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r/photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

r/photoshop is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #879 on SubMouse with 1,212,194 subscribers and about 12 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#879
Subscribers1.2M
Growth since Nov 2+210
Posts per day12
Posts all time156.6K
CreatedMar 2008
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About r/photoshop

Community guide

r/photoshop (#878, about 1.2 million subscribers) covers Photoshop-related discussion per its public listing. A recent sample averaged 12 posts a day. Its public rules include: No Photoshop Requests; No spam; No AI-generated replies/posts; Low quality content will be removed; Don't use the subreddit as a personal art gallery.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: No Photoshop Requests; No spam; No AI-generated replies/posts; Low quality content will be removed.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger design sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change.

The community was created on Mar 6, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 210 subscribers (+0.02%). It sits just behind r/airpods (#878) and ahead of r/copypasta (#880) in our ranking.

What sets r/photoshop apart

Compared with other large communities, r/photoshop leans heavily on images (40% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 22%). r/photoshop is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 4.9 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.0. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (00:00 UTC) sees about 6.0× as many posts as the quietest (05:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

1.21M1.21MSep 19Nov 9, 2026

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/photoshop climbed from 1,210,266 to 1,212,194 subscribers (+1.9K, +0.16%). That is about 38 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/photoshop this week

The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. Help recreating this effectu/Crispyfood · Nov 2 · image
  2. Metaphysical collages, Fran Rodriguez, 2022u/franrrod80 · Nov 1 · image
  3. How to do this effect?u/rainbowraindeer5 · Nov 3 · image
  4. Help with this? Looking to recreateu/Helpful-Amoeba-8034 · Nov 7 · image
  5. want to begin with photoshopu/pareshan_person · Nov 1 · image
  6. How to make this effect?u/RubyHoward434 · Nov 3 · image
  7. How do you achieve this effect?u/Legal-Literature-297 · Nov 6 · image
  8. "Mad Doctor and his calm dog" artworku/shanoth · Nov 5 · image
  9. played around with designing some bike postersu/adoreds · Nov 6 · gallery
  10. Learning to add proper light and shadow sourcesu/Dry-Estimate-3365 · Nov 1 · gallery

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/photoshop, from 2021 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. Is this savable? 😭🙏u/nobody_noobn · Mar 21, 2026 · image
  2. Is Adobe's Generative AI trolling me?u/GanglyTeeters · Mar 10, 2026 · image
  3. Did I overdo it? Just wanted to clean up this photo of my uncle and his cousin.u/GrandpaSquarepants · Feb 2, 2024 · gallery
  4. I edited a different sky between every gapu/TieMountain5028 · Aug 6, 2025 · image
  5. Turned a cloud photo into an explosionu/Bullsht999 · May 1, 2026 · gallery
  6. How to achieve this effectu/Sac_hin · Jan 6, 2026 · image
  7. How would one photoshop this?u/butter1n · Dec 21, 2023 · image
  8. My old Photoshop Artworksu/slu0zki · Jun 28, 2026 · gallery
  9. A bit of a goof but... I created a photorealistic image of George Washington if he lived in the present day.u/KingBaboon97 · May 2, 2021 · image
  10. I need to make it look like my tire is damaged!u/erby__ · Jan 16, 2024 · image

What r/photoshop talks about

Across 62 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “effect”, “help”, “photo”, “problem” and “art”. Other frequent themes are image, match, generative, brush, tool and remove. Recurring phrases include “gradient masterclass”, “masterclass course” and “generative fill”. By format, 40% are images, 35% are text posts and 19% are galleries.

  • effect 7
  • help 7
  • photo 4
  • problem 4
  • art 4
  • image 4
  • match 3
  • generative 3
  • brush 3
  • tool 3
  • remove 2
  • text 2
  • gradient 2
  • masterclass 2
  • course 2
  • fix 2
  • transparency 2
  • fill 2

Popular post flairs: Help! (43), Discussion (10), Artwork / Design (6), Resource (2), Video (1).

Activity and best time to post

r/photoshop gets about 12 new posts a day. The public archive holds 156,550 posts and 768,354 comments in total, about 4.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (17 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (4). Posting peaks around 00:00 UTC and is lowest around 05:00 UTC.

00: 60001: 502: 603: 30304: 205: 106: 20607: 108: 309: 30910: 211: 312: 31213: 314: 115: 11516: 417: 118: 41819: 320: 521: 32122: 423: 5
Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Images 40%Text posts 35%Galleries 19%Links 3%Videos 2%

Rules of r/photoshop

The moderators of r/photoshop list 11 rules. In short:

  1. No Photoshop Requests
  2. No spam
  3. No AI-generated replies/posts
  4. Low quality content will be removed
  5. Don't use the subreddit as a personal art gallery
  6. No Piracy
  7. No document forgery
  8. Use descriptive titles
  9. Be on topic
  10. No NSFW content

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/photoshop and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How big is r/photoshop?

r/photoshop has 1,212,194 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #879 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,928 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How old is r/photoshop?

r/photoshop was created on Mar 6, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Aug 2, 2008.

How active is r/photoshop?

Moderately: r/photoshop gets about 12 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 156,550 posts and 768,354 comments. In a sample of 62 recent posts we counted 57 different authors.

When is r/photoshop most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 00:00 UTC, with the fewest around 05:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/photoshop about?

The community describes itself as: “Adobe Photoshop” Recent post titles often mention effect, help, photo, problem and art. Most posts are images (40%).

Is r/photoshop safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/photoshop as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/photoshop?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/photoshop accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “No Photoshop Requests”; “No spam”; “No AI-generated replies/posts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Which communities are like r/photoshop?

Communities with similar topics include r/PhotoshopRequest (2.4M).

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/photoshop.

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