Program won't UNHIDE

this is silly...
i just did some 2 hours of work in photoshop and did "hide photoshop" after trying "show" in dock it's not appearing again. what's going on?
i didn't quit it yet cause i wanted to see if there's any help here but i don't know what's going on. it just won't appear again even though it seems to work in the "background".
i even dragged a psd file onto the ps app in the dock and saw the progress bar working and finishing opening there but it didn't show itself at all. photoshop is somewhere in the coma...
how can i get it back?

HI there,
hold down command and press the tab key till it moves to the Photoshop icon...then let go.
If that still doesn't bring Photoshop to the front, go to the Applications--> utilities-->Activity Monitor then see if it says "Photoshop (not responding)" if it does then it has more than likely crashed and a restart will be required.
regards
Ric

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