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Photoshop 2021 Crashes With Curves

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
March 29, 2021
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I can get it to crash by just adding a curves adjustment and clicking on any of the interactive tools (black/white/grey point eyedropper, or the 'click and drag' icon). PS crashes out.

If it doe snot crash with the 'click and drag' to set curves vaues, it won't release the control once the mouse button is released.

I'm using a Mac running Catalina.

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Elisa30560766tkq4

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Same problem here, keeps crashing when i use the curves. I'm use to it at the point that everytime i need to use the curves, i save first. Ridicolous that this hasn't been fixed, it's 2025.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Please read this (in particular the section titled "Supply pertinent information for more timely and effective answers”):
https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community/community-how-to-guide-tips-amp-best-practices/td-p/11601738?page=1

What are the affected images’ Color Mode/s, Bit Depth/s, …?

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Aleks5C38

Participant

Same problem here.

Turning off the Graphics Processor makes everything incredibly slow and sluggish. but it does seem to fix the problem with the crashing when adding a curves adjustment layer.

macOS Monterey

Photoshop 23.3.2

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Does turning off »Use Graphics Processor« in the Performance Preferences (Photoshop > Preferences > Performance > Graphic Processor Settings) and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue?

What have you done for all-purpose trouble-shooting so far?
Restoring Preferences after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved might be a good starting point:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

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pppeepoAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks for your quick and helpful reply - I turned off Use graphics Processor, and also reset all preferences to default values, restarted Photoshop and tried using a Curves adjustment. It has not crashed, but picking the icon of the hand with the arrows above and below is laggy, and also once the mouse button is released, the tool remains selected.

It did not do this last release.

I have to choose another tool eg press 'v' to get the icon to switch to something else.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Photoshop 22.3.0 seems to have some issues – if they prove too annoying to you you may want to roll back the Photoshop version.

But make sure to back-up your presets first.

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