I'm in total shock, but your advice helped me too. Thank you! ... View more

First of all, there is no reason to match all these profiles, and in fact you shouldn't.   Set ACR to open in the color space you prefer, like Adobe RGB. This profile will be embedded into the processed RGB file ACR sends to Photoshop, and override any other working space you may have set there. The main thing in Photoshop is to have policies set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles". This is the only important setting! Set your monitor to Native, not any emulation like Adobe RGB. The monitor has its own native color space, and that's fine. It's not supposed to match anything else. Any preset will only limit its capabilities. Run the calibration software. When it's done calibrating, it will measure the monitor's color space in that calibrated state, and write a monitor profile that describes how the monitor behaves, in detail. It's a standard icc profile. This profile is automatically set as system default for that monitor. You don't need to do anything. When Photoshop starts up, it gets this profile from the operating system. Photoshop - and, independently, ACR! - uses this monitor profile in a standard profile conversion, from the source color space into the monitor color space. Those corrected numbers are sent to screen. This way, the image is correctly represented on screen.   Get all these ducks in a row first, then come back if it still doesn't look right.   EDIT: looking closer at the screenshot, there is something strange going on in the highlights. It's clearly the monitor profile, but it's not clipping; it looks like the whole tone curve is different, in all channels. The takeaway from that is that it's not a defective profile, it looks like the wrong profile. Which again brings me back to what I wrote above. ... View more

Another (easy) way to accomplish this is to browse the file folder using Adobe Bridge and then open your image by right-clicking on it and choosing "Open in Camera Raw..." ... View more

It's now turned off by default in the latest version. You have to go dig in the options to switch it on. This topic could be closed now. It's good how it works now. ... View more

@Michael26531295kdax  That wasn't what anyone said - it was just mentioned in passing as a possible cause (hacker-modified code). Which isn't entirely unreasonable, given the extremely high volume of pirated copies being offered on the internet, to unsuspecting buyers.   But the general consensus is that this is most likely the GPU driver. If not that, then possibly an overheating/malfunctioning hardware component.   The bottom line is in any case that a modern application cannot cause a BSOD. That's prevented by sandboxes and insulating layers. What the application can do, is trigger a BSOD by making specific calls that expose latent problems. ... View more

Agree with Axel. The only logical conclusion is that Lightroom is the real problem. ... View more

Any update on this? is it still crashing? What is the AI Denoise performance? ... View more

First of all, I would reset SFW preferences, not Photoshop preferences (you need to google that; I can't recall which keys to press as you launch. But either way you can rename/move the SFW settings folder in your user account, which does the same thing).   Secondly - the preferences are much more than your own user settings. It's the sum total of the application configuration, including lots of hidden parameters that are dependent on other settings. It's complex, and that's why corrupt preferences can cause weird and unpredictable behavior. ... View more

A preset will not work the same way on an RGB file and a raw file.   That has nothing to do with the applications, but is a result of how the data are encoded in the file. Any numerical adjustment is relative to the color space - the three primaries and the tone response curve.   A raw file is linear (gamma 1.0) with ProPhoto primaries - at least it is by the time the presets are applied (out of the camera it's grayscale).    Once opened into Photoshop, the tone curve is not linear, but can be gamma 2.2, 1.8, or the rather idiosyncratic sRGB curve. The primaries are not necessarily the same either, they can be sRGB, Adobe RGB or DCI-P3. All of this affects what a certain adjustment will do.   Just as a very simple illustration, setting the black point at 1 or 2 in a ProPhoto file will usually result in significant and noticeable black clipping. Doing the same in an Adobe RGB file will probably not be very visible at all.   And, since this seems to be an extremely common misunderstanding: you do not need to match color settings or profiles between Lightroom and Photoshop. The whole point of color management is that color spaces do not need to match. Preserving color from one to the other is what color management does. Any profile you set in Lightroom will be correctly treated and correctly interpreted in Photoshop. ... View more

It worked! thank you ... View more

@patricktheart  If you lose your preferences in minor dot updates, something's wrong, like not having full administrator privileges in your user account.   With a major whole-number version update, preferences do not carry over, they never have. There is an option to migrate preferences, but I don't recommend it because of the high risk of accumulated errors carrying over as well.   As for actions, brushes, anything that can be saved out - save out and keep it in a safe place. Then it can always be easily reloaded. ... View more

Let's get some realism into this. Have you scrolled down to check all the other resource hog processes running? This is just a random screenshot from a cold started machine, no applications running.  And no, I have no idea what all this is:   And if you take a closer look, these CC processes aren't actually doing anything. They're just sitting there.   A few hundred MB of memory is totally insignificant. Once you open some image files to do actual work, you'll be needing orders of magnitude more memory than you have installed in total, so Photoshop uses its scratch disk to handle all the data. However much you have installed, there's not enough RAM to handle that. That's not Photoshop, that's the reality of editing raster based pixel images.   If you have performance problems, this is not the reason.   ... View more

during the purchase it was not written that the program will only work on this version of Windows and does not allow reinstalling the system and reinstalling PrestaShop. That a program cannot offer infinte forward OS-compatibility does not seem to need mentioning.  What were the OS versions mentioned in the System Requirements of the Photoshop version you are talking about?  ... View more

Yes, but I'm not sure that's really the point. ... View more

I really think that I need a new primary HD, though. This one is just too small, I haven't replaced it in a long time, and at this point, there are much better and larger options. By @RealAnise   Lucky you are using a Windows system then, and not a Macbook. ... View more

Finally got the solution after installing reinstalling like ten times. I went into the registry Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.psd Deleted the 3 folders in there: OpenWithList, OpenWithProgids, UserChoice. Restarted the PC, then went into file associations and manually added photoshop to open the PSD files, since it wasn't there by default. By the end this reg entry should look like this instead of the "photoshop.26"   ... View more

So would you recommend me reporting it as a bug if it doesn't correct itself? It's still picking incorrectly for me on the 2025 software. ... View more

thnk you! ... View more

Have you checked that the Target Colors for the Gray Point eyedropper are set to R 128 G 128 B 128?   To do that with the Curves Adjustment layer click on the flyout menu then click Auto Options and click one of the choices other than Enhance Brightness and Contrast in order be able to click on the Midtones color chip   ... View more

Adobe loves a good joke:   ... View more

Here is some general info on printing problems, https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-printing-problems.html if that doesn’t help - Perhaps try resetting Photoshop preferences? Resetting restores Photoshop's internal preferences which are saved when Photoshop closes. If they become corrupt then various issues can occur. Here's some info on how to do that: https://t.co/ulJI7cGn1G https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html You may want to backup your settings beforehand:  https://t.co/4dX7gkr36D https://helpx.adobe.com/in/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html It may even be time to reinstall Photoshop. Use the Adobe CC cleaner tool to remove all traces first. Uninstall photoshop BUT make sure to choose the option “Yes, remove app preference”.   Once that process finishes, start the installation process and look into the “Advanced Options”. Uncheck “Import previous settings and preferences” and choose to “Remove old versions”. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2405286   I hope this helps neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management ... View more

ooh that's how we do it thank you ... 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

I manually deleted all preferences in my preference folder in my library folder..  other than that I'm not quite sure what else or how to find any others.   I'm not loving the idea but I may have to do a fresh virgin install of the OS and Creative cloud to test this out.  Sigh... ... View more

Does anyone know of a Print on Demand service like Printify that has better color management and knowledge of these different color profiles? Thanks. ... 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

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

Agreed! they need to tone the pearl-clutching by about 60% at least. Fact: currently, PS often reads peoples backs as cleavage, including shirtless men? if their backs crease enough, its apparently considered cleavage? wtf, Adobe? It aint 1918 anymore. ... View more

OK, that makes sense. Thanks for letting us know!   Yes, on macOS I have often found that macOS still thinks an external display is connected even though the display is powered off, if the cable is still connected. ... 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