Photoshop (Beta) 26.9 changes the selected font size when creating a Text Layer

[Bill Junk]

I recently upgraded to PS Beta 26.9.  The sequence of steps outlined below to add copyright text to an image worked properly up until this release.

 1. Open a PSD file.  The file is an edited photograph.

 2. Flatten the image

 3. Resize the file to 10 inches wide at 300 dpi

 4. Copy a text string to the clipboard from a Word document that is 12 pt.  Happens to be my copyright information

 5. Set the PS text font size to 12 pt

 6. Take the PS Text tool and place the location for the string in the lower left corner

 7. Paste the coppied text to the location of the Text Layer

 8. Done

In PS 26.9 what happens at step 6 is that the font size is immediately changed to a realy small value, typically around 2.8 pt.  It is possible to select the text and make it 12 pt again, but it is annoying.

The following is some of the information provided by the Adobe System Information dump:

Adobe Photoshop Version: 26.9.0 20250615.m.3113 818c498 x64
Number of Launches: 446
Operating System: Windows 11 64-bit
Version: 11 or greater 10.0.26100.4351
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:7, Stepping:1, AVX2, AVX-VNNI, HybridCPU(8:8), HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 16
Logical processor count: 24
Processor speed: 2112 MHz
Built-in memory: 32457 MB
Free memory: 26750 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 24941 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 90 %
Crash Handler: Adobe
DCX Version: 9.8.0
SAM SDK Version: 14.1.0
ACP.local Status:
- SDK Version: 5.6.0
- Core Sync Status: Reachable and compatible
- Core Sync Running: 7.4.0.31
- Min Core Sync Required: 4.3.66.28
Live Edit Client SDK Version: v5.0.0-beta.11
Adobe Firefly: Please use any generative AI feature to view the latest version.
OpenColorIO version: 2.4.2
C2PA library version: adobe_c2pa/0.14.2 c2pa-rs/0.43.0
NGL Version: 1.40.0.10

[silk-m]

Hi,

Would turning off "Preferences/Type/Fill new type layers with placeholder text" improve the situation?

[Bill Junk]

At the moment I don't have any idea.  I have not changed any settings in a long time (many versions ago).  When I get time I'll check it out.

[Bill Junk]

I tried that and it made the text completely disappear.  I see that there's a new version of PS Beta available.  I'll see if that makes any difference.

[Bill Junk · Accepted solution]

There was an update to Photoshop (Beta) that I installed yesterday (6/24) that cleared up the issue.

[silk-m]

Yes, "Beta 26.9.0 20250623.m.3121 " solved my problem too.