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Hello everyone! I use Photoshop to color my illustrations. A problem I have with this is that whenever I scan my drawing, the pen lines show up as not as smooth as I'd like them to be. So I usually have to go over the entire drawing and manually erase certain edges and re-draw. Does anyone here happen to know whether there is a quicker way of smoothing out these drawn lines in Photoshop? It could be a big help if there is an answer to this! Thanks!I have included a closeup picture of the line to show what I mean: 

I hate that the "contextual taskbar" icon is constantly interfering with my work...it's blocking me in the middle, to the right, to the left, on top of objects, everywhere...it's really ridiculous.

I’m trying to use all the bit depth in my timelapse sequences to create HDR versions but I can’t figure out what file formats to use.  The images are processed in Photoshop and Camera Raw and exported as 16-bit TIFF in the Adobe RGB color space.I’ve tried converting those Adobe RGB images to Rec2100 PQ via Camera Raw but then the images are very low contrast in After Effects.  After Effects is properly set up to use Rec2100 media within a Rec2100 color space but the Lumetri scopes show that the brightest parts of the image never exceed about half of the allowable brightness value.  The same is true when I pull the Rec2100 PQ output into Resolve as well, so it’s a problem with the Camera Raw output.The images look OK in After Effects if I work in a Rec2100 HLG space but there’s no way to output to that space from Camera Raw.  And Rec2020 looks OK in After Effects but Rec2100 is supposed to be the HDR workspace.So I can’t find a combination of file formats that works for HDR timelapse vi

I am Looking to recreate this distressed ink effect with displacement maps? I have had a go in photoshop but I am looking for the distressing on the edge of letters?    

I have an image with multiple layers used to basically create the subject (I don’t know if I do this the most efficient way, but if I have an object that needs to be above layered part of the subject, but below another part, I create different layers [for instance there is something around the neck which need to go a layer below the chin, but remain a layer above the rest of the subject) - so my question is can you AI Harmonize the subject with the surroundings if the ‘shown’ photo is on multiple layers.Thanks in advance, Rob

Adjusting the Brush Hardness slider causes Photoshop v27.5 to completely hang. The UI becomes unresponsive until the window is minimized and restored. After restoring, the slider value remains unchanged.Device: Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Gen 1GPU: NVIDIA Quadro T1000 (Studio Driver 573.91)OS: Windows 11Interaction with the Hardness slider triggers a full application freeze.The freeze is temporarily bypassed by toggling the window (Minimize/Restore), but the setting isn't applied.Comparison: Version 27.3 exhibited slight lag during the same action but functioned correctly. Version 27.5 is unusable in this regard.No effect:Toggling "GPU Compositing" in Performance settings.Testing with both a mouse and a stylus (Windows Ink is disabled).Request:This appears to be a regression in the UI rendering engine specifically affecting Quadro T1000 hardware or similar Turing-based mobile workstation GPUs. Please investigate the compatibility of the new "Native Canvas" or UI overlay system with these drive

I work with several templates where I only replace the main images in the relink window to create a batch save. For the past two days, Photoshop has simply refused to open the files because it says "the link to a smart object file is missing".You have no idea how much trouble this is causing me. I have certificates to issue, social media packages to generate, portfolio artwork to create, and the files simply won't open!After the error screen, the following message appears: "Could not complete the command because of a program error (d773e8.7368)"Please, does anyone have a solution? I've already followed all the steps on the troubleshooting page and it didn't help.

Hey all,I’ve been creating posts like this for a while and I’ve never seen this box that seems to never go away.  FYI: I have hidden all my layers and still the box is there.  

I recently upgraded to Windows 11. I use a Wacom tablet and pen for my work. I have noticed that when I want to move a guideline with my pen an annyoing white circle appears and the line won't move. I can move the guideline with my mouse but I prefer to use the pen in my workflow. I have been unable to find any information on how to stop this from happening. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

Photoshop 2026 funktioniert nicht mehr nach dem neuesten Update von heute (27.4.0.15). Sobald ich irgendetwas machen möchte, friert das Programm ein. Z.B: Pinselgröße verändern. Was bereits gemacht wurde:x Photoshop 2026 de- und neu installiert: Keine Änderung.x Downgrade auf die vorherige Version: (26.11.3.): alles läuft wieder normal. Frage – ist irgendwas an Problemen dazu bekannt? Setting:Photoshops 2026 (27.4.0.15)Windows 11Grafik: Nvidia RTX 4090Wacom Intuos ProWintTab statt Windows Ink (https://helpx.adobe.com/de/photoshop/kb/enable-optional-extensions-photoshop-cc.html#Howtoenableextensions)System und alle Treiber sind aktuell.

Hello community, dear experts I'm very frustrated. After the release of Photoshop 27.5, I was hoping I could finally use my Wacom brushes with the latest version.After updating from Photoshop 27.3.1 to 27.4, this was no longer possible despite extensive experimentation (https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/photoshop-2026-friert-nach-update-27-4-0-15-sofort-ein-1550933) Unfortunately, the problem persists in version 27.5:Freshly installed, opened. One brush stroke, brush size adjusted with the slider: Photoshop freezes.Constantly reproducible. I also followed ​@AxelMatt  advice and installed the older Wacom driver that works with his (older) tablets – same result. Even with this driver, Photoshop freezes during the aforementioned action.Photoshop doesn't seem to actually crash, but simply becomes unresponsive. I then have to wait, switch back and forth between the desktop and the program, and then the program responds again, allowing me to at least close it (though I still can't us

this is happening to me too. All my settings from suggestions below are correct. I can't use the brush or eraser.

Hi everyone, I need help with a persistent Photoshop crash that seems related to Camera Raw.Issue:Photoshop crashes every time I try to open any image (JPG, PNG, or RAW). It shows the message: “Sorry, something went wrong”.Additionally, Photoshop crashes immediately when I try to access: Edit → Preferences → Camera RawBecause of this, I believe the issue is specifically tied to the Camera Raw plugin.Troubleshooting already performed:Disabled GPU acceleration Updated GPU drivers (clean install) Uninstalled Photoshop (without keeping preferences) Used Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool Deleted Camera Raw folders: AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw AppData\Local\Adobe\CameraRaw Removed Camera Raw plugin (.8bi) and reinstalled Removed Photoshop Beta completely Installed an older Photoshop version (same issue persists)FYI, Lightroom Classic works perfectly with the same files, so RAW decoding itself does not appear to be the issue.System information:Photoshop version: 27.4 OS: Windows 11 25h2

Not sure if this is a me problem or a wider problem, but when I’m attempting to save a new PSD and click “Save to Adobe Cloud”, instead of opening the window to allow me to do so, Photoshop closes the “Save As” window and then automatically reopens it. This doesn’t happen all the time but once it starts happening, I have no other option but to save locally, then close and restart Photoshop before I can once again save to cloud. It’s frustrating, and I am wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue and if so, has a solution to stop it from happening again? Thank you!

After the latest Photoshop update, the desktop shortcut no longer works.When I click the Photoshop shortcut on Windows 11, the cursor shows a loading circle for a few seconds, but the application never opens. Nothing happens after that.However, if I open Adobe Creative Cloud and click the "Open" button for Photoshop from there, the application launches normally without any issues.This issue started immediately after the recent update. Before that, the shortcut worked without any problems.Steps to reproduce:Double-click the Photoshop desktop shortcut Wait a few seconds The loading cursor appears briefly, but Photoshop does not openExpected result:Photoshop should launch normally when clicking the desktop shortcut.Actual result:Nothing happens after clicking the shortcut, but it works when launched from Adobe Creative Cloud.

when a backup from photoshop 2025 is recovered on a photoshop 2025 computer does it overwrite the files 

Hi everyone,I recently updated to the latest version of Photoshop (2026), and I’m encountering an issue with the Remove Background feature that was previously working perfectly.Now, when I try to use the “Remove Background” quick action, Photoshop shows the following message:“This action can only be applied to image layers. To try on a different layer, select the one you want from the Layers panel, then click Refresh.”However, I am selecting a valid image (pixel) layer. As shown in the attached screenshot: The correct layer is selected in the Layers panel. It is clearly a pixel layer (not a smart object, adjustment layer, or locked background). The image is visible and editable. Despite this, the Apply button remains disabled and the action fails with “Couldn't apply action.”Steps to reproduce: Open any image Ensure a pixel layer is selected Go to Discover panel → Remove Background Try to apply the action Expected result:The background should be removed as before.Actual resul

Here are the directions I am followingOpen your image in Photoshop.Click on the "Image" menu at the top of your screen.Select "Adjustments" from the drop-down menu.Choose "Replace Color…" from the Adjustments options.A "Replace Color" dialog box will appear.Click on the "Sampled Colors" option in the dialog box.Use the "Eyedropper" tool (the icon looks like a little dropper) that appeared in the "Replace Color" dialog box to click on the color in the image that you want to change. This adds the color you want to replace to the selection.To add more shades of the selected color, you can use the "Add to Sample" tool (the eyedropper with a plus sign).After you've selected the color you want to replace, you can use the "Hue," "Saturation," and "Lightness" sliders to change the selected color to the new color you want.Once you've made the color changes you desire, click OK to close the dialog box. I was initially attempting to do this on a largly black and white photo. I later read tha

I know how to use generative expand on an image and how to use generative fill. But suppose I have a white background with a smaller image in front of it on a separate layerand I want to use generative expand just on that smaller image. Can it be done? Or can I only expand a full sized image? I haven't found a way to do this.

Hello everyone.Apparently that possibility is no longer available after a specific version of Photoshop CC 2015 and I'm wondering if there is another way to get the same result without too much work and stress.Let's assume that we have a cube 6x6 that I want to slice in single pictures, for some reason the lines on the pictures are not in the same position as the ones created by Photoshop so I will need to move them.In Photoshop CC 2015 after you do right click, slice selection, put your preference and click ok, all the slices are already selected and if you move one of the lines created by Photoshop you will move for the entire slice selection (example in attachment)Something similar can be obtained in the new version of Photoshop if you use the Slice Tool Selection, hold Shift and click in each slice (which is taking a lot of time).Anyone have an idea how to solve/bypass this problem? Thank you

This is a problem I've had for years, I can't find a solution online so I thought I would document it to share and start a dialogue. I just want to be able to move my selections by small amounts again! Snapping is not enabled, this is photoshop 2024, but I've had the same issue with older versions of photoshop. Is this just a setting tick box I've missed? I've documented it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9UlmjevH-8

My Adobe Creative Cloud Application on my Macbook 2023 just had me update my Photoshop application this morning (04/01/2026) at around 10 am-ish. It was taking too long and I had work to do, so I canceled the update. When I went to open my Photoshop, I got an error that it couldn’t open because it wasn’t finished or it had been damaged. I tried restarting my computer and I got the same problem when I clicked directly on my Photoshop app. When going into the Creative Cloud application, the Photoshop app wasn’t even installed. After reinstalling it and finally getting it to open, my Workspace was completely changed up and my saved swatches were gone. I followed the directions of others who had gone through the same problem, but my swatches are nowhere to be found.I use these swatches for work so their really important and I really need to get them back. The reason I do have their code saved anywhere was because I had them saved in my Photoshop workspace. I didn’t have a reason to believe

The backslash key flips the default brush colors back and forth.Any attempts to paint black on a white mask yields no change.To my eyes, this looks like a normal brush to me: moments prior to the anomalous behavior, it was all working fine. Obviously, I stumble fingered some tool mode change key, but since it was a stumble I have no idea what it was. I find it interesting that I can change the default brush color from black to white and back again. I hadn’t known that was possible before. Not terribly useful ‘cuz “X” works fine, but interesting. Anyway, the tools state is “normal” and the image mode is “RGB” the flow and opacity are 100% and shift-lock is off. No clue as to what else to check for. Help? :)

Версия фотошопа 27.5. Creative cloude обновлен. Драйвера обновлены. Брандмауэр выключен. Ничего не помогает.

I am also having these types of issues after the update. Pls correct this. I have tons of work to get done and I have to keep restarting PS……...Michelle