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EnvironmentPhotoshop 2026 (27.2.0), macOS Tahoe 26.2, Camera Raw plug-in 18.1.1.2422UI language: CzechProblemWith Camera Raw Filter window open over the main Photoshop window hovering mouse over specific point shows pop-up tip for a tool from the underlying main Photoshop window  (not visible at that time).Expected behaviorDon’t show tips for hidden (not visible) tools from underlying windows.Steps to reproducestart Photoshop ensure Preferences/Notifications/Show Rich Tips is selected (Nastavení/Oznámení/Podrobné tipy nástrojů) create new file (command+N) open Camera Raw Filter (shift+command+A) put mouse cursor somewhere bellow the Profile/Profil field a pop-up tip for Adjustments/Přizpůsobení should appear (adjust slightly mouse position if not) click the pop-up window, a mac os “error” sound will be given move mouse cursor away, the pop-up tip won’t disappear close the Camera Raw window, the tip would go away after a while  

Running PS 27.3.1 on Win11I get error messages in the camera raw filter, in Photoshop when I try to run the AI based selection/masks on a portraitSee this for the person recognition:Then a different error message but still an error for the “select subject”And same again in the “remove” sectionOther GenAI features work as intended in Photoshop proper, it’s just in ACR. Thanks!

A search bar where I can search for a tool (ex. Magic Wand).I’m a video professional who uses Photoshop maybe a couple times a month. The number of tools Photoshop has accrued is overwhelming. I’m usually looking for some of the most basic ones (Magic Wand, Ruler for straightening) and I can no longer find them as they’re buried underneath other tools or on a second page of tools that I no longer remember how to get to. Acrobat has a Search field where I can search for a tool (ex. Text Recognition) so I don’t have to remember exactly where that tool is buried. This would be so helpful in Photoshop for those of us who don’t use it every day, and when we do, it’s often to do ONE THING that we can do easily except that the tool is buried and it takes 10 minutes to find the tool and 1 minute to do the task.

Every once in a while I open photoshop to play around with animating frame by frame in there instead of Animate. But the timeline is so confusing and frustrating that I can never get myself to continue. By reforming the timeline closer to Animate, which is calm and easy to use, you will loose less frame-by-frame animators. Because AE is not quite right for it.What makes the Animate timeline so nice is that you can group it, it is organised and most of all; the singel keyframes makes it way clearer what you are working with. You can be way more precise. With the current layout it is very specific how to even start an animation, every singel drawing (frame) is visible in the layers tab, when you first finally manage to get the first video setup every frame is 5 seconds long. So you need to first shorten it, then copy paste very singel layer a 100 times (hopefully that is enough) and then place them behind each other. This workflow takes way too much time. Thank you for reading my rant, I

how do we turn off and deactivite photshop CS5 

Bracketed images, one on top of the other in the form of layers > generate layer mask > in order to reveal detail from the image underneath I have always used a radial gradient to start slowing working in detail. Seems to all of a sudden have a glitch and if I move that radial gradient around it actually starts stacking and the opacity control no longer has an effect (it is from black to transparent) 

System Specs:Adobe Photoshop: 27.3.0 20260122.r.13 2d403ec  x64 (final: Release)Windows 11 64 bitsVersión: 11 o posterior 10.0.26100.7623 When I´m trying to save a Large PSD file to PDF the system crashes at 90%, here are some facts about the Issue,  The iissue seems to be related to the Filesystem I just changed the virtual Memory Disks to disk with enough space and change the priority  I changed the default installation folder for one SSD with enough space  When the file has started to saving, it get stucked at 90% and the Disk C: (the disk C: is not used for the Photoshop installation) becomes fullfilled   When the free space from Disk C: becomes empty, the Photoshop crashes:   The PSD file is not stored at C: disk, it is stored at D: Disk. also the file size is about 1.3 Gb The PDF destination folder is also on the D: disk, not C: I dont know what could be happening here, I change all the variables about the installation path, the virtual disks, reinstall the application,

 It functions better locally than via the cloud and that should not be happening. Also, the generate background is also below expectation. Previous versions results were far superior to current results

With Animate discontinued, Creative Cloud no longer properly supports hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation. Photoshop’s video layers are too limited for this workflow.Incorporating Animate’s timeline features into Photoshop would make it comparable to apps like Procreate Dreams or TVPaint.

In PS 2026 version 27.3 I can not use a gradient mask as before; if I create a gradient mask and want to adjust this mask by dragging the gradient handles, it does not change the original gradient, but adds a new gradient! In this way I can not make fine adjustments to a gradient mask. Is it a matter of a changed setting, or has the working principal of the feature changed?

What’s the difference between Device vs Cloud when using Remove Background?  Comment on what they mean, and how they work, and then watch this video from Deke McClelland 

Considering the rate of innovation in the generative AI space, most people choose one or two paths. Either try and consume as much AI news as possible… or just try to ignore it entirely. I've found for myself that a nice spot between these two extremes works best for me.   Keeping up with everything AI is a full-time job… while pretending there is nothing interesting or beneficial for creatives will leave you at a disadvantage. Knowing enough to be selective around which innovations and spaces to keep an eye on - and maintaining awareness of those areas which can be helpful in your own workflows can be very beneficial.   You don't have to waste your time on slop…. or even things that might be a memory tomorrow. Instead, you make choices as to which innovations can be useful to you and you focus on these bits - and how to best integrate them within your own processes as part of your day-to-day creative output.   Features like Harmonize in Photoshop fit perfectly within th

This icon keeps glowing even when I hide the whole bar, I keep looking for options to disable it but haven’t been lucky 

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Intermittent bug:After making adjustments in Camera Raw to a .ARW file, when I click Open to continue to Photoshop, the workspace in Photoshop is blank (except for my file).  The toolbars, panels etc have disappeared. This can be corrected by clicking Window > Workspace > Photography to reset the workspace back to Photography, and then loading up a custom toolbar preset with Edit > Toolbars > Load Preset but it’s pretty annoying as it happens fairly frequently, but not every time.  Please note that I have raised this bug before, shortly prior to the community forum update, but the post appears to have disappeared.  I have tried all the suggestions given by @Noel Orridge and @Sameer K  including:1) Navigate to C:\Users\[YourUsername]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe.- Right-click the Adobe Photoshop 2026 folder and select Properties.- At the bottom, uncheck the Read-only box if it is checked (it might show a square; try to clear it).- Go to the Security tab.- Click Edit, then ensure yo

This is a bit complicated. Sorry.I have been using Photoshop 2025 on current Mac OS. A while ago, CC apparently installed Photoshop 2026 (it is in my applications folder) but launching Photoshop has continued to launch 2025. Further, CC (yes, I’ve logged out and back in and restarted the computer) shows that Photoshop is NOT installed at all.  In Photoshop 2025 if I go to Help → Updates I see no option to update my installed copy of Photoshop 2025 or switch to the installed copy of Photoshop 2026… and under the “Apps” page in CC, while Lightroom and Lightroom Classic show as installed (I see the “Open” buttons), next to Photoshop I see “Install.”)While I can manually launch the installed Photoshop 2026 application, it does not have access to any of my workspace or preferences from 2025. Using the “click the 3 dots in the CC Photoshop square to check for other versions” doesn’t work either, since CC seems to be unaware that Photoshop is even installed on my computer. Again, sorry for th

It has recently come to my attention that dpi isn’t preserved when using ‘export as’ (it’s changed to 72/ 96dpi) and I think an update to it is warranted.I work with a lot of artboards for my print files (300dpi) and often need to export multiple layers to send to the printer. Export as is an incredible feature that makes saving out a batch of files from different artboards, or groups of layers efficient and painless; it’s one of my favorite features in modern Ps. If it’s not preserving dpi properly though, it’s functionality is almost nil for print projects, which seems absurd.‘Save as’ is slow and clunky for saving multiple files, and horrible if you have multiple artboards. If I could keep the dpi of my files in tact, and have the option to change to 72/ 96dpi, it would preserve the amazing functionality that is export as, improve my workflow, and make sure that professional print designers have effective tools that make Photoshop great to work with. ‘Export as’ is too good of a too

A weird thing that logically shouldn’t happen is happening. I’ve been told that Windows natively has no ability to display Photoshop thumbnails when viewing PSD files in the file browser. Most of my PSD's accordingly when viewed display as the blue Photoshop PS icon, however randomly in my sync’d OneDrive folder some (not all) PSD’s display thumbnail previews of the actual PSD's contents. They display the same as a jpg thumbnail preview.I never installed anything special to make that happen. I don’t have an third party PSD thumbnail viewing programs/apps installed. So something else must be going on here. Is it something to do with the fact it’s a OneDrive folder? But if that’s the case why doesn’t it display thumbnails for all the PSD’s? The file type is exactly the same between PSD’s that do display thumbnails and PSD’s that don’t.Wondering if anyone has any clue what’s going on here.

The checkered transparency grid appears in chunks of my brush strokes when using the basic round with opacity pressure enabled. I thought it might be my GPU, I wiped it clean and reinstalled drivers–nothing. I’ve re-installed Photoshop, and even downgraded to the 2021 versions, still nothing. It can’t be my monitor because I am able to screenshot the checkers, and others are able to see it. When exporting what’s on screen as an image, the checkers disappear. I’ve tried other basic things such as a new canvas, copy pasting the background color on a layer above, and so on. It seems to be something with the viewer itself and it or some aspect of Photoshop’s relation with my GPU. There are two workarounds I have found but neither seem to solve the actual problem. The first and most digestible solution is disabling the grid altogether. It’s not ideal but in my limited use of the toggle, I can paint without the visual disruption. As further proof of it truly being the grid, it scales with my

I’m having an issue with Photoshop 2026 showing a “Time Limit” prompt. I have an active Photography Subscription (Lightroom + Photoshop), and my payments are up to date. I’ve already uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop, but the Time Limit warning still appears.

It seems to be taking a really long time for Photoshop to finish saving a photo with actions applied. It never used to take more than a few seconds to save, but recently it is taking several minutes or longer to save back to Lightroom and gets stuck at like 98% saved. Would it be best to just re-install photoshop?   {Thread renamed by moderator}

I’m trying to export multiple images based on 2 groups that have clipping masks. Essentially it’s for sports broadcast, with 1 team on each side of the mask. My problem is that I have 100+ teams/images in each group, so potentially 10,000 combos. Is there a script available that would allow me to batch export every possible combo so I don’t ya e to do 1 at a time as the season goes on?? TIA

Hello, I'm trying to remove the background of an image. I bring the image into PS, goto properties > Quick Actions > Remove Background. I click it, the system thinks for a second and then comes up with an error saying that 'Remove Background Failed'   The background layer is unlocked etc. I've tried everything. The image was downloaded from a paid version of Vecteezy, so it shouldn't be a permissions issue. Note: moderator removed Actions and Scripting from tags.  

Hello,I have a "problem" opening my 16 bits Tiff files in Photoshop, exported from Hasselblad .3f files in Phocus software. If I export my files in Phocus, in a large color profile like Prophoto RGB, open this 16 bits TIFF in photoshop, this images have much less contrast then in Phocus. Colors look the same but contrast is very different. But if I export in Adobe RGB in Phocus, I can see my images in Photoshop exactly like I can see in Phocus, no problem, as if I open in others applications like Preview (non color manage apps), same image as in Phocus. My monitor is calibrated, and I tried with other monitor profiles but still the same loss of contrast. I have turn off “precise color management for HDR displays” in Technology Previews and use an iMac 27”, latest Photoshop. Same thing happen in my laptop (MacBook Air) with older Photoshop version. I am doing something wrong?Thank you!Tiago Garcia