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A realistic shadow helps your subject feel grounded in the scene. In Photoshop, there are several ways to create one, depending on your subject and lighting. Based on workflows shared by experts in the Photoshop community, we've brought together a few of the most effective techniques here. Choose the method that best fits your workflow. Method 1: Using Generative AIAI can speed up the setup, but you will still get the best results by refining the shadow yourself.Use Select Subject or Remove Background to quickly isolate your object. Use Generative Fill to extend the surface where the shadow will fall. Learn more. You can also use Harmonize. It analyzes the lighting, color, and tone of the scene, and can also generate a matching shadow to help the subject feel more naturally integrated. Learn more. Refine the generated shadow manually using one of the methods above for the most realistic result. Method 2: Drop Shadow EffectThis is the quickest way to add depth and separation to elemen
The June 2026 Photoshop update is here, bringing more creative choices and meaningful workflow fixes. What’s newThis release expands creative choice in Generate Image with access to custom‑trained AI models, similar to what you’ve seen with Generative Fill. You can now choose from Adobe and partner models, including Firefly Image 5, Flux.2 Pro, and Gemini, making it easier to explore different visual styles, achieve stronger photorealism, and get results that stick closer to your prompts. Whether you’re experimenting with concepts or polishing production‑ready visuals, having multiple models at hand gives you more control over how your ideas come to life. Bug fixes — thanks to you!Your feedback continues to shape these updates. In this release, we’ve addressed several customer‑reported issues to make everyday workflows more reliable:Canvas size relative mode fields display incorrect default values, reject zero and negative values, and use incorrect increment steps. Add support to renam
We've split the Photoshop community into two dedicated spaces so you can find the conversations, tips, and apps that fit how you actually work:🖥️ Photoshop (Desktop & Web)📱 Photoshop Mobile Two focused communities mean more relevant content, better discussions, and an easier way to connect with creators and experts who work the way you do. Were you part of the Photoshop Ecosystem community? That space has been renamed Photoshop and is now home to all Desktop and Web conversations. To jump in, head to the App Communities page and select Photoshop. You'll find desktop-first editing techniques, inspiration, and a place to share your creations. On mobile? Drop into the new Photoshop Mobile community to explore the space and connect with fellow mobile creators. We'd love to hear from you. Does separating Desktop & Web from Mobile make it easier to find what you need? Explore the new spaces and let us know how they're working for you in the comments.
Keeping your Layers panel organized just got a whole lot easier. Layer Cleanup in Photoshop 27.6 and above automatically deletes empty layers and renames layers based on their content, so you can focus on creating, not housekeeping. With a single action from the Layers panel, Photoshop scans your document and removes blank pixel or text layers that tend to pile up during exploration. At the same time, it can intelligently rename layers, giving them clear, descriptive names that reflect what’s inside, so you no longer have to guess what “Layer 37 copy 2” contains. You’re in control of how much cleanup happens. Run it across the entire document for a full reset, or apply it only to selected layers when you want to tidy up as you go. Here is a quick tutorial demonstrating this feature. Why this mattersFaster navigation in complex files Cleaner handoffs when sharing PSDs with teammates Less friction when revisiting older projects Better layer discipline without manual effortWhether you’r
Help us shape this community: What content do you want to see? Whether you're a longtime community member or just found this space, your input will directly shape what we publish here. We want this to be a place you return to, not just when something breaks, but when you want to learn, get inspired, or connect with other creatives. What we’re considering:🚀 Feature Highlights: What’s new in Photoshop, explained with real workflows.📖 How-to Guides: Step-by-step tutorials for common tasks, errors, and workflows.💬 Community Discussions: Polls, questions, and conversations about how you work.🌟 Community Highlights: Spotlighting community members, standout work, and creative journeys. We’d love to hear your thoughts:What type of content do you find most useful when you visit this forum? Is there a Photoshop topic you keep looking up but never find a great answer for here? Would you want to share your own creative workflow or be featured in a community highlight? What kind of projects wou
How to Report a Bug in the Adobe App Community Run into something that’s not working the way it should in Photoshop? Let’s tackle it together. When you share bugs in the Adobe Community, you’re helping product teams see what’s really happening, recreate the issue, and fix things faster. Think of this guide as your sidekick—it’ll walk you through creating a clear, helpful bug report, no technical expertise needed. Before you startBefore jumping in with a new bug report, take a quick look around the community to see if someone’s already spotted the same issue. If you find a matching post, add your vote and feel free to add your experience there instead of starting from scratch. It keeps everything in one place and helps the team connect the dots and solve things faster. Note: Any duplicate posts will be merged into a primary post that you can follow for updates on the issue. What makes a good bug report?A great bug report tells the full story it explains what happened, what you expected
Create a GIF from a series of photos or a video clip Have you ever wanted to create a GIF of your own to post on social media? It really isn't hard!You can easily turn a series of photos or a segment of a video into an animated GIF in a few minutes using Photoshop. Here's how: Create a GIF from a series of photos Step1: Import the still photos you want to use to create a GIF Identify a series of photos that would make a good GIF Open Photoshop and go to File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack Click Browse and locate the photos you want to use (Use the Shift key to select more than one file) and click Open Click OK to import the photos into layers If it is not already open, click on Window > Timeline to open the Timeline panel Click the arrow to the right of the Create Frame Animation button in the middle of the Timeline panel and select Create Frame Animation Now click the Create Frame Animation button to the left of the arrow and it should look something
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Photoshop 27.7.0 on macOS.Generative Remove consistently fails after waiting ~1–2 minutes and falls back to non-generative remove.Generative Fill and Expand work.Creative Cloud and Photoshop were completely reinstalled using the Cleaner Tool.Firewall disabled.DNS is Cloudflare/Google.The issue disappears when using an iPhone hotspot on the same Mac and Adobe account.It fails only on one Wi-Fi network.Could you check the backend logs for failed Firefly requests on my account and determine whether a specific Firefly endpoint is failing?
I submit photos to stock agencies and they do not want the copyright marked with the photographer’s name. I’ve noticed for several versions of Photoshop that if I delete my copyright name from the File Info and Save, then close, it reappears when I reopen the file. It usually takes three tries of deleting, saving, closing and reopening for this to stick. Is there an easier way to remove the copyright the first time on Saving. I do not want to remove it from ALL my photos, just the ones I want. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I need to record a new action in Photoshop 27.7 and when I find it, it is grayed out. How can I record a new action in 27.7. For the record, it appears to me that Adobe has dumbed down the actions panel in favor of amateurs.Thanks to those who know more than me,Joe
The latest version of Photoshop has made Actions significantly less useful.You can no longer go into the individual recorded steps and make changes to them after the Action has been created. Why would Adobe remove or break such a basic part of the Actions workflow?The whole point of Actions is that you can record a process, then adjust specific steps without having to delete everything and record the entire Action again. This update has made Actions more rigid, slower to work with, and much more frustrating for anyone processing large batches of files. Please restore the ability to open, edit, and modify individual Action steps.
After updating to the most recent version (v 27.9) image coloring appears incorrectly in the editing workspace. When opening a .jpg using photoshop, the photo appears in the workspace washed out and with no contrast. In the navigator window and Camera Raw, the photo appears with the correct coloring. I’ve included a photo for reference. The photo coloring returns to normal once saved and exported out of Photoshop.Step 1- Open the .jpg by right clicking the image and selecting open with PhotoshopStep 2- The photo appears in the workspace with incorrect coloring.In workspace- incorrect coloringIn navigator window- correct coloring
I saw in another discussion that Magic Wand tool had been removed from Photoshop Web - is it missing in Photoshop CC now with the recent update as well? Running version 26.8.1. Please explain to me how to quickly selected the transparent outer edges of an image that has had rotation a few degrees applied in Lightroom and I need to fill the edges outside the original image with content aware fill (a situation quite common when doing small corrections to perspective or rotations when there is not enough cropping margins in the original image). Lightroom is still in 2025 for all its AI magic tools still lacking the ability to automatically fill the edges itself, even though mobile tools like Google SnapSeed has had this for years, so I need to spend time in Photoshop with this. The Magic Wand was an instant one-click in Photoshop to select the transparent outer edges. It's now been replaced by an Object selection tool, that doesn't recognize the transparent outer edge
Ho appena acquistato il pacchetto Photoshop + Lightroom, scarico l’app Adobe CC sul pc, schiaccio installa su Photoshop, parte il download, si ferma all’1% e si aggiorna l’app dicendo che non c’è connessione, ogni volta che schiaccio Riprova mi crasha e si riapre la paginaHo già provato di tutto ma non va, compreso Adobe tool cleanerCambiato anche DNS della connessione, ho provato di tutto ma non va, qualcuno ha una soluzione?Grazie
1. I use Adobie Photoshop 2026, I renew it yesterday, but this bug was also present in previus version of Photoshop.2. Mac Sonoma 14.6.1. Hello,I am experiencing a serious issue in Photoshop that is making it almost impossible to work.While creating layouts with artboards, random ghost text/duplicated numbers start appearing all over the document.The text shows up on random layers and random places, even where no text layer exists.Once it starts, the file becomes unusable and the problem spreads to every new file I work on.Also can be opening random image/photo and it can have text from previous file where all over the image. What I observe:The duplicated text looks like fragments of existing text (prices, numbers, symbols)It appears across multiple artboardsIt is not linked to a specific layer it can appear on any other layers with image or with other layers with text.It cannot be selected or deletedSaving, reopening, or duplicating the file does not fix itIt visually “burns
Photoshop 2026 will not open any JPEG files. I receive a message that says “Could not open “file name” because the file was not found.” Yes, the files are there and are uncorrupted– Preview and other other apps have no problem with the JPEGs. It does not matter if the files are local, on a drive, or wherever. Also, photoshop has no issue opening PNGs, PSDs, or really any other normals file formats. I recently updated, reinstalled, restarted, and deleted photoshop 2025 from my machine to try to remedy the problem. I’m working on an iMac 2020 with Sequoia 15.7.3As a work around, I’ve been opening the JPGs in Preview and copying and pasting them into a Photoshop file, but I’d prefer a real fix over this method.
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I think the title says it all, it’s incredibly silly that clicking the mouse wheel does nothing.I also clicked the “edit” on the title when writing this and it erased the couple of paragraphs I wrote about how functionally useful it would be. Maybe fix that too 👍
After doing the most recent Photoshop Beta update, my saved files now appeared serveryly whitewashed and desaturated after opening them with the new update installled. I’ve even closed and restarted my computer multiple times in an attempt to fix the issue, and non of which worked.
Today, Photoshop did not start, because the application was damaged or incomplete. I tried to load the newest version of the app in the Creative Cloud, but all what’s happening ist, that the state is »waiting«. I now can’t use Photoshop anymore, for therer is no version on my computer und noone is loadable. What can I do?
Products: Photoshop 27.8.0, Bridge 16.0.5, Adobe Camera Raw 18.4.1.2647Hardware: Mac Mini M4 Pro with 24 GB, Apple Studio Display XDROS: macOS “Tahoe” 26.5.2Symptoms: Frequent kernel panics while editing RAW files from Nikon Z8 and iPhone 16 Pro Max.Sometimes I can work through several files without trouble. Then I load a new file in ACR, make some adjustments, and it crashes. This has happened when touching several different sliders and controls. There is no obvious or repeatable pattern to the panics. I am mostly editing in HDR mode, with working space HDR P3 or Rec. 2020. These are not complex edits - usually just a few moves for exposure, shadows, clarity, cropping, etc.Files are located in local storage (internal SSD of Mac), or external storage (Crucial x9 Pro SSD).Files are opened via Bridge, or directly from Finder.I have tried disabling GPU, purging cache, restarting the Mac, reinstalling Photoshop.Attached is a crash dump.
Issue: Photoshop not releasing a folder after a save-asPhotoshop version: Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.8.0 20260610.r.13 4081857 x64 (final, Release)OS and version: Windows 11 Pro, 23H2, 22631.3007Issue: steps to reproduce the behavior:- Open any document- do a Save-as- close documentExpected result:- Able to move containing colder after file closedActual result:- Parent directory remains open- Handle migrates between Photoshop.exe, node.exe, and Adobe Crash Processor- Prevents moving completed job folders until Adobe eventually releases the handle- Mostly releases the handle after next Save-as or Photoshop is closed unless Adobe Crash Processor takes the handle- Killing Adobe Crash Processor sometimes moves the handle back to PhotoshopExtra info:- Process Explorer and Handle64 confirm the handle is on the folder, not just the fine itself- No third-party plug-ins required- External NTFS 5400 RPM drive almost every time- Occurs intermittently on internal M2 SSD- No third-party plug-ins
The new 27.6 update for Photoshop is now producing a thin white line border around my layouts when increasing the viewing size above 100% in navigator. It does not appear below 100%. My graphic accelerator has never produced this problem before.I need to be able to know if that is from my layout sizing or simply a bug in the system.
Hello, I am trying to create an action to help me edit images for my store. There are several steps to editing each picture, and therefore I decided making an action would be easier to go through everything. I have 2 layers, one is the item (without a background) and one is the background. I would like the item to always have the same width, that way it looks a bit more uniform on the website. However, since they are different objects, before making them the same size, they always have different sizes. My issue is, when I do the action, and use transform to make the item layer a specific size, it is translated into a percentage. Therefore, the images are resized by a specific percentage, instead of resizing to a specific size, like I wished. The action says "Transform current layer" and then the Width is for example 76,9%. But as you can imagine, different sizes, resized to 76,9% mean different final pixel sizes. Does anyone know how to make an action th
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