Photoshop

Hi, guys!   I use Photoshop mainly for illustration and concept art. I prefer to resize brush size with ALT + RIGHT CLICK DRAG, but if you drag up and down you change the opacity. I would like to lock this feature, so draging only changes size. The issue here is that I often end up changing the opacity without noticing it. Is there a way to disable opacity change on alt + right click drag method? If not, this would be a good feature to add, since it is faster to resize the brush this way, rather than by clicking the brackets.   Other people have requested this before on other forums: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/alt-right-click-drag-resize-opacity-lock https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/feature-request-option-to-disable-hardness-opacity-control-from-alt-right-click-brush-control-hot-key   Thanks in advance!! Best regards!!

Hello, I have installed the latest version of PS but when I try to use the Remove tool, I receive the message "Required components are being downloaded. Check back later to use the feature once the download is complete. It actually downloads nothing and every time I try to use this tool, the warning message appears.any ideas how to fix this?

Hello Adobe Photoshop Team,I would like to share some suggestions and feedback that could improve the workflow and user experience inside Photoshop, especially for designers who work daily on social media and branding projects.1. Text resizing behavior:When resizing text using the transform box, Photoshop switches to Move Tool behavior and creates a larger transform box around the text. This makes resizing feel indirect and requires extra steps. It would be much better if text resizing worked more directly and smoothly without unnecessary transform behavior.2. Incremental font size controls:Please add easier “step-by-step” font size increase/decrease buttons (for example small arrows beside font size) so users can quickly adjust text size gradually without typing values manually.3. Font menu placement:When changing fonts, the font list appears over the artboard and covers the design and text itself. It would be much better if the font list appeared as a side panel or floating panel awa

Cant open files in Photoshop v27.6.0On the file menu, all options to open are greyed out.When I try to double-click on a PSD file on my computer (MAC STUDIO) nothing happens, the file doesn't open. Occasionally the Open Recent option is available.I have to quite Photoshop and reopen to get it to work, though it will soon stop working.

Hello,I just installed the latest version of Photoshop, and other Adobe apps, on my Win11 PC (everything is up to date). Because I use 4k monitors, as many others do, I need to make the UI font sizes larger so I can actually see them. New glasses would be good, but that's a whole other discussion. I've tried the medium and large settings, but these apparently do nothing. I also tried this when checking the "Scale UI To Font" option, but that doesn't seem to do anything either. I do not want to set the UI in Windows itself to a higher percent, as that defeats the purpose of large monitors. The weird thing is this works absolutely great in Adobe Bridge; is there some similiar functionality in Photoshop as well? And if not, why the heck not? Why is this available in one app but not another? Anyway, I'd greatly appreciate a definitive answer to this. Thanks much.

I can use this Neural filter once or twice and then I start getting this error message. Works again a few hours later for one or two images. This question has been asked before and one poster said it was because the user didn't have enough ram. I have enough ram (64gb) and also an 8 gb gpu (but maybe that's the problem?) Any other ideas here. The other thread I found about this didn't help.Thank you    

Numlock on the keyboard is on Click into the opacity field of a layer press 2,4,6 or 8 on the numpad an erorr message appearsUsing Windows 10.

After the new update i can not find the fill bucket icon under the gradient icon anymore is the bucket relocated somewhere else. Or is this some sort of bug / error?

Hi, I have been using PS for more than a decade. It seems like my skills are not improving anymore. I can make a extreme difficult project(according to people) while having a hangover. I am looking for a course which you think have the knowledge up to the par.Thanks in advance.[Moved to Photoshop ecosystem by moderator authority］

My Workflow:I work in the shoe sales industry. I use a 1000x1500px PSD file to scale down and position product photos. I then retouch them using Generative Fill, the Remove Tool, and other features. After that a create a copy backup file with all the photos of certain product, delete all the layers and continue with the next one. The source files I import are large (4480x6720px).The Issue:In previous versions of Photoshop (Pre v27), I had no RAM issues and could process a batch of 200 photos without stopping. However, with the new 2026 version (v27), my memory usage hits 90% after doing small batch of about 20-40 photos. Currently, the only solution is to close and restart Photoshop to clear the cache, I can also confirm using v26.7 version of Photoshop (2025) fixes the RAM problem.Troubleshooting attempted so far:Changed scratch disksAdjusted max memory usage in Photoshop settingsReset preferencesUsed Edit -> Purge -> Purge All (this had no effect)My Specs:CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3DMO

Recently updated to PS 26.1.   The app grabs 6GB system RAM upon my opening of a single 8K image and continues to allocation big chunks (15GB, 33GB, etc.) while the app gets slower and slower as a result.  1) did anyone at Adobe test performance impacts before forcing the upgrade on us?2) Is this poor performance considered a bug or a feature?3) I'm not using any of the new fancy features of the update. I'm simply hand editing images.4) Going into Preferences>Performance and capping the app's memory usage to a reasonable amount (~10GB) seems to help the peformance and stop the leak.   

I shoot dance recitals every year. I had an older Mac with 16 GB of RAM and had no issues automatically converting thousands of raw files to jpeg automatically once adjustments were made in ACR. My MacStudio with 64GB of RAM keeps running out of memory after about 300 images which is significantly slowing down my processing as I have to babysit the computer to keep the conversions going in a timely manner.I have looked at all the settings and I cannot see where I can fix this issue that seems to have started on the last or the previous update(s).

I think if I ever met the person in charge of PS development I'd probably get arrested. It's the only program that I use that simply hogs memory for no reason and causes my system to grind to a halt.  It just sits there with zero files open and zero tasks to do just guzzling memory - I just had to shut it down for the 10th time today as it was hoarding 18GB of memory while doing NOTHING. This has been going on for over a decade. Mind you I suppose it's par for the course from a company that can't even fix the CTRL D (deselect,) problem in over ten years.

i have the non-beta, the normal photoshop., i have the same problem, the generated fill becomes gray, and i cant find where to put the age on behance

Hi, for a few days now, whenever I open and close Photoshop files, I've noticed a gradual decrease in free space on my system disk, which isn't recovered until Photoshop crashes. This is definitely a Photoshop or system issue, as it never happened before and still doesn't happen on my old computer. Has anyone had or has a similar problem? I'm working on an M1 MacBook Pro with Sequoia version 15.6.

Hey all,  I recently upgrade from PS2020 to PS25 and aside from ui changes, I've had a shockingly bad memory leak issue crop up. Had a small psd open, 1000x1000, had 6 layers, and have ai features turned off. When i left my computer for the evening, i was using around 10gb of RAM of my total 64GB. When i woke up, i noticed my computer really chugging, which concerned me because it is a beast. Task manager showed i was using an 100% memory. I immediately closed chrome, nothing was released to free up ram, didn't see photoshop explicitly showing high memory usage, so didn't think about it at first. I started closing things down one by one based on the RAM usage in task manager, and nothing worked until i closed photoshop. That immediately released it. Won't be leaving docs open over night any time soon, but would be nice to have this fixed as i don't like resetting up my work space every day. Also generally just want to go back to PS2020 haha. Anyways, system specs in

I have same problem here… zero solution. I tried updating the drivers for my graphics card, processor, and motherboard, but nothing helps.

I’m using the Parametric filter to create a felt applique image. The layer for the image is a smart object. When I add a new JPG or PNG to the smart object to use the filter, I;m getting the error, the material file provided cannot be read.Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this is happening and any way to remedy it? 

A while ago, I noticed several new fonts appear in Photoshop which I had not added myself.  I wanted to remove one of these fonts (Gigantic regular) because I never use it, but it refuses to budge.I tried removing it via the Adobe Cloud app on my Windows 10 PC. In the app it would display as removed, but was still present in Photoshop. I tried this method several times, but the font would reappear both in the Cloud app and in Photoshop. Today, I noticed that it has disappeared from the Adobe Cloud app, and is displaying as having been removed, yet it is still available in Photoshop. Also, this font does not appear in the Windows font manager. It also shows as not installed on the Abode website where you can browse/add/remove all the available fonts.Can someone please help me remove this font, preferably without deleting all my other Adobe fonts that I use in Photoshop.

Hello everyone, Maybe you can help me?I am looking for a way to get pattern fills back into individual data.My idea would be a script that outputs the size of the individual tile of the pattern fill and adjusts the document size on this basis. now you would only have to rasterize and have the individual tile of the pattern fill? What is the best way to implement this? are there any other solutions? Many thanks in advance for your help 🙂

After selecting several color sample points I have numbered cross-hair points on the image and the RGB values shown in the side Info panel.  How do I clear all these color samples?  I have seen mentions of a “clear all” context menu option but I do not see such a thing.  How do I get rid of the sample points on the image and the data in the side  panel?

I would say 95% of the time when I go to use "generative expand" in photoshop I get this pop up, "Something went wrong. Please try again." My machine is updated, photoshop is updated, cache cleared, I even restarted my computer. After all of this, any time I go to use "generative expand" - which is on average once a week - it almost never works and I end up having to photoshop it the old fashioned way.  We switched to a subscription based service to have the newest technology, but what's the point if that new technology never works? I'm paying a premium price for the same features I used 10 years ago.  Generative expand is a great tool when and IF it works. Please fix because it's really annoying. 

I got the last version of photoshop. Under Plugins I only have plugin panel and manage plugin but no browse plug in.

Shift and control still allow me to save(ctrl+shift+s) or select my entire screen(ctrl+a) but its just layers and rotating to my current knowledge. I have already restarted my computer, redownloaded photoshop, and its an issue both with stylus and trackpad.

Photoshop 2026 limits undos/history to a maximum of 5. This is a known bug in Illustrator 2026 that has a fix in progress, announced on a similar thread for that program. I can’t find an equivalent thread for this same issue in the Photoshop forums, so figured I’d report just to be sure it’s been recorded/made visible. Not seeking assistance, I’m just going to go back to the previous stable version so I can keep scooting on my work, so this is just a report. Thank you!