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General

Yes. You only need a free Pulze account to sign in. There are no license tiers or subscriptions.
Photoshop 2025 (26.0) and newer, on Windows and macOS.
Yes, after the first sign-in. Only cloud templates and the update check need a connection.
No. There’s no telemetry or analytics, and your renders and PSDs never leave your computer. The internet is used only for sign-in, your cloud templates and the update check.
LayerWise ships with element lists for V-Ray, Corona and FStorm. Other renderers work if their file names contain names you add to one of those lists in Render elements. Pick the engine whose list you extended.
Yes. Every job lands in the History panel as named steps, one per element. Step back there or press Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z.

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Renders and matching

Their names don’t contain any element name of the selected engine. Check the engine on Home, or add the missing name in Render elements. Matching is case-sensitive.
The beauty often has no element name in its file name (just cam01.png). LayerWise asks Which file is the Beauty pass? in Create new document. Pick it there, or save the beauty with “Beauty” in its name.
In Create new document, press Show every match and choose the file for each element. In Update renders, choose the source for each row in the plan.
The picker says why: usually the manifest is in a sidecar file, or the Cryptomatte was saved as half float. Embed the manifest and save the Cryptomatte as full 32-bit float. Corona users: rename the .cxr file to .exr. See Cryptomatte.
It’s multi-part, tiled, deep, or uses B44 or DWA compression. Save it again as a scanline EXR with ZIP, PIZ or no compression, or save the elements as separate files. See Multichannel EXR.

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Updating renders

LayerWise looks for smart objects whose names contain element names of the selected engine. Check the engine on Home. If your render layers are pixel layers, run Convert to smart objects first. If you renamed them, put the element name back into their names.
When a render of a different size is fitted into an old layer’s footprint, LayerWise scales the smart object instead of baking it, so no resolution is lost. Run Reset layer transforms if you want them at 100%.
Check that the multimatte file name has nametags matching your group names exactly (including the wildcard, for example #Wood), and that Update existing layer masks was on. Masks are only updated for rows that were switched on.
The new renders have a different aspect ratio than the document. Updating still works, but layers get stretched to fit. Render at the same aspect ratio if you can.

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Templates and settings

Photoshop keeps plugin data separately for each major version. Your templates are still in the old version. Export them there and import them in the new one, or keep them in the cloud.
Yes: export templates as .pmt files, share them, and have each person import them. Cloud templates are per account.

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Panel problems

On Windows, the panel needs Microsoft Edge WebView2. It comes with Windows 10 and 11, but can be missing on some managed machines. Install the WebView2 Runtime from Microsoft, then restart Photoshop.
On Windows, shortcuts can stop after clicking in the panel. Click once on the canvas to get them back. This is a known Photoshop issue with panels like this one.
Photoshop is in the middle of something, such as editing text or a transform. Finish or cancel it, then try again.
Press Get a new code and confirm the new one in the browser.

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Still stuck?

Email support@pulze.io with your LayerWise and Photoshop versions (shown in Settings → About), or ask on our Discord.