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Content Aware Fill – "Crop Expand Image" – Bug – PS 27.9.1

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August 24, 2026
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Hi,

Expanding the image while using the Crop Tool (the color in this case, about a solid gray) using Content Aware Fill - makes wrong color, in my case after expanding a lighter frame at the previous image edge borders and a lighter gray color is used for the expanded areas. Is this a known bug? I’ve downgraded to 27.8, no issues there.

Thank you,
Patrik

Desktop-macOS

patriklAuthor

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Hi, Have you been able to find a solution, any working update? I’m getting really annoyed of the way Adobe handles this issue, It’s a fundamental feature in PS and not a “hyper super ai generative fill feature”. Really tired of this.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Have you been able to pin this down to a particular set of conditions?

Like OS and version

hardware (CPU, GPU, drivers)?

Does it happen with the beta version (if you have tried it).

I don’t use Content Aware Fill as much as I used to as I have a lot of Gen Creds, but I just tried it in 27.1 (release) and 27.12 (beta) and it seemed to work OK

What am I looking for? Does Photoshop hang? Looking at the OP I think it was hanging when rotating the image with the crop tool. Is that what you are seeing?

How big is the project?

I’ve looked through the thread and only seen reference to Mac hardware and 16 bit images. I am using Windows 11, but my gut tells me that if every Mac user out of the 42 million people with Photoshop, was having the same issue, we’d hear more about it, so can you tie it down?

This sort of issue is often GPU related, so have you tried this setting?

Note: I have no idea what hardware you are using.

Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Hi @nathalie0D4C,

Thanks for reaching out, and apologies for the experience. I’m glad to hear that version 27.8 is working well for you. Whenever you have a few minutes, could you please share a few screenshots showing the before and after results of Content-Aware Fill? This will help us better understand the behavior you were experiencing.

It would also be helpful if you could share your System Info with us. You can find this by going to Help > System Info in the application. Please copy and paste the full report here.

Once we have these details, we’ll be able to investigate the issue further and assist you accordingly.

Thanks, Srishti Bali | Community & Engagement Strategist, Digital Imaging | Adobe

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nathalie0D4C

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Bonjour @Srishti Bali
Voici ma photo originale que je veux recadrer avec la bonne inclinaison et remplir les manques

Voici mes options de recadrage (screen V27.10) :

Recadrage option “remplissage d’après le contenu”

Voici le résultat en V27.8

et celui de la version V27.10

J’ai volontairement choisi une photo un peu chargée pour montrer la bonne adéquation de la version V27.8
Je vous remercie de vos conseils

System Info.txt

patriklAuthor

Known Participant

Too bad by Adobe to not fixing this fundamental feature in Photoshop.

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nathalie0D4C

Participant

Depuis la version 27.9, l’option “Remplissage d’après le contenu” dans la fonction Recadrage n’a plus le même comportement que dans les versions précédentes : l’outil génère des éléments irréalistes dans les parties à compléter et modifie certaines zones de l’image.
Même comportement avec la version 27.10.

J’ai réinstallé la version 27.8 pour retrouver le bon fonctionnement initial de cette fonctionnalité que j’utilise régulièrement (complétude des zones manquantes uniquement et selon les éléments proches de la zone).

patriklAuthor

Known Participant

Dear Adobe,

Content Aware Fill, to expand backgrounds is extremely useful. At least in my workflow. Since version 27.9 I have not yet been able to get it working. I’m back on 27.8 where everything is working. Was there a Graphics Engine update recently, (in 27.9) could be causing this? I mainly see the error in slightly larger files (4000px and above) and 16 bit (the format I work in). If you try to replicate, do the background CAF several times and scale the image and try again. It’s occasionally working ok, but 9/10 not. I hope you consider this as a important issue. It’s in the basic fundamental function in PS, we have had for many years now. I’m a full time photographer an retoucher, so at the moment I’m not able to update PS, which for me is a major issue working professionally. I have reported on the issue earlier but without any solutions. I give it a “last” try here. Attaching the System Report and a Screen Recording.

Regards,

Patrik

patriklAuthor

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Was not the Graphics Engine in Photoshop rebuilt recently? Introduced in v27.9.1?

If this is the case, is this not a highly likely reason for the suddenly appearing graphics related error, which it all looks like. As mentioned. All is fine in 27.8.

M1 Mac Studio + all the latest Mac OS, deleted/reset of PS prefs, tried Beta with same Issue, I strongly believe my system are all ok, the bug is not in my system or computer.

JoseLFashionPhoto

Participating Frequently

I have the same issue on 27.10, I work on a MAc Studio M4, 64 1TB, never had this issue till I updated to 27.10. I did a lot of reading and tried a few things, I got it to temporarily go away but it keeps coming back. it seriously disrupts my workflow, sure hope you have a abug fix update soon.

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Schaller Creative

Participating Frequently

Same here! My workflow has been almost doubled and it’s slowing me down significantly. I’ve been trying to work around it but it’s hard when I have to force quit often and have to re-edit my work again.

caring_Flutterb421

Participant

Hi Patrik,

Yes, if the same file/process works correctly in 27.8 but produces the lighter edge in 27.9.1, that does sound like a regression in the Content-Aware Crop/Expand behavior.

As a workaround, you could expand the canvas first and use Content-Aware Fill manually. I’d also report it to Adobe with the exact steps and a sample file so they can reproduce it.

D Fosse

Community Expert

I can’t reproduce. It works without problems here on 16 bit files - even for flat solid color, which is a very special use case.

It would help if you told us exactly what doesn’t work as expected.

I’m still on version 27.9.1 until they fix the color management bug in 27.10.

patriklAuthor

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Well, do you got available a Mac Studio M1 to try, as I do. It does not work on my machine. Frustrating indeed. Could you please report to developers. Ive been reporting earlier and work full time as a retoucher and this a very major issue at my side. (25+ years user of PS, so I’m aware of having the latest updates of the software, Mac OS and so on, not sure it will help at this moment to upload all info etc.) I attach a video + a still image of an expanded background below, please forward to developers. Thank you.

davescm

Community Expert

You mention v27.9 but your video shows you are using the Beta version of Photoshop. The current version of the Beta is 27.11.0 m.3669
I also could not replicate the issue in release v27.9.1 or Beta 27.11.0 m.3669
This is on Windows 11 - hopefully someone can test this on the Mac

Dave

patriklAuthor

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Content Aware Fill since version 27.9 in does not work in 16bit mode.

I hope for a quick bug fix as I’m working always in 16bit.

Try replicate by make a solid color image in 16 bit, expand the image (on all sides) by using CAF and the issue appears.

Thank you!

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey, @patrikl. I’ve tested this on Photoshop 27.10, and Photoshop (beta), and I couldn’t recreate this. Does it help if you zoom in on the image? Have you tried the method I’ve shared to reset Photoshop’s preferences?

I’ve added my video with 6000x6000px at 16bit matching the zoom levels.

Thanks!
Sameer K

Screen Recording 2026-09-14 at 9.10.01 PM.mov

patriklAuthor

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@Sameer K Did you get my reply CAF only works in 8 bit mode. Major for me as I always in 16. Thank you!

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