@QINGCHARLES  To repeat what I wrote above:   Photography is, or can be, art, and as such you can do whatever you want, with whatever tools you find applicable. But to put your name on it, it has to be your own work. The level of manipulation is irrelevant, as long as it's your manipulation.   Photoshop has never been an ethical problem. You had to do the work to get what you want. With AI, an outside agent is doing work that you claim as your own. That's unethical. To me, this is a crystal clear line in the sand and I have no problem seeing where it goes.   Again quoting myself, I don't have a problem with AI as long as it's clearly stated and upfront. ... View more

I can't reproduce it. The tonal values of the image are preserved, so you won't necessarily get 128 - but you should get neutral gray R=G=B on the clicked point. I get that here.   This isn't something I normally use, so I may be missing something. ... View more

  Excellently put, @Kevin Stohlmeyer    However: digital cameras themselves manipulate and deceive by interpreting what they are capturing with presets. Analog cameras and darkrooms did that too. That's not the breakpoint here. The great divide is passing AI-generated material off as your own creation. That's deception and fraud, by definition. You didn't do it.   @QINGCHARLES  Arguing that "it's just a little bit" is a false and invalid argument. If it was that little, you wouldn't need to use AI.   Photography is, or can be, art, and as such you can do whatever you want, with whatever tools you find applicable. But to put your name on it, it has to be your own work. The level of manipulation is irrelevant, as long as it's your manipulation.   I don't have a problem with AI as long as it's clearly stated and upfront. It'll be dull and boring, because AI can never invent, only imitate and copy, but it'll be ethical. It's the desire to deceive that gets me every time. ... View more

As with everything else, it's the lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of the user.   Fifteen years is a pretty good return on investment. If you buy a computer, do you expect that to be fully functional and up to date for fifteen years? Of course not. If it broke down after, say, ten years, you wouldn't sue the company that made it, would you?   There's a kind of mental trap here that many fall into. Since it's not a physical thing, it's expected to "last forever". But it doesn't, because it gets outdated and obsolete. The rest of the world has moved on. ... View more

It has always been a golden rule of computing to never use period in the filename. It's just one of those things you don't do. Make it a habit to use underscore instead.   A period signals that what comes after is the file extension.   Often you can get away with it because Windows is smart enough to count backwards, stopping at the last period. But if, say, you have set Windows to hide file extensions, as many do, things go wrong. Just don't do it.   ... View more

Not sure what the problem is - you have an active button to save a new set of shortcuts. That's the one you need.   You can also save shortcuts as part of a whole workspace, that can sometimes be even more convenient.   If you choose a shortcut that is already taken, you'll get an option to override and replace the old shortcut. Just hit enter. ... View more

@korkmaz_8987  You should always have file extensions visible. You apparently had them hidden, and that's when it's easy to get double extensions like in your case. Keep that box unchecked.   The problem elsewhere in this thread is corrupt files, regardless of extension. ... View more

See the troubleshooting guide below, in particular this section: 6. Check and delete the TempDisableGPU3 or TempDisableGPU2 files Using the same methods that you used to find the Logs folder, find the CameraRaw or GPU folder. On Windows, the location is: %APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw\GPU On Mac, the location is: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/GPU If an unhandled, fatal error occurs during GPU initialization, Camera Raw or Lightroom leaves behind a TempDisableGPU3 file (or TempDisableGPU2 in some cases). In the GPU folder, find the subfolder for the application you are using and check for these files.   https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html?x-product=Helpx%2F1.0.0&x-product-location=Search%3AForums%3Alink%2F3.6.6    The point is that this file is supposed to stop ACR from launching if there's a system error - but if the error no longer exists, deleting this file lets ACR initiate again. ... View more

First of all, are you saving directly to an external drive? If you are, save to local disk and copy the saved file over. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/networks-removable-media-photoshop.html    Other than that, "If I merge all layers then save PSD it will save in a fraction of a second" points to a problem with layer compositing. Try to uncheck these: ... View more

@am3104photo  Thanks for reporting back, that's very interesting and very useful to know.   From time to time we see these reports of memory leaks, both on Mac and Windows, and it's always a mystery because most of us can't reproduce it. But this suggests it could be either a corrupt install or corrupt preferences (or both).   Going forward, a completely fresh install with fresh preferences will be my first suggestion.   We do know that migrating preferences is pretty common. I've always warned against that, because the risk of accumulated errors carrying over is high, and with new application code it may suddenly bring out latent issues.   I wrote above that this excessive memory reported is virtual memory including the Photoshop scratch disk. That turns out to be not correct, the scratch disk is not included here. It is virtual memory, but actually the system pagefile. When that fills up, the whole system chokes. ... View more

Do you suggest using a Monitor Calibration Hardware tool such as "Datacolor Spyder X Pro?" By @JGiunta   That is always recommended - but for the purposes of this discussion, it needs to be clear that it doesn't affect the file itself in any way. It just lets your monitor reproduce it correctly, so that you can properly see what you're doing, instead of having to guess.   As for your original question, as the others have pointed out - a "CMYK checker" is pointless if they don't specify which CMYK profile to use. And no, there shouldn't be general desaturation, only those colors that are out of gamut in the specific target CMYK profile.   I'd go elsewhere. There is no indication that Printify has a properly color managed process - or even that they know what they're doing. ... View more

If you reset preferences on quit, the home screen will come right back. Resetting preferences returns the application to factory state, and that means home screen active.   Try this: Uncheck "auto show home screen", then open an image, close it out again, and then shut down Photoshop with just the regular workspace but no image.Then it should stick. ... View more

It's not about the "same" zoom ratio. It's about 100% specifically.   100% means that one image pixel is represented by exactly one physical screen pixel. There is no screen resampling, so screen resampling algorithms are not in the equation. You see every image pixel, as it is in the file.   ... View more

I don't think this is difficult at all. If you don't want your images tagged as AI, then don't use AI. ... View more

I don't understand this. If you're using Generative Fill, you're using AI. You can't pretend you're not, and you can't try to pass it off as something it isn't. That's not ethical.   If you're using the Remove Tool, you can turn off AI. ... View more

This is something I have never, ever heard of before.   It does sound like something is interfering with either the monitor profile, or the calibration tables. The latter sounds more likely. In a Mac, there is a series of presets that could easily interfere with any calibration tables made by a calibrator. ... View more

For my part, I would like a toggle in Photoshop to prevent all use of Generative AI so we can avoid this situation for images where we need to show that it is entirely our own work. By @jane-e   Yeah, that's what all of this boils down to. If they could just do that, this whole discussion would be moot.   If you use AI, own it.   If you don't want to use AI, just turn it off entirely (that's what I'd do). ... View more

@SK321  It's very easy to avoid the tools in Photoshop that use generative AI. That is entirely under your own control. Both the Remove tool and Content-aware fill can be set to not use AI.   If it's just a speck of dust, why would you need AI to remove that? We have removed dust without any problems long before AI.   What surprises me nowadays is how AI is considered necessary for even the most trivial tasks. ... View more

Picks correctly from the pasteboard here too. ... View more

OK, got it. Does seem like a bug. Not at my workstation right now, but I'll try later and see what happens. ... View more

Not sure I understand the problem - according to the Layers panel, the light color is the top layer in the lower screenshot? Your color picker is set to "sample all layers", so that checks out too.   There may be something wrong here, but your screenshots seem perfectly fine? ... View more

Up left in the options bar at the top. It's half hidden under the tooltip in your screenshot. ... View more

Actually, your system info does not list AVX/AVX2 support. It should be right up there at the beginning, under system architecture.   Obviously, an M2 will have AVX2 support. Apparently you're running under Rosetta emulation, could that be the reason? Current versions will run natively in Apple silicon. ... View more

Your brush is set to Screen mode. Set it to Normal mode.   (can a moderator move this from Bugs to Discussions?) ... View more

You keep saying toolbar, but apparently you mean the menu. Sorry to be pedantic, but we need to know what we're talking about.   Can you show a screenshot? Is the whole dialog blank? ... View more

As Ged says.   Just to add that ACR uses the GPU independently from Photoshop, and ACR is generally a little more picky. It may well be that ACR is choking on the dual GPUs, while Photoshop is able to work with it.   Without a fully functional and supported GPU, ACR won't run at all. ... View more

To preserve color you need to embed the color profile. This is true whatever file format is used.   Without an embedded profile, the colors are undefined. ... View more

Show the full interface including the Layers panel. ... View more

There is no Select > Color Range in the toolbar. You need to go to the Select menu. Which one do you mean? ... View more

Hey, I didn't know that 😉 ... View more