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The July 2026 update to Adobe Photoshop (version 27.9.1) introduces faster creative exploration, smarter AI-assisted image generation, and improved productivity tools to help designers, photographers, and creators work more efficiently and stay in flow. What’s NewPhotoshop 27.9.1 introduces several enhancements designed to streamline creativity, improve productivity, and make everyday tasks easier. You can now send layers directly to Firefly Boards for faster ideation and creative exploration, making it simple to compare concepts and develop new directions from existing Photoshop content. Editing workflows are now more efficient thanks to expanded Remove tool controls in the Contextual Task Bar, giving you quick access to options such as Find distractions, Add to, Subtract from, and Remove after each stroke without interrupting your workflow.Font management has become more reliable with the ability to save and restore your favorite fonts, ensuring your curated font lists remain availab
A realistic shadow helps your subject feel grounded in the scene. In Photoshop, there are several ways to create one, depending on your subject and lighting. Based on workflows shared by experts in the Photoshop community, we've brought together a few of the most effective techniques here. Choose the method that best fits your workflow. Method 1: Using Generative AIAI can speed up the setup, but you will still get the best results by refining the shadow yourself.Use Select Subject or Remove Background to quickly isolate your object. Use Generative Fill to extend the surface where the shadow will fall. Learn more. You can also use Harmonize. It analyzes the lighting, color, and tone of the scene, and can also generate a matching shadow to help the subject feel more naturally integrated. Learn more. Refine the generated shadow manually using one of the methods above for the most realistic result. Method 2: Drop Shadow EffectThis is the quickest way to add depth and separation to elemen
Keeping your Layers panel organized just got a whole lot easier. Layer Cleanup in Photoshop 27.6 and above automatically deletes empty layers and renames layers based on their content, so you can focus on creating, not housekeeping. With a single action from the Layers panel, Photoshop scans your document and removes blank pixel or text layers that tend to pile up during exploration. At the same time, it can intelligently rename layers, giving them clear, descriptive names that reflect what’s inside, so you no longer have to guess what “Layer 37 copy 2” contains. You’re in control of how much cleanup happens. Run it across the entire document for a full reset, or apply it only to selected layers when you want to tidy up as you go. Here is a quick tutorial demonstrating this feature. Why this mattersFaster navigation in complex files Cleaner handoffs when sharing PSDs with teammates Less friction when revisiting older projects Better layer discipline without manual effortWhether you’r
Help us shape this community: What content do you want to see? Whether you're a longtime community member or just found this space, your input will directly shape what we publish here. We want this to be a place you return to, not just when something breaks, but when you want to learn, get inspired, or connect with other creatives. What we’re considering:🚀 Feature Highlights: What’s new in Photoshop, explained with real workflows.📖 How-to Guides: Step-by-step tutorials for common tasks, errors, and workflows.💬 Community Discussions: Polls, questions, and conversations about how you work.🌟 Community Highlights: Spotlighting community members, standout work, and creative journeys. We’d love to hear your thoughts:What type of content do you find most useful when you visit this forum? Is there a Photoshop topic you keep looking up but never find a great answer for here? Would you want to share your own creative workflow or be featured in a community highlight? What kind of projects wou
How to Report a Bug in the Adobe App Community Run into something that’s not working the way it should in Photoshop? Let’s tackle it together. When you share bugs in the Adobe Community, you’re helping product teams see what’s really happening, recreate the issue, and fix things faster. Think of this guide as your sidekick—it’ll walk you through creating a clear, helpful bug report, no technical expertise needed. Before you startBefore jumping in with a new bug report, take a quick look around the community to see if someone’s already spotted the same issue. If you find a matching post, add your vote and feel free to add your experience there instead of starting from scratch. It keeps everything in one place and helps the team connect the dots and solve things faster. Note: Any duplicate posts will be merged into a primary post that you can follow for updates on the issue. What makes a good bug report?A great bug report tells the full story it explains what happened, what you expected
Create a GIF from a series of photos or a video clip Have you ever wanted to create a GIF of your own to post on social media? It really isn't hard!You can easily turn a series of photos or a segment of a video into an animated GIF in a few minutes using Photoshop. Here's how: Create a GIF from a series of photos Step1: Import the still photos you want to use to create a GIF Identify a series of photos that would make a good GIF Open Photoshop and go to File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack Click Browse and locate the photos you want to use (Use the Shift key to select more than one file) and click Open Click OK to import the photos into layers If it is not already open, click on Window > Timeline to open the Timeline panel Click the arrow to the right of the Create Frame Animation button in the middle of the Timeline panel and select Create Frame Animation Now click the Create Frame Animation button to the left of the arrow and it should look something
포토샵으로 그림을 그리는 사람입니다. 평소 빠른 속도로 단축키를 통해 도구를 바꿔가며 작업을 합니다.그러다보면 매번 빠르면 30~40분 이내로 도구 사용이 엄춰집니다. 단축기를 통해 도구는 바꿀 수 있지만 마우스 커서 아이콘만 뜨고 브러쉬나 돋보기나 도구 사용을 못하게 됩니다. 이런 경우 어떻게 해결하나요? +클립스튜디오보다 브러쉬로 그림을 그릴 때 렉이 쉽게 걸리고 제 속도를 프로그램이 따라오지 못하는 경우가 많습니다. 이럴 경우에도 어떻게 해결하면 좋을까요?
updated drivers and reinstalled the photoshop app by issue persists
Photoshop generative AI has gone completely off the rails suddenly? Just last week i was working on a project restoring some old photos. I used simple prompts along the lines of “restore this photo and preserve all facial features” etc. and it worked absolutely perfectly. I came back to it today and all of a sudden it is generating bizarre overlays. Like a green box. Or a dirty machine parts. Or a flower. Or a made up face. What is it, did they break their LLM over the weekend??
Hey there! I'm trying to open Photoshop after updating to Windows 11, and it will open until Finding System Profiles, then it will just quit, we have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, nothing. Not sure what I can do to help this get past this screen!
I have had this issue for the past two major PS updates. I am unable to import or place video files in PS anymore. I am currently on PS version 21.0.1 now with the issue still not resolved for me. Before this last update, I even had an Adobe tech support agent remote in and he could not solve the issue and told me that, "they were able to reproduce the issue, and that we are working on the fix and the issue would be resolved in the next update". I have "literally" pretty much gone down every road imaginable. All except wiping my Mac and starting from scratch. I have installed and reinstalled PS several times. I have deleted preferences from everywhere that they can hide. I have tried creating a new profile, changed security settings. I am supremely confident that it's not a video file format issue. Because files that I had used in the past will no longer work. It's crazy. One morning video files could be imported to create&
I am experiencing a reproducible problem with Find Distractions → General Distractions in Photoshop.Find People and Remove Wires work normally.However, when I select General Distractions, Photoshop starts processing and then suddenly quits in the middle of the process. There is no useful error message before Photoshop closes.The issue appears to be limited specifically to General Distractions.I have the latest version of Photoshop installed and I am also using the latest NVIDIA drivers.Has anyone else experienced this? I would also appreciate it if Adobe could confirm whether this is a known issue.Below are Photoshop System Infos , and GPU and driver details. *******Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.9.1 20260803.r.1 65900e1 x64 (final, Release)Number of Launches: 516Operating System: Windows 11 64-bitVersion: 11 or greater 10.0.26200.9168System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:7, Stepping:1, AVX2, AVX-VNNI, HybridCPU(8:16), HyperThreadingPhysical processor count: 24Logical processor
This happens when I highlight a section of text, go to Character, type a font name, and press Return (Enter). The text block then turns completely grey, and I have to find a way to turn it off. Sometimes it even gets stuck on the screen when I minimize Photoshop.I just bought a new Mac Air M5 expecting a better experience than my old Windows laptop, but then I ran into this bug. Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it? It's really ruining my experience on Mac.I’m using Photoshop version 27.9.1If I don't search for fonts and just select them manually, it doesn't happen.Someone literally told me to '"just quit the habit of searching for fonts." and I was like, 'WTF is that?" I shouldn't have to change my entire workflow just because of a bug.
If I add a layer mask to an art (pixel) layer and mask out part of the layer then select the layer icon (not the mask) and apply Gaussian blur both the pixels on the layer and the mask are blurred. Is this a new bug or am I missing something? Ps version 27.9.1. Thanks.
Thanks to all who took part in our previous ‘Where there’s smoke’ challenge. There were some great images based on the Victorian pipe.This week, we go to Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island. It is situated just off the Northumberland coast of England, and reachable by a causeway. This view of the castle, which was built in the 16th century, is from the rugged rocks of the beach. In its day, it must have been a formidable castle to breach. Of course, with the power of image manipulation, you can show us how it might be done.The “rules”:Use the starter image as at least part of your own image entry. Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc. Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum “regulars”. The challenge is not limited to Photoshop. Any Adobe software can be used. There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off your skills, or bring a
This is using a fairly new Mac M5 Max laptop with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop installed. Everything was “normal” as of a month ago (I normally work on images in Classic, then Edit in Photoshop to print, and I’d done some prints on this system, with the latest Tahoe and Adobe software, at that point).This week, I went to make more prints, and now: Edit in Photoshop, from Classic, is “broken”: the image in Photoshop is lighter and desaturated. No way around this from the Lightroom side: any attempt at changing settings; or bypassing the direct Edit In step by saving to a JPG or TIFF; produces the same results. (I’m a color management expert, this isn’t “user error” by a novice).Next step was to try on a different system. I have a Mac M4 Max laptop that’s running the latest version of Sequoia - not updated to Tahoe - with the same current version of Photoshop and Lightroom Classic installed. Moved my external drive (images and catalog) to that system, tried it: everything works fine,
Since updating to 27.5 yesterday I’m encountering a bug where when I switch between channels of a Curves adjustment layer the active point is deselected. This breaks flow and slows down the process of getting the color right, which for me typically involves bouncing back and forth between 2 or all 3 color channels (working in RGB) and making one or two point adjustments with the arrow keys. To reproduce:Make a new Curves layer Add a point somewhere in the middle of each of the R, G, and B channels. Press Opt + 3, 4, or 5 to switch between the channels. Prior behavior: you would still have selected and active the same, nth point on the curve. So, if you were on the Red channel and had tweaked a point in the middle, then switched to Blue which you hadn’t touched yet, you’d have the 255,255 point active since it was the second point on the curve. Once all three channels had a point though, switching between them would keep the midpoint selected for tweaking with the arrow keys. Current
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Cannot open PS current version message says "Catch in IPhotoshopApplication, exception encountered: require fed" (IphotoshopApplication is all one word)please help
The tab to click on and change the properties for an adjustment layer randomly disappears. Quitting and re-opening the app solves the issue, but it will happen again within minutes, usually when switching between different projects or different app on the computer. On Photoshop v26.6 - Mac Mini M4 pro, 32gb ram, 1tb ssd. Any help would be appreciated! ss
I would like to cancel my subscription. Will I be charged a cancellation fee in addition to the monthly payment, or will the account simply be canceled and charged a prorated amount for this month?
Everything was working fine, but now I am unable to use the generative fill feature in both Photoshop and Illustrator, as it says "Please check the internet connection and try again". Attaching the screenshot for your reference. Would be great if someone could help.Thank you 🙂
There’s a new feature for the Remove Tool in PS 27.7.0, which allows for a local AI model that can be used “offline” and doesn’t require credits. It’s described here: I meet the hardware and software requirements. Tried downloading this component / addon multiple times since yesterday, in PS and in CC App, but after 30-60 minutes the download always interrupts at 48% and it gives the error message “unable to extract files” and “error: code 127”. CC App lacks the basic function of resumable downloads, it always starts from the beginning. I have 630GB of free space, btw, so that’s not the issue. I did all the AI chat suggestions like deleting the Adobe temp folder contents on my root drive, giving full permissions for the folder, adding an exclusion for the folder in Windows 11 defender - none of that helped. Wasted a full hour in the chat with a human (?) or “human” agent that did not understand what the issue is, giving me completely irrelevant suggestions like “this feature does not
I have an Apple 27 inch Intel iMac running Mac OS 13.7.8 which is the latest version that will run on it. I was using photoshop version 27.8 and for the most part it worked fine. There were a few new features that required a newer operating system but for they were things I needed. Yesterday, it upgraded to version 27.9 and now when I launch it I receive a message that I need to upgrade the operating system to use it. I would have expected that the update would only have installed if it would run on my machine, which is what happened with Lightroom I tried to uninstall photoshop and reinstall both 27.8 and 27.7 and now I still get the message that I need to upgrade my operating system to use it. upgrading my OS isn’t an option until I can buy new hardware and that isn’t going to happen until Apple announces a new mini. is there anyway to get photoshop working again?thatks for your help,Jim
Hello,Recently I have noticed that when I select a menu, or a drop down menu, there is a brief freeze and lag.This lag vanishes with Windows Ink is disabled, BUT, then I lose all pressure sensitivity.The lag isnt there when I roll over menus, but is when they are clicked.I am on Windows 11, using a Wacom Intuos Pro LRG (and older model: PTH-851)
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