Make sure you always embed the color profile, and use a photo viwer that actually supports color management (not all do, but Windows Photos does). ... View more

Sorry, read in a hurry and misunderstood (I read quick mask instead of quick selection). But then the answer depends on exactly what you are doing.   You need to describe more precisely and show a screenshot.   ... View more

Press Q, or the icon at the bottom of the toolbar.   If you've activated that channel in the Channels panel, click the eye to deselect it, or click the RGB channel. ... View more

As Per says. This is an untagged image, and the two applications have different default working color spaces. From the looks of it, sRGB in Photos, and Adobe RGB in Photoshop. If it had an embedded profile, that profile would be correctly read in both applications - and they would be identical. ... View more

Yeah. It seems AI kills not only creativity, but also basic quality control.   Entropy seems to be the word that sums it all up. Luckly, the resistance movement is active and hasn't given up yet 😉 ... View more

Yes, but this is all related to how AI basically works.   I heard something interesting on the radio the other day: Asking ChatGPT to tell jokes. It was hilarious - not because the jokes were funny, but because they were spectacularly not funny. In the discussion some explanations were offered, the most credible being that AI is built on prediction and probability - but a joke is breaking predictability, a 180 degree shift in context. AI can't do that.   AI can never surprise! It can only repeat. It can not learn from one situation and apply that to another situation, because that's breaking predictability, and AI can't do that. Hence the deformed hands.   It has also struck me how ridiculously easy it is to recognize AI-generated posts here in the forum. They jump out. Same with AI-generated images. They are boring and astonishingly unsurprising. It takes cliche to a new level.   If anyone still thinks AI is "creative", they don't understand the meaning of the word.     ... View more

@stockphotog.miller  Dave is just trying to explain how this actually works.   If you have frequent power outages, you really, really need a UPS. ... View more

See Ged's post above.   The only way to free up one of your two activation slots is to deactivate one of the previous.   That was always the case, but the difference now is that Adobe will no longer reset activations if you have used up both and you can't access the old installation(s). ... View more

Yes, which is what we've been saying all along. It's not that it isn't technically possible. It's that it doesn't make any sense. ... View more

If you're not making a custom monitor profile, Windows will set sRGB IEC61966-2.1 as default.   In other words, the same correction will be performed regardless of the monitor's characteristics. So the actual numbers sent to screen will always be the same, and that's what is recorded in the screenshot. And as a result, the visual appearance will vary from wrong to very wrong. The profile will just be more or less wrong.   All that said - all this shouldn't be necessary. With a little care in setting the white points (which is the main variable), it should be possible to get the two displays very close. Admittedly, this is always easier when the two displays are fairly similar to begin with. In any case, there won't be any dramatic differences with correct calibration/profiling. ... View more

Denoise runs entirely in the GPU. It doesn't touch the CPU.   It takes advantage of the newer generation RTX series GPUs, which have "Tensor" cores optimized for AI based tasks. The older GTX series doesn't have this technology, and will always be very slow with Denoise.   An RTX 4060 will denoise your 26 MP files in about 10 seconds. ... View more

How are you setting up your printer color management? What is the image's embedded color profile?   These are the print settings you need to watch. ... View more

Scaling down a pixel image will lose quality. That's pretty much the definition of a pixel image.   The industry standard for logos is to create them as vector files, which can be infinitely scaled without quality loss. That means Illustrator. For web use, save out to SVG, which is the standard web vector file format. ... View more

Post the full Help > System Ifo from Photoshop.   Do not increase the RAM allocation, that chokes the whole system and only makes it worse. ... View more

Uninstall and reinstall Photoshop. If still no go, uninstall and reinstall Bridge. Make sure you click yes when opening Bridge and it asks to activate scripts.   Most likely your file associations were broken in the update (if you uninstalled the previous version). ... View more

Stop, reset Color Settings to default and start from the beginning. You have set your monitor profile as working RGB, which is something you should never do! That sets color management policies to "off" and disables all display color management, thus defeating the whole purpose of using a calibrator in the first place. The monitor profile is ignored and not used with your settings.   Set working RGB to a standard color space, set color management policies to "preserve embedded profiles", and don't change that setting again. That's how color management is supposed to work.   The calibrator software sets the monitor profile up at system level automatically, no user action required. Just run the software and then don't do anything.   As for the screenshots, here's the correct procedure. You need to make the two screenshots separately, as per the following: The numbers sent to screen have already been converted into the monitor profile. The original document color space no longer applies. To get accurate color in a screenshot, you need to first assign the monitor profile, for the above reason. Then convert to a standard color space like sRGB. For a dual screen setup, the two monitor profiles are obviously different. Photoshop color manages the two screens separately, sending different numbers to each screen for the same color.   Once you've made the two screenshots, assigned the corresponding monitor profile for each screen, and converted to sRGB, you can put the two sRGB files together and they will now be correct. ... View more

That's the Rotate View tool. It doesn't do anything to the file, it just rotates the display.   I think there is a setting in Preferences to "enable gestures" or something similar (not at my workstation right now).   I don't use this tool at all and have removed it from my toolbar. ... View more

Open the CC desktop app, sign out and sign back in. ... View more

OK. Are you using the studio driver or the game ready driver? The latter frequently causes problems. Do you see the same problems with different/updated driver versions?   This really has GPU written all over it, but I can't see any immediately obvious problems.   Another thing, have you tried to reset preferences at any time, or do you migrate preferences from one version to the next? The preferences file contains much more than user settings, it's the whole application configuration, including many hidden settings related to the system. ... View more

Still looks very much like a GPU / driver problem.   Can you post the full Help > System Info? ... View more

@Morris60  There are many documented cases where other applications have falsely flagged images as AI, based on their own algorithms. Not much Adobe can do about that.   Try Adobe's own Content Credentials panel. But do note that if Firefly has been used, and you later delete that content, it will still be flagged.   It's easy to avoid Firefly (generative AI) in Photoshop. Don't use those tools; and if you accidentally click on them, don't accept the terms - dismiss it if it comes up. Before using any tool that employs Firefly (generative AI), you need to accept the terms and conditions.   You can check in System Info. This means it hasn't been used: ... View more

Use the SSD to clean up your system drive. Dump everything you can on it, except the operating system, applications, and your user account.   You cannot install applications on external drives.   Even if you could, it's an extremely inefficient way to go about it. Photoshop's installed program files are perhaps two or three GB. That's nothing in the big picture. You can probably clean out 10-50 times that by getting rid of junk files on your system, especially in your user account.   Start by running disk cleanup in your operating system. That alone will retrieve a lot more space than the Photoshop installation. ... View more

You can either look for ways to fix the problem, or you can point fingers and blame. But the latter tends to get in the way of the former.   Here in the forum we see this problem maybe once in a month. Yes, it happens, but it's quite rare.   The underlying problem is either permissions in your user account, or an irregular shutdown sequence - or corrupt preferences. Or all of them in combination. Prefernces are prone to corruption due to irregular shutdowns, and the fact that small errors will accumulate since it's rewritten on every exit. Do you migrate preferences from one version to the next? That's always a bit risky, for these reasons, plus the possibility that settings might not mean the same thing with new code. If you see the same issue on several machines, that's very useful info, because you can then concentrate on what they have in common. That's often more than you think - but you can disregard all the differences.     ... View more

Another option is to put the layer into a group, then apply a layer mask to the group and apply the gradient mask to the group. By @Stephen Marsh   Yes, this is the way I always do it, and I do this a lot. Ctrl+G is one of my most used shortcuts, for this reason. ... View more

This happens with floating layers, but not a flat Background layer:   I've known about this "forever", so I've always been careful when resizing layered files. Take your precautions, and this shouldn't be a big problem.   I presume the explanation is that floating layers support content outside the canvas boundary, but a background does not. ... View more

@Bob Ulius  I would absolutely not recommend this! It's asking for problems.   The settings file contains a lot more than your own user settings. It is the whole application configuration, including lots of hidden settings, and a lot of it relates to the system configuration and hardware (such as the GPU). Those will obviously be very different.   Do not do this! ... View more

It sounds like there is an underlying system problem. This isn't normal. It has never happened to me.   Do you have any crashing? A crash can cause this, especially if it happens during shutdown. Do you have full administrator privileges in your user account?    You can copy the whole settings folder, e.g. to the desktop, and paste it back. ... View more

Yeah, I saw that and edited my post. ... View more