Photoshop

Last week it began returning unexpected results when tasked with fixing a small area. I noticed two things:First: it can’t help but hallucinate. It will reliably return a snake, a bow and arrow, a jar of something or what not. Usually in situations were it used to reliably fill in a texture perfectly and out perform Firefly Fill & Expand.Second, it seems to have lost the ability to seamlessly retian texture over a small area. Often it comes back mangled or oversharpened if it doesn’t have an ice pick or a toaster thrown in.Anyone else seeing this? It seemed like a pretty sudden server side thing so please please please don’t ask me to post 10 pages of my system info efectively killing this thread. 

Photoshop has severe interactive canvas/UI performance issues when running on an external 4K or 5K display using macOS HiDPI scaling on macOS 26/27.Operations that should be fluid become visibly choppy and appear to run at a low frame rate. This is particularly noticeable when:Moving an image or layer around the canvas Using Free Transform to resize a layer Moving or resizing the Crop tool Other operations involving continuous canvas redrawsExternal display / HiDPI behaviorThe issue occurs when Photoshop is displayed on my external 4K or 5K monitor with HiDPI scaling enabled.Changing the monitor refresh rate between 60 Hz and 120 Hz makes no difference.The only display-related workaround I have found is running the monitor at:2560 × 1440 with HiDPI disabledWith HiDPI disabled, Photoshop performance improves substantially.This is an important distinction because macOS renders these two configurations at very different internal resolutions:2560 × 1440 with HiDPI enabled:macOS internally

I was using the Filter Aberration parametric filter extensively and suddenly stopped working. I’ve tried everything I can think of to get it working, but it just won’tAll of the other parametric filters work just fine, but when I click on the Filter Aberration Chromatic nothing happens, over and over.I’ve tried all of the following:Reset preferences Delete preferences Restore Default Filters from the Parametric Filters flyout menu Upgrade to newest version of Photoshop (currently on 27.9.1) Uninstall and reinstall Photoshop Update my graphics drivers to the most current (RTX 4070 Laptop w/ drivers dated July 22, 2026) I’ve tried on numerous files, including low res files Plenty of web searches looking for solutionsI can open and edit the Filter Aberration Chromatic properties on my existing files, but I can’t ever seem to get it working with new files.Is there anything else I can try?Any temporary files or something that the parametric filters use that maybe I can delete? Looking in th

When working with files in Lightroom Classic, selecting “Open As Layers in Photoshop”, when Photoshop was not previously running, the pressure sensitivity of the brush tool with a Wacom tablet does not work. The brush uses the Opacity setting, not the pressure sensitivity. If the file is saved, closed, and then reopened, pressure sensitivity works again. On all files opened after the initial one, pressure sensitivity works. It seems to only not work correctly on the first instance of a file being opened.This is on a Windows machine, running Windows 11, Photoshop version 27.9.1 and Lightroom Classic version 15.5.

I have a new Mac and tried to install photoshop.  It stalled at 48%.  won’t move forward can’t uninstall it.

Hello,I am reporting this issue here following a suggestion from the Illustrator team.I originally reported what appeared to be the same problem in the Illustrator UserVoice forum:https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/50552691-high-gpu-load-on-macos-26-tahoeThe Illustrator engineers investigated it and confirmed they found the cause. The issue is now fixed in the current Illustrator Beta (30.8.72), and I can confirm that the fix works correctly on my MacBook Pro M1 Max.Unfortunately, Photoshop still shows the same behaviour.ConfigurationMacBook Pro 16” M1 Max macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 Latest Photoshop versionObserved behaviourWindowServer (not Photoshop) continuously uses a high amount of GPU while Photoshop is visible. Photoshop CPU usage remains low. GPU usage is proportional to the visible area of the Photoshop window. Minimizing or hiding the application immediately drops GPU usage. The behaviour is very similar to what was previously observe

The Adobe Firefly connector in Codex is repeatedly failing with:HTTP 403 Forbidden — “MCP streamable transport probe failed”Endpoint: https://photoshop-mcp-service.adobe.io/v3-creativity-b8f2a/mcpThe connector worked briefly and successfully generated images, but then began returning this error again. It occurs before Firefly receives the prompt, even when generating one image at a time. Disconnecting, reconnecting and restarting the app have not resolved it. Please investigate the connector’s authentication/transport authorization.

hotoshop menu bar on top has been missing and been trying to find a solution but to no avail. everybody asking me to go to the menu bar that is already missing and fix problem from there . wish means no solutuon . am using photoshop latest 2024 . I open application top window bar not there and have to reset preferences zillion of time just to open the app with same problem . anybody have a solution. would be grateful and thankful. Thank you 

I have several M1 Macs—from Mac mini to iMac—and they all have the same issue. Whenever I open Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign, even if I don’t do anything, WindowServer will jump to around 80–90% GPU usage. Once I start working with files, even just opening a single image, the whole system becomes choppy and starts dropping frames, with GPU usage almost maxed out.But : if I switch the app to full-screen with menu bar mode (press F), the window shadows disappear, GPU usage drops back to normal, and everything runs smoothly—even with large files open. This makes it pretty clear the issue is related to how window shadows are being handled in macOS 26 and how it interacts with Adobe apps.It’s been months since Adobe 26 came out, and I’ve been waiting for updates to fix this, but even the latest versions still haven’t solved it. At this point, I’m wondering if it’s even fixable.M1 Macs are not that old—most Mac minis and iMacs from around 2021–2022 are still M1, so they’re definitely n

I’m using Photoshop v 27.9.1 on my Windows 11 Pro laptop. I noticed yesterday that when I open a file via the “Recent” section of Photoshop’s Homepage, I cannot use Undo via Ctrl Z. I can only get Ctrl Z to work if I: minimize / maximize Photoshop, tab to another program and back to Photoshop, or undock and redock file tab. It’s almost like the Ctrl Z keyboard command doesn’t relate it’s to Photoshop unless I do those things. Possibly due to my file being a tab? Ctrl Z works no matter how I open the file if I have the file set to show as a window first instead of a tab.The only way I can get Ctrl Z to work consitently as a tab now is by opening a file via “File, Open / Open Recent” or starting a whole new file to work on. This issue happens more times than it doesn’t now. There were sometimes when I opened a file via the recent section of the home page and Ctrl Z worked right when I went to use it. But it doesn’t work without my work arounds most of the time.Other shortcuts that use Ct

Photoshop 2025 Elements won't open, says I need to “buy now”. It let me use it for 7 days by clicking free trial, but now since the 7 days won’t open I’m unable to open it on my PC. I bought a 3 year term lease on 3/5/2025 so I know it hasn’t run out yet. I reinstalled it and I still get the same message. I tried the chat but because it says I don’t have an active plan it won’t let me chat with a human, and AI doesn’t have a clue. I’m using the same email address I did to redeem the code from Amazon. Please help!!! 

Using Save As Photoshop PDF, I was able to save PDFs above 50,000 pixels wide yesterday using 27.8.After updating to 27.9.1 this morning I could no longer save a Photoshop PDF above approximately30,000 pixels wide  (Photoshop PDF was no longer an option in the dropdown). After reverting back to 27.8 I can now save PDFs from files over 50,000 pixels wide again.

Bonjour,Quand j'utilise l'Outil Correcteur Localisé en cliquant avec ma souris sur une zone de la photo à l’écran, une multitude de lignes partent dans tous les sens. Donc cet outil ne fonctionne plus depuis plusieurs jours. Est-ce un bug ?

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting in this forum so I’ll do my best to explain my issue. Today I encountered an unrelated issue regarding Photoshop brushes having seemingly random inputs. So, after a little reading, I saw that the solution seemed to be updating my drivers. I checked my laptop and saw there was a backlog of updating so I went ahead and installed those as needed. After rebooting and launching Photoshop, my brushes were fixed but I noticed the whites on my canvas, color picker, and layer thumbnails were tinted blue. I searched this forum and found someone else encountered this on this thread but the posted solution there did not work for me. Instead, I found a YouTube video from 9 years ago addressing a similar issue (instead of blue, it was yellow). They went into Device Manager and added sRGB profile to their monitor and set that as default instead of the monitor’s native profile. That semi-worked for me. The whites in my canvas and color picker seemed fixed, bu

Since version 27.4 and continuing in 27.5 I’ve been experiencing image flickering when using the Curves adjustment. In version 27.4, the issue occurs in all Curves use cases. In 27.5, it appears primarily when applying Curves as a Smart Adjustment on a Smart Object. It is slightly improved, but still noticeable when using Curves as a standard adjustment layer.I’ve attached a video demonstrating the issue: The first example shows Curves applied as a Smart Adjustment on a Smart Object (strong flickering). The second shows a direct adjustment on a non-Smart Object layer (no issue). The third shows a standard adjustment layer (minor flickering still visible). The flickering is clearly visible, especially in the first case.Please look into this issue, as it makes precise adjustments very difficult.Thank you.example video:https://youtu.be/jbe6K-ORr44