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Photoshop 26.2 default items driving me mad

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 29, 2025
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Hi,

since moving from CS6 to 26.2 a week ago, and needing to ring Adobe each day to fix things, amongst many annoying things, the font keeps defaulting to Times New Roman, thin version and Justified Right, with the Ipsum dolar thing half on and off my page at left.

set it to Arial regular and justified left, but then its back to the Times New Roman the next time.

Its doing my head in.

In CS6 I use Arial regular all the time and its always behaving itself, with a text cursor awaiting where I click it, and its justified left.

despite Adobe tell call support and the the last techie saying it will now be ok, IT ISNT ! (as I predicted but he was adamant it would now be ok)

I also HATE HATE HATE having to turn off view>extras for each and every image I open, or get pesky magenta mm boxes blocking my view. never had these in CS6 and don want them on by default.

You will have to turn them off each image he said. I am opening many images a day here to work on. This is insane.

also the black mm boxes are not even turn offable. I dont want them in the way.

Live tab looks same as inactive tab, subject of a techie submission to HQ now. (and other post here,. a bug)

Please Adobe dont break things that worked.

Merlin

Windows

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @Merlin3:

Is Photoshop installed on a local drive, or are you accessing it via a VPN?

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

The magenta lines are Smart Guides, and help you align objects with each other.

In the example below I am transforming the red rectangle, and the magenta guide is telling me it is perfectly aligned with the right edge of the cyan circle above it. They will also show you when centers align.

You can turn then off via ther View menu, or you can create a shortcut to do the same thing.

The mm pop-ups you mention can be turned off or have their position changed in Preferences > Tools. I prefer to have them top right, (I think the default is on the left, which puts them in the way). You called them mm boxes, but they reflect whatever units your rulers are set to. I change mine to mm for the sakee of the screen shot, but I prefer to work with them set to pixels. You change that in Preferences, or by right clicking inside a ruler. (Rulers have to be turned on of course — Ctrl r)

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

The font should definitely stay unchanged from the last selected font when you restart Photoshop. Are your Preference changes surviving a restart? Try making Arial a Favourite and restarting. There have been historical issue with settings not being saved, but that was a good few years ago and with Mac systems.

So I am trying to think of a workflow that might cause your problem. If you were to create a type layer with the Times New Roman font, and then create a second type layer using the Arial font, if you then click on the Times New Roman layer, then the Options bar would show that font.

In simple terms, the options bar will always show whatever font that the most recent type layer to be selected used.

So do some tests to make sure your other settings are being saved.

M

Merlin3Author

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Hi,

I have had adobe support remote connecting 4 times now, we have tried all sorts, made it arial regular left justified, new page save it, make another, arial. ok.

reboot pc, open pshop, it shows arial in the box, etc

arial ok, type and get arial, he declares fixed. I say until tomorrow.

next day its back to TNR right just ....aaagh

so another call, this time he is confident.

and guess what.

next day and its TNR again.

and yesterday it was arial.

I have just done a printscreen and clicked the type tool on page for the first time today, and its TNR right justified.

[cursing removed]

I have 6 pages of things that are wrong in 26.3 so far to send Adobe.

Merlin

Barb Binder

Community Expert

There are lot of questions/concerns in your post so let's start at the top.

When I change my font to Arial, align left, add text, close and reopen, it's still set to Arial, align left. See demo, below. Did your operating system change? Is that what precipitated the upgrade? And what operating system are you using?

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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