About r/photoshop
Community guide
r/photoshop (#878, about 1.2 million subscribers) covers Photoshop-related discussion per its public listing. Recent activity samples show 12 posts/day in recent samples. Public rules we collected 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; collected snapshots can lag.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 6, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 219 subscribers (+0.02%). It sits just behind r/ThailandTourism (#877) and ahead of r/airpods (#879) 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
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/photoshop climbed from 1,210,266 to 1,211,984 subscribers (+1.7K, +0.14%). That is about 39 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
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.
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.
Rules of r/photoshop
The moderators of r/photoshop list 11 rules. In short:
- 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
- No Piracy
- No document forgery
- Use descriptive titles
- Be on topic
- 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 1,211,984 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #878 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,718 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 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), r/DIY (27.5M), r/ChatGPT (11.7M), r/webdev (3.3M) and r/Rainbow6 (2.2M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). 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.