You can access the app settings by tapping the profile icon in the upper-right corner of the home screen or when working on your image from the canvas.
Last updated on
21 June 2023
- 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
- 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
Learn how to access app settings and set your preferences to work in Photoshop on your iPad.
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In the App Settings dialog, choose any of the setting groups: General, Input, Account, About, Help, or Debug.
Within these setting groups, tap to expand any section to view the available settings and options.
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Update the settings as required depending on your preferences for working in the app. Close the App Settings dialog when done.
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You can manage your In-App purchase subscription from the App Settings menu if you've subscribed through the App Store.
Interface
Color theme: Choose a Dark or Light color theme for the app interface. You can also opt for Use system setting to apply a color theme.
Show font names in English: View the available font names in English. This button is turned on by default. Turn it off to see font names in their respective languages.
Advanced
Reset app defaults: To reset to default app preferences, quit the app from the App Switcher. To do so, swipe up from the bottom to the middle of your screen and hold until the App Switcher appears, then swipe the app up to quit.
Reset all warning dialogs: Resets the default warnings. The warning dialogs will appear again when appropriate.
Place as a Smart Object: You can place an image within the canvas as a Smart Object.
Canvas projection: Use a cable to connect a second display or mirror your screen using AirPlay and project your Photoshop canvas only.
Apple Pencil
Double-tap: Set the default action for a double-tap with your Apple Pencil.
Pressure sensitivity: Use the slider to control the pressure sensitivity of your Apple Pencil in Photoshop on your iPad.
Customize double-tap options when using the Apple pencil
Introduced in Photoshop on the iPad 4.7 (June 2023 release)
Work with more options when you double-tap your Apple pencil on the iPad.
Go to App settings > Input > Double tap drop-down menu to choose from these options: Show color picker, Switch to eraser, Switch to last tool, Zoom to fit, and Undo.
Touch
Touch shortcut: Turn on to see the touch shortcut activated on the canvas. Quickly perform alternate actions with the selected tool using touch shortcuts. Enabled by default.
Stylus only painting: Turn on to ignore finger touches on the canvas and only accept touched from the stylus. Disabled by default.
Profile information
The Account section displays the profile information associated with your Adobe account.
Edit profile: Tap to access your Adobe ID account online and manage the account information for your Adobe ID. For example, you can change your password, add a profile picture, and view your plans.
Sign out: Tap to sign out of the app. You've got to sign back in to use the app.
Subscription: This indicates whether you're currently subscribed.
Creative cloud storage
Available cloud storage: Displays the amount of cloud storage available with your Creative Cloud membership. A bar indicates the space used by your documents backed up in the cloud.
About Photoshop
Find a brief introduction about Photoshop along with current version details.
What's new
Find a link to visit the What's new page of Photoshop. Page opens in your default browser.
Follow and share
- Follow and share: Follow Photoshop on the social platforms and share your inspirational work with fellow enthusiasts.
- Leave a review: Leave a review for the Photoshop on mobile app.
- Share this app: Find your experience with the Photoshop on mobile app exciting? Share the app with friends!
Usage info preferences
Help improve Photoshop by sharing anonymous usage statistics and crash information with Adobe. No personal information or assets are shared.
- Send usage info: Turn on to share your usage information with the Photoshop team.
- Send crash reports: You can choose to send crash reports that help improve Photoshop.
Legal
Walks you through the terms of use, privacy policy, and third party notices.
Contributors
Shows you a list of Adobe resources who have dedicatedly worked on creating the best Photoshop experience.
View All Tutorials: Takes you to the Learn page on the home screen where you can explore and view Photoshop tutorials within the app.
Check Out FAQ: Read frequently asked questions about Photoshop. Opens in your device's default web browser.
Send feedback: Tap to report a problem, suggest a feature, or take a survey in the How can we help? dialog that opens.
Community forum: Connect with fellow community members and be a part of trending discussions in Photoshop. Tap to open Adobe Support Community in your device's default web browser.
Use this option to auto-sync your documents, get notified when there is a new version of the app, or even view version info.
