We’re excited to announce that new contextual task bars are now available in Photoshop Public Beta. We know that finding the right tool, at the right time, can sometimes slow down a great workflow. Our new contextually aware task bars aim to help by providing common tools, actions and next steps right on the canvas where you’re working. We are currently launching five bars for importing new documents, making selections and using the Type Tool. Learn more below: Open Image or File This bar will appear when you open an image or file in Photoshop (i.e. not a new, empty document) New Document Workflow This bar will appear if you open a new, blank document from the Photoshop home screen If you choose to select “import image”, your image will be placed in the document as a Smart Object and the Free Transform bar will appear to help finalize placement Type Tool Workflow This bar will appear when you select the Type tool from the tool bar and draw a text box on the canvas Selections Workflow Once a selection is made, a selection edit bar will appear with options to refine the selection or create a mask Tips and Other Menu Functionality Pin bar position You can pin and un-pin any bar from the “more menu”. Pinning will hold your bar (and all subsequent bars) where it was placed on the canvas until un-pinned from the “more menu” performed Reset bar position The context bar moves with you as you work on the canvas, keeping relevant tools at your finger tips. If you would like to reset the position, you can do so from the “more menu” Hide bar You can always hide the bar if you’d like to remove it completely, or temporarily, from the canvas. If you’d like to re-open the bar at any point, go to Window > Contextual Task Bar We need your feedback! Please let us know what you think and how we could improve the new Contextual Task Bar.

OMG just fixed it!! You can always hide the bar if you’d like to remove it completely, or temporarily, from the canvas. If you’d like to re-open the bar at any point, go to Window > Contextual Task Bar And this is the link to where I found how to fix that: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta-discussions/contextual-task-bars-now-in-photoshop-beta/td-p/13658736

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Noelle Shamroukh

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Contextual Task Bars Now in Photoshop (Beta)

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March 17, 2023
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We’re excited to announce that new contextual task bars are now available in Photoshop Public Beta. We know that finding the right tool, at the right time, can sometimes slow down a great workflow. Our new contextually aware task bars aim to help by providing common tools, actions and next steps right on the canvas where you’re working. We are currently launching five bars for importing new documents, making selections and using the Type Tool. Learn more below:

Open Image or File

This bar will appear when you open an image or file in Photoshop (i.e. not a new, empty document)

New Document Workflow

This bar will appear if you open a new, blank document from the Photoshop home screen

If you choose to select “import image”, your image will be placed in the document as a Smart Object and the Free Transform bar will appear to help finalize placement

Type Tool Workflow

This bar will appear when you select the Type tool from the tool bar and draw a text box on the canvas

Selections Workflow

Once a selection is made, a selection edit bar will appear with options to refine the selection or create a mask

Tips and Other Menu Functionality

Pin bar position
- You can pin and un-pin any bar from the “more menu”. Pinning will hold your bar (and all subsequent bars) where it was placed on the canvas until un-pinned from the “more menu” performed
Reset bar position
- The context bar moves with you as you work on the canvas, keeping relevant tools at your finger tips. If you would like to reset the position, you can do so from the “more menu”
Hide bar
- You can always hide the bar if you’d like to remove it completely, or temporarily, from the canvas. If you’d like to re-open the bar at any point, go to Window > Contextual Task Bar

We need your feedback!

Please let us know what you think and how we could improve the new Contextual Task Bar.

Correct answer danielm77292327

OMG just fixed it!!

You can always hide the bar if you’d like to remove it completely, or temporarily, from the canvas. If you’d like to re-open the bar at any point, go to Window > Contextual Task Bar

And this is the link to where I found how to fix that:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta-discussions/contextual-task-bars-now-in-photoshop-beta/td-p/13658736

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4q Juan Pablo

Participant

I just want to know how to hide that redudant and unnecesary crap

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AndrewBuckle

Known Participant

Click on the three dots on the bar and hide it or go to the window menu and the contextual command at the bottom

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NEUE MEDIEN

Participating Frequently

Without customization options, the taskbar is only a hassle.

xanderz64171393

Inspiring

Is it possible to (add a function to) pin it into a window? With a floating menu, there is always a chance of my canvas or menu's changing, and the bar covering my work or those menus. I don't like the idea of continually having to drag it around during my work. I would much rather have it in a fixed location (not pinned, floating over another window), so I can work on implementing it into my workflow/muscle memory.

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AndrewBuckle

Known Participant

I think it is one of the most useful features you have added to Photoshop in quite a while, I really love it. It functions well and saves a lot of time. I'm not a great shortcut user and this saves a lot of time and hassle such as changing the text fill color or applying a fill pattern in super quick time. I would love to see more functions added to the bar for the selection one such as (if rectangular) define pattern. The document one should also have a 'add a new document', 'fit on screen' etc. I hope you add it to the gradient tool, brush tools, etc as well. A winner for me

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Kiwimac99

Participating Frequently

How do you move the bar? I want to move it out of the way and it steadfastly refuses to drag anywhere!

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AndrewBuckle

Known Participant

Click the far left bar and drag the contextual taskbar to a different position. If you want it to remain there then go to the three dots on the bar and select the pin command and that should then pin it to that new position so it doesn't re-position itself

Maxwelp3

Participating Frequently

Pin it and it stays ... well, not until next time you open PS and that is BS. Hide it and it is out of sight and out of mind. Not much good that way.

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sarag32399423

Participant

I closed my task bar out and now it cannot be found. It is not in the Window menu. Any advice?

louised43358484

Known Participant

I had to shut PS down then restart it and it was in the Windows menu

louised43358484

Known Participant

Right now it is just something that has to be moved out of the way frequently. I have "pinned" it multiple times and it still moves to the centre of the screen where I do not want it to be. Make it so that it can be docked and it would be great, or make it so that it actually stays where we place it when we click pin location.

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Gisa0101

Participant

I hide the bar and now I cannot find where to make it show again like it was default

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Gisa0101

Participant

I am enjoying this new feature.. some images not looking the best, there is room for improvement. but it does a great job. I am a photograoher and mixed media artist and I am looking forward to use more and more this feature.

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gpecu

Participating Frequently

It's in my way. I paste a screenshot, it assumes the image i'm working with is a photograph that has a subject and a background, and then presumes that i want to either select the subject or remove the background, or apply any number of layer adjustments that I only use when I'm working with photographs. Seems more or less gimmicky and worthless to me right now. I "hid" it using the properties menu on the bar, but then it returned the next time I copied and pasted another screenshot. That unexpected and undesirable behavior sent me here, though I haven't been able to replicate it, so perhaps it was a bug, or something I did incorrectly. This floating content bar might be fine for somebody, but I'd much rather it be permanently banished from my awareness.

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AndrewBuckle

Known Participant

think it is a very good feature, it is excellent with selections (particularly the fill pattern command) but I hope more functionality is added to the transformations one such as scale 200% and rotate 45 etc as well as adding a few more things to the newly opened image one such as resize and create new (again) and also duplicate image as well as changing import image to 'place image' or place embedded.

It works really well, I hope it is added to many other features in Photoshop such as with gradients, such as adding a new stop, deleting all the stops, changing type of gradients, inverting gradients, etc as well as adding it to shapes such as circles and custom shapes

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