i recently spent quite a while working on a hobby project in photoshop, i saved the psd for a while, came back

the colours on the image are completely nuked- they look nothing like the project i was working on, substantially more flattened. apparently this can be an issue with colour profiles not saving properly so i fiddle with that for a while but it's not the case. i do some more digging and supposedly gradients are not saved to the psd file itself, but in a separate local cache.

so apparently whem making a custom gradient, there are two different save buttons? and if you click the wrong one that means it doesn't save permanently, before retroactively deleting itself and rendering the psd file unusable? i'm willing to accept user error causing undesirable effects, but this is beyond the pale- please tell me i'm misunderstanding the situation and it wasn't seriously designed to work this way??? apologies if i am venting frustrations here but its just unimaginable to me that the UX flow on widely used and expensive software can allow clicking the wrong 'save' button on a colour picker to turn your entire project into a timebomb that deletes itself

do i have any options here that aren't just making the whole thing from scratch? is there some recovery option i'm missing?

hi everyone, how is it going? my name is gabe, i am a brazilian advertising student in my third semester, and i wanted to share some of my designs with you—they are pretty amateur, just so you know! to give you some context for the right feedback, this project was for an advertising copywriting class. the brief was to create a 3-card instagram grid/carousel to sell a product related to the national artist milton nascimento. my part on the team was to handle this piece. the product itself was fictional: an animated mini-documentary and a collection of vinyl records. the core requirement was to target gen z using a mandatory humorous tone.

since i was going to handle this specific part entirely on my own while my teammates focused on other advertising pieces, i decided to do the copy and design myself from scratch, without using any ai. i really wanted the chance to practice photoshop and sharpen my skills with the software.

i would love to get your feedback based on this brief. i intentionally chose a vintage bistro restaurant concept for the design because i thought it would match the color palette i chose: a "minas gerais terracotta," since milton nascimento is from minas gerais, which i thought was a brilliant tie-in. i felt it fit the artist's aesthetic perfectly and looked great! my only real concern was that it might not resonate with gen z, or worse, that it might not come across as humorous, and my professor is incredibly strict about following the brief.

either way, my designs were ultimately rejected by my team because they were afraid the professor wouldn't like them, claiming they did not appeal to gen z and were not funny enough. they decided to go in a different direction, probably something meme-based, which i honestly found a bit tacky.

knowing that i am a complete beginner, did my design turn out well? what can i improve? i truly want to grow as a designer and artist! what could i have done differently, and what actually worked? i would really appreciate your insights.

The second photo is the original. How can I recreate the sunlight effect in the first photo? I’ve tried using filters, but they only change the overall color of the image. I want to add realistic sunlight and highlights selectively to the pants, ground, and surrounding objects, just like in the first photo, while keeping the rest of the image looking natural. Are there any one-click tools or templates that can add realistic sunlight and shadows to a photo?

Hey everyone,

I have a client who is asking me to retouch the area I circled above, she wants me to slim it down, and make it so it doesn't look folded like that. Normally I don't retouch peoples body shape but she really wanted it done for her yearbook photo. Anyways, I was wondering if you have any tool suggestions in Photoshop.

I am wondering about how to make it work without messing up the grass above it.

I prefer to minimize my use of generative AI as much as possible, but I am willing to use some of the tools Photoshop has if there isn't an easy way without.

Thanks so much!

I made this poster with the help of a tutorial but the lighting of my original image was super blue and I couldnt figure out how to get around that to make it natural. I want to remake this with better lighting so how can I do that?

hello everyone, i'd like to have the same effect of colors thats kinda glowing. there's some kind of blur on the edge of the colors and i'm wondering how i could get a similar effect on my drawings.

working on a project for my digital media class where we edit ourselves into a show or movie frame and i really wanna make myself look like i’m in the shot, how do i tweak it to make it look better?
EDIT: thank you guys!! final result in replies

Hey everyone, I'm doing some practice stylizing text in Photoshop and I'm trying to figure out how to get these cool etched lines inside the text, like on this title here: https://www.amazon.com/Crown-Dead-Heartstring-Duet-Book-ebook/dp/B0H8N8MMP6

Can anyone walk me through this? Deeply appreciated.

Faces that I made for a prop of one of my OCs, Samoel the Heinous. Unfortunately, the LED mask on it broke and we decided to scrap the idea.

Every time I open a new project, the Snap To functions have stopped working. They're marked as on in the View menu, but they don't work.

The fix is to go to View > Snap To and select "None," then do the same thing and select "All" this time. And then snapping functions as it should until I close the current project and work on something else.

Anyone have a permanent fix for this? I've had this problem before, but it had been working as it should for the past month before suddenly doing this again.

guys it shows this when i load adobe photoshop wtf do i do i need this for an assignment

After finals i have been designing

You can find my ig @elyk.desktop

I don't know why its greyed out I copied my image and selected but its greyed out and idk why

Hi everyone, I've been wanting to do a photo with all the animals I've ever had in my life. I've finally made it but I'm looking for advice on how to make it better if anyone has any advice.

Disclaimer** the background and watercolour affect was made by ai the fish is also ai. All the placement was me.

I used to use google search for anatomy and animal refs but AI is making my life difficult. I'm trying to draw animal motions (right now jumping frogs) but there's a bunch of anthro slop mixed in and i want to study real photos of real animals. If there's a good website or something i can use i don't mind paying for it

Smart Align is a small plugin that allows you to intuitively align layers to “selection” or “canvas” by simply using a shift modifier. 

• No more dropdown menu!
• No more grayed-out buttons !
• Just hold shift. That’s it. Works just like Figma! 

Also! 

• Includes an align-center button. 
• Aligns multiple layers to the canvas without needing to group them.  

Totally FREE! 

PS 24.2+ 

Get it here:

https://ko-fi.com/s/8f78d2465d

Demo video here: 

https://vimeo.com/1239022151

I am making a video timeline and for some reason when I use effects like transitions or turn the photo to a smart object. I get a message saying it can't find it. How do I safety reset it to be able to do these things? And not mess it up more?

So I added these tattoos and did my best to get the skin colour to match(erasing the tattoo's skin tones and subtracting as much out in selection tool) as well as warp a little to feel like its actually on skin. I feel like it's still noticeable that it's an edit, is there anything else in photoshop I can use to blend them better?

Hello, i want to see if there is a way to reach this effect or something close via photoshop, without the use of ai ofcourse. Please and thank you in advance

Hey everyone, I made **Retext**, a browser tool for editing text inside an existing image when you don’t have the editable design file.

In normal use, you open a PNG, JPG or WebP, select detected text—or draw a box—and type your replacement. You can adjust the font, size, color and spacing before downloading. Images and edits are processed in your browser, and no account is required.

Matching is approximate. Plain backgrounds are easier; unusual fonts, textures and angled text can need more work.

Editing is free, with **two free downloads** to inspect your results. More downloads cost **$9 USD once**, with no subscription.

https://retext-editor.pages.dev/

I’d appreciate honest feedback: would this help with any image-editing tasks you actually do? What would make you stop using it?

I've been trying to streamline my JPEG export workflow in Photoshop, and I'm finding this unnecessarily frustrating.

My workflow is fairly straightforward. I resize my photographs to 2500 pixels on the longest edge, apply Smart Sharpen, and then use Export As to save them as JPEGs.

My preferred Export As settings are:

• JPEG Quality: 5 (out of 7)
• Convert to sRGB: Enabled
• Embed Color Profile: Enabled
• Metadata: None

The problem is that Export As doesn't consistently remember my settings, particularly JPEG quality. I find myself having to configure them repeatedly.

I've experimented with Quick Export and Save for Web, but neither has been an ideal alternative. Quick Export doesn't provide an option to explicitly embed the color profile, while Save for Web produces significantly larger files.

For example, when exporting the exact same photograph at 2500 pixels on the longest edge:

• Export As: JPEG Quality 5 (out of 7), Bicubic resampling, Convert to sRGB enabled, Embed Color Profile enabled, and no metadata. Resulting file size: approximately 1 MB.
• Save for Web: JPEG Quality 60 (out of 100), Optimized enabled, Bicubic resampling, Convert to sRGB enabled, Embed Color Profile enabled, and no metadata. Resulting file size: approximately 2 MB. Even lowering the quality to 50 still produces a file around 1.6 MB.

I'd happily stick with Export As if I could just save my preferred settings or automate the process through a Photoshop action.

Am I overlooking something obvious? Is there really no way to create an Export As preset, retain its settings consistently, or automate it without resorting to scripts?

It seems like such a basic feature for a program as mature as Photoshop.

PS. I used AI to write and troubleshoot this and found no workaround as of yet.

I recently got a new computer and update to a newer version of Photoshop. For some reason the files I save in the newer version have brighter/paler colors than the old version, almost like there's a milky overlay. I made a gif where I compare the old and the new version of the same file to demonstrate the difference.

I saw some suggestions for a similar issue telling me to turn off Pref/Tech Preview/Precise color management for HDR display as well as Pref/Performance/Use graphics processor, but neither change anything.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?