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‎May 02, 2025
06:26 AM
Thanks for the reply Cmass. I have a great idea. Instead of the update installer just installing new preferences and deleting the old ones, how about Adobe put a few lines of code in their installer that backs up the perferences to a file, then installs the updates, then after that's finished, it UNINSTALLS the "new preferences" and reinstalls the ones it previously backed up. That way when every user starts Photoshop after the updates, everything has the exact same look and feel as it did before the update. That would be the most sensible thing to do rather than to expect millions of customers to back up their preferenes before every update and then reinstall the backup preferences after every update. In 'most' updates, it doesn't wipe out the preferences and rearrange all the tools and change the 'workspace'. In fact, in nearly all updates, the look and feel of the interface is not changes at all. Since 9 times out of 10, nothing is changed in the "look and feel" of Photoshop after an update, why should people be expected to 'backup their preferences' and then reinstall them after the update? Surely Adobe's "engineers" are smart enough to know how to put a few lines of code in the installer that does that every time without the customers haveing to do it manually...
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‎Apr 25, 2025
11:23 AM
Thanks AxelMatt for the reply. I didn't reset the prefs, becasue every time I've done that I've had to rebuild everything from memory and it takes forever (it seems) to get it back like I had it. What I discovered is, in the latest "update" they changed the Workspace for Graphic and Web to the abomination shown in the screenshot I posted in the original post. Why they did that makes zero sense. But I "reset" Graphic and Web and that brought most of it back then I put the tabs/windows or whatever you call them back in the place I had them before. As far as I'm concerned, the idiots at adobe that make these stupid updates that reset everything, or change it to something different than what the customer had it, they just need to be fired and ran off. The way they are doing these things is just wrong. It's no way to treat paying customers, just disrupting them at will without giving a hoot. That's just wrong on adobe's part and they need to stop it. I want to thank you again for trying to help me, I do appreciate it.
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‎Apr 24, 2025
10:40 PM
After updating everything today. I opened Photoshop and all I get is a blank gray, empty window. EVERYTHING IS GONE. And all I did was click on Update in the CC App. This junk is getitng really sickening. EVERY [removed by moderator] TIME I UPDATE IT EVERYTHING IS SCREWED UP BIG TIME...
What can I do to fix it? I'm not talking about resetting the [removed by moderator] preferences or any of that [removed by moderator]. I need to know a ONE CLICK SOLUTION TO FIX WHAT ADOBE SCREWED UP.
Thankfully Photoshop BEATA opened correctly and I was able to make a screenshot of what Photoshop looks like when I open it now that adobe has "Updated" it...
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‎Mar 31, 2025
09:26 PM
I uninstalled Photoshop Beata, kept the preferences, then reinstalled Photoshop Beata. Now everything is working like it is supposed to. How long that will last I have no idea but it's working right, for now anyway.
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‎Mar 31, 2025
07:44 PM
Thank you Gary, you did help actually, and I appreciate it very much. I realize that it's not going to be able to work the way I want it too and there's not much use in trying to make it do what I want. I haven't used bridge much even though I always update it and open it every now and then try to use it but I just get frustrated. I haven't really 'needed' it and have done just fine without it. I just hate to see a program on my computer that I can't or don't want to use... Again, thank you for trying to help, I do appreciate it.
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‎Mar 31, 2025
06:05 PM
Thank you for the reply. I would post a screenshot but it would be just like the first screen shot you posted with the little magnified squarish "loupe". That is exactly what I want to get rid of. Instead of clicking on the photo and getting that I want it to expand the whole photo to 100%. I don't want to have to switch to the spacebar to expand it, then use the mouse to drag it around to see the edges and then switch back to the spacebar to shrink it back down. My monitor is 1440P, 2160 X 1440, my photos are 6000 X 4000. I don't want to see it at only 50% or whatever. When I click it, I want it to expand to 100% and when I click it again it goes back down to the size that fits in the window. Is there any way to change it so that what I'm asking can be accomplished? To me, it's really clunky and stupid the way it works with that silly little "magnified" view box, and just as bad is the idea that I'd have to take my hand off the mouse, move it to the spacebar, click that, then go back to the mouse to move the picture around to see the edges that are off the screen, then have to switch back to the spacebar to fit it in the window again then move back to the mouse. I mean that's a lot of wasted movement and extra steps that is just asinine. Surely I'm missing something that I can't find in the preference to to make it a user friendly program to use. I suppose the reason I've had it all these years and never use it is becasue of how NON-user-friendly it is and it's just so frustrating to use. Adobe are you listening??? Please fix these things...
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‎Mar 31, 2025
05:50 PM
I posted similar in the Lightroom Classic area as I'm not sure if it's Lightroom or Photoshop that is the culprit. This jsut started today. I selected 3 files in Lightroom Classic, right click and choose "Open as layers in Photoshop". After a few seconds, the focus switches to the Photoshop window and then nothing happens. No matter how long I wait, the files never open in Photoshop, not as layers, and the same thing happens when try to open a single file in photoshop. It just refuses to work. I know I'm not doing anything wrong because I'm done this a thousand times the same way. I only noticed this today, and I updated everything to the latest versions of both programs a couple of days ago. Is anyone else having this troule and if so, what did you do to fix it? All help will be appreciated!
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‎Mar 31, 2025
05:47 PM
This jsut started today. I selected 3 files in Lightroom Classic, right click and choose "Open as layers in Photoshop". After a few seconds, the focus switches to the Photoshop window and then nothing happens. No matter how long I wait, the files never open in Photoshop, not as layers, and the same thing happens when try to open a single file in photoshop. It just refuses to work. I know I'm not doing anything wrong because I'm done this a thousand times the same way. I only noticed this today, and I updated everything to the latest versions of both programs a couple of days ago. Is anyone else having this troule and if so, what did you do to fix it? All help will be appreciated!
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‎Mar 29, 2025
03:57 PM
I need to know how to turn off the stupid "loupe" view in Bridge. I need to know how to force it to expand a picture to 100% when I click on the picture, like you can in Lightroom classic. I do NOT want to have take my hand off the mouse and move it to the space bar then back to the mouse to move it around then back to the spacebar to shrink it back down. To me that's just a lot of extra, usless, steps to take. So please tell me how to turn off the ignorant "loupe" view that pops up when you click an image in Bridge with no way to expand the stupid little "magnify window" or "loupe" if that's what you call it. There must be a way becasue only idiots would make a bunch of interacting programs and have each of them use a different command for the same function.... And I know the people at Adobe are not idiots...
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‎Feb 05, 2025
03:19 PM
1 Upvote
Thanks. I did a few that way, placing the icon over the bullet point. Then select all the layers + the text layer and link them and when I move it or even resize it with the transform tool it all stays together. You just can't change the font size with the text tool and make it stay proportional. But it works. Hopefully they will add this funcitionality to Photoshop soon.
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‎Feb 05, 2025
12:40 PM
Thanks Creative Exporer. I was afraid that would be the answer. I read somewhere that the glyphs pannel could be used but I can find no way to use any of the glyphs as bullet points, all I can make it do is change the text in the list to whatever the glyph is that I click on, but it wont' change the bullet point to that glyph. Unfortunately, I do not know how to write a script to do it. Hopefully someone will create an extension that does that, or better yet, adobe will make that feature avaliable in Photoshop. Thank you for the reply.
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‎Feb 05, 2025
12:35 PM
Thank you Jane, but I don't have anything besides Photoshop and Lightroom Classic so I can't use InDesign or anything else.
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‎Feb 05, 2025
11:38 AM
Is there anyway to use custom graphics/icons as bullet points in bulleted lists in photoshop? I know how to change it from the dot, dash, circle and square. I don't want to use those 4 options. I want to be able to choose a custom graphic and use that for the bullet point. Is it possible? If it is, then how would I go about doing it? I know you can make the bulleted list, then place the graphic over the dots and make it look "almost" like it was typed that way, but it would be a much better solution if you could just choose a custom graphic to use as the bullet point instead of having to do double work and spend all that extra time doing it. I sure hope this can be done, it would be such a time saver for everyone who would like to do this.
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‎Sep 28, 2024
01:54 PM
1 Upvote
What I did was use the workaround of turning OFF the contextual task bar. When I need it, I'll just turn it on again and when I'm done with it I'll turn it OFF again. It's not a big deal for me since I rarely use it anyway. Just make sure that there is a layer open in photoshop when you try to turn it back on again, otherwise the option for it in the Windows Menu will be be grayed out and unavaliable. This is NOT a correct answer, even though I'm marking it as correct. The only reasy I'm marking it as correct is because I keep getting emails badgering me to mark one as correct. I've ignored those emails before and someone at adobe goes in a marks one as correct when none of them are, they just want to "close it out" even though the problem isn't actually fixed. And this doesn't FIX the problem, it's just a work around, for a problem caused by adobe's software engineeres and they can't be bothered to fix it. The truth is, no company should be allowed to sell subscriptions to software or any other product that is buggy and doesn't work as intended. Especially something like this where everything is working and they push out an "update" and boom, it's broken, but they still take your money for something that isn't working right.
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‎Sep 26, 2024
09:16 PM
Thank you again! I have the automatic updates turned off and I update manually. Several years ago I got burned by those automatic updates and learned to do it manually. I also keep several "older" versions in case the new "full version" update is messed up. A "work around" is better than nothing! Though it would be nice if adobe would stop tearing things up when they are supposed to be improving them. It ought to be illegal to release an update before it's perfect and has no bugs.
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‎Sep 26, 2024
08:53 PM
That worked, sort of. But now I do not have the contextual menu bar. I rarely ever need it. When I want to do generative fill it is necessary. The thing about it is this, I've had that contextual menu bar pinned in that same place ever since the option to pin it was made avaliable. I think, (if my memory serves me right) that the option to pin it in place has been there for over a year now. And I've never had trouble with that pop up about masks before in all the time I've had the contextual tool bar displayed, until now. So turning it off "sort of works" but it did not fix the problem. The problem is a bug that was introduced in the last "update". Otherwise I would mark this as the correct answer. I do appreciate your help. On another note, I think it should be illegal for any company that charges a monthly subscription to charge you for an update that introduces bugs and broken software that they do not imeadeately fix and give instant refunds for their coustomers time that was wasted on workarounds and aggravation. Just a thought....
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‎Sep 26, 2024
08:35 PM
Thank you for trying to help. I tried it and it doesn't work. All that did was stop tooltips from coming up when I hover over a tool.
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‎Sep 26, 2024
06:09 PM
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After the latest updat to Photoshop, I get a pop up EVERY TIME I click on a layer mask, it makes no difference if it is a white mask or black mask or one I'm about to use or just making a selection of the mask, EVERY DOG GONE TIME I click on the mask this pop up, pops up. I dismiss it and the next time I touch the layer mask, it pops up again. HOW IN HECK DO YOU SHUT IT OFF so it NEVER pops up again????
This is the annoying and persistent pop up:
I can find nothing in the perferences to shut this thing off. Right clicking on it does nothing, no menu to shut it off or anything. What in the heck do you have to do in order to kill this darn thing??? This is crazy...
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‎Aug 01, 2024
07:44 PM
Thanks for the tip about "ideas", I put this post in that category too. Here is the link to it: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/how-to-disable-quot-linked-quot-library-files/idi-p/14775150#M22411
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‎Aug 01, 2024
07:42 PM
After the latest "update" to photoshop, whenever I drag an item from the library to a document I'm working on a popup comes up saying it is now a "linked" file and if I want to place it as a copy, I have to hold the ALT key down while dragging it from the library. What I need to know is how do I turn this stupidity off? I'm extremely aggravated that I now have to go to the extra step of remembering to hold the ALT key down while dragging something from the library. This is stupid, just turn the crap OFF and never have to do it again. I have looked at every option in the preferences and there is nothing to turn this junk off in there. Adobe needs to STOP arbitrarily changing things and screwing with people. If you implement something, turn it off and show a ONE TIME pop up telling people they can turn it on IF THEY WANT TO. Just stop turning CRAP on that nobody wants. This is the dialog box that pops up. It never came up before this latest update. I'm not sure if it was becasue of the lastest update to photoshop or to the latest update to the CC App. I updated both at the same time so it could be either one of them. This is a change and I need to know how to reverse it. And Holding the ALT key down every frigging time is NOT an option... And right clicking on it in the library panel and choosing "place layers" is NOT an option either. I need to know how to turn this absolute stupidity off PERMENANTLY and never have to mess with it again. It was not this way a couple of weeks ago. Two or three weeks ago I could drag anything from the library panel and it wasn't "linked" at all. It was a copy of the image, as a smart object, but it wasn't places as a stupid "linked" object in the library. I could even delete it from my library after dragging it into a document and it was still in my document and there was no "missing asset" warning when I opened the file again. So it wasn't linked for me anyway, but now it is and I am really aggravated that they turned that junk on and I have no obvious way to turn it off.
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‎Aug 01, 2024
06:55 PM
I don't know why you haven't noticed it, because I noticed it. It was not this way a couple of weeks ago. Two or three weeks ago I could drag anything from the library panel and it wasn't "linked" at all. It was a copy of the image in the library. I could even delete it from my library after dragging it into a document and it was still in my document and there was no "missing asset" warning when I opened the file again. So it wasn't linked for me anyway, but now it is and I am really aggravated that they turned that junk on and I have no obvious way to turn it off.
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‎Aug 01, 2024
06:14 PM
Give us a way to disable the stupid new "feature" of "linked" files from libraries. After the latest "update" to photoshop, whenever I drag an item from the library to a document I'm working on a popup comes up saying it is now a "linked" file and if I want to place it as a copy, I have to hold the ALT key down while dragging it from the library. What I need to know is how do I turn this stupidity off? I'm extremely aggravated that I now have to go to the extra step of remembering to hold the ALT key down while dragging something from the library. This is stupid, just turn the crap OFF and never have to do it again. This is the dialog box that pops up. It never came up before this latest update. I'm not sure if it was becasue of the lastest update to photoshop or to the latest update to the CC App. I updated both at the same time so it could be either one of them. This is a change and I need to know how to reverse it. And Holding the ALT key down every frigging time is NOT an option... And right clicking on it in the library panel and choosing "place layers" is NOT an option either. I need to know how to turn this absolute stupidity off PERMENANTLY and never have to mess with it again. I have looked at every option in the preferences and there is nothing to turn this junk off in there.
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‎Aug 01, 2024
06:10 PM
After the latest "update" to photoshop, whenever I drag an item from the library to a document I'm working on a popup comes up saying it is now a "linked" file and if I want to place it as a copy, I have to hold the ALT key down while dragging it from the library. What I need to know is how do I turn this stupidity off? I'm extremely aggravated that I now have to go to the extra step of remembering to hold the ALT key down while dragging something from the library. This is stupid, just turn the crap OFF and never have to do it again. I have looked at every option in the preferences and there is nothing to turn this junk off in there. Adobe needs to STOP arbitrarily changing things and screwing with people. If you implement something, turn it off and show a ONE TIME pop up telling people they can turn it on IF THEY WANT TO. Just stop turning CRAP on that nobody wants. This is the dialog box that pops up. It never came up before this latest update. I'm not sure if it was becasue of the lastest update to photoshop or to the latest update to the CC App. I updated both at the same time so it could be either one of them. This is a change and I need to know how to reverse it. And Holding the ALT key down every frigging time is NOT an option... And right clicking on it in the library panel and choosing "place layers" is NOT an option either. I need to know how to turn this absolute stupidity off PERMENANTLY and never have to mess with it again.
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‎May 01, 2024
04:33 PM
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Where is the recently used font list in photoshop? Why the heck is it gone in this latest so called "update"? Does anyone know how to get rid of the stupidity that replaced it? I was going to change the font on some text to one that I use most frequently and when I cliced the dropdown to choose the font THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE TOP OF THE LIST I GET THIS STUPIDITY shown in this screenshot below. I can't figure out how to get rid of this ignorant stupidity and get the previous Recently Used Font List at the top of the drop down. Does anyone know how to undo this and bring back the font list that was there a week or so ago?
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‎Apr 06, 2024
08:34 AM
Thank you Jeff. That made it start working right. Do you have any idea how it got switched? I have no idea how or why it started doing this, but I'm thankful to know what to do to reset it now.
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‎Apr 06, 2024
08:10 AM
why is photoshop alt click shortcut for brush tool changing the background color instead of the forground color? It was working perfect until this morning. Now when using the brush tool and I want to change colors, alt-clicking samples the color but instead of making it the active forground color it changes the background color. For example the foreground color is black and the background color is white I alt-click with the broush tool and it temporarily changes to the eyedropper and samples the color I click on, say it's red that I sampled. After releasing the ALT key the cusor changes back to the brush tool and I start to paint and it's black instead of the red color I sampled. I look at the tool bar and see that the foreground is still black but the background color has changed from white to the red that I sampled. It's supposed to change the foreground when you sample colors like that so that as soon as you release the ALT key and start painting again the color is now the one you sampled. I changed nothing in the preferences or anywhere else. And I've also had other problems since "upgrading" to the latest release of photoshop 25.6.0. Quite often when starting photoshop it takes 5 to 10 seconds for the libraries to show up, then half the time they are blank and I have to close photoshop and restart it to get them to show the thumbnails for the items in the libraries. But my main concern is the ALT-Click shortcut for sampling colors while using the brush tool and how to fix it. Resetting preferences is out of the question, that never fixes anything.
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‎Mar 19, 2024
11:12 PM
I pasted this one directly into the text box too, seems that's the only way I can get it to upload.
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‎Mar 19, 2024
11:10 PM
I'm trying to upload one. I tried many times with the original post to upload a screenshot of it, but it will not upload. The little blue progress bar moves about 1/3 of the way across and then stops and the upload never finishes. I even waited 5 or 6 minutes a couple of times and it never finished uploading. I did a speed test of my internet connections while waiting for it to upload and my speed was nearly 100Mbps download and 30Mbps upload with 28 milisecond latency. Plenty fast enough for a 99 kilo byte file to upload which is far, far below the 45 megabyte limit on file size... I pasted that screenshot directly in the text window. The one I'm trying to upload is still stalled.. So I stopped it so I can upload this.
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‎Mar 19, 2024
10:27 PM
I always check for updates every few day and when there is one I always update it. That's like today, the only update that was avaliable was for the Beta, so I updated that, then after a couple hours of frustration later, the update for Photoshop became avaliable to me. But as far as them not wanting frustrated customers, I don't know about that. I just "thought" that updateing from 25.5.1 to 25.6.0 this evening fixed the problem. But it didn't, it made it worse! Now when I click the "home icon", the home screen shows up with the recent files. BUT, when I click on one to open it, the tool bars come back and the laywers pannel and all that comes back showing the layer(s) of the file I opened, but the layers are transparent and the files from the home screen are still showing!
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‎Mar 19, 2024
10:21 PM
I just "thought" it was fixed... Just another mess up from adobe. I can click the home icon and the home screen shows up with all the recent files. BUT when I click on one to open it, it doesn't open, and the home screen is still showing slighlty shifted off to the side. I can click on the layers in the layer panel and I can see the outline of the layer, but it's transparent. Way to adobe... You just can't fix a doggone thing.
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