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Hi everyone,in a Photoshop 2026 UXP plugin I want to export an artboard (or layer) as an jpeg image. Same function as right clicking an artboard or layer and selecting “Export As” choosing JPG with quality 6.I am using Photoshop 2026 27.4.0 on OSX with M1 CPU. UXP 9.2.0 and UXP Developer Tools 2.2.1I just found a method to export a whole document using document.saveAs.jpeg() method. But I do not want to export the whole document, just a few artboards inside it.I tried duplicating the document and using document.crop() method on the copy. But the crop method doesn’t do anything, the document with and height are the same after crop(). See here:/* Non working example of using document.crop()*/await core.executeAsModal(async () => { const document = app.activeDocument; console.log(`Document size before crop: ${document.width} x ${document.height}`); const res = await document.crop({top: -61, bottom: 660, left: 8753, right: 9934}); console.log(`Document size after crop: ${

I have my plugin on Adobe marketplace but when someone installs the plugin the plugin icon not visible in the installed popup and instead a placeholder visible .How to fix and place my icon

 I need to convert .psd files to .json and this must support smart objects, this means, data should contain warp information.I was able to extract the relevant information but I can't do it with the smart objects.What do I need to take into account to achieve this?Is there any language and library that will make it easier for me to complete the job?.  

I am developing a Photoshop UXP panel plugin, but the panel icon does not appear.The plugin itself loads correctly, but the icon for the panel is missing.I checked my manifest.json, especially the icon settings, but I cannot figure out what is wrong.Am I defining the panel icon incorrectly?Here is only the relevant part of my manifest.json with private details removed:{ "entrypoints": [ { "type": "panel", "id": "my-panel", "label": { "default": "My Plugin" }, "icons": [ { "width": 23, "height": 23, "path": "icons/panel-dark.png", "scale": [1, 2], "theme": ["darkest", "dark", "medium"] }, { "width": 23, "height": 23, "path": "icons/panel-light.png", "scale": [1, 2], "theme": ["lightest", "light"] } ] } ], "icons": [ { "width": 48, "height": 48, "path": "icons/plugin-dark.png", "scale": [1, 2], "the

Currently, Photoshop names Generative Fill layers using the full AI prompt, which often results in very long file names appearing in the document tabs. This makes it harder to quickly navigate between multiple open files.Proposed Solution:Instead of displaying the full prompt in the file name tab, use a short identifier such as:“AI Layer” or a simple symbol/icon indicating AI-generated contentThe full prompt can still be preserved in:Layer metadata Properties panel Tooltip on hoverExpected Outcome:Cleaner, more compact file tabs Faster file navigation in multi-document workflows Reduced visual clutter without losing prompt dataThis keeps the interface minimal while still retaining all the important information in the background.

Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.5.0 20260314.m.3457 1720e4b  x64 (beta, PublicBeta)Windows 10Steps:Select something with the marquee tool, or other selection tool click “Select Inverse” in the contextual task bar use the brush tool on the selection try to press crtl + z or other keyboard shortcuts it doesn’t work! for some reason!I wanted to type out a more detailed description with more examples but I somehow submitted this before I was done typing. This has actually been happening for a while but I just was ignoring it.I cannot figure out how to consistently get the keyboard shortcuts working again other than waiting for a while and clicking seemingly random things on the screen. 

1. When will the next version of Photoshop be released after updating to 27.5?2. Why is there no date in Settings > Installed Apps after successfully updating to 27.5?

I’m having an issue with the new Rotate Object feature in Photoshop Beta 27.6.0.The option is grayed out in the Contextual Task Bar, and I can’t click it.Here’s what I’ve already checked/tested: Photoshop Beta 27.6.0 Creative Cloud Pro account RGB 8-bit Rasterized layer & smart object Tried it in Transform mode Tried a brand new file with a transparent background Color profile set to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Tried both PNG and JPG Tried it with my own object image Also tried it with a free Adobe Stock image, and it still did not work

After 30 years of working with photoshop, content aware fill is acting odd. It fills in the desired area with strange  mixes of the sampled content. It used to pick up one what was in the edges and intelligently fill in the blanks. I am using the same techniquest I’ve been using for DECADES. I want to emphasize again that I’ve been using this app for a VERY long time and this is not user error. You folks need to review this and fix it. I added this under “Photshop Developers” but I am talking about the

I built a UXP plugin for Photoshop 27.5 on Windows. The panel renders perfectly, I can see all the UI elements, buttons, sliders, everything. But nothing is clickable. The entire panel is frozen.Other plugins installed on my machine like AI Lab and Color Designer work perfectly with full click interaction.Things I have tried:Installed via CCX through Creative Cloud Developer mode off and on sp-theme wrapper pointer-events auto in CSS Official Adobe plugin ID from Developer Console apiVersion 2 in manifestMy manifest has manifestVersion 6, apiVersion 2. The plugin ID is registered on Adobe Developer Console. Single index.html file with all JS inline.What is different about a properly working plugin that would cause clicks to work vs mine being frozen?

Hello, I would like to use the Photoshop API for my project, but I'm not sure how to get started. Our company already has an active Adobe Creative Cloud subscription (enterprise/team plan). I'd like to know: 1. Do we need to sign up for a separate API access, or is the Photoshop API included in our existing subscription?2. Where can I obtain the API credentials (Client ID, Client Secret, etc.)?3. Are there any additional costs or usage limits associated with the Photoshop API?4. What is the correct process to set up a project on the Adobe Developer Console and enable the Photoshop API?5. Is there any official documentation or quickstart guide you would recommend? Any guidance or step-by-step instructions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Add the ability to paint brush strokes as lines, like in Fresco. When you draw a stroke in Fresco and hold at the end, a perfect line is drawn using your current brush. The only way to accomplish this now in Photoshop is to either Shift-tap (which draws a line from your starting point but with no indication like a rubber band) or to create a path then stroke the path with your brush. Both of these methods are outdated and cumbersome. The Fresco method is much easier and modern.

Hello Adobe,I’m developing a UXP plugin that normalizes transformed text layers (similar to Free Transform → Apply behavior). The goal is to recreate the text layer cleanly with the same visual appearance — same text, font, color, and point size, but without transformation.While this works perfectly using ExtendScript (JSX), in UXP the results are inconsistent:The new text appears much smaller than the original when the source layer was a paragraph text (area text).Multiple new layers are created at random positions far from the original location.The effective visual font size calculation based on boundsNoEffects vs. a clean text layer width seems unreliable in UXP.It appears that UXP’s text creation and measurement APIs (batchPlay, bounds, textKey.textShape) handle paragraph text differently than JSX, breaking proportional scaling and position tracking.Could you please investigate or confirm if this is a known limitation of the UXP Photoshop API?We need consistent behavior between JSX

Hello everyone,I am getting started in Photoshop plugin development, i am a C developer but even with the documentation I cannot understand at all how Photoshop Xcode projects works, I'm trying to have a basic "from scratch" project by creating a macOS bundle (exported as a plugin), added the necessary infos in info.plist (like the plugin type) and a minimal PiPLs.json is /Ressources/  But I cannot get the plugin to even show up at all in the list of filters, the PluginMain function doesnt do anything particular, and i'd like to understand the requirements so a photoshop plugins shows up in the filter list. I could not understand that from the example projects.Thanks a lot !(Photoshop 2026, ,macOS,sdk 2026 v2) 

I want to create an automation in n8n where I can upload a PSD template file containing dynamic variables, and the system will automatically apply the data inside that template. I created a developer account, but I don’t see any option to purchase the required API service. Once I’m able to access the API, I will start working on this project. any one can help me to do that.

Hi everyone  ! I am trying to do an uxp plugin for photoshop, and in that project I a m trying to recreate a script I made as an extended script to automate some actions. One of them I do pretty often is to move a layer inside a group once I made some changes. Such as :  if (cameraLayer.parent !== infoATCGroup) { cameraLayer.move(infoATCGroup, ElementPlacement.INSIDE);But I do not see any of this in the documentation for uxp and when I use what I see in the plugin Alchemist while moving a layer intoy a group, it does not work and occurs an error  when I try to use the same syntax in my uxp plugin. Here is an exemple of what I see with Alchemist : const {executeAsModal} = require("photoshop").core; const {batchPlay} = require("photoshop").action; async function actionCommands() { const result = await batchPlay( [ { _obj: "move", _target: [ { _ref: "layer",

Hi everyone,I’ve been working on a custom UXP plugin called ChatGPT Bridge (v1.0.0). It loads successfully in Adobe UXP Developer Tools, but when I load it inside Photoshop (v26.7.0) the panel appears — yet it’s completely blank. No HTML content is rendered.Setup details:- Plugin name: ChatGPT Bridge- Version: 1.0.0- Photoshop version: 26.7.0- Manifest version: 5- Files included: `manifest.json`, `index.js`, `bridge-panel.html`- Folder structure is correct, and the plugin loads fine in UXP Dev Tools without errorsIssue:When I open the panel in Photoshop, the JS code runs (alert tests confirm this), but `bridge-panel.html` never displays. The panel window is visible but empty.Troubleshooting done so far:- Verified manifest structure and file paths- Confirmed HTML file exists and is referenced correctly- Replaced `.png` icon with `.ico` format per Photoshop UXP requirements- Tested with `document.body.innerHTML` to check if the HTML is being read (no visible output)- Restarted Photoshop

Here's an example using the active document name without extension:   var docName = app.activeDocument.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, ""); var d = new ActionDescriptor(); d.putString(stringIDToTypeID("textData"), docName); executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("textToClipboard"), d, DialogModes.NO);    P.S.: Rather than assuming the ruler units, it's often safer to explicitly set them:   var w = app.activeDocument.width.as('px'); var h = app.activeDocument.height.as('px');   var origRulerUnits = app.preferences.rulerUnits; app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.INCHES; // Units.PIXELS etc var w = app.activeDocument.width.value; var h = app.activeDocument.height.value; app.preferences.rulerUnits = origRulerUnits;  

Hello, everybody!My task is: a script, that copies the dimensions of an image (or other predefined text) to the system clipboard: #target Photoshop var w = Math.round(activeDocument.width); var h = Math.round(activeDocument.height); var str = "image size is : " + w + " X " + h;My question is: How to copy "str" to system clipboard? 

 Hi,I have an older native C++ plugin built using Photoshop 2022 SDK. I’m trying to communicate with a UXP plugin using PIUXPSuite.In my native plugin, inside the StartUpPlugin function, I have the following code:  if (!sUxpProcs) { LOG_TRACE((0, "🔧 [UXP-LISTENER] Acquiring PIUXPSuite for message listening")); SPErr e = sSPBasic->AcquireSuite(kPSUXPSuite, kPSUXPSuiteVersion1, (const void**)&sUxpProcs); if (e != kSPNoError) { LOG_TRACE((0, "❌ [UXP-LISTENER] Failed to acquire PIUXPSuite: %d (0x%08X)", e, e)); } else { LOG_TRACE((0, "✅ [UXP-LISTENER] PIUXPSuite acquired for listening: %p", sUxpProcs)); // Get plugin information using available SPBasicSuite methods LOG_TRACE((0, "🆔 [PLUGIN] Plugin Reference: %p", gPlugInRef)); // Add UXP message listener SPErr listenerResult = sUxpProcs->AddUXPMessageList

Hello, We have developed a UXP plugin (written in plain JavaScript) for Photoshop, and we would like to have support for Windows 11 ARM. Is there a workaround available at the moment, or are there any plans to support it? All the best,Nikos

Hey everyone,I’m building a web app that needs to merge 3 bracketed RAW images (dark, normal, and bright) into a single HDR image, similar to Photoshop’s “Merge to HDR Pro” feature on desktop.Does anyone know if the Photoshop API supports this functionality, or if there’s any endpoint that can combine exposures into a 32-bit or tone-mapped HDR image?If not, is Adobe planning to add HDR merge support in a future API update?Thanks,Amin Bulaqi

Hello everyone,I'm a Photoshop plugin developer currently adapting my product for the native ARM64 version of Photoshop on Windows.I'm trying to determine the best practice for an installer to handle the architecture choice correctly. The SDK documentation doesn't seem to cover this installation strategy in detail.The Core Problem:Even on an ARM64 Windows machine, a user could have either:The native ARM64 version of Photoshop.The x64 version of Photoshop, running through emulation.This is especially relevant when installing to the common Program Files or AppData plugins directory, which might be shared.I've researched this and received a suggestion (from an AI, to be transparent) about a potential method. It claims that the solution is to install both the x64 and ARM64 versions of the plugin into a specific folder structure, and Photoshop will silently load the correct architecture version while ignoring the incompatible one.The proposed structure would lo

Hello, I am developing a Photoshop UXP plugin.Our plugin requires complex vector shape editing in canvas, so we are using a webview.On Windows OS, when the webview is clicked, all keyboard shortcuts stop working. This issue is not fixed even if I click outside the UXP panel. The shortcuts only start working again if I click inside the document’s image. On macOS, this problem does not occur.Is there a way to return the keyboard focus to the document with code?

Hello Adobe Photoshop Team, I am actively using Photoshop scripting (ExtendScript/UXP) to automate printing of labels. At the moment, the scripting API provides two methods for printing: document.print() – opens the print dialog, where the user can manually set the number of copies.document.printOneCopy() – sends one copy directly to the printer. However, there is no way to programmatically specify the number of copies (for example, 40 copies) without repeating the print command multiple times. This makes large print runs inefficient and slow. Feature request:Could you please consider adding an optional parameter for the number of copies to the Photoshop Print API, e.g.:document.print ( { copies: 40 } );document.printOneCopy ( { copies: 40 } ); This would significantly improve automation workflows for professional users who need to print batches of designs (such as product labels, tickets, packaging, etc.) directly from Photoshop. Thank you very much for c