Not convinced it's a bug. Seems much more likely to be corruption somewhere in the settings (see my post above for why and how that can happen)..   I'd go into the user account and wipe it. Move the whole Photoshop settings folder to the desktop, so that a new one can be built when you relaunch Photoshop. This returns the application to clean, out-of-the-box factory state. ... View more

A lot of users with similar problems (high resource usage with Photoshop idle) has reported back that a full and complete reset of preferences fixed it.   The cases I've seeen have all been on systems with an integrated GPU, both Mac and Windows alike. But that's the thing they've had in common. An integrated GPU uses shared system memory. So it's not far fetched to suspect the GPU is taking all these resources.   Keep in mind that the preferences/settings contain a lot more than your own user settings. It's the entire application configuration, including lots of hidden and system-dependent parameters.    Corrupt preferences tend to look like application bugs and are frequently mistaken for that. ... View more

Any particular reason you aren't uninstalling in the normal way? It sounds like you're just deleting files. In that case you'll be left with a lot of orphaned registry keys. I'd recommend you run the CC Cleaner Tool to reset and wipe everything clean.    It sounds like you could have orphaned scratch files from irregular shutdowns/crashes. These will be in the Windows Temp directory and can just be deleted (they should normally be deleted on application exit). ... View more

You need to be specific. Where are these files, what kind of files? ... View more

Not sure about the forum search, actually. The result is usually "I have the same problem" which turns out to be not the same problem at all, often drowning an entire thread in noise. A new thread is IMO always better.   And to be honest, most questions can be answered pretty quickly by more experienced users. Cleaner, and quicker. The exceptions are the real, actual application bugs, but those are relatively few and do in any case require a fresh new thread.   And let's not forget, there's a lot of bogus and misleading information out there on the internet. You can easily be led astray. I've seen entire youtube videos that are utter nonsense.   In short, I think people should just come straight here.   ... View more

@MahaB82A    This is an imitation of a classic real-life photographic situation: Your shutter speed isn't high enough to completely freeze all motion.   So you have two choices: you can pan the camera to freeze the skater - this is what sports photographers generally do. you can keep the camera still and let the skater blur past - this is what an architectural photographer would do in this case.   In other words, this is a choice, depending on what you want. You need to decide that for yourself. ... View more

I think you need to adjust your expectations. GIGO* applies here.   Out of focus and low resolution can't be fixed later. You can fake it, but you can always tell it's fake.   (*Garbage in, garbage out) ... View more

You can install an older version, but unless you do it in the right order it will take over file associations and be the one that opens by default. The last installer activity will always claim file associations.   So you want to do it in this sequence: uninstall the current version install the old version reinstall the current version   If you later want to uninstall the old version, the same applies. So to avoid breaking file associations altogether, do it this way: uninstall the current version uninstall the old version reinstall the current version   Always keep "remove older versions" unchecked to avoid problems with file associations. Manage versions manually, as above, instead. ... View more

The 1050 will still work, but it won't work well.  I'd strongly recommend upgrading to RTX 4060 or the newer 5060.   A lot of Photoshop functions are now AI-based and primarily run in the GPU. The newer RTX-series GPUs have "Tensor" cores optimized for these algorithms. For these functions, an older GTX will be painfully slow and take a minute or more on a command that an RTX executes in seconds. The difference is dramatic.   I'd say upgrading the GPU should be the first priority.    While 16 GB RAM is at the minimum these days, Photoshop will still run as long as you have enough fast scratch disk space. There is no such thing as enough RAM with Photoshop, the total memory need will very quickly exceed RAM no matter how much you have, so that's why Photoshop needs disk space for the scratch disk. Think of RAM as a fast access cache for the scratch disk's main memory.   With fast NVMe storage, such as gen 4 M.2 drives, the scratch disk is no longer the bottleneck it used to be, and so the amount of RAM is a lot less critical. Still, a certain minimum will be taken by Photoshop, so the current recommendation is 32 or 64. More than that is not really needed.  ... View more

Dual graphics is always a potential conflict and a very common problem with laptops. You may have to completely disable the Intel GPU as per section 6&7 here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html    Photoshop uses the GPU for actual data processing, and the result returned to Photoshop for further processing. You can't send data to one GPU and get it back from the other. There can only be one GPU in this equation. ... View more

For what it's worth, and I do realize this isn't the answer you want, but here goes: Migrating settings is a bit risky and IMO best avoided. It can cause problems down the road. Save out actions, brushes etc and reload in the new installation. Reinstall plugins where applicable.   Settings are rewritten on every application exit, so are prone to corruption by irregular shutdowns. Small errors will accumulate, and with new application code in the new version, latent problems can surface.   Corrupt preferences usually look like application bugs and are often mistaken for that.   The settings file contains a lot more than your own user settings. It's the entire application configuration, including lots of hidden and inter-dependent parameters. The settings are stored in your user account, not with the program files. When Photoshop starts up, it reads the configuration from your user account. Deleting this folder returns the application to clean, out-of-the-box factory state.   But if you do need to access old settings, they are in your user account.   Ten minutes to set up fresh settings (and reloading your saved actions etc) is well spent. ... View more

Here it is:   (obviously not a bug, so a moderator needs to move the thread) ... View more

Yes, I was a bit unclear. I meant Gray Gamma 2.2 was still the default.   Obviously, you an change the output profile to whatever you want. ... View more

Not to press home an obvious point - but if you want faster saving, you have to check this box. Compression can be extremely slow. It's on by default.   The difference in save times can be 3x - 8x depending. In particular, layers will slow the compression down. If you have more layers now than you used to have, you will notice that difference.   For really big files, say, a GB and up (which, ironically, is where you could use some size reduction), save times can be unbearably long, to the point of being completely unworkable.   I always check this box to disable all compression. I simply don't have time to wait for it. ... View more

ACR still encodes into Gray Gamma 2.2 automatically, when the "Adobe Monochrome" profile is chosen.   ... View more

I think this is a known issue with jpegs downloaded from certain social media specifically (not jpegs in general). ... View more

Masking is done in the GPU and probably mostly AI-based. The newer RTX-series GPUs have "Tensor" cores optimized for these algorithms. Older GPUs will work, but be slow. Another case in point is Denoise (it can be, say, 10 seconds vs. 1.5 minutes). ... View more

Actually, the subscription model has been a spectacular success. The user base has exploded 2x - 3x since it was introduced ten years ago.   The reason is probably that the prohibiting entrance threshold has been eliminated. ... View more

I manually enlarge the whole scan By @TheBeautifulSeason   By that, do you mean zooming in? Using the Zoom Tool? That's what you should do - but the whole canvas is still selected, it's just outside your screen. You still need to make the selection and crop, or draw the crop rectangle with the Crop Tool.   If, however, you mean that you are actually scaling up the image itself, adding pixels, then you're in trouble. Don't do that. You can't scale up a pixel image without damaging it. I mean, you can do it, but it won't look pretty afterwards. Scaling up a pixel image needs to be done with the utmost care and only when absolutely necessary. If you need to scale up, rescan at a higher resolution.   In short, I don't understand what you're doing here. Describe precisely what you're doing with what tools, step by step. A screenshot doesn't hurt either.     ... View more

Not a Mac user, but Windows too interprets any alpha channels as transparency in TIFF.   IOW not Photoshop, but the operating system. ... View more

The hard truth is that file corruption is always caused by failing hardware.    If there is a "statistical" potential error lurking in the system, then the bigger the file, the higher the risk. Simply because any one given file passes more bytes through the process.    Not what you want to hear, but it's extremely rare that a corrupt file can be recovered. Is the file layered? If you saved it with "max compatibility" on, you can try Lightroom Classic, or an earlier Photoshop version. There's a tiny possibility that a flattened composite can still be extracted, but don't get your hopes up.   All that said, your files are unnecessarily big for the purpose. You normally don't need to scale the original for large format printing! Any good quality file will generally work at any reproduction size. The bigger it is, the farther away it will be seen from so that the eye can take in the whole image.   ... View more

Show a screenshot of your PS Print dialog.   Include the printer driver dialog that comes up when you click "Print Settings". These are the settings we need to see: ... View more

You can do as above to make sure everything carries over, and that's how you can get your actions back.   But in the interest of good working habits, for the future and anyone else reading, here's what I would recommend:   Always save out your actions to .atn files (and brushes to .abr), and keep them in a safe place. Then you can easily reload them, whether for an update, or in case you need to reset preferences for troubleshooting.   Do not migrate settings if you need Photoshop to always run reliably and without problems. Preferences are prone to corruption because they are rewritten on every application exit. Small errors accumulate, and new application code can bring out latent problems. Preferences contain a lot more than your own user settings, it's the entire application configuration, including lots of under-the-covers parameters.   Corrupt preferences tend to look like application bugs and are frequently mistaken for that.   Take the time to set up fresh preferences when you install a new version. It's ten minutes well spent. ... View more

Settings and preferences are rewritten on every application exit.   They are not stored with the program files, but in a separate directory in your Windows user account. When Photoshop starts, it loads its whole configuration from this Settings folder in the user account.   So there are basically two things that can cause settings to be lost: an irregular shutdown/crash/power loss, corrupting the preferences file during rewrite a permissions problem in your Windows user account, preventing correct write on shutdown   Uninstall/reinstall rarely fixes anything. Completeley resetting preferences is usually what it takes. This returns the application to clean, out-of-the-box factory state. Move the whole Photoshop Settings folder from the user account to the desktop. Next time you launch Photoshop, a fresh new Settings folder will be rebuilt. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#reset-preferences    The Preferences contain a lot more than your own user settings. It's the entire application configuration, including lots of under-the-covers parameters. Corrupt preferences usually look like application bugs and are frequently mistaken for that.   ... View more

@michaelv76180831 That's right. This is normal and by design, not a memory leak.   A memory leak would be if Photoshop went beyond the limit you set in Preferences, then went on to using up all 256 GB, leaving nothing for other processes. At this point, your whole system would choke.   Raster image editing moves huge amounts of data around. People usually blame this on Photoshop, but in reality it's just a big load of data that needs to go somewhere. Even 256 GB RAM won't be enough for big/multiple files - it needs to go to disk, aka the scratch disk.   If you want to reduce Photoshop's footprint on the system, reduce history states to 1 or 2. This will dramatically reduce the scratch file size.   The CPU doesn't have much impact, that's normally not where the bottleneck is (with one notable exception - file compression).    The parametric editing in Lightroom is much less I/O-intensive, and normally needs a lot less memory (real or virtual). On the other hand, CPU/GPU speed is more critical. ... View more

@ExUSA  @Isaac_6306    Just to be clear, these are not Microsoft profiles. Microsoft just allows display manufacturers and laptop manufacturers to distribute their profiles through Windows Update. So yes, they are specific to the actual display.   They are as accurate as any generic profile can be, which is basically "ballpark". One made by a calibrator, based on actual measurement, will always be much more accurate. But the recurring problem with these profiles isn't accuracy, it's that they aren't always written to strict icc specification. That can throw off Photoshop's (and other applications') color management and result in incorrect display.   ... View more

Camera processing (jpeg, HEIF) always has very aggressive noise reduction applied. This is how they sell cameras. One could argue that they overdo it to the point where the result looks "plasticky" and unnatural.   ACR shows the file as the camera sensor recorded it, with very little noise reduction applied at default settings. You're supposed to apply the noise reduction yourself; ACR doesn't do it for you. The noise reduction tools in ACR are very effective when applied carefully - with the new AI-based "Denoise" for the really tough high-ISO cases.   I don't know the ISO of this image, but generally this looks like what you might expect.  ... View more