- 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
Discontinuation of 3D features in Photoshop
Photoshop’s 3D features will be removed in future updates. Users working with 3D are encouraged to explore Adobe’s new Substance 3D collection, which represents the next generation of 3D tools from Adobe. Additional details on the discontinuation of Photoshop’s 3D features can be found here: Photoshop 3D | Common questions on discontinued 3D features.
Learn how to use the Capture in-app extension while working with Photoshop on your desktop.
With the Capture in-app extension in Photoshop, quickly turn images from your document or your hard drive into a various design elements, such as color themes, patterns, vector shapes, and gradients. These are automatically saved to your libraries and instantly usable in your current project, or other Adobe applications.
Also, view a list of helpful resources offering information about using Adobe Capture to edit your saved assets with the same workflows on your mobile device.
Overview
The Capture extension allows you to create assets from images. You can select several images at once and work with them as a group or produce several different assets using a single image. You can use graphics from within your document, or from your system without having to place them into your project.
Click in the Libraries panel to open the Capture in-app extension. Select Create from image to launch a window that gives you room for unlimited creation. If a layer is selected on the canvas, the extension opens up with an image of the layer. In the window that opens, drag-and-drop to add more images from your system.
In the Create From Image window that opens, do the following:
1. Select the image you want to work with or click the '+' icon to add more images from your system.
2. Select the module for the type of asset you want to create — Patterns, Shapes, Color Themes, and Gradients.
3. Choose and modify options to change the output of your creation.
4. See a live preview to check the appearance of your asset.
5. Click Save to CC Libraries to save it and continue from the same image, or select another image on the far left. Select Close to exit the panel to work with your project.
Patterns
Slice your images into geometric patterns to be used in Photoshop or Illustrator.
To use images as patterns, do the following:
1. Choose your tile shape. Select color or black and white for your final tile.
2. Use the sliders to scale and rotate.
3. Drag your image to regenerate the pattern tile using a new image slice.
4. See a live preview to check the appearance of your asset.
5. Click Save to Libraries to save it and continue from the same image, or select another image on the far left. Select Close to exit the panel to work with your project.
Use your patterns
Patterns are saved in your libraries as a swatch that can be used as a repeating fill in Photoshop.
To use your pattern, select the object you want to fill and double-click the swatch in the Libraries panel. Use the Pattern Fill panel to set options such as scale and layer linking. Also, you can right-click the pattern swatch in the Libraries panel and select Apply Pattern to apply to the selected object. Use Create Pattern Preset to add to the pattern fill panel.
Shapes
Convert images to smooth scalable vectors.
To use images as vector shapes, do the following:
1. Use the slider to select the level of detail to convert to vector.
2. Invert what content to vectorize.
3. Apply smoothing for a cleaner conversion by reducing the path points. Smoothing is applied during the save operation.
4. See a preview of your vector output.
5. Click Save to CC Libraries to save it and continue from the same image, or select another image on the far left. Select Close to exit the panel to work with your project.
Use your shapes
You can use your shapes by dragging the shape from your library and placing it in the document.
Shapes created in Photoshop can also be used in Illustrator, Indesign, XD, Premiere Pro, Animate, and After Effects.
Color Themes
Extract harmonized cohesive color themes directly from inspiring images.
To extract color themes from images, do the following:
1. See your full color theme.
2. Choose the color mood to use when extracting the palette. To learn more about color moods, see Adobe Color FAQ.
3. Drag the pucks to select the precise colors using a magnifier.
4. Click the swatch to copy the hexadecimal value.
5. Click Save to CC Libraries to save it and continue from the same image, or select another image on the far left. Select Close to exit the panel to work with your project.
Use your color themes
You can use your color themes by clicking on a swatch in the theme to set the active color.
Color themes created in Photoshop can also be used in other Adobe apps such as Illustrator, Indesign, Fresco, Dreamweaver, Animate, and After Effects.
Gradients
Sample your images to make smooth colorful gradients.
To obtain color gradients from an image, do the following:
1. See your complete gradient.
2. Choose the number of colors in your gradient.
3. Drag the pucks to select the precise colors using a magnifier.
4. Click each swatch to copy hexadecimal values from individual swatch colors.
5. Click Save to CC Libraries to save it and continue from the same image, or select another image on the far left. Select Close to exit the panel to work with your project.
Use your gradients
To use your gradients, find them in the Libraries panel and double click to apply.
Gradients created in Photoshop can also be used in XD.
Use on mobile
The Capture in-app extension is powered by the magic of Adobe Capture. Use your phone to recognize fonts, or turn photos into harmonized color themes, tiling patterns, 3D textures, digital brushes, and vector shapes. Access your assets anywhere with the power of Creative Cloud.
Edit your creations made with the Capture in-app extension right on your mobile device by navigating to the library you saved to, and selecting Edit from the … menu of the asset you want to modify. Learn more about creating and working with assets in Capture.
Capture is available on iOS and Android for mobile phones and tablets.