Photoshop

Photoshop’s built in-focus stacking is currently a severe compromise for product and macro/micro photographers. It has by far the most convenient workflow in terms of editing, but also by far the worst precision among competitors. Surely Adobe would have all the resources and capability to outshine Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker if you put your mind to it. Sadly though, focus stacking hasn’t seen any improvement in Photoshop since its inception in 2008 I believe and thus is incredibly inaccurate for complex objects, requiring a lot of manual corrections to the masks which is very time consuming. Zerene Stacker does a much (much, much...) better job of stacking complex photos, but they have their own serious drawbacks (lack of RAW support and many editing capabilities, not to mention the terribly outdated UI). Here’s a list overview of the current focus stacking situation:Focus stacking in Photoshop: * CON: the worst quality among serious competitors, inaccurate masks * PRO: best file

History used to show all the steps of your actions when played.  Please bring that back.  I'm constantly tweaking my actions, and I need to know whether a step has been executed when looking at the history.  Especially when something needs troubleshooting because the action may have produced undesirable results.

Revert back to the way it was. I create actions in photoshop, it makes my work easier. I don’t know what changed but now it’s added steps and I can’t see the changes while creating it. Before I could hit record action and then start doing my work, it recorded easily while working and then I hit stop when I was done. Now I have to hit the plus sign, find the step I want to take, then hit add before I can see what it will do to the photo, then hit add again for the next step...you see where I’m going with this? This updated action recording was made with more steps in it. Can we please work smarter not harder? I don’t even want to record actions now, it’s completely tedious to do especially having it be such an easy feature to use in the beginning. Please consider going back to what wasn’t broken.

A simple request really. If there’s a linked layer, for example an tomato and a shadow, so you can move them about together amongst other images. If it gets hidden the shadow should also be hidden at the same time. It should be a simple toggle switch or icon.

Please add a checkbox with option trim image or not to trim.This feature is extremely important for creative designers. At the moment there is very clumsy workaround on Mac using Rosetta and masks, but it will end soon as Apple will no longer support Rosetta apps. Here is an example of how it can be implemented: 

Adobe, please add WebP as an option in the Export As dialog. The current option is not acceptable. I want the same interface options for WebP as PNG, JPG, etc. when I choose to export for the web. WebP is becoming very popular and I'm surprised you haven't included it yet.

Having the ability to quickly trim any excess transparent pixels in an image is a quick, easy to use feature that would be beneficial on the Web App version of Adobe Photoshop.

I am using a MacBook Pro 16-inch, Nov 2024 model, Apple M4 Max and currently on the updated Tahoe 26.4.1 MacOS. I like the resolution I have chosen for my inbuilt screen on my laptop, as I am doing design/photography work. I have my resolution set to 2624 x 1696.  I gone into the Photoshop settings within the program, and into the Interface section, and changed the UI Font size to ‘Large’ and have ticked the box for ‘Scale UI To Font’. The ‘UI Scaling’ option with a dropdown box is greyed out for me and I cannot change this.  I shouldn’t have to change the resolution on my device in order to view the text properly on Photoshop. That is currently the only solution I have been able to find for this issue. Which isn’t a viable solution for me. I have also gone into the Apple System Settings and used the display accessibility options to increase font size - which hasn’t helped with any of the Adobe software.  

J’ai un abonnement pro depuis avril 2022. Je règle cet abonnement tous les mois (78,65 euros actuellement). Le dernier paiement date du 1er mai 2026. Actuellement mon compte a été transformé en “abonnement gratuit” . En conséquence je ne peux plus rien faire. J’essaie de contacter l’aide Adobe mais j’ai toujours la même réponse “pas d’abonnement payant à votre adresse fr…...”. J’ai demandé à ce que l’on me rappelle : réponse “pas possible sans un abonnement payant”. Kafka est de retour.Quelqu’un peut-il m’aider ?

Hi,I use Photoshop on Windows 11.I frequently use PS plugins I got from the Marketplace and even some I built for myself. These plugins can register menu items that appear in Photoshop’s main menu, in the “Plugins” submenu.However, it is not possible to assign keyboard shortcuts for these items. They do not appear in the Keyboard Shortcuts options. Please allow us to set keyboard shortcuts for items in the Plugins submenu. It would greatly improve my workflow.Thank you!

The arrows in Canvas Size provided immediate, intuitive feedback about how the canvas would expand or contract. Their removal reduces usability and slows workflows, as the anchor grid dot alone is less clear. Please restore the arrows or offer them as a toggle option to preserve human-centered design clarity.

Dear Adobe team,I would like to report what appears to be a long-standing accessibility-related bug in Photoshop on macOS.When the macOS pointer size is increased in Accessibility settings, Photoshop also enlarges the brush cursor visually. However, the actual brush size does not change. This creates a mismatch between the visible brush cursor and the real tool size, making precise work difficult or misleading.This is especially problematic because increasing the system cursor size is an accessibility setting. Users who rely on a larger pointer for visibility should not have Photoshop’s brush cursor accuracy affected as a side effect.• Expected behavior:The Photoshop brush cursor should reflect the actual brush size, regardless of the macOS pointer size setting.• Current behavior:The brush cursor is visually enlarged when the macOS pointer size is increased, but the actual brush stroke remains at the original size.This issue has been mentioned by users online for years, so it seems to

I’d like an option to collapse or expand all action sets in the new action panel, either with a menu item option or with a keyboard modifier when clicking on an action set:  

I open the find/replace popup, and instead of typing I would like to copy/paste text into it live. Often I am editing files that need text changed and having that capability to grab text, and drop into the find/replace fields live would save having to close/open repeat….

The swatch palette in Photoshop is easy to change accidentally, by accidentally deleting a swatch or moving it from its given place in the palette to another. Having the option to lock the palette and require permission if changes are made would make it easier to always know that each swatch will be where the user expects it to be.

Please have PS remember the previously entered values for Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation to make it easer when adjusting subsequent layers. The values could already be in the fields when the dialog opens. No more writing down or trying to remember the last values you used. Thanks!

I make a lot of actions with the Actions panel. When I test out my new action, I go into the panel’s menu and change the speed so I can more easily debug my complicated baby action. But then I have to change it back, which is annoying. It would be great to see this:Within Actions/Playback Options, add a checkbox to add the “Performance” items to the bottom of the Actions panel. When checked, buttons corresponding to the three speeds, Accelerated, Step by Step, and Pause For:x, would appear. OR, just leave them there permanently without a checkbox to add, there’s certainly room for them.

We can save a “New Brush Preset” but if the new preset has the same name as an existing one, Photoshop Doesn’t Ask  if you want to replace it, like it does with files, workspaces, etc. So you end up with another version (with an automatically appended number) and then you have to delete the other one.It just seems logical that PS should ask if you want to replace it if the name is the same.

As @D Fossee pointed out, the eraser tool is pixel destructive so layer masks have become a more efficient and flexible way to “erase” I’d like to see the Eraser tool automatically create a layer mask and “paint” to that alpha instead of destroying the pixels. Since we’re at it, holding the tilde key could paint to the layer mask instead of switching to the destructive eraser tool. Or perhaps you could remove the destructive Eraser tool altogether since it seems to be ‘unused’ by so many illustrators nowadays. Thanks for the consideration! 🎉

Add a thumbnail preview inside the Artboards panel, similar to PowerPoint slides, so designers can quickly identify each artboard visually without navigating back and forth on the canvas.This would help designers:Quickly know where they are Spot missing or unfinished artboards Export the correct artboard faster Review layout consistency at a glance Save time in multi-artboard projectsPlease add visual thumbnails/previews to the Artboards panel, similar to PowerPoint slides, so designers can quickly identify, review, and export artboards without constantly navigating across the canvas.

Add a thumbnail preview inside the Artboards panel, similar to PowerPoint slides, so designers can quickly identify each artboard visually without navigating back and forth on the canvas.This would help designers:Quickly know where they are Spot missing or unfinished artboards Export the correct artboard faster Review layout consistency at a glance Save time in multi-artboard projectsPlease add visual thumbnails/previews to the Artboards panel, similar to PowerPoint slides, so designers can quickly identify, review, and export artboards without constantly navigating across the canvas.

I would like to request an improvement to the confirmation dialogs shown when using AI Denoise and AI Sharpen in Photoshop.Currently, every time I intentionally use AI Denoise or AI Sharpen, Photoshop displays a confirmation dialog explaining that the feature uses a Topaz partner AI model and may consume generative credits.I understand that this information is important, especially for first-time use. However, displaying the same confirmation dialog every single time interrupts the workflow unnecessarily. These features are selected and used intentionally by the user, so repeated confirmation becomes more of a disruption than a useful warning.Please add a “Don’t show again” checkbox to these dialogs, similar to other Photoshop warning dialogs. Ideally, the warning should appear only the first time, and users should be able to re-enable it later from Preferences if needed.Requested improvements:- Add a “Don’t show again” checkbox to the AI Denoise confirmation dialog- Add the same optio

In recent versions of Photoshop, the Crop Tool no longer automatically snaps to the actual pixel bounds of a rotated image in the way it used to.Previously, when rotating slightly and then cropping, the crop frame would naturally align to the real edges of the image content. This made it easy to avoid leaving unintended empty/black edges in the corners.Currently, the tool instead assumes that the user may want to expand the canvas (e.g. via Generative Expand), and does not respect the true pixel boundaries in the same way. This makes precise cropping slower and increases the risk of leaving small artifacts (e.g. thin black triangles in corners).Request:Please add an option (or restore default behavior) for:Automatic snapping of the crop boundary to the actual rotated pixel edges A “strict pixel bounds” mode that ignores AI/expansion assumptionsWhy this matters:In photojournalism and other documentary contexts, it is essential that images are not altered beyond basic adjustments. AI-gen

I'm trying to switchover from Adobe Bridge to Lightroom for tracking and sorting photos. I have literally hundreds of keywords, lots of species and common names, in Bridge.  I need a proper photo catalog again, and Lightroom is what's there.  But....it turns out Bridge will happily export those keywords to an .xml or .txt file, but Lightroom will not import them directly because Lightroom disallows punctuation characters in keywords.But after I worked with text edit to remove/replace all of the forbidden characters, and imported the xml file into Lightroom, it did import them, but kept all the formatting stuff...So each of these lines came out as keywords<?xml version="10" encoding="UTF 8" standalone="yes" ?><keywords version="2">    <set name="Characteristic" disclosed="false">        <item name="Geolocator screenshot" />        <item name="inset closeup" />        <item name="Landscape" />        <set name="macro" disclosed="true">           

One of the things I have noticied over using several Adobe apps over the years is the level of documentation between the apps. Having an extensive background in various database and OS software the developers for the most part provide comprehensive Release Notes and Changelogs with their apps. This allows the user to see what has changed and when. There is a myriad of reasons why this is important. However, this logic does not seem to apply to all Adobe Teams. In fact on of the Adobe Employee responded in one posting in this community group pointing to a "Summary" when asked about Release Notes. The request for Release Notes and Changelogs have been made a number of times, and have went unanswered. I came across a good article today describing the purpose and differences between them. Can only hope Photoshop management takes a minute to review the article.https://featureos.app/blog/best-changelog-and-release-notes-software-featureos