Photoshop search

Photoshop features powerful search functionality that lets you search across UI elements, documents, Help & learning content, inspiring Stock assets, and much more—all from within a unified dialog. You can search for items right after launching Photoshop or when one or more documents are open. The in-app search experience also lets you find, filter, sort, and import your Lightroom photos into Photoshop.

In Photoshop, do any of the following:

• Select Edit > Search.
• Use the Cmd/Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut.
• At initial launch, click the Search icon () in the right extremity of the Options bar, to the left of the Workspace Switcher icon.

Using the Photoshop search functionality, you can find items across the following:

• UI elements
  • Tools
  • Panels, including the Styles panel
    
  • Menu items
  • New document presets
  • Open documents
  • Recent files
  • Layers
    
  • Smart objects
• Help & learning content; documentation and instructional tutorials
• Stock assets
• Your Lightroom photos

Photoshop organizes search results into the following tabs:

All: Displays, in order, Photoshop UI elements, Help & Learn content, and Adobe Stock assets

Photoshop: Displays only results from the Photoshop UI: tools, commands, panels, presets, open documents, layers, etc.

Learn: Displays Photoshop Help/documentation & learning content relevant to the keywords.

Stock: Displays Adobe Stock images relevant to the keywords. The search experience minimizes the number of clicks required to add a Stock image to your project. Stock images here include photographs and vector graphics.

You can find similar images in Adobe Stock based on your canvas selection.

When you click a search result, Photoshop performs the default operation associated with its type:

Layer: Selects the layer and makes it visible in the Layers panel

Tool: Activates the tool and highlights it in the UI

Panel: Makes the panel visible and active; highlights and opens it

Menu command: Runs that command; search results may also include disabled menu commands

Recent file: Opens the file

Open document: Makes the document active

Help or Learn topics: Opens the topic in a new browser window

Stock asset: Downloads the image asset and adds it to your active Creative Cloud library. For licensed assets full resolution images are added, while for unlicensed assets watermarked previews are added. It also gets placed as a cloud-linked asset on the canvas.