@mateo_9299  This doesn't do anything. The text will still be rendered as pixels at the final output document resolution. So you're back to square one.   100% is not "reduced scale". 100% represents one image pixel by exactly one physical screen pixel. It lets you see the actual pixel structure of the file.   What it boils down to is that you should not use Photoshop for text, period. It is simply the wrong tool. InDesign is where you combine vector text and pixel images into a single document. InDesign outputs the text as proper vector data, which Photoshop does not and can not. ... View more

Right. Actually the principle is the same, they open where they were last closed. They have to do that, for custom multi-monitor workspaces to work at all.   The difference is that Photoshop can control panels with saved workspaces. That's what you need to do. If you make temporary changes, or a screen is temporarily unavailable, you can easily reset to the appropriate workspace. ... View more

Photoshop controls Photoshop panels, but not operating system dialogs. If a dialog has a Windows header, it's generated and managed by Windows. Photoshop can put text in there, but it's still an operating system dialog. And in Windows, any dialog will open wherever it was last closed. I doubt Photoshop could override that even if they tried. ... View more

So perhaps it never did overwrite?   By @Stephen Marsh   Someone with an old version still installed should be able to test this easily. But again, this is not something you normally do.   But if it did, and it has now changed, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be an operating system change that forced it. Just like saving out a jpeg copy without alerting the user, and identifying it as a copy, is no longer permitted by the OS (MacOS in that case). ... View more

Another user got this when they had the home screen active, but it disappeared with the home screen disabled. ... View more

Right. Try to disable the Intel UHD first of all. Scroll down to section 6 & 7 here: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html    The problem with dual GPUs is that Photoshop has no control over which GPU is called, that's entirely at the mercy of how the laptop manufacturer has configured the operating system and the two GPU drivers. To Photoshop, this is a black box, all it can do is "send to GPU" and wait for the result to come back, hopefully from the same GPU. ... View more

Go into Preferences > Notifications, and check "enable quiet mode":   EDIT - oops, I see you already did that. I never see any notifications of any kind with this checked, certainly not this one, and I have no idea what happens here. If this was me, I'd do a preferences reset. As always, save out actions/brushes etc. ... View more

ChatGPT. No actual information content in this post. @loyal_society5CFC  ... View more

The splash screen lists the sub-modules as they load.   So it should be possible to identify exactly which component is crashing. Note that if a component seems to load properly and then it suddenly crashes, it's likely the next one on the list that is actually the problem. But then we can compare with a normal startup sequence.   One thing you haven't mentioned is if this is a dual graphics laptop. That's a common problem, and one that may suddenly surface with a new version, because there is new graphics code that may expose a latent conflict. ... View more

@ken_8677  It's the difference between support and feature level. Those are the terms you need to keep separate.   DirectX is a set of "application programming interfaces" (APIs), now at version 12. Think of it as a language. If a GPU can speak the language, it has DirectX 12 support.   The problem is that it may not be able to execute all the functions specified in the DirectX 12 APIs. That is the feature level, what the GPU can do. So a GPU may have DirectX 12 support, but only feature level 11. And that does not satisfy Photoshop's current requirements.   If you look at the spec sheet of any GPU, the feature level is always specified. But it's usually in small type a bit down, because it can be lower than the "support" level.   If you buy a new GPU now, this is not an issue. Any half-decent GPU now will have feature level 12. But if you get an older one, like 6-7-8 years old, this is something you need to check. ... View more

@Conrad_C  Yes, I have the same experience. It's incredible how much "hidden" highlight data you can squeeze out of a raw file nowadays. Bracketing is very rarely necessary, and only for very special scenarios.   Doing it all in one file also has the extra advantage of matching every pixel, no chance of any ghosting. Makes everything much simpler.   Reducing shadow noise is a valid concern, but if it's so bad that you need to do do something about it, I find a niftier trick is to run denoise on a copy and Blend If to the shadows. But I'm not so worried about noise as many others seem to be 🙂   ... View more

Thanks, Jane 🙂   ... View more

The important thing is to utilize the full sensor data (ACR), instead of merging rendered RGB data which is gamma encoded and dynamically clipped to about 8 stops. ... View more

ChatGPT, no real new information. @Chloe_Parker0991  ... View more

Trevor is right, the ppi number is totally irrelevant. It's just pixels.   The short answer to the rest is that text should never be part of a pixel image, but if it already is, it should never be resized. Resizing destroys pixel text. Create all text as live vector text in the website builder.   Normally I report any post that contains a link as spam, but made an exception here. Remove the link to continue the discussion. ... View more

@jane-e   @AllmondPrinting  That's the number of sub-processes - i.e. opened images, presently or previously in the session. As I already mentioned, memory will be held and recycled when images are closed.   Which reinforces my point that a 4 GB memory footprint is perfectly normal and does not indicate any problem. Once you start working, it will rapidly increase beyond that to the limit you have set in Preferences. Again, this is how it's supposed to work. ... View more

The endstops determine the total dynamic range, identical for these two.   If you're working from raw files, a good modern camera sensor already has a native dynamic range of around 14 stops. So there should normally be plenty enough overlap for 3 exposures to cover a 4 stop bracketing range. Obviously, this depends on the scene, but I can't see many situations where you would realistically need 5 exposures. ... View more

@CMalwitz  Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall 2026? That's what it usually takes. Uninstalling the older versions is precisely what causes the problem in the first place. Reinstalling the new version should establish the correct file associations again. ... View more

Save out your brushes to an .asl file that you can easily reload later. Keep in a safe place. You do this from the panel flyout menu. Same for custom actions. ... View more

Again - you are using the ACR filter, not the ACR raw processor. ... View more

@Holly_Graham8585  There is no problem, this is by design. Export is intended for web/screen/mobile, where the ppi number is irrelevant, not applicable and not used. See @davescm 's post directly above yours.   If you do need the ppi number for printing or calculating font sizes, use Save A Copy, not Export.    If your file is 8 bit and doesn't have layers, transparency or alpha channels (not supported in jpeg), you can also Save directly. ... View more

Using the ACR filter on a rendered RGB file inside Photoshop, is not the same thing as using the full ACR raw processor (the plugin) on a raw file from a camera.   Many of the ACR controls are different, and behave differently, when used on the ACR filter from within Photoshop. The underlying data are very different. The filter is just a small subset of the full processor. ... View more

The photography plan has always been a special discounted offer. It used to be $10 a month, an absolute steal, but the price has recently increased to be a little closer to the standard single-app plans. Still, it is two for the price of one. ... View more

Right now it’s basically useless for production. By @.random..   Well, to be fair, I've used Photoshop professionally for almost 20 years, 8 hours a day, and I've still never needed to batch overwrite originals. In fact, I go to great lengths to prevent that from happening.   But yes, having a small Lightroom prep of layered files before importing isn't unreasonable, considering how essential it is. It would have to be optional, maybe a LrC preference setting. I wouldn't object to that.  ... View more

Yeah, use chat. If you type "agent" you get to talk to a real human being instead of a chatbot. ... View more

@Kuttyjoe  Thanks for reporting back. This confirms what we've seen before: this problem is fixed with a complete reset of all settings/preferences. The most complete method is to move the whole Settings folder to the desktop so a new one can be built.   It isn't actually Photoshop using all this memory, it's the GPU - but performing tasks called by Photoshop. Sometimes it can start eating up the whole system pagefile when memory runs out, which brings down the whole system. There is apparently a vulnerability here which corrupts something in the settings. The settings folder contains the whole application configuration, not just your own user settings. ... View more

The subscription and monthly payments run for the period that you signed up for.   You can try to contact customer service, but no promises. The terms are clear and unambiguous.   Not to twist the knife, but you should have waited to install until the old subscription ran out. Even so, you may need to contact them to avoid automatic renewal.   Yeah, I know, it's a hassle, but this is the sort of thing we all need to deal with everywhere in this digitized internet world. ... View more

You could get around it by batching an action that makes some small change, undoes that change, and then Save > Close. You can't Save an unchanged file, then you need Save As, which immediately complicates things.   Maximize compatibility is taken care of with the global Preferences setting.   I suspect the underlying reason for this is a bunch of new OS policies for file security and integrity. That already killed the direct Save to jpeg that people were used to from CS5 up to CC 2023.   Parametric editing in Lightroom does not support layers and it can't read layers of any kind. That's why you need the composite. ... View more

Ok, take a breath. What exactly happened? Can you post a screenshot? ... View more