Photoshop: Can't move or minimize photoshop window

Sounds like you're stuck in a full screen mode.

Hit the f key until the UI returns.

Hi Jeffrey: I hit the f (letter) key repeatedly, and no change occurred. I did the same with the fn key on the small key pad to the right of the regular one (Apple keyboard) with no result. I also used the "view" dropdown menu, and selected screen mode. "Standard Screen Mode" was checked, and I was unable to activate "Full Screen Mode." Any further thoughts on this problem?

Hi Ronald, in that case, I would try restoring your prefs: http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/201...

I came here looking for a solution. I don't know if my problem was exactly as yours, but for me I had the windows of the two pictures anchored to just below the top toolbar. Forgive me if I am using the wrong terms also, please. :) So if I clicked on a the title bar, I would swap pictures. I couldn't click on the picture itself, or see both side by side.

All I had to do was drag the title bar of the images off the top anchor area below all the toolbar icons. Dragged them into the middle of the workspace, and they were freed up, and my minimize and such all showed up in the top right corner.

Hope this helps others who get here from a Google Search. :)

Thank you! The f key worked for me - it toggles between full screen, maximized screen and minimized screen for me.

The "F" key solved the problem. Thanks for the useful tip!

You can also press Command Option Shift at the same time. Continue pressing it while right clicking on the photoshop icon and select open. Continue holding these keys down the whole time. A window will pop up asking you to delete those setting and return to default. Click Yes and boom your photoshop window is back to normal. The same thing happened to me and the f key did not work. Hopefully this helps.

Ha!  This is a Mac issue:  My problem was that I had increased my screen resolution at some point and opened a few windows.   When I returned my screen to the normal resolution photoshop started opening windows with the control bar behind the Mac menu bar.   So the minimize and bar to move the window were just obstructed.
Fix: increase resolution (Apple - preferences- displays- scaled - more space)  This will reveal the whole window.  Drag it down. and return resolution to default.

The F key did not work, nor did any function key or Esc. Turns out: I had created my own problem by having an external monitor! I quit Photoshop, detached the cable from the computer to the external monitor, and reopened Photoshop. Voila! But that's pret-ty d***ed esoteric! I'm on a Mac desktop.

There are several solutions here, some very good ones. This is the simplest and best I've found so far that doesn't require relaunching PS, unplugging monitors or throwing away prefs, etc.

Recap: When Photoshop (or any app) on a Mac gets stuck on a second monitor that has less resolution and is already scaled as high as it can go, the Photoshop App title bar (the Application Frame) gets hidden under the Apple menu and there is no way to select it or move it. Solution:

Under the Apple menu, open System Preferences
Choose Display
Click on Arrangement

Drag the blue monitor icon that represents the lower resolution monitor that Photoshop is on and position it underneath the default monitor.

Photoshop will redraw the Application Frame so that you can see a little of it it again on the main monitor. Reposition it by clicking the green button or dragging the app title bar. Put the blue monitor icon back where it was before beside the default monitor.

Important! The last step, go back to the System Prefs/Display window and drag the monitor icon back to the left or right where it was before is critical! If you don’t, you won't be able to move your mouse across multiple displays the way you were. The display prefs will assume you have monitors stacked vertically on top of each other and that’s the way you would prefer to move your mouse between monitors. Note you may have to hide PS or use the dock to access the System Prefs/Display window again.

It actually takes much less time than it does to read this to do it.

Just realized John Maitland said exactly the same thing with about 100 less words. Sorry!

hello every one...
i open two file in my photoshop...before this i can move file windows up..down..left..right..but now i just can move beside only...up n down cannot is stuck...i dont know what's a problem..can u help me please..

Open any image, click the F key till you see 3 colored dots in the upper left hand corner, click the green dot to fit your window/workspace in your screen. now drag  bottom right hand corner of your window/workspace to reduce it's size. now you can move your window/workspace by dragging from the it's top.

Quickest solution that works for me: Resize the window from the corner while pressing "alt" key.

Check your scaling on display settings - turn off reduce size of photoshop and then turn back to the scale you want

For me the only solution is to go in Adobe\AdobePhotoshopCS6Portable\Data\Settings and delete the folder "Adobe Photoshop CS6 Settings"