And the answer is still the same as the above.   This is pattern recognition, and large flat areas don't count. They don't have any patterns to recognize. Noise is also excluded since that's inherently random, and thus stars are also excluded.   In short, all you have is the moon itself. So crop as close as you can - then paste the finished result back into the wider frame.   A third non-workable image element is water with moving waves. We see it as "water", but the algorithm sees it as patterns of light and dark that are completely different. ... View more

Export now uses a newer jpeg encoding module which only has 7 steps. "Legacy Export As" is available in Windows and older Macs, but not supported on Apple Silicon.   This needs to be said for anyone else reading this. The file size : image quality ratio for jpeg is a highly moving target, and the final file size depends more than anything on image content. A given size limit will require highly variable compression levels to reach that size. In other words - to get 500 kB, one image may need quality level 2, while another, exactly same pixel size, arrive at that size with quality level 7.   These two are the same size and compression level - the first is 52 kB, the second is 438 kB:   The point is - maybe a fixed size limit isn't the most efficient way to approach this. Maybe it's better to allow some to go under and some to go over, averaging out. And then the number of steps isn't critical anymore, they will correspond more to differences you can actually see. ... View more

@ExUSA I didn't hear any complaints from Mac users a couple of years ago 😉   No, this is not a Microsoft problem, that's the exact point I'm trying to get across. Windows is rock solid if just left alone. The problem is the third-party OEMs, Dell, hp, Acer, Asus, etc. They source all hardware components and all basic software/drivers from the outside. So their only chance to put their brand stamp on the product, is to modify and add. And that's what they do, and that's where all the problems happen. ... View more

Yeah, I know it's different, for the reasons you state - the environment the software runs in evolves.   (but I do like the Sony policy). ... View more

Actually, such a pricing model isn't unthinkable. Sony do it; as new camera models are released they keep selling the older models at reduced price. You can still pick up an a7r III from the shelf at about two thirds of the original retail price, or a IV at slightly more - while the V has been the current model in the series for over a year.   Of course, that's hardware, not software, and at some point the stock runs out.     ... View more

One of your screenshots shows that you have the working RGB set to your monitor profile. Never do that! This setting disables all color management, rendering the document profile irrelevant. The working space needs to be a standard color space, sRGB, Adobe RGB etc - it's not really important which one, as long as it's not the monitor profile.   Reset your color settings to default. You do that by picking one of the general purpose presets.   Make sure the Color Management Policies are set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles". With this setting, the embedded profile will always override the working space. ... View more

You're not opening raw files in Bridge, you're opening them in the Camera Raw plugin hosted by Bridge. Camera Raw can also be hosted by Photoshop. It's the same Camera Raw plugin. ... View more

Your graphics processor (GPU) isn't recognized at all by Photoshop. So Camera Raw won't run.   If you post the full Help > System Info from Photoshop, we can see your hardware configuration including which GPU you have. ... View more

@Denise Grant  The working space in Color Settings isn't important. It doesn't matter what it is. The embedded profile will and should always override the working space. That's how it's supposed to work.   Are you opening raw files from a camera? Then you set the color space of the file in Camera Raw's workflow options. You find that under Camera Raw preferences, or click the undrlined "link" under the main image window in Camera Raw.   Photoshop can't open raw files directly. They have to be processed into an RGB file in a raw processor, in this case the Adobe Camera Raw plugin (ACR). In this process, the file is encoded into a standard color space. This profile follows the file into Photoshop, and that's how it opens in Photoshop - regardless of the working space.   So what you need to do is set ACR to open as sRGB.   Generally, always, always make sure the file has an embedded profile. If you output files through Export or Save For Web, make sure the box is checked to "embed color profile".   This is where you keep track of the profile in Photoshop: ... View more

That's fine if your original is a PSD or TIFF, but what if the original is a PNG or jpeg? Then you will overwite the original unless you're very careful.   ... View more

As Chuck says. Nothing has ever been visible outside the canvas, unless you expand the canvas to include it.   Yes, it's still there, there can be content outside the canvas boundary - but you don't see it. ... View more

Are you embedding the profile? What application are you viewing these exported files in, and does it support color management? ... View more

you can’t speed up a pregnancy by adding more mothers. By @Conrad_C   Yes, my favorite analogy when people demand more multicore utilization 🙂    But I mostly stopped using it because the response was always "this is a computer not a baby" 😄 ... View more

Well, my position is that internal is always faster, safer and more convenient. So if you ask me it's alwyas worth the extra cost.   Use internal drives for current storage, and externals for long term "cold" storage. ... View more

Not weird. Your card is charged monthly - but you make a commitment for a year and can't cancel until the year is up. That's how phone subscription, internet and TV are all billed nowadays too. Even my new prescription eyeglasses follow that model.   There is a month-to-month subscription without the commitment, which is unsurprisingly a bit more expensive.   It's also possible to pay up in full for the whole year. ... View more

Compression is all about encoding. That's CPU. That's what takes time. The actual save to disk is a tiny fraction of the total time.   This is easily verified by monitoring CPU and disk activity in real time (I see you're on Mac, but on Windows this is easily done in Task Manager).   PSB compression is unbearably slow, like, say, three minutes versus 15 seconds. The algorithms are old and probably written for the small files that were the standard many years ago. I don't think it can take advantage of more than at most a couple of CPU cores. But note that this may not necessarily reflect the age of the algorithm - some things just have to be done sequentially.   So I'd say the real answer to your question is "turn off compression". Then decide not only how much drive space you need now, but what the strategy should be for expanding drive space as you need it. Because you will run out sooner or later. ... View more

If you don't have the switch, it's off and you won't have any problems. Everything works as it always has.   If you have the switch, turn it off. Ditto, you won't have any problems.   What's confusing is why some have it and some don't. But the purpose is apparently to aid with applications that don't support color management. That's really not a critical concern.   Just leave it off. ... View more

Then it appears you're well beyond the 30 days. So what has prevented CC/Photoshop from connecting and checking the license? That could for instance be a firewall setting.   In any case, the Creative Cloud desktop app is where you manage all these things; not in Photoshop itself. Check your login status there. If you're logged out, can you log in? If you're logged in to the CC app, you're also logged in to Photoshop.   One thing that has tripped me up on occasion, is when my credit card expires and I get a new one. Then I sometimes forget to update payment information somewhere, and then it shuts down. ... View more

PS needs internet to validate the software and if I don't, it simply shuts down. By @janisp41753227   Well, that was my point. It will not do that, it will not just shut down without internet. The license is checked once every 30 days, and in those 30 days it will not need internet access to work.   To be certain, you can log out and back in right before going offline. That will force a license check and give you a fresh 30 days.   Now, obviously, Photoshop did shut down, so something's not right here. I'm not arguing that. But it's not what you think, and maybe we should rather try to figure out what the real problem is. ... View more

Save them out, put them on a USB stick and load on the other machine. It's in the brush panel menu. ... View more

The significance of showing the image in black and white is the whole point of the demonstration: That's the green channel.   Blend If always has "current layer" and "underlying layer". The current layer blends to the underlying layer, there's no other way to blend. It doesn't matter how many other layers there are in the image, that's irrelevant.   I haven't saturated or desaturated anything in the original image - until the final example, which is a flat global desaturate, but it only affects the magenta because Blend If only targets the low end of the green channel.   Everything else is unaffected, excluded by the Blend If setting.   (edited for clarity) ... View more

@Barton5C39  But you still haven't unleashed Blend If's real power, which is to use it per channel.   If you have a saturated color and you want to either target or preserve that color, that can be done very effectively with Blend If. Here's an image with a very saturated magenta, and look what happens in the green channel: The high magenta saturation is defined by the lack of information in the green channel. In this case it goes right down to 0, in other words gamut clipping.   But that means this area is easily targeted with Blend If: ... View more

@ThioJoe  Actually they do - it's in Preferences for PSD and PSB.   For TIFF it's in the secondary options dialog that comes up after the Save dialog.   But the main problem is that all the compression algorithms seem outdated. They work well for small file sizes, where you don't need it, but timings blow up completely when encoding file sizes of current standards.   For TIFF, zip is the only real option. The LZW algorithm was made for 8 bit data and doesn't work well on 16 bit data, where it usually increases file size.   The practical question is whether it's worth the trouble. Does it really matter if a file is 5 GB or 4 GB? Those sizes will eat up your drives in no time regardless, and it seems to be much better use of your time and energy to have a strategy for expanding disk space as needed. Because it will be. ... View more

Photoshop runs for thirty days offline without any problems - and up to 90 days with nag screens urging you to set your account straight asap. But it will work. If you have a yearly subscription.   I suspect a login glitch (too many logins) is the real problem here. It can happen, it has happened to me exactly once. Then the trick is to log out of the machine you're sitting on when the prompt comes up. Then log in again, and everything should return to normal. ... View more

@Trevor.Dennis  I edited my post adding a second paragraph, which I think answers that. ... View more

That means Word is scaling the image. I don't know what rules Word follows. It's a text editor, not an image viewer, and there is no reason to assume Word will display an image correctly.   Most likely it's assuming 96 ppi and an A4 document page, and sizing/scaling the image according to that. Which has nothing to do with a 1:1 reproduction of the image. ... View more

And Photoshop still won't open PSDs? Then it's probably a different probem, unrelated to file associations. ... View more

@Bill Gass  Like jpeg file size, physical measurements are relative.   An image actually doesn't have a size. It's just pixels, in your case 1500 x 750 pixels. That's it. That's the size of the image.   Physical measurements are a function of the pixels per inch (ppi) number assigned to the file. Ppi is a way to translate from pixels to physical size, whenever that is needed, and it means exactly what it says. It's needed for print, and calculating font sizes, and a few other things. It is not needed for screen viewing, where the screen pixel density overrides it.   So Export strips the ppi number from the file. It's not needed. The exported file doesn't have a ppi number, and no size. The screen size is determined by whatever screen you're viewing on.   Most applications will assign a default ppi number if there isn't one in the file metadata. Photoshop assigns 72, Microsoft applications will assign 96. So any output size varies with that. And if the file was originally, say, 300, then you get a huge difference in size.   Now, about the jpeg quality level in Export. The highest is 7, but it's important to know that this is still destructive compression that will degrade the file. There is no such thing as "maximum" quality with jpeg. So with that in mind, it makes much more sense to go down to 5 or 6, which will vastly reduce file size with very little direct visual impact. It will be there, but chances are you can't see any difference between 5 and 7. But the file size will be, say, half or less, so they load that much faster.   The whole justification for using jpeg in the first place, is to reduce file size and load times. So you may as well maximize the payoff. Export gives you live preview so you can find the optimal breakpoint. ... View more