low" folders containing the new splash screens into one file. As you suggested, I did not include the "Data" folder itself, just Zipped the contents. This time everything worked fine! Thank you very much!