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pn78204181
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October 24, 2022
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Photoshop reference manual?

  • October 24, 2022
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Recently I was trying to understand Layer Transform Properties and the last user reference PDF manual I could find, from 2019, had a picture that looked different from the one in my 2022 version of Photoshop CC.  So I tried to find newer documentation and instead I found a thread saying that Adobe doesn't make user  reference manuals anymore.

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/2021-pdf-user-guide/td-p/11537770

 

... so without a reference manual, how DO we look up stuff like this? 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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John Waller
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John WallerCommunity Expert
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October 24, 2022
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... so without a reference manual, how DO we look up stuff like this? 

 

Adobe replaced the PDF manuals with online user guides a long time ago

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/transforming-objects.html

 

I personally google questions like this or use 3rd party teaching resources. Most people here have favourite online Photoshop teachers or tutorials.

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    pn78204181Author
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    October 24, 2022

    I'm looking for a reference manual, not a user guide.  In this case  I want to know how to look up Layer Properties Transform to understand how that dialog box works.     I don't want tutorials -  I want to look up specific features or dialog boxes. 

     

    jane-e
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    jane-eCommunity Expert
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    October 24, 2022

    This is ridiculous.   Creative Cloud users like us are paying a regular subscription fee (I'm paying $30/mo)  - why should we have to sift through random web articles found with Google, or sit through a 30 minute video because the information we're seeking might be found at 19:57 into it?     I've been a Creative Cloud subscriber for about 10 years so they've collected a lot of money from me - they can't afford to document their product?   That's very unprofessional.   


    @peternelson wrote:

    why should we have to sift through random web articles found with Google

      

    You don't. In the first post was a link to another thread where I gave the online guide. It's only the PDF that Adobe stopped producing.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/user-guide.html

     

    Jane

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