- Photoshop User Guide
- Introduction to Photoshop
- Photoshop and other Adobe products and services
- Photoshop on the iPad (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop on the iPad | Common questions
- Get to know the workspace
- System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad
- Create, open, and export documents
- Add photos
- Work with layers
- Draw and paint with brushes
- Make selections and add masks
- Retouch your composites
- Work with adjustment layers
- Adjust the tonality of your composite with Curves
- Apply transform operations
- Crop and rotate your composites
- Rotate, pan, zoom, and reset the canvas
- Work with Type layers
- Work with Photoshop and Lightroom
- Get missing fonts in Photoshop on the iPad
- Japanese Text in Photoshop on the iPad
- Manage app settings
- Touch shortcuts and gestures
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Edit your image size
- Livestream as you create in Photoshop on the iPad
- Correct imperfections with the Healing Brush
- Create brushes in Capture and use them in Photoshop on the iPad
- Work with Camera Raw files
- Create and work with Smart Objects
- Adjust exposure in your images with Dodge and Burn
- Auto adjustment commands in Photoshop on the iPad
- Smudge areas in your images with Photoshop on the iPad
- Saturate or desaturate your images using Sponge tool
- Content aware fill for iPad
- Photoshop on the web (not available in mainland China)
- Common questions
- System requirements
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Supported file types
- Introduction to the workspace
- Open and work with cloud documents
- Generative AI features
- Basic concepts of editing
- Quick Actions
- Work with layers
- Retouch images and remove imperfections
- Make quick selections
- Image improvements with Adjustment Layers
- Add a fill layer
- Move, transform, and crop images
- Draw and paint
- Draw and edit Shapes
- Work with Type layers
- Work with anyone on the web
- Manage app settings
- Generate Image
- Generate Background
- Reference Image
- Photoshop (beta) (not available in mainland China)
- Generative AI (not available in mainland China)
- Common questions on generative AI in Photoshop
- Generative Fill in Photoshop on the desktop
- Generate Image with descriptive text prompts
- Generative Expand in Photoshop on the desktop
- Generative Fill in Photoshop on the iPad
- Generative Expand in Photoshop on the iPad
- Generative AI features in Photoshop on the web
- Content authenticity (not available in mainland China)
- Cloud documents (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions
- Photoshop cloud documents | Workflow questions
- Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop
- Upgrade cloud storage for Photoshop
- Unable to create or save a cloud document
- Solve Photoshop cloud document errors
- Collect cloud document sync logs
- Invite others to edit your cloud documents
- Share files and comment in-app
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Preferences
- Learn faster with the Photoshop Discover Panel
- Create documents
- Place files
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- Tool galleries
- Performance preferences
- Use tools
- Presets
- Grid and guides
- Touch gestures
- Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
- Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
- Technology previews
- Metadata and notes
- Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
- Place Photoshop images in other applications
- Rulers
- Show or hide non-printing Extras
- Specify columns for an image
- Undo and history
- Panels and menus
- Position elements with snapping
- Position with the Ruler tool
- Web, screen, and app design
- Image and color basics
- How to resize images
- Work with raster and vector images
- Image size and resolution
- Acquire images from cameras and scanners
- Create, open, and import images
- View images
- Invalid JPEG Marker error | Opening images
- Viewing multiple images
- Customize color pickers and swatches
- High dynamic range images
- Match colors in your image
- Convert between color modes
- Color modes
- Erase parts of an image
- Blending modes
- Choose colors
- Customize indexed color tables
- Image information
- Distort filters are unavailable
- About color
- Color and monochrome adjustments using channels
- Choose colors in the Color and Swatches panels
- Sample
- Color mode or Image mode
- Color cast
- Add a conditional mode change to an action
- Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG
- Bit depth and preferences
- Layers
- Layer basics
- Nondestructive editing
- Create and manage layers and groups
- Select, group, and link layers
- Place images into frames
- Layer opacity and blending
- Mask layers
- Apply Smart Filters
- Layer comps
- Move, stack, and lock layers
- Mask layers with vector masks
- Manage layers and groups
- Layer effects and styles
- Edit layer masks
- Extract assets
- Reveal layers with clipping masks
- Generate image assets from layers
- Work with Smart Objects
- Blending modes
- Combine multiple images into a group portrait
- Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers
- Align and distribute layers
- Copy CSS from layers
- Load selections from a layer or layer mask's boundaries
- Knockout to reveal content from other layers
- Selections
- Get started with selections
- Make selections in your composite
- Select and Mask workspace
- Select with the marquee tools
- Select with the lasso tools
- Adjust pixel selections
- Move, copy, and delete selected pixels
- Create a temporary quick mask
- Select a color range in an image
- Convert between paths and selection borders
- Channel basics
- Save selections and alpha channel masks
- Select the image areas in focus
- Duplicate, split, and merge channels
- Channel calculations
- Get started with selections
- Image adjustments
- Replace object colors
- Perspective warp
- Reduce camera shake blurring
- Healing brush examples
- Export color lookup tables
- Adjust image sharpness and blur
- Understand color adjustments
- Apply a Brightness/Contrast adjustment
- Adjust shadow and highlight detail
- Levels adjustment
- Adjust hue and saturation
- Adjust vibrance
- Adjust color saturation in image areas
- Make quick tonal adjustments
- Apply special color effects to images
- Enhance your image with color balance adjustments
- High dynamic range images
- View histograms and pixel values
- Match colors in your image
- Crop and straighten photos
- Convert a color image to black and white
- Adjustment and fill layers
- Curves adjustment
- Blending modes
- Target images for press
- Adjust color and tone with Levels and Curves eyedroppers
- Adjust HDR exposure and toning
- Dodge or burn image areas
- Make selective color adjustments
- Adobe Camera Raw
- Camera Raw system requirements
- What's new in Camera Raw
- Introduction to Camera Raw
- Create panoramas
- Supported lenses
- Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects in Camera Raw
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Automatic perspective correction in Camera Raw
- Radial Filter in Camera Raw
- Manage Camera Raw settings
- Open, process, and save images in Camera Raw
- Repair images with the Enhanced Spot Removal tool in Camera Raw
- Rotate, crop, and adjust images
- Adjust color rendering in Camera Raw
- Process versions in Camera Raw
- Make local adjustments in Camera Raw
- Image repair and restoration
- Image enhancement and transformation
- Drawing and painting
- Paint symmetrical patterns
- Draw rectangles and modify stroke options
- About drawing
- Draw and edit shapes
- Painting tools
- Create and modify brushes
- Blending modes
- Add color to paths
- Edit paths
- Paint with the Mixer Brush
- Brush presets
- Gradients
- Gradient interpolation
- Fill and stroke selections, layers, and paths
- Draw with the Pen tools
- Create patterns
- Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker
- Manage paths
- Manage pattern libraries and presets
- Draw or paint with a graphics tablet
- Create textured brushes
- Add dynamic elements to brushes
- Gradient
- Paint stylized strokes with the Art History Brush
- Paint with a pattern
- Sync presets on multiple devices
- Migrate presets, actions, and settings
- Text
- Filters and effects
- Saving and exporting
- Color Management
- Web, screen, and app design
- Video and animation
- Printing
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
Get answers to common workflow questions on cloud documents in Photoshop.
Where can I find my Photoshop cloud documents?
To find your Photoshop cloud documents, access:
- Photoshop (desktop or iPad): Navigate to Files > Your files tab in the app home screen.
- Creative Cloud web: Navigate to Creative Cloud > Your work > Your files > Cloud documents.
To learn more about accessing your cloud documents, see Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop.
What are the workflows associated with cloud documents in Photoshop?
The common workflows for cloud documents in Photoshop include create, edit, save, rename, share, move, and delete actions, both on the iPad or desktop. To learn more about common workflows in cloud documents, see:
Note: Embedded Smart Objects are supported in cloud documents. Linked Smart Objects are only supported on the device where the cloud document was created.
Can I save my documents as local PSD files?
Yes, Photoshop on the desktop enables you to save your Photoshop document as a local file or as a cloud document. When working with Photoshop on the iPad, you can explicitly save your document locally in any file format other than the default cloud document format.
To learn more about the saving your documents, see Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop.
How can I make my PSD accessible across my devices?
To make your PSD accessible across your devices, you can convert your PSD to a cloud document and save it to the cloud.
To do so, open Photoshop on the desktop and select File > Save as > Save Adobe Cloud document. Documents created with Photoshop on your iPad are automatically saved to the cloud by default and are accessible on Photoshop across your devices.
To learn more about the saving and working with your documents, see Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop.
Can I simultaneously edit a cloud document on multiple devices?
While editing a document on multiple devices at the same time, conflict arises when you try to save changes to the cloud documents.
When making changes on different devices, we recommend to make sure your changes have been saved to the cloud before you resume editing on another device to avoid version conflict.
Can I work with cloud documents in Photoshop on the iPad when I’m not connected to the Internet?
Yes, you can work offline with any cloud document that is currently available in your device cache. To make sure you have access to a cloud document locally, open the cloud document before going offline. You will then be able to find your project under the Recent section on the home screen and can continue to work. Your document changes will be saved to the cloud as soon as your device is reconnected to a network.
Under the Cloud documents section in the app home screen, cloud documents that do not have their local cache available on your device have a cloud icon () visible on their thumbnail. Caches are not shared between devices or other applications like Fresco, XD, or Aero and it is recommended that you open only the documents that you will need while you work offline as the app cache is limited.
To learn more about working offline with cloud documents, see:
Can I access Photoshop documents through the Creative Cloud mobile app?
To access your Photoshop documents from Creative Cloud files, save them as cloud documents from the Photoshop desktop app. Documents created with Photoshop on the iPad are automatically saved as cloud documents by default. Your cloud documents will appear in the Creative Cloud mobile app.
To learn more about the save experiences in Photoshop on your iPad and desktop, see Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop.
How do I get back to an older version of a cloud doc?
You can browse your cloud document versions via:
- Photoshop desktop: Window > Version History panel
- Photoshop on the iPad: Home > Recent or Files > Your files in the left navigation panel. Tap the three-dots icon and select View Version History.
- Visit Creative Cloud web > Your work > Your files > Cloud documents. In the Version History mode that opens, tap the Timeline () icon. In the timeline view, you can find all your document versions listed.
To learn more, see:
Do cloud document versions affect my storage quota?
Generally, no, cloud document history versions do not count towards your Creative Cloud storage quota; however, any Marked and renamed versions do count towards your storage quota.
How can I clear my Creative Cloud storage quota?
The assets you delete while working on Photoshop remain in the Deleted section in the app home screen. As a result, these deleted assets will still consume cloud storage space. To clear up your cloud storage, tap the three dots () icon that appears below a document in the Deleted section and tap Permanently Delete.
To learn more about deleting your cloud documents permanently, see