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ellenm40132706
ellenm40132706
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Feb 19, 2026 9:30 AM UTC
Question

Photoshop can't find subject for selection

I used the ‘select subject’ a lot, but today Photoshop keeps insisting there is no clear subject to select in this image. I’m using a Mac. Any ideas why this doesn’t work? 

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    Sameer K
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    Sameer KCommunity Manager
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    Feb 19, 2026 10:48 AM UTC

    Hey, ​@ellenm40132706. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. Please share the system info from Photoshop Help > System info > Copy & paste into a text document > upload & attach here. Does this happen with any image? 

    Try changing the Select Subject mode from Photoshop > Settings > Image Processing > Select Subject to Cloud & Selection process to Stable. 

     

     Let me know how it goes.

    Thanks!

    Sameer K

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      ellenm40132706
      ellenm40132706Author
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      Feb 19, 2026 11:05 AM UTC

      ​@Sameer K Switching to Cloud for image processing does work, it finds the subject now, thanks! 

      But I would prefer it to process locally. See systeminfo in the attachment.

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      Ged_Traynor
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      Ged_TraynorCommunity Expert
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      Feb 19, 2026 11:50 AM UTC

      ​@ellenm40132706 not related to your issue, but you only have 27 GB of free space for the scratch disk, it’s recommended that you have at least 100 GB of free space for the scratch disk.

      If you’re working on large files, you’re going to run into issues

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