Photoshop

I organized my brushes a day ago while working on an illustration project renaming and fine tunning them while working on a new project. I went to sleep thinking "Wow I finally got something going with the brushes and feeling comfortable about painting in photoshop rather than with actual paints. I updated the next day because there was an update and I said, "Why not?" Now the gradients and brush presets are gone. I didn't change anything including my current workspace and after hours of collecting and organizing things for my project there are no longer there. The only thing I can imagine is I restarted my machine the next day, but I assumed Photoshop saves my presets on the spot. Am I wrong about this? Do I have to quit Photoshop before restarting so it saves those changes?  I can't update to the latest PS version 26 because CC suggests I should buy a new computer. I have an iMac 2015 I purchased new in 2016.

I have been using photoshop for years and have never run into this before.  I frequently have to save my files as PSD and JPEG.  This was not an issue until last week.  Now when I select "Save As" I only have the options to save as PSD, PSB, and TIFF.  I am working with small 3.5m files.  Have I changed some preference or something?  If I flatten the image and remove layers then all of my "Save as type" options are  displayed.  Not sure if this is part of the reason Photoshop now crashes as I exit or crashes sometime when just entering the save files window.  I have plenty of disk space as well.  Any help would be appreciated. Thank  you for your help

I don't need smart objects for anything, ever. How can I turn it off for good? Thanks for any help. 

Problema principal:Estoy utilizando la función “Enmascarar todos los objetos” en Photoshop 2025 v25.6 con una imagen que contiene múltiples objetos. Aunque Photoshop crea un grupo con capas individuales y máscaras por cada objeto detectado, los objetos no se ven ni aparecen visibles al activar las capas, incluso después de aplicar la máscara. Lo que ya he intentado: Duplicar la capa original antes de aplicar “Enmascarar todos los objetos”.Verificar que la imagen esté desbloqueada y sea editable.Aplicar manualmente las máscaras de cada capa.Invertir las máscaras.Usar “Seleccionar sujeto” y “Seleccionar objeto” para verificar si hay detección de contenido.Crear una capa combinada (Shift+Cmd+Opt+E) antes de aplicar la función.  Resultado:A pesar de que las máscaras muestran correctamente la silueta blanca de los objetos (al hacer Alt + clic), las capas no muestran ningún contenido visible cuando se activa la visibilidad, ni siquiera tras aplicar la máscara. Es como si

If you look in bottom right corner, I've had photoshop do this jumping thing since update 26.5.0 came out where the polygonal lasso will jump off screen then back on real quick, especially when moving cursor very slowly to edge of screen to move canvas around 

Hello Adobe Community, Why are the Width and Height Ratio number boxes greyed out?I used to be able to select a Fixed Ratio with the Marquee Selection tool.Is that no longer possible? Thank you for the help! Michael

Hello everyone.I am having a problem when using the pen tool, I can briefly describe my problem as follows. When using the pen tool, I cannot exit the curve drawing mode, and I cannot exit the image moving mode (normally the image only moves when I hold the space key, however when using the pen tool, even though I no longer hold the space key, my photoshop still cannot exit the moving mode).I have uploaded 3 videos, 2 of which describe my error and 1 video is me using the pen tool on another computer.Hope everyone can give me some advice

I'm experiencing an issue when trying to edit pages from a PDF in Photoshop via Acrobat's "Edit Using" functionality. My PDF consists of a color cover and black and white interior pages saved as indexed PNG images.Steps to Reproduce:Open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat. This PDF contains a colored cover and subsequent pages saved as indexed PNG images (black and white).Navigate to one of the black and white interior pages (saved as an indexed PNG).Right-click on the desired page.Select "Edit Using" and then "Adobe Photoshop [Your Photoshop Version]".Expected Result:Photoshop should launch, and the selected page should open for editing.Actual Result:Photoshop launches, but an error message appears stating: "Could not open '[filename].pdf' because this is not a Photoshop PDF image file."Additional Information:The cover page (which is in color and presumably not an indexed PNG) might open correctly in Photoshop using the same method (though I haven't specifically tested this in this bug rep

photoshop 2025 lagging and very slow when pasting smart object on ducument, after need to restart computer 

Application: Adobe Photoshop 2025Operating System: Windows [Windows 11 Version 23H2]Description of the Problem:The Eraser tool (E) in Photoshop 2025 is not displaying the brush tip. Instead of showing the circular outline of the eraser brush, the cursor is only a crosshair. This makes it difficult to accurately gauge the size and shape of the eraser. Expected Results:The Eraser tool cursor should display the brush tip, showing the size and shape of the eraser, similar to how the Brush tool (B) and other painting tools display their brush tips.

So, this just happened randomly. I'm pretty sure I didn't touch any settings...Anyhow, the problem is that whenever I use my color picker, it picks a more saturated and brighter version than the color I chose. If my color is darker, it will pick a more saturated and darker color, until it is totally black. Can someone help me? I cannot find a good answer anywhere to fix this.

Since installing the sequoia 15.4.1 update to my iMacPros yesterday (both computers), I'm having problems with Photoshop. Photoshop generative expand and other AI features have stopped working and I get the dreaded brown box "Please check your internet connection and try again".Both computers were working fine before the update, now both have the same problems. (yes I should have done one at a time).I checked my MacBook Pro (running OS Ventura 13.7.5) and everything works fine.I presume the OS has adjusted an internet connection setting on the system settings.Firewall is turned off.Internet speed is 970 Mbps.Another observation, not Adobe related but may help find the issue, is that WeTransfer will no longer upload files to the Mac desktop app or to the website.Please help.

I'm on the latest version (26.6.1) on OS 15.4.1 Mac Mini M116GB RAM For this particular example - layered TIF (580MB)When I crop an image, Photoshop stops responsing at the Rendering Smart Filts stage and I have to force quit. It happens on various files at this point. Any suggestions? 

I'm processing a photo of the milky way I took, and after using the minimum filter, these weird patterns appear. I've never had this issue until a few days ago and nothing I can find has worked. I have tried the suggestions on https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/weird-lines-appear-after-doing-filter-other-minimum/m-p/12992964.and have had no luck. I have attached a screenshot for reference.Thanks 

Hi guys. Considering TIFF format supports practically every Photoshop aspect, what's the purpose of saving in PSD format? Does it have any advantage over TIFF? Thanks.

Hey! Hope I can describe my Photoshop issue in English. On my last Macbook Pro 2016 13" and on my new one 2019 15" I have this issue most of the time with photoshop - I think not at all with the other software of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Issue:As you can see in the screenshot my Photoshop window moves out of the viewport/display of my Macbook (to the left). This happens quite often after I am working for some time with Photoshop and switching between Photoshop and a browser, other CC software… It is not only that I have to move it back to the center of the window in order to see everything.The second part of the issue are the openend tabs in Photoshop: they suddenly do not react anymore, when I click on them. The workaround I use since months is to click on the right side of the window an drag it a little bit smaller or bigger. This does actually activate the chosen tab and I can continue working. As you can imagine this is a pain in the a… even though I can w

Hello,I recently purchased a Mac Studio and have been using Photoshop.However, every time I use the Liquify filter in Photoshop, there is a noticeable delay.Is there any way to fix this?System specs:CPU: M4 MaxRAM: 48GBmacOS version: 15.5

Hey all,I'm a semi-newbie to Photoshop and Lightroom on Mac & IpadOS, but trying to pick up useful skills.I recently had my first roll of Black & White film come back, and oddly the middle of the roll seems to have fallen foul to some light leakage. I have no clue how this happened, as it doesn't impact the rest of the roll at all.In either case - there's varying levels of impact. Was just wondering if there was anything in the ecosystem I could leverage to try and smooth out the impact? Some may be beyond saving, but wanted to understand if I had any options here. Typically I see people with impacted colour film told to use a black and white filter... but that isn't an option here for obvious reasons.Thanks in advance.Sam

Hi all,I am trying to correct a 16k x 10k pixels panorama with the Perspective Warp tool and it is constantly blocking and responding incredibly slow so I might have to cut down the resolution in order to be able to work on my image. All the hardware of my PC are working at normal parameters so the only thing that is slow is Photoshop. Does anyone else have this problem?Thanks,Alex

Hey all, I've encountered a technical problem recently where I am unable to save files to the Adobe cloud. Whenever I click on the "save as" option it directs me to option to save it locally. The button for "save to cloud documents" is still the but when I click on it, nothing happens. The dialog box disappears for a moment and then pops back up. Any fixes? Thank you in advance for all the help.

After editing a file in Photoshop, and completing Merge Visible Layers, a number of solid blue squares appeared on the file in my workshpace.  I undid the merge visible.But whenn I saved it back to Lightroom, the file appeared with the blue boxes on it.Why is this happening?  I recently upgraded both LR and PS.TIA.

Estaba trabajando con photoshop y al momento de abrir un archivo editable, dejo de funcionar, al no tener respuesta del programa reinicie la computadora y abri el programa, se abrio con otro editable diferente, y trate de abrir el que estaba trabajando y no reacciono, reinicie lka computadora nuevamente y cuando quise abrir photoshop, simplemente no hizo nada.Ya desisntaléYa instale versiones anteriores.Utilié la herramienta de limpieza de adobe.Ya borre y volví a instalar el creative cloud.Ya actualice mi driver de video.Mis aplicaciones tienen permiso en el firewall.Las demas aplicaciones funcionan, menos el photoshop.

Hi,A PSD file was corrupted while saving (PC crashed).It can't be opened. It says:Couldn't open  "File.PSD" because the file is not compatible with this version of Photoshop.Of course I hadn't changed the version.The file is big enough, I mean the information is in there, probably there was a small mistake.  It was a whole day work, please help!

Been trying to use this tool /shortcuts  I have it working but I am not getting a new layer all the repeats are on one layer I understand I should get each new copy on a new layer using CS6 on a PC does anyone know why I am not getting new layers for each copy?