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For a while when I used the gradient mask, I was able to use the mask additively where instead of cancelling the mask I just drew and rewriting it over my next "stroke" it would keep what I created and then add to that mask? Basically I have several sides of an image that I want to mask via opacity, so I would prefer not to have to keep applying the mask and then creating another one, but to have the opacity mask strokes be cumulative. Currently I can create an opacity mask but when I draw another mask, it just cancels the previous gradient mask and then replaces it with the new mask. Is there a setting I can change where it will be cumulative? 

Hey there!   I'm trying to open Photoshop after updating to Windows 11, and it will open until Finding System Profiles, then it will just quit, we have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, nothing.   Not sure what I can do to help this get past this screen!  

Since upgrading a PC to Windows 11, Adobe Generative Fill / Expand / Vectors across all the software has ceased working. I have tried using it on older versions of all the software, current versions and Beta versions with no luck. I have tried all the suggestions with the preferences (resetting, turning off Graphics processors etc). I have looked through forums, used Chat GPT and tried everything that has been recommended. I have checked my Adobe account and have the full amount of generative credits.Yet every time I try to use a Generative fill I still just get the 'We've encountered an issue and can't complete you're request at this time. Please try again later' message in orange appear on the screen, and the selection I have made for the generative fill gives 3 completely black variations in the properties panel. If I'm trying to expand an image, it just gives the above message, leaving the image the same size.I am fully connected to the internet, and signed into my Adobe account th

Some months ago Adobe Acrobat and other adobe products had a problem with open ssl security vulnerabilities associated with DLL files.Adobe Acrobat was patched but months later products like Adobe Photoshop still seem to be using the same version.c:\program files\adobe\adobe photoshop 2025\libssl-3-x64.dllopensslopenssl3.0.14.0c:\program files\adobe\adobe photoshop 2025\libcrypto-3-x64.dllopensslopenssl3.0.14.0 I have reached out directly to Adobe regarding this, but they closed my case without responding. Anyone else have this on their radar?

What is the wrong with my Ps? Factory Assigned Shortcut Keys are not working. For examples Ctrl+SCtrl+0Ctrl+N So far I have found above frequently used keys only. There may be much more. I have latest version of Ps.  How to fix above problem?  

I’ve always loved doing things manually — compositing by hand, building shadows, fine-tuning colors. That craft is what makes my work uniquely mine.   Photoshop’s new Harmonize feature (powered by Adobe Firefly) has truly impressed me. One click can align colors, tones, and shadows across layers, giving me a strong head start. But for me, the story, the style, and the finishing touches still come from my manual process. ✨ Even though I use AI, I love doing things manually — because that’s my craft. 👉 How about you? Do you see tools like Harmonize as an enhancer for your manual precision, or do you prefer to keep AI out of your workflow entirely?  

I'm experiencing an issue with Adobe Color. After creating a gradient and adding it to my library, everything works fine. However, when I attempt to use the gradients saved in my library, I encounter an error message: "Could not complete the command because of a program error." This error pops up three times after clicking "OK." I am using the most updated version of Photoshop, and I even tried uninstalling and re-installing it. Interestingly, gradients I previously created on Adobe Color still work, but the ones I created within the last two days do not. Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

I have a PNG file with 10 bird images gradually chaging it poses. This PNG file is masked to hide it's background. All 10 birds are in one image. Is it possible to make it 10 separate images.? That means 10 individual imges.  

Bonjour,Depuis environ une semaine, il m'est impossible de lancer Photoshop sur Mon Macbook pro (Intel Core i7).Il crashe systématiquement dès le démarrage.J'ai tenté les actions suivantes sans succès :MacOS à jour (Sequoia 15.4.1)Photoshop à jour (26.6)Idem avec Photoshop Beta (26.7)Démarrage avec "Majuscule" appuyé pour désactiver les modules complémentaireDémarrage avec CMD+OPTION+MAJ appuyé pour réinitialiser les préférencesDésactivation de l'anti-virus (SentinelOne) J'avoue que j'ai un peu l'impression d'avoir fait le tour des options, avez-vous une idée de ce que je pourrais faire svp ?

The newest version of Select Subject is better in some ways and worse in others.It's ability to feather the selections definitely works better on hair, but has a detrimental effect on most other things.I would like to suggest a feature where Feathering & Opacity fades are optional so the tool is more versatile depending on the subject.

Hi, I accidentally used a feature a few days ago (I think it might be a new one), but now I can’t find it anymore. I remember selecting part of my linework, and then a pop-up window appeared that generated a repeatable pattern based on the selected area. It’s not the “View → Pattern Preview” function. I even drew a picture of how it worked.I’ve been searching for it for about two hours now and I’m so confused—was that a real feature, or did I just dream it😰  

  Whatever I tried  in Photoshop is always in sort of normal perspective camera view   while I need something  like google map images  with camera looking down  for ground  textures and decals.  To produce big unique  macro textures covering big spaces.     Adobe Sampler AI always does something of  1mx1m scale and crazy  repeating looking.  Never managed to get anything useful from it.  I need something rather unique i could use as a decal .      I wonder perhaps other soft could do better . How  to force AI to do it from down looking camera without perspective distortion  ?    Would  Firefly  give a better chance considering I don;t need anything of illustrative  or fancy style .     I tried to generate car skid marks on a racing track for example.   They look fine in a random photo  but

For many years now, I've ran into strange edge case behavior with Magic Wand selecting contiguous. Here's an example where I want to intersect select, resulting in the top and bottom intersections being selected:With contiguous disabled, all three intersections are selected, as you would expect. With contiguous enabled, only the top intersection is selected for some reason. Changing tolerance doesn't effect anything, and all of the black segments are the exact same color.If I try to click just outside the current selection, it results in no selection: Why does this happen?

Hi, I'm using the wand tool to select the color of a hand.  I then right click on the shadow and click subtract from selection but it says the pixels are more than 50% selected.  the selection edges will not be visible..  What am I doing wrong?   {Thread renamed by moderator}  

Everything is up to date, but suddenly whenever I try to open image in PS it opens in Camera Raw, I've tried all of the suggestions online but nothing works. Driving me crazy!

Hi, I'm a webtoon content editor. I've been struggling scaling the shape that has to be distance from the text about 40px or more depend on the size of the text. So i try to use guideline tool, 1st I add a guideline base on a text by using View > New guide frome shape, after that I want to add another guideline with about 40px distance around the text but Idk how to do it. Idk if I need a script for this or something. If anyone know how to make it or you have any other ideal to work it fast, can you teach me how to do it. Thanks a lot.You guy can try with the psd file in the attach file.

Hello,I’ve been using Generative Fill since its release, and I feel that the results have gotten worse over time. At the beginning, it worked really well, but over the past year the output has become pretty bad—producing strange objects and random colors.Am I doing something wrong?

Per i computer con i processori che non hanno le AVX2, possibile non vi sia possibilità di usufruire dei nuovi aggiornamenti? Possibile che dobbiamo sostituire il PC per utilizzare appieno Photosjhop, pur pagando l'abbonamento aumentato? 

Hi all, I am not sure for the following noob question. If I open up some raw photos in lightroom or photoshop, it will use the prophoto colour space for preview, if my monitor is calibrated to the Adobe RGB profile and I export the JPG with ARGB profile tagged to it, it will view perfectly on a normal sRGB monitor as it knows that the values are for ARGB, so the new device reads the ICC profile and knows how to display it correctly on a sRGB (via some internal conversion?) and that the issue of colour mismatch some online forums are talking are simply a result of not tagging an ARGB image with a profile so the untagged image will have the value directly interpreted in an sRGB space and thus colour shifts? or if I intended to put it on web or share to friends most of the time I should alwasy just export it in sRGB profile?

Running PS 2025 on Windows 10, video editing desktop. Have used Premiere for years, no color monitor problems, using Fireworks to generate vid thumbnails (exported frames from vids with text added). Now when I import to Photoshop, the photo is super dark and weird looking, the text and watermark look ok, but if I do nothing to the photo it exports looking exactly as it should, on the same monitor. Help?

Hi I can't get the path blur blue arrow to appear. I've quit it, uninstalled it, tried it on a variety of files and nada. I'm on a mac 10.12.4 and PS is 2017.1.0 The computer is less than a year old.Oddly enough the tools seem to blur the image somewhat, it's that I am blind in doing so. Also the cursor seems to stick on one that looks like a pin.Thanks for any help Chuck Dykeman

Hi, I'm a designer who works mostly for big car companies. The company I'm currently with wants to start using AI everywhere possible, including design. They're all super dumb and just say the word AI a lot without knowing anything about how it works, and for design, we're mostly looking at image generation. I know Adobe are starting to roll out Nano Banana inside photoshop, but if i use it this way, is my work still confidential? I can't risk a new car being sent off to google to either be seen or even be used as training data. I wouldn't use Nano Banana or MJ etc. using my work as I'm sure it's not safe, but I wondered within Photoshop if Adobe can guarantee a level of privicy and keep my work confidencial. Thanks. 

I recently noticed that the grey areas in the colour picker and on my images to show colours outside of the printable colour range have disappeared. When I click view-gamutwarning nothing happens to the image and I know there are colour adjustments that need doing. The greyed out area of the colour picker has gone so there's no way to pick safe colours from there anymore.I'm using Photoshop 26.11.0 release and haven't made any changes to the setup so I'm thinking this has happened due to an update but can't be sure.Can anybody help please because it's a really important part of getting my work from the desktop and into print.Thanks.

 I've been asking ChatGPT best way to edit 369 files. I explained I used to in photoshop, but that I've seen photoshop did away with the 3D tab. Chat GPT said Creative Cloud used let's you install older versions of photoshop, but only the last few, each year. It also said it thinks Asobe no longer goes back far enough to versions of OS that allow 3D editing.  Is that true? Does owning photoshop not let you go far back enough to versions that had 3D? Thanks.

I cant uninstall PS5 , all the information it shows is,   'Your uninstallation encountered errors' I have also tried to find  the Adobe Aplication manager to install it without success. Any help would be appreciated. Konrad