26.0.0 Remove tool progress bar issue appears fixed for small areas content-aware strokes, and seems even more performant for large areas. Initial use make take a few seconds, but is remove tool is instantaneous thereafter. It's working very well now in the content-aware mode. Fixed! Thank you devs. ... View more

Incorrect, before the generative AI was added into the remove tool – short strokes of remove tool typically rendered instantaneously with no progress bar. It was NOT dependent on connection speed because it rendered locally off the image data. This is what ppdix was refering to. Please read the original description carefully. Go back a few versions and test it out and you'll see the remove tool does not show a progress bar if the rendering occurs under a half second or so.   Currently, on beta the remove tool has an option to use generative AI for the remove tool and that is understandably going to need the progress bar. HOWEVER, the situation mentioned here is about the current version of Photoshop which still only has local content-aware rendering, and the option in beta to use local data over generative AI.   In either case, the progress bar should not appear if the render happens near instantaneously. The progress bar just flashing for a milisecond is extremely distracting. Imagine if the paint brush did that – it would be absurd. ... View more

I just tried it on the latest beta and current version. Looks like the progress bar pops even when the remove tool is instantaneous, and it usually is instant for short to medium strokes. From the beta UI, it seems like product is wedging the generative AI features on a tool that is (or once was) most useful for small areas. I'd prefer Adobe create different tool for this, and left the formerly remarkable remove tool alone. At a minum, there must be some time threshold to keep the bar hidden, as it is right now it's just a gray and blue flash.   p.s. Call me crazy but it looks to me like the remove tool may even finish rendering before the ui can display the progress bar. ... View more

Actually, I have two Adobe Suite accounts that I use. My personal paid account for my home laptop and another account provided by work. Unfortunately my work provided account does not allow any beta installations and this is the one account I really need to turn off these "badges".  ... View more

Hi I just saw this, and I think the answer you are may be looking for is   How to turn off artboards on new documents, rather than having to delete an already existing one.   For new documents, you can select "Photo" as the "Document Type" (note I use the "legacy" new document dialog)     Set your dimensions, resolution, color mode and depth, background contents, etc. The "Document Type" will change to "Custom", but the document type will still be a Photo.   I recommend to click "Save Preset…" and name the preset to keep it handy.    Click OK and your new document will not have an artboard.   ... View more

Personally, I wouldn't mind relocating the smart object icon as well. I don't know why the solution has to be to put the icon ON the thumbnail. It could be to the side, below, beneath, or very small and next to the thumbnail. It could even be some kind of treatment to the edges. The purpose of a thumbnail is to preview. And for any of us that work on mobile devices and the imagery that goes on them, these icons or "badges" obscure a tremendous portion of the thumbnail in portrait aspect ratios. My workflow requires that I can quickly assess a layer before I go digging into it. ... View more

Thank you @Trevor.Dennis ! ... View more

I agree with you, We don't need these badges at all. I've never had an issue of identifying the layer mask from the vector mask because of their arrangement and appearance. So these badges create more of a problem (by covering useful info the thumbnail) than the perceived problem they are supposed to fix. Only a first time new user would have any issue, but it would drive them crazy too after they learned which mask is which. But for this post, I just wanted to report the bug before the beta goes live that the option to turn the icons off does not stick on relaunch. ... View more

PS Beta 25.2 on Apple M1 Pro running Sonoma: The "Show layer mask badges" in the layer panel option resets to ON once Photoshop is closed and relaunched. (and I really need it to stay off )     ... View more

The option to turn them off is only in the beta version of Photoshop. It works but unfortunately it resets back to on each time Photoshop beta is reopened. This is really awful for my workflow. ... View more

Thank you Ged for the lightning quick response! I appreciate it. –Jeff ... View more

Unfortunately now, the layer mask icon obscures a good part of the thumbnail at the small size. It was very useful to me to see all of the thumbnail when scanning through layers. I would hope there would be a way to turn this off, and the vector mask icon as well. ... View more

That worked – so easy to do. Thank you so much! ... View more

Note: I can option-click and drag it, but the click does nothing and that was difficult to discover. It worked with just a click before 22. ... View more

Photoshop 22.0.1 on Mac OSX Catalina New bug with recent update: normally during free transform, option-clicking would set a reference point at the cursor location. This was working with Photoshop 21. I DO have the reference point visible and I can set it by dragging or any of the corners or centers with the tool bar. But the option click was best for my work flow. ... View more

No it is still broken. Here is the video: https://youtu.be/4XT2chWt5Zs ... View more

No, after update to 21.1.0 the issue is still broken on Mac Catalina. No change at all. Would you like a video? Image is not available Image is not available Image is not available ... View more

Jeff, thank you for updating. I appreciate it. ... View more

Jeffrey's post will only deactivate the click to commit transform. The double click to select text will still work, unfortunately. The ghosts of PS 19 still linger. ... View more

Hi Kukurykus, Just installed Photoshop 2020 and the "OnCanvasClickToCommit 0" in the PSUserConfig.txt does not disable double click to edit text. It does disable Click to Commit – which is nice.   Do you know how to disable double click to edit text in 2020. It's been driving my team crazy for a year now. ... View more

"I do not develop for the web and have absolutely not reason to want Device Preview or Adobe XD." Jack, Please realize that Photoshop is a primary tool for multiple disciplines (e.g. game design, ui design, product development, concept art) that develop for mobile devices. Adobe cannot segment out core visualization tools without hampering these individuals' workflow by requiring switching to another application to view updates on device or being reliant on 3rd party applications. Reverting to earlier versions of Photoshop is not an option, as mobile application artists and developers appreciate all of Adobe's feature improvements and versioning. ... View more

I would be simple enough, I imagine, for Bridge to display the filename on multiple lines in much the same way the OSX finder renders the filename – no matter what the thumbnail size. ... View more

This was an unfortunate omission from PS 2018 – even though there are 3rd party applications that mimic this feature. However, 3rd party applications are subject to tardy updates and the possibility of being discontinued. Since Photoshop is the requisite tool for mobile application and graphic design – then the facility to preview those designs, instantly, is mandatory to an efficient workflow (especially in a environment of tight deadlines and hovering design directors). For those who are writing, in defense of discontinuing this feature, that Photoshop was never intended as a UI design tool, please realize that was only true around 1990. Since then Photoshop has been intentionally developed and refined into a essential tool for multiple design disciplines. Please bring this feature back as it is central to workflows, including photographers who need to preview the appearance of images on devices during the editing phases. ... View more

Thank you Pete! I appreciate the notice on the update. The image document level transformations are now working well (flip, rotate, image size). However, an unlinked layer mask is not be affected if its parent group is transformed. Is that correct? Thank you ... View more

Hannah, Thanks again for your time and quick response. Additionally, unlinked layer masks no longer scale with their parent folder. This is a different behavior than before as unlinking decoupled the layer mask from its layer. Everything within the folder should scale as a unit. ... View more

I can also confirm this error, I just lost an hour of work because I resized, saved and reopened. The mask was completely off. It is really easy to miss on subtle masks. Please express the urgency of this bug. ... View more

This is not answering the question. Why is it tagged as the correct answer? ... View more