Photoshop 2025 becomes unresponsive when rendering smart filters

Report · May 15, 2025

I'm on the latest version (26.6.1) on OS 15.4.1

Mac Mini M1

16GB RAM

For this particular example - layered TIF (580MB)

When I crop an image, Photoshop stops responsing at the Rendering Smart Filts stage and I have to force quit. It happens on various files at this point.

Any suggestions?

Report · May 15, 2025

Hi, thanks for reaching out, and we're sorry about the trouble! Please go to the Help menu in Photoshop, then System Info, and copy the text. You can either share the text with us by pasting it as a reply here or by pasting it in a text file and sharing the file with us.

Meanwhile, you can try optimizing the preferences of Photoshop you're using the steps suggested here: https://adobe.ly/3YKPsZZ

You can also try to reset the preferences of Photoshop using the steps mentioned here: https://adobe.ly/43eOypR

Please backup your settings prior to resetting the preferences. You can check: https://adobe.ly/3FfndvG

Let us know how it goes!

Thanks,
Nikunj

Report · May 15, 2025

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