Last week I updated to PS 25.12 because the problem with the Alt keyboard shortcuts in various panels had finally been solved. Now I've reverted once again to PS 25.4 because another workflow breaking bug cropped up: the color picker wheel that pops up when I press the ALT key to change the brush color is showing the wrong colors. The lighter the color I select, the more the color displayed in the color wheel around the cursor is off. When I click on a completely white pixel, the color picker wheel around the cursor shows a light yellow instead. It only displays the color wrong, the actually selected color is the right one.   The problem is easy to reproduce:   - Create a new blank document - Select the brush tool - Hold the Alt key and select at a random spot on the white canvas - The color picker wheel around the cursor doesn't show the selected color as white but as pale yellow   I've got this problem on two different computers where I've upgraded to PS 25.12. I've reset all settings completely, but the problem persists. So I've once again reverted to PS 25.4 because that's the only version that has working ALT keyboard shortcuts in panels AND a working color picker in Brush mode while holding the ALT key. ... View more

I updated from Photoshop 25.4 to 25.5 on my Windows 11 PC running the latest patches and I noticed that many keyboard shortcuts using the ALT-key are now gone in editing panels, for instance Image Resize and Image Canvas.   ALT keyboard shortcuts have become something of a hidden feature in Photoshop, because they're only visibile when hold the ALT key pressed down. But when you know this trick it becomes possible to use the keyboard to access options in the PS pull-down menu and change numerical values; it can really speed up your workflow compared to using a mouse.  I only need three key presses to change any option in amy PS panel. Memorize those and you can speed through PS using just the keyboard.   The problem is that the ALT hotkeys that have numerical input fields (like Width and Height in the Canvas Size panel), are gone in Photoshop 25.5 and 25.5.1. Needless to say it worked fine in 25.4 and every other Photoshop version released in the past 20 years.   Take these two screenshot of the Canvas Size panel (image top = PS 25.5, image bottom = PS 25.4). If you hold the ALT key you should not just see the Cancel button change to Reset, but the first letters of options like Width, Height, Relative and Canvas Extension color should now be underlined to indicate that you can press ALT plus an underlined letter to move the keyboard focus to those options.     The same thing is happening in the Image Size panel. (image top = PS 25.5, image bottom = PS 25.4). In the latest PS version the ALT keyboard shortcuts for Luminance, Color Intensity and Fade don't work anymore.     Only a few people have acknowledged this issue in my previous posting. I'm trying again with a better structured post hoping that others can confirm this buy so that this bug will reach the Adobe devs. I rely a lot on ALT keyboard shortcuts in my Photoshop workflow and I'm really unhappy about this bug. The good news is that's incredibly easy to reproduce, the bad news is that probably not that many people even know these ALT keyboard shortcuts exist in the Windows version of Photoshop. ... View more