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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.

I was resizing a smart object layer (imported logo file) and hit undo when Photoshop instantly reverted back to a much earlier state and lost all steps in the history panel.

Alt + Spacebar that make brush opacity 40% …  I never ever had this issue before … then about a month ago I updated after a long time to 2025 & 2026. This is issue is with both. Again this was never a thing before.Is it a Bug or a supposed to be "new feature"? If so, is there any way to disable it, what is it, why is it so?No where can I find any mention of Alt + Spacebar making brush opacity 40% … so why is it so?I need spacebar to navigate finely & obviously need Alt as well, it’s become a nightmare trying to work this way with everytime having to turn opacity Back to 100%I tried using “H” Hand tool instead, but then it gives me the “Bird’s eye view” which is not suitable for fine navigation where I do not want to zoom out … is there any way to disable the “Birds Eye View”?

I have a small, 128 Pixel, Square image (PSD) that will not save as a BMP file.  The image has been flattened.  RGB, 8  bits/channel, and the only channels besides those are a solitary Alpha channel which is necessary for the image to display correctly in the application that I plan to use it in.. I’ve been working on similar projects since PS2, and have never had an issue. I’ve googled all the Help articles, and checked to see that nothing has changed.  The worrisome issue is that I build these images off of one ”Base” file, changing the portions of the image that need to be changed and saving the PSD file.  Some of these images will save as a BMP, while others will not.  When attempting to save the  BMP, the save box comes up, I select BMP files, click Save, and nothing happens… no dialog box asking whether I want 24 or 32 bit, etc I’m not changing anything in the file structure in between.  The changes are basically a “redesigned” image and a new title.  I just opened a psd and save

I have had this problem before but now it’s cropped up again. I’m running PS 27.4.0 on Windows 10. I have done this before, because old droplets work. But now I can’t seem to get new droplets to work. my steps: Create droplet and save it to a dir that’s executable (/documents/adobe/droplets) Right click, go to properties, click on “compatibility tab”. Click on Run program as administrator. Then click on “Change settings for all users”.I used to be able to get the admin icon attached to the droplet icon, like this:  Now when I do this with a new droplet, it just never runs. I keep getting the error:   I can’t for the life of me get it to work anymore and can’t get any new droplets to run. 

I am able to get CMY color from RBG color by using Lighten Blend Mode.    How can I get RBG from CMY?          

I cannot understand this. “For Windows users, do not select the C drive”. Could you?6 Photoshop Settings That Make Your Workflow SmoothTime 3.14   

Hi everyone, thank you for taking you time to consinder my problem.I have a single raster layer in Photoshop with a transparent background that contains multiple separate white shapes (not touching each other).Is it possible to use ExtendScript to automatically detect each individual shape and create a point text layer (e.g. “Lorem Ipsum”) at the each shape? Before After 

Since I’ve spent far to much time than is actually healthy working out why using myTypeRef.leading = 12;just doesn’t work...(On it’s own) - ya gotta turn out auto leading off at the same time!So, for my future self and frustrated others I give you:  // Add a new layer in the new document var artLayerRef = app.activeDocument.artLayers.add(); // Specify that the layer is a text layer artLayerRef.kind = LayerKind.TEXT; //Get a reference to the text item so that we can add the text and format it a bit textItemRef = artLayerRef.textItem; textItemRef.contents = "Gwen Stefani is bananas!"; textItemRef.size = 10; // Adjust the leading // Pour the lead, Ripley! Pour it! textItemRef.useAutoLeading = false; textItemRef.leading = 12;To create text and give it a custom leading value.

I tried to use some very old Topaz plug-Ins. After running the installation script from Topaz they were added to the drop down photoshop filters drop down. These Topaz add ins did not work and hung photoshop.So,I’m trying to remove then. I have deleted then from the addin folder, ran the Topaz uninstall script.They have been removed from the system.The problem is that they still show up in the photoshop filters drop down. Should you try to use them photoshop hangs, How can they be removed from the photoshop filters drop down.Dave 

I used to use feathering to fix bad pixelated cut out edges, by using a feather radius of around 3 pixels and creating a mask to feather the edge, now it just seems to still show the hideous pixelated edge - is there a way I can get a better result? Usually the edge would disappear with the feather.   

Suddenly today when I try to change the line spacing of text in Photoshop, it doesn't do it and gives me wild range errors. For instance, trying to set the line spacing to 40pt, I'll get a pop up that says "A value between 65.16 Points and 21474836.47 Points is required." Any idea how to fix this? Resetting the character, rebooting the program, etc has not helped.

Ich hoffe, hier kann mir jemand bei folgendem Problem weiterhelfen – leider konnte mir selbst der Adobe-Support bisher keine Lösung bieten.Photoshop-Version: v27.4Fehler seit ca. 2 Wochen:„Der Grafikprozessor ist auf einen nicht behebbaren Fehler gestoßen. Die GPU-Beschleunigung wird für den Rest der Sitzung deaktiviert.“Der Fehler tritt in der Camera Raw-Bearbeitung auf, genauer gesagt bei folgendem Ablauf:Bild in Camera Raw öffnen → Presets → Adaptiv Landschaft → Winter01Mein System (ca. 6 Monate alt):Prozessor: Intel® Core™ i7-14700K (3.40 GHz) RAM: 64 GB Betriebssystem: Windows 11 64-Bit Grafikkarte: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (8 GB) mit aktuellem Studio-TreiberAlle Windows-Updates sowie Treiber sind auf dem neuesten Stand.Bereits versucht (ohne Erfolg):NVIDIA-Treiber inklusive Registry vollständig entfernt und neu installiert Photoshop komplett deinstalliert und sauber neu installiert Neue Grafikkarte eingebaut (gleicher Fehler tritt auf) GPU-Beschleunigung in Photoshop deaktiviert (

how to make such design in photoshopany guidance to make designs like this 

Hi everyone!Currently, I have 24+ static photoshop artboards. These are 24 banners with different resolutions.For now I needed to create animated banners, but while I export it (ctrl+shift+alt+s) I have no options to choose artboards to export and it gives me one output file. The examples I put below.Please, could someone help me with that issue or maybe advice another method to create animated banners.This is what it looks like, full canvas has been exported as animated gif.Photoshop v19.0 (en x64);Windows 10 (updated)

I am in update hell between adobe and windows. I am fully updated everywhere, all hardware is new and functioning perfectly elsewhere.It is just doing the same filtering layer I've done in my workflow for years. No AI is involved, ACR just stops responding after a few gradient masks. I have spent more time trouble shooting adobe issues in the last six months than I have actually using the products.Do they not realize professionals use their software and need reliability?   

I want to make eye-catching thumbnails for my cricket mobile game feature images/thumbnails for my gaming website using Photoshop. What are the best tips for realistic player graphics and action effects?

Hi expertsI am writing a adobe photoshop script where I can select the folder name from the dialog window and the script will open the very first image from that folder. I will edit the picture and only when I save and close the image, the second image will be opened. And the same thing will continue. So the script will open only one image at a time. How this is possible?I was doing with many experiments and the current code is like this.var imageFolder = new Folder("C:/Nirmalya/Photo/"); function filter(file) { return (file instanceof File && /\.(jpg)$/i.test(file.name)) } var fileList = imageFolder.getFiles(filter); if (fileList.length > 0) { //Sort the fileList fileList.sort(function (a, b) { if (app.compareWithNumbers) { return app.compareWithNumbers(a.name, b.name); } else { return sortAlphaNum(a.name, b.name); } }); loop: for (var index1 = 0; index1 < fileList.length; index1++) { if (doc

Hello, after a friend told me their pen pressure is no longer working in Photoshop 26.2 I have experimentally upgraded as well (from 25.12.01) and am experiencing the same issue. I don't think it even registers that I'm using a pen, because the brush previews also show no pressue. I have WinInk turned off and suspect this is the issue. Is Adobee dropping support for WinTab? I see nothing about this in the release notes!

when using the Liquify filter, there is a possibility that a separate layer is created for this. I always make a copy of the original layer first.

Version 27.00  after upgrade, "Remove Background" button. after click process, an error pops up showing that the background could not be found for removal.  still works on vs 26.11 (this version can not upscale an image)  I have tried multiple images and same error. 

I have a high end pc without any issues, only my photoshop is way to laggy. I tried updating it, and nothing worked, I found similar posts with the same problem which had an answer but nothing worked for me, unchecking using old gpu, changing refresh rate technolgy, nothing worked. this is my specs:CPU: AMD 7500fGPU: AMD 7900XTRAM: 32GB CL36SSD: 2TB 6000mb/sThis is the text from the system info in the help section of photoshop:Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.1.0 20251117.r.17 2758080  x64 (final, Release)Number of Launches: 33Operating System: Windows 11 64-bitVersion: 11 or greater 10.0.26200.7840System architecture: AMD CPU Family:15, Model:1, Stepping:2, AVX2, AVX-512, HyperThreadingPhysical processor count: 6Logical processor count: 12Processor speed: 3693 MHzBuilt-in memory: 32374 MBFree memory: 20752 MBMemory available to Photoshop: 24875 MBMemory used by Photoshop: 70 %Crash Handler: AdobeDCX Version: 9.11.1SAM SDK Version: 14.3.4ACP.local Status: - SDK Version: 5.8.2 - Core Sync St

I cannot get Ps to override the Scaling whether I choose System or Application. This is a screenshot where I've chosen System.   When I open a menu in Ps the font is a decent size but everything else is super tiny, despite having chosen 200% UI Scaling and Large font size. Anyone have a solution?   

Since about version 26, the behaviour for using a graphics tablet has changed. It used to be that you could still erase using the back of the pen regardless of whatever tool you were using. Since version 26 and continuing to this day if you have the select tool enabled you are unable to erase. Using the back of the pen just draws selection boxes as if you were using the front tip.Is this a deliberate change – in which case where can I turn it off – or is it a bug?

I’m trying to select small areas and I feel like I don’t really know which part of the magic wand tool is the action bit. It has a rounded tip, so I’m guessing it would be the tip of the tip.  I have to estimate where that is visually.. it’s a bit harder on a rounded tip compared to an arrow.  But then, is it the black line of the tool?  Or is it the tip of the white outline around the black tool?  Or would it be one pixel just OUTSIDE of the white outline? But there’s also three stars floating around it.  By doing some testing, I’m fairly certain that the stars aren’t the sensitive part of the tool.  It seems to be closer to the wand portion.   It would be great if this tool had a more intuitive, less ambiguous design.  Which exact pixel is the action bit?