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November 4, 2025
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experiencing a major slowdown with the Select Subject tool

  • November 4, 2025
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Hello, is anyone else experiencing a major slowdown with the Select Subject tool after the latest Photoshop update? It now takes much longer than it should.

 

Before the recent update (and even earlier ones), I could select anything quickly in less than 3 seconds. But now it takes way too long, around 20 to 50 seconds just to select something simple, like a picture of a person standing against a white background.

 

Doesn’t that seem a bit strange for such a simple task to take that long?

 

Is there any fix for this?

 

Thanks.

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Sameer K
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Community Manager
November 4, 2025

Hey, @Jimyungshi. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. I'll need more info to help you figiure this out, please share screenshots & the system info from Photoshop Help > System info > Copy & paste into a text document > upload & attach here.

 

Does this happen when you use any image? Does it happen when you use Select Subject via Actions? If yes, we're tracking an ongoing issues with Selection Subject called via Actions: https://adobe.ly/3XckKaI

 

For now, try changing the Select Subject mode from Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Image Processing > Select Subject to Cloud & Selection process to Stable. 

 

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
Sameer K

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