I merged your posts, please don't post the same question more than once.  ... View more

When the 'link' between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop has issues, the first step is to try this: Use the Adobe Creative Cloud Application to uninstall Photoshop. When asked, keep preferences! After this reinstall Photoshop again.   If this doesn't help the nest step is to reinstall both apps Lightroom and Photoshop. Please folloe the steps below:   1. Open the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Client and uninstall both Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. When asked, keep preferences!  2. Install Photoshop first and then Lightroom Classic. The right order is very important here!   If this doesn't help try the reinstallation with removing the preferences also.   ... View more

Yes - but let's not confuse the issue with facts 😉   There's a second term of office proving that point daily!   The point is that the RGB numbers don't change. By @D Fosse   If the source document is RGB mode, then yes, I agree!  😉 ... View more

My GPU is NEVER off, and it happens none the less. I used to turn it off in the past and it didn't resolve the issue. So are you stating that the issue did happen with GPU-usage turned off or that it just didn’t repair damage that had originally occured and saved when GPU-usage was on?  ... View more

This is related to a larger issue, where several modules stop responding after Photoshop has been running for an undetermined period (5 minutes to several hours).   The affected modules are Save For Web, the Camera Raw filter, Liquify - and a couple more filters from the Filter menu, but these are the most commonly reported.   Quite a lot of users are affected, but apparently not all. Or maybe they're just not letting Photoshop run long enough, or don't use these particular modules much.   I've been trying to draw attention to this many times, but I don't seem to be getting any traction, so I've resigned myself to it. Relaunching Photoshop returns everything to normal for a while, so it's not actually stopping you from using these modules. Just an inconvenience. Note that they still work correctly in actions, so it's not the underlying functionality - t's just that the interface doesn't come up..   This bug only exists in Photoshop 25.11 and later. Previous versions did not exhibit this. I keep 25.9 installed for time-critical projects. ... View more

In my photo, Photo Distraction Removal is not working. Please sujeson   ... View more

Crossreferencing to internal bug ticket.  ... View more

Yeah, funny how something that didn't exist until 2 years ago is now considered absolutely essential for basic usage.   It's also interesting how none of the dissatisfied customers mention "the competition" anymore 😉 There isn't any; no other high-grade image editor on the market does generative AI at all. ... View more

@Ged_Traynor  Ah, excellent catch. Yes, that's a problem right off. ... View more

Corrupt preferences can cause all kinds of strange and unpredictable behavior. The preferences file contains a lot more than your own user settings - it's the whole application configuration including lots of hidden parameters. It's complex. It's everything that has been modified since the virgin first launch.   Preferences are prone to corruption because they are rewritten on every application exit. An irregular shutdown, or interrupted shutdown sequence, can corrupt them.   Preferences are stored in your user account, not in the installed program files. An uninstall will not touch them, you have to manually delete it. ... View more

With the really wonderful lens blur simulation tool, I would really love to see other optical simulations such as halation to simulate film glow or blackmist lens filters.  Halation for those of you who don't know is a glow on bright light sources that spills further into the image. If you've ever had a foggy lens, that's sort of an extreme version of the effect. It creates a dreamy effect, and softens it while still retaining clarity (not quite sure how to properly describe it, but it's kind of a perfect meld of filmic softness and digital clarity).    It would be very useful to do this without having to use a filter, which is an additional piece of equipment and can effect exposure and focus, and is ultimately a "destructive" effect that you can't change in editing once you've shot with the filter.   It's possible to emulate this with a roundtrip to photoshop or other tools, but that's time consuming and is quite fiddly and takes up additional hard drive space with copies. I'd love to have it built into lightroom as another nondestructive tool with sliders to adjust things like the luminance threshold/curve, size and opacity of the blur to be able to create more stylised filmic images. ... View more

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

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