Photoshop

I use a psd file on a transparent background wor watermarking. I layer this onto the photograph - right click the psd layer and select blending options - that has always then allowed me to control not only the opacity, but the volume / depth of that watermark. I ran a batch process yesterday where it did about 800 of these without error. The next time I went to do one - manually now, blending options would not respond so far as ant of the depth commands would go. All it would do was allow the layer to be flat - it would no longer create that illusion of being embosssed. etc. Nothing has changed to the best of my knowledge and I have assures that nothing is set on 32 bit, no opacity is set to 0, I have no idea why that function has suddenly come up lame. I have reset the styles in that menu, restarted the program, restarted the computer, but cannot get blending options to - Bevel and Emboss. Any ideas or thoughts ?  Windows 10 / CS6 / everything the same so far as I know. Wored successf

I have my export settings to JPG quality Max of 7. But every time I go to export an image and close "Export As" it always defaults to quality of 6 and I have to manually change it every time. This is the case in both PS and PS Beta. On a MAC. PS beta V27.9.0 What can I do?

I just switched from Photopea to test Photoshop (again after few years). Rectangular Marquee tool:I’m working on sprite sheets with pixel precision. I need to select some things and I need to be pixel-perfect. In Photopea I can just start selection zoom out and zoom in the different part of canvas and just end selection there. In Photoshop when I zoom out tool already lost my selection starting point because CTRL+ALT+scroll down moves my selection in different places. I can’t even zoom in somewhere else because with this tool I can zoom in and zoom out in the same place without moving.Brush/Erase tool:When I click brush/erase in one place and zoom out and zoom in somewhere else and I click with shift - there is no straight line, just another brush/erase point. Why?In my workflow dynamic zooming in and out is very important and it makes my work much faster.I just installed Photoshop and I have default settings.

I am trying to use transform/warp with split points.  I am able to add the points needed however when I try to select multiple with the shift key Photoshop exits without any error.  I see this in 27.9.1 and 28.0.  I am on a Mac mini running an M4 processor, Tahoe 26.5.1, 24GB of memory.  I have tried to disable the GPU which made no difference.

I’m not sure if resetting starting point of Erase tool is a bug or lack of feature.

I never encountered this issue as bad until updating to the 2025 version. I have been trying to edit wedding clients, ELDERY CLIENTS, peoples selfies. GenFill Community guidelines instantly deny any single photo involving a woman. All of these would have been do-able prior to the upgrade. It could be her face; none of my shoots have been anything remotely NSFW. Yet every single photo gets declined, even removing an eye bag. It's ridiculous, as the 2024 version never gave me this issue. It's now making my job twice as hard and it is impossible to edit 90% of my clients now. I feel like I'm paying for a service that downgraded its quality and instead of being a tool that helps me is now costing me more time and money?

One thing that really stands out to me with Adobe’s Firefly-powered features, especially the new Harmonize feature in Photoshop, is that it’s trained only on licensed or public-domain data, never on our personal projects.  This means the native Adobe AI model in Photoshop (Firefly) is designed to work for you, not from you. In other words, it helps you create without using your personal projects as training data.  By contrast, other AI models may use different methods and don’t always provide the same clarity, leaving the consent process less transparent.   So here are my questions for the community: Do you think an ethical approach to training data changes how much you trust AI tools? Would transparency about not using your work without consent make you more likely to try features like Harmonize? More broadly, how does the way AI models are trained affect your creativity and your willingness to see them as partners in your process? I’d love to hear how this tran

I am just learning to work with mockups and smart objects. This is a faux postage stamp I created and it’s going into a mockup that has deckled postage stamp edges etc. I’ve tried to use Free Transform to resize the “stamp” to the green “canvas” but it won’t fit exactly or proportionately. Is there something I can do to make it fit the green area precisely? Or something I can do to change the size of the green area so they’re both a closer match? Thank you.  

I just bought the new samsung book 5 pro 360 with the ultra 7 and intel arc graphics for using photoshop. it has 16 gb of ram and let me tell you, it runs like a turtle. this laptop cost almost 2 grand so I feel like it should be able to use Photoshop without any issues. I dont even know what is the cause of this, I have tried searching for advice but nothing super helpful comes up. Has anybody else got this laptoip or experienced this. Mike

Hi,Up until about a week ago, Iu sed my external HDs for scratch disks in Photoshop and they are no longer appearing in the app. I am running Tahoe on a MacBook Pro and have the latest version of Photoshop (and Photoshop Beta).I  have tried:Updating Photoshop  Rebooting my machine Ensuring Photoshop and cloud have full Disk access (both under Privacy permission and in Files & Folders) Both drives have plenty of space (3TB and 5TB respectively) I have full read/write permission of both drives and they are connected directly to my Mac (not through a hub)Both drives are formatted as ExFAT and while some online chats indicate it isn’t compatible with Photoshop . . . it WAS until about a week ago. I cannot reformat them, as they have other data that I cannot erase / move.UGH. Help!

Computer 1: Mac Tahoe 26.5.2, PS 27.8.0Computer 2: Mac, Tahoe 26.5.2, PS 27.3.1Computer 3: windows 11, PS 27.4.0  Save As to Original Folder does not work correctly for PDF files. Repro: Ensure “save as to original folder” is checked in preferences->file handling open a pdf file from a folder save as tiff (or anything)Expected: default folder for the save will be the same as original fileActual: default folder is the last folder where PS did a save. PS 27.3.1 does the same thing. Question: How can I get PS to save to the original folder when I’m saving PDF files as TIFF? 

Using Save As Photoshop PDF, I was able to save PDFs above 50,000 pixels wide yesterday using 27.8.After updating to 27.9.1 this morning I could no longer save a Photoshop PDF above approximately30,000 pixels wide  (Photoshop PDF was no longer an option in the dropdown). After reverting back to 27.8 I can now save PDFs from files over 50,000 pixels wide again.

I have reached a breaking point with Adobe software. It is now using so much memory any time that any time I launch an application I can barely get any work done at all. The apps are slow, they lag, they stop responding. I can’t have more than one Adobe app open at a time.Even now, with InDesign sitting idle it is using 2.09 GB. And Photoshop with a file open that is 181 mb is using over 30 GB!!This started when I upgraded to Tahoe. The memory problems and slow downs were unbelieveble so I switched back to Sequoia. That seemed to ersolve the problem for a short while but it is now worse than it has ever been.Please let me know what kind f info you need from me to help with this issue. I’m posting some screen shots that might or might not be helpful--I’m just guessing because I don’t know.Please help!  

The previous version of Photoshop crashed, so I restarted my Mac and reinstalled Photoshop; after that, all my personal settings were gone; how can I restore them?

ssue summary:Photoshop 27.9.0 appears to automatically enable Proof Colors every time I open a new image. This causes the image on the main canvas to look significantly brighter, desaturated, and washed out.Steps to reproduce:Open Photoshop 27.9.0. Open any image file. The image opens looking washed out on the main canvas. The same image looks correct in macOS Preview and also looks correct in the Layers panel thumbnail. Go to View → Proof Colors and turn it off. The image immediately returns to the correct color and contrast. Open another image. Proof Colors appears to be enabled again automatically, and the new image is washed out until I turn Proof Colors off again.Expected result:Proof Colors should remain off unless I manually enable it, and newly opened images should display with their normal color and contrast.Actual result:Every newly opened image appears washed out because Proof Colors seems to be enabled automatically. Turning it off fixes the current image, but the issue rep

Hello everyone,I am new to the Adobe community and I have recently started exploring Lightroom for my travel photography projects. I usually shoot a mix of city and nature scenes, but I often struggle to maintain consistency in tones and lighting across different environments.I have tried using presets and manual adjustments, but sometimes the results look flat or unnatural. I am particularly interested in learning how other photographers manage color balance and lighting when editing travel photos that include both bright outdoor shots and low-light indoor images.What techniques or workflow adjustments have helped you create a balanced and natural look in your travel edits?I am looking forward to learning from your experiences and improving my editing process through your advice.