rotate not rotating around the pictures center

Thanks @Jeff Arola for pointing that out. Looking into it, as of version 2022, Overscroll is on by default, where it was off by default in previous versions. 

Hi @ultrachrome,

One method to get the desired behavior is to use the Rotate Tool (R), which rotates from the center of the canvas.

Hmmm....yes, indeed that has corrected it but why should it have this behaviour. I find overscroll very handy but with that seems to come weird rotations. Or perhaps there's a reason I'm missing

Thank you for that - now I have to decide which is more important to me...probably having overscroll on

For the Crop Action, I wouldn't expect to see the crop box during action playback, it should just apply. Unless you turn on the toggle dialog option, which will then pause the action and wait for the crop to be chosen and applied before continuing the action. And that is working on my end. But maybe I'm missing something from your process

Cmd+Alt+M is working for me, it opens Curves and has the last settings I used. This is something where a preferences reset is likely to help. 

On the more manual side, you can check is Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. Find the Curves option in the list and verify it is set correctly. You can also simply make sure that Photoshop Defaults is in the Set drop-down at the top right. You can try applying Cmd+Alt+M to Curves, it should return an error that it is already in use, just to see what happens. 

Also, there may be something in the system which is eating the Alt key entry and just sending Cmd+M to Photoshop. It could be helpful to try running the OS in a simplified started (which prevents applications which run in the background from opening automatically at system boot). For Mac, this is called Safe Boot and is accessed by holding the Shift key at launch. See: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac#:~:text=Turn%20on%20or%20restart%20your,Boot%E2%80%9D%20in%20the%20menu%20bar. 

Thank you BrettN!...Okay, I'll stop trying to fix it. Can you also check into the other two issues I mentioned to Trevor Dennis?

That is when I'm running an action with a crop in it, I only see the bounding box for the crop if i start the action with the crop tool engaged. Also, I no long get my previous curve wth the short cut control+alt+M.

It's behaving like you have content outside the image bounds.

You have said different computers and accounts.  Hmmm...  I have read down the thread and seen it also happens with all images.  Very strange.

It should rotate around the central reference point. Do you have that turned on in Preferences?  The default is for it to be turned off.

Does this also happen when you use Free Transform?

If you initiate FT with Ctrl T, does the bounding box extend outside the canvas?

We don't see the Reference point with Rotate Canvas, but in your best judgement, is Rotate Canvas always rotating around the same relative position?

How does it work with different sized images.  i.e. is this arbitrary rotation point a fixed number of pixels from top left, or is it a percentage as in 25% in and down from top left corner.

I am struggling to think how this could happen with all images after a manual Preference reset.

Have you tried it with the Beta version?  I suspect it would be very unlikely to affect different versions, but we are fishing for as much data as we can accrue at the moment, and hoping it triggers something.

It's an interesting one for sure. 

When performing a transform, you have the option of choosing the pivot point around which rotations occur. The default is the center, but you can move it to a corner, edge, or some arbitrary point. You should see the pivot point as a crosshair and it can be dragged around by hand. There are also controls in the tool options bar in the upper right. With this you can turn pivot on and off (checked/unchecked). As well as choosing a specific location from a grid:

Here the box is checked and Center is chosen from the grid.

Oddly, it should always return to center every time you start a transform again. It might be a good idea to reset your preferences to get the default established again: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#reset_preferences 

Is it doing it for only one particular file?

Or does it happen for all images?