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Today, Photoshop 21.2.1 started displaying "helpful" red speech balloons whever I did something. It's telling me things like "use Ctrl-D to deselect" after I make a selection, or "Reselect Layer 1 to continue" (see attached). I do not want this, and I can't figure out a way to stop it from happening. All my searches just lead to "how to disable video tooltips," but this isn't that.
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Please try this:
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Thanks for the response; unfortunately, that didn't fix it. I don't think they're tooltips; I think they're some sort of automated tutorial, and I have no idea how I managed to trigger them.
A little more info: while it doesn't display in the screenshot, the layer menu is outlined in blue on mouse-over when the red bubble is open. Right clicking on the bubble will make it disappear momentarily, only to reappear shortly thereafter.
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Please try to reset the preferences of Photoshop using the steps described here:
Preferences in Photoshop (adobe.com)
Please backup your settings before resetting the preferences. You can check:
Preferences in Photoshop (adobe.com)
I've never heard about such automatic tutorials. As far as I know such tutorials aren't include in Photoshop. It can be that there an appropriate third party plugin is activated. Please check you active plugins.
Photoshop plug-ins troubleshooting (adobe.com)
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Jeff, have you used the Discover search tool? One of its options is to give tutorials for a searched for topic, so I wonder if that's what is producing the red pop-ups? I've certainly never seen them mentioned here before.
I managed to find a similar red pop up using Google Images of all things, but appears to associate them with Rich Tool Tips, and you have already tried turning those off