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P: Photoshop 27.9.1: Improve support for Remove Tool in 32bit/HDR documentsOpen for Voting

Remove Tool appears to clamp HDR values in a 32-bit documentI am using Photoshop 27.9.1 with a 32-bit/channel image in a VFX workflow.I used the Remove Tool to remove the text from a very bright area of the image.At normal exposure, the result looks clean and the removed area blends in well with the surrounding image, as shown in the first two attached images.However, when I lower the exposure to inspect the HDR information, the area processed with the Remove Tool becomes clearly visible. It appears that the generated pixels are being limited or clamped, while the original surrounding pixels retain their higher HDR values.The three attached images show: Original image – before removing the text. After using the Remove Tool – at normal exposure, the result appears clean. After lowering the exposure – the area processed by the Remove Tool becomes clearly visible because its brightness range no longer matches the surrounding HDR pixels. This may not be noticeable when exporting to an SDR format such as JPEG, but it becomes a significant issue when the edited 32-bit image is exported as an EXR for compositing. The Remove Tool area can then become visible when exposure or grading is changed later in the VFX pipeline.Since the Remove Tool now supports 32-bit documents, I expected it to preserve or reconstruct HDR values above 1.0 rather than limiting the generated result to the SDR range.Am I using the Remove Tool incorrectly, or is preserving HDR values above 1.0 currently a limitation of the Remove Tool in 32-bit documents?If there is a setting or workflow that allows the Remove Tool to preserve the full HDR range when working with 32-bit EXR images, I would appreciate any guidance. Original imageAfter using the Remove ToolAfter lowering the exposure 

LittleLeah78Participant

Feature Request: Restore PDF Saving for Large-Format Documents Over 30,000 PixelsOpen for Voting

I’m a professional designer who regularly creates large-format artwork for commercial print. Until Photoshop 27.9, I was able to save my large PSB files as Photoshop PDFs, including documents exceeding 30,000 pixels in one dimension.This was not an occasional use case. It became part of my regular production workflow. My completed artwork could be maintained as a PSB and supplied to my commercial printer as a PDF, which is the delivery format they require.Since updating Photoshop, the Photoshop PDF option is no longer available for these documents. I have also tested the newly released Photoshop 27.10, and the restriction remains. I confirmed the change using existing PSB files that I had previously saved successfully as PDFs. The files have not changed. The available output options in Photoshop have.I understand from Adobe’s responses that the ability to save these documents as PDFs was the result of a previous change in Photoshop that was not originally intended. However, that behaviour was available for approximately two years. During that time, professional users working in large-format print understandably incorporated it into established production workflows.PSB and TIFF are not equivalent replacements. PSB is a working-file format and is not appropriate for delivery to many commercial printers. TIFF may be suitable in some circumstances, but when a printer requires PDF, removing PDF output creates an unnecessary additional production problem.I have now had to roll Photoshop back to version 27.8 solely to regain this functionality. That means I cannot use current versions of Photoshop without giving up an important part of my professional print workflow.Please restore the ability to save large-format documents exceeding 30,000 pixels as Photoshop PDFs, or provide a supported PDF export method for large-format commercial print work.If there is a technical reason the previous implementation cannot be restored as-is, large-format users still need a practical way to produce the PDFs our printers require without remaining indefinitely on an outdated version of Photoshop.

acriptia9Participant

Have the option to not load my entire font library instead of just the ones activated by a 3rd party program like Font AgentOpen for Voting

Turning off foreign fonts in Adobe on Mac Tahoe. I currently use the font manager Font Agent (FA) to select the fonts that I want to use for a project. I scroll through my fonts that I have carefully categorized so that I’m able to just activate the fonts I need. This makes my workflow quick and prevents my apps from lagging. I have been frustrated with seeing my font list include a ton of foreign fonts in my font menu, especially when I have no use for them. I recently discovered that Adobe does have a way to turn off foreign fonts within Photoshop but it only turns them off from my entire font library and not just the fonts that I use frequently that were activated in FA. That means that Adobe is loading my entire font library every time I open it. When I click on the font selection field, a list of fonts appears. The default is a list called "Your Fonts" these are fonts that have been activated by FA. But included in that list are all the foreign fonts that I never activated anywhere because they are part of the OS so they don’t show up in FA and I am not able to deactivate them there. If in Photoshop, I click on the tab "More Fonts" (its small type at the top of the font menu), there is a button that says “All Languages” so I can find English from the drop down and select that. That removes all the foreign fonts from my entire Library menu but does nothing for my "activated" font list called "My Fonts". Adobe should surely have an option for preferred language in "My Fonts" list as well. Another problem is that when I close out of photoshop and open a new file, I have to go in and select English again. It does however, seem to stay with the document once I've selected it. I have a lot of fonts, so maneuvering between these 2 tabs is slow. That is precisely why I use 3rd party software to manage my fonts: I don't want Adobe to load all my fonts every time I open a document. This seems to have been added somewhere along the way without telling anyone how the new font management works. I can at this point choose serif, sans etc. right in Adobe font menu list and that's a nice feature but it's actually more helpful for me to select my fonts in FA where I can see what a whole block of text looks like or see what a headline looks like before activating only the fonts I want to use. Maybe there was a reason for not using 3rd party software for fonts but there needs to be a way to not load my entire library when I open the app.  A lot of designers are complaining about this on the Mac forum, but it looks like it may be an Adobe issue. I also don’t know where it is pulling the fonts from because I have mine in a separate folder.

Offline License: Utilize a USB drive to license Acrobat and Creative CloudOpen for Voting

I would like to suggest an optional Emergency Offline Access feature for active Creative Cloud subscribers.The idea is not to replace the normal Creative Cloud subscription. It would be a premium add-on for users who may unexpectedly need to work in an environment where Internet access is completely unavailable.For example, Adobe could offer a secure USB hardware token containing a fixed reserve of offline working time — perhaps 1,000 hours.The important part is that these hours would not expire with calendar time. The token could remain unused for months or even years. Time would only be deducted while Adobe applications are actually running under the emergency offline license.A possible model: the user must have a valid Creative Cloud subscription when purchasing the token; the Emergency Offline Token is purchased separately as a premium add-on; unused hours do not expire; the token works without Internet access or Adobe activation servers; one physical token permits only one active computer at a time; usage time is stored securely on the token and cannot be reset by changing the Windows clock or reinstalling the operating system; when the token is removed or Adobe applications are closed, the usage counter stops. The purpose is not to obtain Adobe software more cheaply.The value is certainty.There are situations where the computer works, the software is installed, all necessary project files are local, but connectivity is unavailable: remote locations, isolated or secure networks, ships, industrial facilities, field work, infrastructure failures, disaster recovery situations, or simply an unexpected loss of network access.In such a situation, licensing should ideally not be the only reason otherwise functional software cannot be used.I would personally be willing to pay a significant premium — potentially even close to the price of another standard license — for such an emergency reserve.This could therefore be positioned not as an alternative to Creative Cloud, but as an additional product:Creative Cloud + Emergency Offline AccessIn other words, the customer would be paying not for another installation, but for the confidence that familiar professional tools will remain available when normal online activation is impossible.