Questions

Hi all, I 'm looking to hopefully find (preferred) or create (if needed) an action or script that will automatically determine what the longest side of an opened file is and then change the shorter side of the canvas to the same pixel dimension as the longest one was so the file ends up with a square aspect ratio. I want this to work regardless of the original pixel dimensions of the file, the action/script should not need that to make the file square. The reason I want it to work this way is because we have many images that are all over the map in size and I want them, at this point in time, to stay that way. I just need them to be square instead of portrait or landscape. Secondly any extra canvas that is created should be filled with white. Does this exist or is there a specific way to record the action? I have tried in vain to create one or find one and have exceeded my ability level. Thank you in advance for any insight!

Can I hide those useless buttons since they constantly overlap with other buttons (for example when transforming) 

One thing that really stands out to me with Adobe’s Firefly-powered features, especially the new Harmonize feature in Photoshop, is that it’s trained only on licensed or public-domain data, never on our personal projects.  This means the native Adobe AI model in Photoshop (Firefly) is designed to work for you, not from you. In other words, it helps you create without using your personal projects as training data.  By contrast, other AI models may use different methods and don’t always provide the same clarity, leaving the consent process less transparent.   So here are my questions for the community: Do you think an ethical approach to training data changes how much you trust AI tools? Would transparency about not using your work without consent make you more likely to try features like Harmonize? More broadly, how does the way AI models are trained affect your creativity and your willingness to see them as partners in your process? I’d love to hear how this tran

I am helping a scientist use PS to analyse a specimen image. They want to select dozens of points and create a table of numbers identifying the colors (any way is fine: RGB, HEX, etc.). I can make swatches and click on individual colors then copy each one, but we have a lot of samples, so this isn't great. Is there would be a way to export swatches into a text file? Thanks!

If I export a file from Lightroom (not classic) to Photoshop and then saveas to a different folder the file saves to the same folder as the original image.  I want to keep the edited files in a different folder than all the originals.  There is nothing in the UI that says it saved in a different folder than you choose.  So later when you go look for that file and it’s not there you just assume it didn’t save.  In Classic when you saved the file in a different folder it respected your choice.

I saw someone have the same problem with personal account. I can log in, but nothing happened. I checked that I have the latest version, and my school(zju) have purchased ipad version.The version I use is the latest version PS7.4. And the device is iPad Air 11inch M2 with iPadOS 26.3.I’ve tried using VPN or not, reinstalling, different networks.

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.

I’m not sure how it I did it, but on my old computer, whenever I set my font size to 100 pts., capital letters would measure out to 1 inch high on my project window ruler. It was nice because, 150 pts. was 1.5”, 175 pts. was 1.75”,  200 was 2”, etc. When I got my new computer, I set all my preferences to the same values, but now I have to use 72 pt. fonts to get 1” letters. I’d like to recapture the convenience of the simple calculations, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Is there any indirect relation between this number [860000] & value of the colors?  

Hi everyone,I run a small WordPress site [removed] on my own and I've been designing background graphics in Photoshop. Lately I'm stuck with two issues I can't seem to fix. The graphics look great in Photoshop but once I upload them to my site they turn blurry. On top of that the file sizes are way too big and making my pages load really slow. Not sure if it's my export settings or something else. Has anyone faced this? How did you fix it?Thanks!

This thin blue lines are created by Divide Slice tool. Is it possible to hide this line once work is done?  

How to get "Reblum" in my dropdown menu?  

Please stop forcing your changes on me. I don't want to have to hold shift to resize something. I don't want to open a document in an Artboard. I don't want to have to research your reason for it and how to change it back. I want to open Photoshop and work...I dont' want to open Photoshop and discover your latestest change. Check your ego at your sandbox. I don't give two turtles about what you think is the latest and greatest.  Don't add a tool tip, don't add a banner don't add one more distraction. You're not that special. Leave legacy along, develop a solution for beta discovery. Allow those in discovery mode to discovery your latest feature. Allow those who want to work to stay in legacy mode, to work. Stop slowing me down. I don't care about you and your feature. When I do, I will. I just want to work. Some work never gets used or discovered, that's called being an artist. When you develop something worth talking about then you'll get discovered. Until then (vulgar langu

Hey, hopefully someone can help me with this but when I drag and drop webp files into photoshop now they arrive TINY visually.  They can be re-sized manually to fit the right size bit I didn’t need to do this like a week ago.  For some history, I work with a team of people doing some things with Dead By Daylight content.  I was asked to make a photoshop file with all the killer perk icons.  To do this I would drag and drop from the DBD Wiki page, it would save the image on my desktop as a webp and then I would drag and drop into PS and it would be the exact right size.  Today when I went to update the PS and add some new perks and do something cool with the images of the killers they import at like 10% of the files dimensions and I can’t for the life of me see why.  I also get a new PS popup about the color grading of the webp file that I did not used to get. Now to get it to the right size I can either re-size manually to fit the page or I can right click the the file, open in PS, I g

 Hello, I use Photoshop for professional editorial work, and Faux Italic is required in my workflow. The problem occurs specifically when I work with vertical text. In Photoshop 2025 and later, if Faux Italic is applied in vertical text layout, punctuation such as the ellipsis (…) and em dash (— / ―) becomes excessively slanted and looks broken or disconnected. Earlier versions handled this much better. Could you please let me know whether there is an official fix or workaround for this issue? This is version 22 on the left and version 26 on the right, which is the lowest version currently supported.*This post has been moved to the bulletin Photoshop eco system board by a moderator.

When I crop things move about wild like how do I stop it.  I just tried to crop and I moved up and the next thing I know I have a document that is 250" high.  Is there a setting someplace that sayswith a check box. "Don not move document background all about wildly when you try to crop. " ?

I have CS3, and have had problems with activation failure. Got told that this would do the trick: Activation or connection error when starting CS3 or Acrobat 8   "Receive a new serial number and installer  Get a new serial number and installer so you can reinstall CS3 or Acrobat 8 applications successfully. These special versions do not require activation."   I followed the instruction very carefully, yet everything is exactly the same as before, same message about activation failure. What's the catch? Do I have to say a magic word or something?   I really need to get this working, please advice.

This bug has been reported before, but persists, making editing arduous. It only became a problem recently, so I feel it is a version issue, say after 25 or so. I have not downgraded as of yet, but may have no choice. After a few touch ups (nothing major, like skin blemish), the tool will freeze and then memory use will ramp up until entirely maxed out (64 GB). I see it in the Task Manager graph. After about two minutes (if a person was willing to wait), a dialog box pops up saying there is no more memory to complete task. When closed, I can save the image and proceed. This has happened each and every time I edit an image and I cannot go more than 5 uses before this happens.  I contacted support over the phone and was told to increase memory usage under performance. I does not help and resetting preferences also does not help. This issue needs to be fixed as I feel the remove tool is one of the core tools users now rely on. If it would be helpful to d

How can I turn off the popup fom the selection tool? It is super annoying.Pleae let me know.Kind regards,René

I’m using Adobe Photoshop 27.4.0 Release on a MacBook Pro with macOS Tahoe 26.0.3. It worked good until Render a video, when I read the message. 

Hi,First of all, quite satisfied with my Adobe products, I am a professional portrait and fashion photographer. With that said, latest Photoshop update seems to have adjusted the censorship to a too restrictive level. I’ll explain, when working with bikini models. lingerie, or anything that shows more skin, even when in good taste ( no gluts showing, or too revealing outfit etc) the Generative Expand just botches the job, no popup warning or nothing, just no generation, and if I switch to regular Firefly, it Generates just fine, so, that tells me is not really my photo not compliant, by deduction, or it simply would not generate, like Generative Expand.  The lack of a warning popup also feels buggy, as it seems that the job just crashed.Thank you so much for your comments or assistance, and hoping this gets refined for better detection and less restrictive, for those professionals among us working this styles.

under Preferences/Interface, None of the color themes have any contrast on this X button I also think It would be nice if the cursor changed to the arrow as an additional indication the the button is there.

Where's the old shapes gone from Photoshop, arrows, icons etc, things we've been using snice the start of photoshop,  Now we have boats, really? who signed that off give us back the arrows signs etc

What has changed with the operation of the Remove tool?Usually the removal of a small skin blemish was almost instantaneous, now it takes 33.42 seconds to remove the same type of thing on a portrait.

Photoshop 27.4.0Windows 11 For AGES I was able to select the layer mask  (alpha channel) of a layer as a channel for operation when using the command Apply Image. Now I can only choose either RGB channels, and that’s it.Why remove it? What’s the purpose of removing features that have been in the software for ages?Please restore this feature.p.s. Calculations still preserves the “Layer Mask” option. Please keep it.