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I have a headshot of my mother wearing glasses. When the photo was taken the flash is reflected in her glasses. how do I remove these reflections

I need to change the background (white-gray squares) to black to clearly see whether I have cropped the object properly. In AE, this is switched in one click. How can I do this in Photoshop without creating layers with a black fill? Just set the background to be not transparent by default, but always black. Thank you.

Greetings:  Is there a way to make the work space transparent?  I didn’t see a way to do that in  Preferences. I do a lot of historic image digital restoration for clients and for gallery sales and often work at the pixel level when  cleaning edges, and a transparent background helps me find artifacts, etc., when I zoom out. I’m hoping I can make the workspace transparent rather than have to create a huge tranparent canvas. Thanks in advance for any help.  -- AC

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Hello.  I have just reinstalled my mac yesterday (I have a mac pro turning with Big Sur). I resintalled photoshop and lightroom yesterday. My photoshop version is 22.4.0 20210512.r.195 5b318a5 x64And i cant go in Full Screen Mode. Not the Full screen mode you get by typing F but the mac os full screen mode, The one you get with green button. If I press the green button, photoshop open in almost full screen but stops at the dock. Lightroom is working properly. Is there  preference in photoshop ? A bug ? Something else ?  Can you help me please ?

eu Photoshop está extremamente lento mesmo em documentos simples. Configuração do meu PC: - Notebook VAIO FE15 - Processador Intel i7-13700H - 32GB de RAM - Placa de vídeo NVIDIA RTX 3050 4GB - Windows 11 64-bit - Monitor 4K O problema: O Photoshop trava e fica lento até para zoom, mover e selecionar objetos. Mesmo com o documento vazio, o programa trava. O Gerenciador de Tarefas mostra que a CPU está em 5%, a RAM em 60% e a RTX 3050 em 0% — ou seja, o Photoshop não está usando os recursos do PC. O que já tentei sem sucesso: - Atualizei o driver da NVIDIA para a versão mais recente (Studio Driver) - Forcei o uso da RTX 3050 no Painel de Controle da NVIDIA - Reinstalei o Photoshop - Testei nas versões 2026 e 2025 — mesmo problema nas duas - Ajustei todas as configurações de desempenho dentro do Photoshop - Troquei a pasta térmica do notebook O problema persiste em todas as versões testadas e em qualquer tipo de documento.

Hi guys,I'm currently on a Macbook with the M1 Pro chip and I have a problem with the brush in either Lightroom classic and Photoshop since I got the new Macbook. I'm on the latest macOS and on the latest versions of Photoshop and Lightroom. If I try to use the brush in Lightroom or Photoshop, I can hover around OUTSIDE of the image. As soon as I hover OVER the image the cursor gets stuck and i can no longer move it. The effect of the brush is applied however,  I just cannot see where I'm painting.  Most of the times it works when I lower the brushsize, but there's no fixed size where it occurs.  And the same problem with Photoshop. I have a feeling there's a link between the brushsize where i can move the cursor and the resolution of the image, but I'm not sure about that.Restarting the Macbook and/ or LR/PS does not solve the problem. Does anyone have or had the same error? Can't find anything on the internet.

I am trying to replace a head in Photoshop 2026.  I found the following video on Youtube however, i can’t find the same tool options in Photoshop 2026.  Where can I find a current up to date video on how to achieve a head swap? 

It is said beta version is a trial version. Therefore there is no guarantee new features in the beta version will be transformed into subsequent regular version. In this context, is it worth to spend time on new features in beta version?  

I know that this question was asked, but Adobe change the structure soooooo much that answers become irrelevant.Please, allow me to tell entire story.Background. I have some old clip files that I wanted to “revive”. When I am/was trying to add audio, I am getting “DynamicLink is not available”. When I am/was trying to generate video “Media Encoder” is grayed out. It happened once. Then after probably (don’t remember entire chain of events) I un-installed Photoshop beta and Photoshop was updated, the issues has been resolved on it is own. I put my clips aside for a couple of weeks, but when I get back to them now, I am getting the same message. I updated Photoshop - it did not resoved the issue.   What I know so far about the issue. All files that was mentioned before Trace database, dynamiclinkmanager etc moved to other directories. I renamed all of them plus Media Cached Files - it did not help. The issue is that if I open old clip that has audio OR trying to add audio to a new file,

I have a 4090 graphics card with 128gb of ram. I can run 3D scan processing. Render water simulation in Blender. The only program that stutters and takes forever to load up is photoshop. I used to run CS2 on a little laptop back20 years ago and it was flawless. There is seriously something wrong with photoshops priorities. I would like to suggest a new version of photoshop.. Classic. What I would do for Cs2 speeds. 

I’m having a pretty big problem lately with Photoshop iOS trying to edit text on a canvas. When I try to select the text to edit it, the canvas jumps down, so I’m at the bottom of the canvas. I then  have to physically drag the canvas down to the middle of the page again to start editing the text. Unfortunately I cannot attach a video to display this.

 I would like to be able to export my masking from camera raw, to a new layer with layer mask. Today you need to mask and edit in raw, then make a new mask in photoshop for further edits.

I‘ll have another stab at this as I don’t understand this script behaviour:Basically two commands var id123 = charIDToTypeID( "Invs" );executeAction( id123, undefined, DialogModes.NO ); Inverse selection (not inverse pixel colour) - works fine show/hide the crawling ants selection by toggling it: app.runMenuItem(stringIDToTypeID("toggleEdges"));toggles the visibility of the current selection on/off Yay! Two tiny bits of code work just fine. However... they don’t run one after another, you can’t inverse the selection and then hide the selection. I’ve tried. I have no idea why. I’ve added a delay, separate scripts, separate actions, toggle the selection twice. No dice. I’m stumped as to why the two bits of code won’t work sequentially. Any ideas? Answers on a postcard

Once in a few days or so, when I open PS all the recent files are gone from the starting screen, I have to go and open them manually again which makes working with PS tedious because I work with a lot of files in many folders.This issue has been reported over and over for months now and yet there has not been done anything abuot it. We pay real money for this and depend on it with our work and livelihood.Fix it!

When I go outside the last version of Photoshop (27.4.0) and come back, this window appears and the app start to very slow down.. 

I created this poster 2 years back and are trying to recreate it but are struggling lol, I have found the original file displacement map and recreated the text too but displacement map is not working correctly. It is not effecting the edge of the text as desired it is essentially just shifting the outline of the text does that make sense? not affecting the edges as I originally did it?  

The lasso tool jitters when holding the Alt key to draw straight lines, and sometimes it loses control.

Looking for a fun way to give your photos a hand-crafted feel? Try turning them into pencil sketches using just a few tools in Photoshop. This simple technique is great for portraits, architecture, or even still life — and it works with any photo you already have. No tablet or drawing skills required.   Try it in the Desktop App Download the latest version and dive into the new features offered in Adobe Photoshop.   This step-by-step guide walks you through how to create a pencil sketch effect that mimics real graphite lines and paper texture. Once you’ve tried it, share your results here in the community — we’d love to see your take on it. Step-by-Step: Photo to Pencil Sketch  1. Duplicate Your Image: Duplicate your image layer and select the top layer and go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate or use Command + Shift + U to make it black and white.     2. Invert Your Second Layer: Duplicate the desaturated layer. Then invert it using Command +

Is it possible to Batch convert Jpg images into .pat files? I am familiar with the define pattern function but what I really need is to convert many jpg's.Thanks

I am reaching out to understand why UXP (the new plugin framework) does not expose a direct API to trigger and run existing ExtendScript (.jsx) files. In CEP (Common Extensibility Platform), we had the ability to use evalScript to run ExtendScript code within the same workflow. This offered immense flexibility and allowed us to leverage the full power of Photoshop scripting alongside UXP’s new features. However, with UXP, this functionality seems to be completely missing, and I am left wondering:Why doesn't UXP allow us to run legacy .jsx scripts directly from the plugin?Why isn’t there an official way to trigger scripts that are already installed in Photoshop (e.g., in the Scripts folder) via UXP?Is there a specific limitation or future roadmap that prevents UXP from including a function like evalScript?The ability to run scripts and control Photoshop deeply was one of the core strengths of CEP. By removing this functionality, we’ve lost a lot of power in terms of automation, scriptin

I’m using Photoshop CS6 and Windows 10. I want to insert a star (★) character within a text layer Photoshop CS6.  If I type Alt+9733, which is supposed to be the Alt number for this character in Windows, Photoshop inserts a Clubs (♣) character instead. So does my browser, ironically - although almost all other Windows apps display a star character when I type Alt+9733. If I copy and paste a star character (such as the above one) into Photoshop, then the font in Photoshop changes to Myriad Pro, (goodness why it chooses that font in particular!) which displays a rectangle with a cross through it like this: If I try to change the font from Myriad Pro to, say, Arial, it won’t let me - it insists on displaying the character I’ve pasted in Myriad Pro and I can’t change the font. Is there any Alt code that will work in Photoshop CS6, as Alt+9733 doesn’t? Alternatively, is there any way of pasting a star character into Photoshop CS6 without causing the font to change to one that doesn’t suppor

Even the Adobe docs under: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/layer-opacity-blending.html are not very good. AFAiCT Blend If does one thing and one thing only; it changes the Transparency of the pixels in the upper layer.    I tried Gemini AI and it returns a short and completely wrong answer. 

Please AI help us with one of the nastiest things in Photoshop history, the naming and sorting of layers in groups. One click and AI sorts and renames layers by its look. Doesn´t have to be perfect and a undo function should be available. But could help a lot. And/or V2: I can prompt a set of rules how to clean up my mess. (All buttons in group etc) 

Lightroom and Photoshop have gotten really slow since I got a 4k wide gamut monitor, and the fan in the computer gets real loud. It’s a Dell XPS 8950 Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900K with 32 GB memory. Graphics is a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080.I have Lightroom and Photoshop set to use the GPU, but when they bog down and the fan speeds up it’s the CPU usage that spikes, not the GPU.Am I doing something wrong or do I just need a faster CPU?