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- 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
- Replace background with Generate background
- Get new variations with Generate Similar
- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- Text
- Filters and effects
- Saving and exporting
- Color Management
- Web, screen, and app design
- Video and animation
- Printing
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
By default, Photoshop will only load the text engine and your installed fonts under these scenarios:
- A document that contains a Type layer has been opened
- The Type Tool is selected
- The Character Panel is visible
Various problems including slow performance, freezes or crashes, may be caused if Photoshop loads problematic or damaged fonts.
Update Photoshop
For help updating Photoshop to the latest version, see Update Creative Cloud apps.
Reset, restart & retry
If Photoshop is crashing on startup or while working with Type, follow these 3 easy steps for troubleshooting fonts.
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Backing up and restoring Photoshop's preferences will hide the Character panel and reset the selected tool to the default Move tool. See Manually remove Photoshop Settings folder
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Reset Photoshop's font cache
Resetting the Photoshop font cache will allow Photoshop to create a new enumerated font list.
See Reset the Photoshop font cache -
Restart Photoshop and turn off Font Preview
Once you've restarted Photoshop, just choose Type > Font Preview Size and select None.
Turning off Font Preview will prevent Photoshop from rendering previews for any installed damaged fonts.
Delete the Photoshop font cache
The Photoshop font cache contains the enumerated list of fonts and font features installed to the system that Photoshop can use. Deleting this font cache file will allow Photoshop to create a new one.
macOS
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Quit Photoshop and the Creative Cloud desktop app
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Navigate to: /Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop
For help navigating to this hidden user folder, see Can't see user library files in macOS.
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Delete the CT Font Cache folder and empty the Trash
Windows
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Exit Photoshop and the Creative Cloud desktop app
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Navigate to \Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop <version>
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Delete the CT Font Cache folder and empty the Recycle Bin
Font Managers
If you have any third-party font managers installed, make sure the latest updates have been installed.
If you're still having issues, disable or remove the font manager prior to performing the following steps.
Known problematic fonts
When installing fonts, Windows and macOS perform a font check and will suggest to proceed with caution if any problematic font is detected. Do not install any fonts that show this warning.
The following fonts are known to cause problems when used in Photoshop; if any of these or other damaged fonts are installed, uninstall or disable them:
- Bustle.ttf
- Courier Condensed Bold.ttf
- CottonWood-SemiBold.ttf
- 21kannmbn_ttf
- Gurakh_s.ttf
- Jh_titles.ttf
- Screen__.ttf
- Sevesbrg.ttf
- SF Tattle Tales Condensed.ttf
- Umbra-thin.ttf
- ZerogebI.ttf
- Zippy.ttf
Delete the system font cache
Generally, it is a good idea to also delete the Photoshop font cache before deleting the system font cache.
macOS
Important! Please use caution when using Terminal in macOS.
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Quit Photoshop and the Creative Cloud desktop app
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Choose Applications > Utilities
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Open Terminal
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Type the following command and press Return
sudo atsutil databases –remove
Windows
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Exit Photoshop and the Creative Cloud desktop app
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Navigate to \Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\Appdata\Local\FontCache
Many of the folders in this path are hidden by default on Windows, for help turning on hidden files and folders, see Show hidden files and folders
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Delete all .dat files that have "FontCache" in the filename
Validate fonts using Font Book on macOS
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Choose Applications > Font Book
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Choose All Fonts in the left column
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Select the top-most font in the Font column and press Cmd+A to select all the fonts
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Choose File > Validate Fonts
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Click the checkbox next to any damaged or duplicate fonts and click Removed Checked
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If Font Book crashes, restart Font Book, select the first font in the list and scroll through the fonts using the Down Arrow key to determine which font caused the crash.
Isolate the problematic font on macOS
Best Practice! Ensure you have only one version of each font located in only one of the following font folders:
- /Users/[user name]/Library/Fonts
- /Library/Fonts
For testing, isolate problematic fonts by creating two folders on the desktop, one named "fonttest" and one named "goodfonts".
Look for fonts in these locations for fonts to test. Perform this testing for all of the following folders that contain fonts:
- /Users/[user name]/Library/Fonts
- /Library/Fonts
- /[network drive]/Library/Fonts
To test for a damaged font, put half your fonts in one of the Library/Fonts folders and half in the fonttest folder, and test the condition that caused the problem.
- If the problem recurs, the damaged font is still in the Font folder, and the font is not in the fonttest folder. Move the fonts from the fonttest folder to the goodfonts folder.
- If the problem does not recur, the damaged font is in the fonttest folder. Move the fonts from the official fonts folder into the goodfont folder. Move half the fonts back into the official font folder for the next round of testing.
- Continue to test half the remaining fonts, and continue to move the fonts without the problem into the goodfonts folder.
- When you've determined the one font that is causing the problem, remove it from the official fonts folder. Move all the fonts from the goodfonts folder back into the appropriate official fonts folder that you are testing. Perform these tests for each official fonts folder that contain fonts.
Important: If the same problem occurs after you remove a font, one or more fonts have the same or a similar problem. Continue to perform these steps until all damaged fonts are removed.
Run the FontTest.jsx script
The FontTest script can help you determine if there are damaged fonts on your system.
Before you start: Read the FontTest Read Me to learn how to install, run, and interpret results from the script.
Download the script
Use the Get file button below to download the FontTest script for Photoshop. Once downloaded, unzip the file by double-clicking it, and if asked, choose to extract all files.
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