As far as I know, Photoshop Web is not free. It's included in a couple of paid subscription plans. ... View more

That's how the white point eyedropper has always worked in the Photoshop Levels dialog.   A white balance eydropper, like you have in Camera Raw/Lightroom, works like you originally described. ... View more

What's in the smart objects? ... View more

I would immediately suspect the AMD Radeon GPU. I know you can't get a standalone new driver for it, but is there a chance there is a MacOS update you haven't run?   A new Photoshop version may have new graphics code to take advantage of recent GPU developments. That's why a GPU that used to work may cause problems in a new version. ... View more

Yeah, a computer with only 6GB free space is an emergency situation you need to deal with ASAP. Nevermind Photoshop, it's about simple system maintenance.   Raster image editing in general has to move a lot of data around. If you absolutely have to work with very limited disk space, the very first thing you need to do is set history states to 1. Every Undo, every history step, potentially adds the full uncompressed size to the scratch file. And don't use any of the newer AI-based functions or smart objects. They need to use the system pagefile to store temporary data, and I can assure you, 6GB can go in a blink.   Photoshop is not a web browser. It is professional-grade software that is optimized for heavy workloads and efficiency - it is not optimized for limited hardware resources. It's your responsibility to make sure the hardware resources are sufficient. ... View more

It's in Photoshop Preferences, right here:   ... View more

A quick google suggests that error 506 is a permissions issue in Windows.   An update requires temporary storage for download and extracting. If the temp directory is denied, the update cannot proceed. This might also explain why documents don't download.   As a first attempt, try to right-click the app's start icon and "run as administrator". You can do this for both CC and Photoshop. Normally it's only necessary to do this once. You can also go into your Windows user account and check permissions, but off the top of my head I don't know specifically which folders to look at. ... View more

This is connected to a bigger issue where some modules stop working after Photoshop has been running for a while - most notably Camera Raw (ACR). These other modules throw various error messages but SFW just stops responding without any errors. These modules all stop working at the same time - when one stops, the others stop too.   https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-ps-25-27-could-not-complete-the-camera-raw-filter-command-because-of-a-program-error/idc-p/15571610#M129167    Basic functionality works, e.g. in actions, but the interface/dialog doesn't come up.   ... View more

Downloads for perpetual licenses haven't been available for a very long time. Can't remember the exact year for Lightroom, but it must be at least 6 or 7 years ago, probably more. It is now called Lightroom Classic and is subscription only. ... View more

Set the status bar to show document profile:     ... View more

@Crayonbox_Creative  It's not under Tech Previews, it's under Notifications. ... View more

Installing on an external (or non-system) drive is never any point. The installed program files only take up a few GB, and if you're that low on space on the system drive, Photoshop will never work properly.   A very large part of Photoshop will go to the system drive regardless of where the application is installed. This goes into your user account, and can be as much as the program files, and while working often a lot more (not even counting the scratch disk).    Many of the newer AI-based Photoshop/Camera Raw functions will use the system pagefile for temporary storage, not the scratch disk. If you have a limited amount of RAM, the GPU will use a large chunk of it performing Photoshop tasks, and this may also eat into the system pagefile. All of this further reducing available space on your system drive.    In short, Photoshop consumes a huge amount of memory and disk space. 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB system drive - if that's what it has - is simply not enough, especially if it has an integrated GPU that uses shared system RAM. ... View more

Do you have autorecovery enabled? In that case a recovered version should open automatically the next time you launch Photoshop. Note, and this is important: For autorecovery to initiate, the file has to be saved to disk at least once.   The way it works is that Photoshop will save at given intervals to a temp folder on disk. In a normal shutdown, the content of this folder is just deleted. If, however, the computer crashes, there is no normal shutdown sequence, and so the folder is not emptied.   When Photoshop starts up, it looks in this folder. If there is something there, it's opened. If nothing opens, there's nothing there.   Content Credentials is just a way to tag AI-generated content so that it can always be traced and never be passed off as an un-manipulated image. This is automatic and tamper-proof. ... View more

This is to be expected in any software that is updated regularly. Backwards compatibility is always the first thing to go, in order to take advantage of new technological development.   Photoshop is actually particularly forgiving in that it has forward compatibility. An old file can always be opened in a new Photoshop version. This is not the case for most other software. In Illustrator and InDesign, for instance, files usually have to be updated for the new version, and then they can no longer be opened in older versions. ... View more

Apparently you have a lot of noise in this file. That is the root of this.   You absolutely must view this at 100% to get a correct preview of layer blending and adjustments. 100% has nothing to do with size. It means one image pixel is represented by exactly one physical screen pixel.   Whenever something seems to change when merging layers, it's because you are not viewing at 100%. The merged result is correct. The preview is misleading and incorrect. For performance reasons, all blending and adjustment previews are calculated on the on-screen version of the image. When you are zoomed out, that means a resampled and softened version of the image. Pixel levels are averaged out. You get a lot of intermediate values that aren't there in the full original data. For the same reason, don't resample for output without checking before and after at 100%. When you merge, commit an adjustment etc, the numbers are re-calculated on the full original data, pixel for pixel. Viewing at 100% avoids all this. You see every pixel before and after, and so nothing changes. ... View more

Excellent, glad it worked 🙂  Dual graphics is the curse of laptops... ... View more

Now it's established that the file itself is normal and standard issue, it's probably time to reset preferences.    Corrupt preferences can cause weird and unpredictable behavior. Preferences are prone to corruption because they are rewritten on every application exit. An irregular shutdown can corrupt them, and errors accumulate.   Save out all your actions, brushes etc. first. They will be wiped. ... View more

I strongly suspect this is related to the reported bug that stops the Camera Raw plugin from opening after an indefinite period. Photoshop v25.9 and earlier are not affected.  https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-ps-25-27-could-not-complete-the-camera-raw-filter-command-because-of-a-program-error/idc-p/15571610#M129167  ... View more

@AVT Airborne Sensing  This is normal and by design. Memory is recycled and reused when the file closes, but it is not released until the application exits.   This is in fact what makes rapid batch processing possible in the first place.. Requesting memory from the operating system for every file opened would be very much slower.   If you watch computer resources during a batch, you'll see that total memory/scratch disk never exceeds the one single biggest file. The only thing you need to pay attention to is that the batch closes one file before opening the next. ... View more

@happytobenana  Actually it's holding down the spacebar to remove old print metadata, not hold shift.   You must do this as you click File > Print in Photoshop. ... View more

There is a button at the bottom of the Place dialog.   Mine says "open cloud documents", since I only work locally from disk. Yours will probably say the opposite.   ... View more

Too late now, but lesson for the future: save out your brushes, actions etc and keep them in a safe place. It's not just new versions. Just resetting preferences for troubleshooting will wipe it. ... View more

If this happens with jpegs and raw files, the problem is likely the Camera Raw plugin (ACR), not Photoshop.    Disabling the GPU in Photoshop doesn't affect ACR, which has its own GPU processing and routines. The thing is, ACR won't run at all without a supported and functional GPU, so you can't just disable it there. The GPU has to work properly to use Camera Raw.   If you post System Info as @Aleke requests, we can hopefully see if your GPU / drivers are supported and able to run the recent versions.   New application versions may have new graphics code to take advantage of new developments in GPU technology. This is why an older GPU that has worked previously may stop working after an update. ... View more

@cam_5265  As has already been pointed out in this thread, since v26.10 there is a checkbox in Preferences called "Enable Quiet Mode". It kills all popups and distractions. ... View more

Any Windows 11 version is supported.   So something else is the problem. Please show screenshots of error messages you get. ... View more

Sorry, @Sameer K , I can't help you with this. I can't reproduce it. I don't have any of these fonts installed, but when I replace them and resave the file, it opens back up perfectly fine, with the replaced fonts.   I don't have a huge amount of fonts installed, a pretty basic standard set. Maybe some marginal/borderline fonts from different sources are involved in this. ... View more

Right. Thirty seconds to adjust the light can save you a half day of tedious Photoshop work. And the result will always be better. Every experienced photographer knows this.   As much as I love Photoshop, my goal is always to use it as little as possible.      ... View more