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[river otter]

i see this in pinterest

[still verge]

So the windows photo app is blurring these

[river otter]

and photosho

[still verge]

the blur is NOT the real image

[gaunt vector]

Please help the arrow tool is completely broken and it's driving me crazy. I've tried resetting it multiple times but it literally just doesn't wanna function.

[still verge]

LOL, never seen that before, ill look into it

[river otter]

hmm, so what can I do to avoid losing quality within Photoshop, I have tried with other images but they remain the same

[still verge]

What you can do is open the image in Photoshop, and run a reduce noise

And then, when saving, you can upscale the image a little

that will add some blur

Reduce noise in Photoshop:

[still verge]

Can you show me the layer stack with the arrows?

[river otter]

I did it, it improved a little, how can I open an image without losing quality within Photoshop? I saw a video where a person added an image and it did not lose quality

[still verge]

The image is NOT losing quality, Windows Photo Viewer is blurring the image.

[gaunt vector]

Do you mean this? I just threw the scene together quickly so nothing is organised.

[still verge]

Try turning off the dashed line?

[river otter]

I want this one, so when I open it in Photoshop it looks ugly?

[gaunt vector]

I guess that does fix it but I don't know how a simple feature can be this broken in "professional software".

[river otter]

so

[still verge]

I don't think it's broken, you're not supposed to use them that wa.

[gaunt vector]

Not supposed to make a dashed arrow? Wow.

[still verge]

Make it only filled line, not filled and stroked

[gaunt vector]

Do I do that by just setting stroke to 0px? Because if so, I've already tried.

[river otter]

Can you try this?https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/281543720588795/ and tell me if the same thing happens to you as me.

[still verge]

Again, open the image in PS and do a noise on it

[still verge]

redraw the line

[river otter]

but I don't want to edit it, I just want to upload it as I downloaded it

without blur

[still verge]

Your files are exactly what they look like in PS

[gaunt vector]

Line becomes 1px thin. No setting to change width in 'fill'.

[river otter]

uuhh

but why bro?

[still verge]

Again Windows Photo app is blurring the image

it's not real

[still verge]

you're right, sorry, looking into it now

[still verge]

the green guy is only 564px wide

it's a small image. Windows Photo viewer is blurring the image when you zoom in.

That's not what it really looks like on the web/etc.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/pixel-blur-in-the-photos-app-from-microsoft-store/2d6b8a13-8e48-4958-a551-6413fb4f828d

[still verge]

Yah, so, looks like the only way to make it work is to adjust the line so that both arrowheads show up, and then turn it into a shape layer

or smart object

[river otter]

Ok, so where could I download images? There are people who download and when they open it in Photoshop it looks just as good

[still verge]

Get higher resolution images?

Look for bigger files?

You can also use a upscaler to increase the image size

[gaunt vector]

Isn't it a shape layer the moment it created though? Smart object might work, but I doubt it. Anyway in the end I went with the non dashed one. Thanks for your help, screw Adobe.

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @still verge (current: #130 - 12)

[still verge]

You'll probably want to use Illustrator for what you're doing anyway.

[river otter]

I downloaded this from devianart, it looks good right?

this was after ps

this was in ps

it is not the same quality in ps

[river otter]

@still verge
I tried it with another program and it loads correctly

[tame cape]

🤔
Just out of curiosity:
Why do you necessarily want to do this in Photoshop? Such vector work is much easier and more flexible to create/edit in vector programmes. The transfer to a vector output format is also much less complicated.

[clear carbon]

i want to fit an image inside this png

but when i use frame tool it just deletes the outside of the frame

or when i select it fully it replaces the whole thing with the image

how do i add my png in it

pls help

[frail hare]

So i wanna add spectrum components to my uxp plugin but the doc only shows limited items can’t i manually add more ?

[still cradle]

you want to put image in this Square so I recommend select this Square ctrl + j to copy it and make a clipping mask with photo to copied Square and ctrl + t to scale it

and make a folder to be able to move it like 1 object

[vapid flume]

It's difficult to see here but is the polaroid frame on transparent background?
If you don't know, just post a creenshot with the white background hidden, we'll see it

The method will depend on seeing if it's transparent or not

(The frame tool is not the answer for this one, whatever the result of your screenshot shows BTW)

[feral mortar]

im coloring this image, i've been able to colorize other parts of the photo, but i'm having trouble coloring these flags (sovjet flag + netherlands flag)

i'm a beginner, so not sure how to say this but i've ut a clipping mask on top of the layer and stuff

idk if it is that im not finding colors that look good with the other colors or if im doing something wrong

anyone help?

[vapid flume]

You might have to tweak the blending mode, for example (you can try that but also other blending modes), hard light, instead of the normal you have here

You can also try "colour" but you would need to increase the saturation

What I would do is try which one works best with a solid colour adjustment layer with a mask the shape of the coloured area, instead of painting on top

It's easier to tweak the colour on an adjustment layer than to erase a brush stroke

see how the layer stack looks

for example I found that the "vivid light" blending mode looked better. in my case. You need to test them all and see the one where the texture behind looks good, then you can tweak the colour by double clicking on the colour layer

I also lowered the fill/opacity to add some realism

[feral mortar]

ohh okay, i understand

i'll try it and write if i need more help! thanks so much 🙏

[vapid flume]

No problem!
The thing is to test different colour/blending mode/opacity combos!

[feral mortar]

i tried playing around a little with the different color modes, although i dont really feel like any colors fits the "vintage" vibe for the rest of the photo since its from the 50's

[vapid flume]

You didn't use a solid colour then?
Colours tend to be more saturated with a solid colour than with a standard fill

[feral mortar]

im not sure what that is 😭 i'm looking at it rn but i dont really know what im doing since im new to this lol

[vapid flume]

Take it easy, it's not necessarily basic stuff. You can't learn photoshop in a day
who's the guy facing Botvinik?

[feral mortar]

euwe, if i remember it right

[vapid flume]

It's merely impossible to open photoshop and do this, you need to learn a bit first

[feral mortar]

yeahh i believe so too

[vapid flume]

I've been doing this for over a decade and I'm still learning 😂

[feral mortar]

yeah you can always learn new things, espescially with adobe things since theres so many options 😜

[vapid flume]

I didn't read the letters right and I also forgot that Dutch is a nightmare to pronounce, so I'm just assuming they just tried to transcribe it phonetically into Russian

BTW, you did a superb job on colourising.
You can also just have a look and try an automatic method, not necssarily to follow it, but maybe to give you some hints about colours
On a copy of the original, open it in Photoshop and go to "filter" > "neural Filters"

[feral mortar]

yes, i assume so

[vapid flume]

in the right panel activate colourise

you may need to wait a bit for the filter to load

And play with the settings

For example you can play with profiles and choose a retro feel

it will give you an indication of colours

[shadow tartan]

Currently messing with lightning effects, how might i remove these 'blobs' of brightness, ive messed with brightness and contrast but it remains there and reduces the lightnight to too dark

[feral mortar]

oh okay, thanks!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 703)

[tough jungle]

How to manipulate an image ?

[ivory rampart]

Depends what you want to achieve

[stiff tinsel]

Hello, I'd like to make a gradient at the bottom of the podium, not from yellow to transparent but from yellow to black like a shadow may you help me please ?

[ivory rampart]

Change gradient color to black

[feral mortar]

oh

it looks so weird wth

[stiff tinsel]

In the screenshot the gradient color is black

[shadow tartan]

how might i remove these 'blobs' of brightness

[rocky birch]

Greetings. I'm a new photoshop user and I'm having an issue. So I put a lions face into some letters, but now when I moved the letters, the lions face doesn't move. Would someone tell me what I'm doing wrong please

[tame cape]

A shot in the dark:
Linking/chain both layers.

[rocky birch]

When I'm hover over the link or right click, thr option is grayed out or has the 🚫

[still cradle]

i prefer moving when i click ctrl + t remember to select a layer before iit

[tame cape]

Unfortunately, I can't see your layer structure. Just to be sure: are both layers active?

[tame cape]

Shift click on 2220336 layer and then select link from Hamburger menu.
(Both layers that are to be linked must be highlighted in light grey in the layers panel.)

[median sentinel]

could some tell me how to do the effects on the blue box? like the outline etc

[tame cape]

Move a diagonal gradient (transparent to white to transparent) step by step over your blue box.

[median sentinel]

Thank you, what about the outline?

[tame cape]

The same.
Move the line step by step along the frame of the box (on a separate layer)

[nova patio]

How can I change one color to another, taking into account the color gradient? For example, I have a texture file (for a game) where I need to change red to brown, but the standard Fill and Hue/Saturation can't do it properly at the point of the color gradient

Plus, I need an exact color, which is difficult to do with a slider of "Hue/Saturation"

[ivory rampart]

hue/saturation in adjustments and change mode to reds

[tame cape]

Illustrator is a much more suitable tool for this task. It makes it much easier.

[formal field]

guys

im following a guide but

there is no option for layer > group with previous

and this guide was written for like a really old version of photoshop

oh flip nevermind, i actually got it lol

[south minnow]

how to put the cats picture behind the two guys standing in game?

[formal field]

i think you might have to use a layer mask but ask someone else with more knowledge... for now i can just point u in the right direction

[wary rivet]

Is there a way to have multiple glow effects on the same Text layer?

I've tried grouping the text layer and adding a glow effect to the group, but that applies the glow effect to the other glow effect, rather than just the text..

I'd just like to be able to edit a single text layer and have the applied effects follow suit

[warm cave]

Anyone able to help me with fixing the exposure that my camera messed up on a few of pictures??

[wary rivet]

I don't see what would've been so hard about just.. being able to add more Outer Glows.. you can add multiple gradient overlays, but not glows? ..stupid

[wary rivet]

Please.. if anyone knows-
All I want to be able to do is edit text once and have two outer glow effects change with it

[raw tide]

Is it normal for the colors on Behance to be different from the project com Photoshop?

[still cradle]

you can make it manually

just use brush set on a linear dodge (add) and start painting

honestly you will get better results than outer glow

and you can make outer glow twice

just duplicate the layer

and add another outer glow

but remember to

filling to 0%

[wary rivet]

I can make the effect.
But I'd like to create a text layer where I can simply alter the text without having to really do much else.

Right now I can achieve this with 2 text layers. The first text layer has the bulk of the effects, but the second layer has that subtle bloom.

My goal is to have just 1 text layer so that I don't have to edit 2 text layers

[still cradle]

oh honestly i ve never had this problem but ctrl + a can help

but its not a solution

[wary rivet]

I can't edit two text layers at once, even if they're both selected

[still cradle]

maybe try using drop shadow as an outer glow

[wary rivet]

It doesn't work with black backgrounds

The only thing I can actually think of..
is to somehow use the source text of this layer as a mask for another layer, and to give the positive values of that layer a glow effect.. but I don't know if that's possible in quite the fashion I'm after..

If it were; it would allow me to only have to alter 1 text layer for the rest of the effects to follow suit.

Creating the effect is no problem, I just like creating efficient work environments, and needing to alter two text layers.. when it's the same damn text, jsut feels needless.

Honestly, I have no idea why photoshop allows you to have multiple gradient overlays, but not multiple outer glows!? Why, photoshop.. why!?

[tired sluice]

Is it possible to remove similar watermarks

[wary rivet]

It's possible; how much time are you willing to put into it?

[tired sluice]

would like decent results with minimum time

this is a document supplied to us from KERUI the company we are partnering with, however they mentioned they dont have a document without watermarks, and we need to remove it because of the competition, and this is approved in case someone wnats to know

[wary rivet]

How's that?

[tired sluice]

😮 that is clean!

[wary rivet]

XD I literally just used the spot healing brush tool

[tired sluice]

will your method work with more complex page like this one?

[wary rivet]

No

But I can try something; won't promise results

[tired sluice]

🙏 all I can do is Pray

[raw tide]

;w;

[wary rivet]

Without a higher quality image of the logo, this is about as best as I could do

In a short amount of time

[tired sluice]

wow, this is impressive, may I ask what method did you use?

[wary rivet]

Sure, I took the logo from the first image, basically just upped the contrast until only it was visible and extracted it.
Then I used it as a mask on top of a Levels layer

And I just adjusted the levels until the darkening effect was cancelled out

[wary rivet]

But only over the top of the watermark
Fortunately watermarks usually have a very uniform effect, so once you find the right balance, it will perfectly counteract it; but it works better if you have a high quality watermark as a reference

[tired sluice]

is this quality good enough?

[wary rivet]

That might be perfect, one sec

[wary rivet]

Getting it perfect would take a lot of manual work, but it's about as close as I could get

[tired sluice]

is it possible to share the psd file with me?

[wary rivet]

Sure

[tired sluice]

thanks a lot, the results are really decent!!

[wary rivet]

All good!
Glad I could help :)

Sorry it's imperfect

[tired sluice]

check DM if possible

[unreal island]

hey, ive closed this menu, how do i open it back?

[unreal island]

thanks!

[wary rivet]

Hey, who was that person who deleted their post about their text effect query?
I think I can help-

[viral shard]

does anyone know how to do the glow effect.

[wary rivet]

Sorry, which glow effect? Do you mean the pink in the background?

[viral shard]

yup

[wary rivet]

And just to further clarify, you're not also talking about the glitch effect over the top?

[viral shard]

that too yeah

can you pls help ? :3

here is mine

[wary rivet]

Ooooh, sorry, I haven't done many effects like that, I would be the wrong person to help.

Any method I could come up with would be slow and very manual

[viral shard]

ok thanks , do you have any recommondations to add to mine

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @wary rivet (current: #591 - 2)

[wary rivet]

I'd probably increase the midtones of dream there, he looks pretty dark

[viral shard]

ok thanks

[wary rivet]

Look, I'll give the glitch effect a go, but I do not promise anything

[viral shard]

thx so much

[viral shard]

did you do it :>?

[wary rivet]

It's not great, but I cheated and was able to come up with this

[viral shard]

thanks , is it ok to change the color from pink to green pls (:

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @wary rivet (current: #438 - 3)

[wary rivet]

Did you want the PSD file?

[viral shard]

yes (:

[fierce spear]

is there an easy way to remove a reflection through a glass window like this?

[sturdy kelp]

Before making that shortcut

After

its literally hue/saturation adjustment and then shortcut to brush so i can freely add that specific hue/saturation adjustment with my BRUSH

anyone help?

[vapid flume]

there are two ways (broadly)
1- You have the Raw file, and this raw file is detailled enough for you to reduce the highlights in this area (either masking it and lower the exposure in that part, or create another version just for that highlight and stack the two versions and mask in Photoshop)
2- You don't have the Raw file/or it's not detailled enough, and you will need to retouch that highlight the traditional way with the stamp tool, or the healing brush (Remove tool can also work)
In those highlights, on a JPEG images, there litterally no details to retrieve, just white so a standard level/curves adjustment will do nothing but turn the area into grey.

[vapid flume]

What is your question exactly?

[vapid flume]

Some ffects can be stacked and some can't. Since "outer glow" doesn't have the + next to its section like the others, you can't
You can do that in Illustrator though, just not photoshop
You could duplicate your text and apply your outer glow on the second layer with the fill at 0 (leaving the opacity at 100), also check the blending options there

where you can control how the effect works (knockout etc)

If you do that on a text, the best way would be to type your text, turn it into a smart layer, duplicate that smart layer and apply the different effects from there. If you open the smart object to change the text, then all layers duplicated from the same one wiill update accordingly with their layer styles intact

or simply CTRL/OPT +J

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAMXBYx0r5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMjpYlrksM

[nimble iron]

***Guys how should I add tht black area in box and add text pls help me ***

[vapid flume]

These are done with vector shapes

see my screenshot. I used rectangular vector shapes with rounded corners
For this one I just duplicated the primary big shape, added a fill, selected the bottom points with the direct slection tool (white arrow) and resized it to create the label. You can do the same thing for the bottom label in yours
then all you have to do is add some text on top

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/vector-shapes-vs-pixel-shapes-in-photoshop/

[nimble iron]

I c
Can u make it in form of a video 🎥

[vapid flume]

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/drawing-shapes.html

[vapid flume]

Just follow the help files and it will be OK
I can try to make a short video but be sure to read what I shared also

[nimble iron]

Ok ry

Ty

[vapid flume]

Not sure that explains anything but here we go!

[nimble iron]

@vapid flume thanks a lot for helping me 🥰

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 704)

[vapid flume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJnka575yq4
That might help too!
Thes tutorials are hard to find apparently, feel free to do your own research in another language.
Also you got tutorials within photoshop (check Help>hand-on tutorials and then type "vector shapes" in the box

[vapid flume]

You're welcome!

[nimble iron]

@vapid flume my image is not blending weel with background
And weapons abd echoes section
I want to create weapon and echoes section box gradient like in second image

[vapid flume]

You would probably need to add a gradient to each box as a layer style or add a low opacity gradient on top of each shape in a duplicated box.

It would be quite extreme to explain everything that is going on in these boxes, you need to test either adding gradients as a fill, at low opacity, or add gradients to a layer style and play with the fill (and not touch the opacity)

Play with the options and see what works best for you

[desert rose]

it turns white

when i try to half tone it

[vapid flume]

have you got your foreground colour as white? If yes, make it black (Press D to go back to defaults) and add the filter again

[desert rose]

omg yes im so stupid

mb

thanks Sandrine!

[vapid flume]

You're NOT stupid 🙂

[desert rose]

Aww means a lot!

[vapid flume]

I mean EVERYBODY litterally made that mistake at least once 🙂

[desert rose]

ur right!

[cursive ice]

When i open camera raw filter page, in the options i dont see the "Geometry" option.

Sry for ping but you mind helping me?

[ripe quest]

Please don't ping people. You can ask questions and wait until some one is available to answer.

[ripe quest]

I don't know what version of Photoshop/Camera Raw you have but the "Geometry" options are here...

[cursive ice]

bruh, ok ill make sure

[nimble iron]

@vapid flume tried to play with those options
Tried as gradient overlay
First problem u can't put border with overlay I tried playing with fill
The higher the border opacitt in overlay the darker the gradient overlay get even thou the fill of box is 0

[lofty topaz]

How does the image/adjustment/equalise work?

What determines what it does, also is there a way to have it do the exact same thing all the time? Because its giving different results sometimes

[edgy summit]

Do u have to have account for generate image tool to work

[young knot]

where do i find quality photoshoppers for social media posts? i looked on fiverr and its ridiculous to filter through all the junk

[vapid flume]

Yes, it will be the same account you created when you downloaded Photoshop, you can check that with the CC app. The gen AI features won't work without an active account (obviously) and with an internect connection active.

[vapid flume]

That might be because "overlay" isn't the right blending mode. You may try Colour or hue instead, but it really depends on the exact case. You need to test things with other blending mode and also individual effects own blending mode. Maybe you need the overlay blending mode on the gradient effect, not the layer itself

[nimble iron]

How do i traffic
Also wht is hue

Test

Not traffi

[vapid flume]

@lofty topaz We recommend Behnace here
https://www.behance.net/hire

[young knot]

thank you

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 705)

[vapid flume]

Hue is another blending mode, at the bottom of the list

[nimble iron]

Wht does hue do?

[vapid flume]

Check that to understand
https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/blending-modes-explained/

what blending modes do depends on what's in the layer, and what's in the layers underneath...

[nimble iron]

Hmm i c

[nimble iron]

Ty

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 706)

[pseudo coral]

Please how do I make a roblox thumbnail animation?

[bold galleon]

Every single time I've used blending modes I've honestly wished that I had some sort of explanation to build some kind of foundation of thought other than "this one looks better." I'm totally watching this, thanks for posting it!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 707)

[oblique idol]

i have some problems with lightroom while developing can someome help me please?

[sudden plank]

anyone got some good fonts? Something that suits with everything, similar the ones most big companes use, apple, google, instagram etc

[rustic sundial]

Brothers I need to learn Photoshop skills any one can help me pls to learn it with YouTube channels or something I need your advises guys
Thank you ❤️

[ivory rampart]

To start i would start with tutorials from Adobe that are in Photoshop

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[split galleon]

Just clicking random stuff and creating things by accident is the most fun you can have as a beginner! 🙂

[sly hawk]

Poppins, Helvetica Nueue are always solid choices.

[solar fox]

Hey, is there anyone who knows of an application or page that can be used to separate (not remove) the watermark from this photo? so you can save just the watermark... it would be very helpful, thank you!

[ripe quest]

For what purpose? It would probably be easier to just recreate it.

[solar fox]

I like the watermark, for including it into a proyect

is that, i cant really replicate that

[ripe quest]

You can just draw a bunch of vector lines and group them. Turn down the Opacity on the Group.

[ripe quest]

You could convert the group of lines to a Smart Object. Then clip a gradient to the Smart Object.

[solar fox]

Oh my god, thanks but, i dont know how to do that, can you send me a png pls 🙏

[solar fox]

omg thanks, thats awesome, but can you send me the colored version

sorry 4 bothering

[ripe quest]

How about you drop whatever gradient over it that you like.

[solar fox]

sorry the thing is I dont have photoshop on this pc

PLS

HELP

[ripe quest]

There is that one anyways... Its not the same as the example.

[solar fox]

thank youuuuu

[iron sedge]

what are some good ways to remove eyelashes that are covering the eyes? ive tried spot healing brush, healing brush and patch tool but to no avail

[proper aurora]

When I use generative fill on the edges of the image, it creates a distorted texture like this. I will select that part and have to apply a blur or similar filter. Is this because the large size of the image conflicts with the generative fill?

[weary ridge]

Does anyone know a practical way for the first photo to have similar lighting to the second? (make it darker and yellow)

[solar fox]

I'm sorry for bothering, but I've been trying for an hour to get the effect the same, and for the waves to look as similar as possible. If you could help me replicate it in a very similar way I WOULD APPRECIATE YOU VERY MUCH! What I need most is for it to go from yellow to purple in a very subtle way, and for it to be horizontal. PLS🙏

[still cradle]

use brigtness/contrast or curves or levels (I usually use levels but for that purpose firstly i would check brightness) next step is color balance make it a bit yellow

maybe you will need to duplicate person because color balance cause yellow background

[weary ridge]

bro if you did it for me I don't know how I could thank you

lol

[pastel marsh]

Can somebody make a edit on a card for me. I need a name change. I will pay

[golden sky]

Check dm. Let me see what you want

[cedar kestrel]

i'm trying to paint with the brush and this happens. that's the 50% grey layer i have above everything. when i turn it off and on it goes away but it's annoying

[cedar kestrel]

it happens when i type too

[wary rivet]

Would you be looking for something like this?

Question, am I just looking in the wrong spot, or is the rotation anchor function for transforming like.. the most barebones feature in Photoshop?
The anchor doesn't snap to smart grids and you can't make a persistent anchor that stays in the same spot when you transform other layers..

[weary ridge]

thx!!

[wary rivet]

Okay.. I'm hoping the answer is as simple as the question.. but how to I perfectly mirror a vector shape to the other side of the canvas?

[stable monolith]

What does autotone does exactly? I can't seem to reproduce its effect with curves. I'm trying to get an adjustment layer to function as autotone in order to programmatically apply it to frames of a video. if i autotone each frame it will be a mess.

[serene coral]

by 'autotune' you mean...?

[serene coral]

transform mode works on vectors too. you can select your shape, ctrl+t and right click>flip

[serene coral]

it snaps to corners and center points of the transformed layer. other than that, you can manually specify the position of the reference point in the options bar while transforming

[serene coral]

so the grey should stay within the selection, right? and it gets fixed when you toggle the layer's visibility?

[bronze sapphire]

I keep having this kind of thing come up when I use the remove tool

first couple times I use it per project it's normal

then it starts doing this

anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how I can fix it?

[stable monolith]

Autotone and autocolor...

[serene coral]

sorry misread that haha 😅 these commands are literally auto adjustments - they look at the selected photo and try to guess what it should look like. https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/auto-tone-auto-contrast-and-auto-color-in-photoshop/

[serene coral]

looks like latent noise? are you on the latest version of Ps? Does restarting Ps help? does it happen to all the photos or only this one?

[vapid flume]

This is why I mourn the days of proper books/printed help (Don't get me wrong they still exist, but they don't have the same appeal with newer users)
When you had PS in the old days it came with a full book (It was also much more expensive as a software than it is now, adapted for inflation)
it later became a PDF, which have now been replaced by the HelpX articles.
All this: the blending modes in-depth explanations, the tools, all the very minute functions were there for all to see.
There were even exercises. Now that everyone relies on YouTube tutorials (and some are really great!) we are just given the choice of what the tutorial creator decided to teach. Some subjects are obviously more popular than others. And I'm not even talking about those tutorial that teach absolute BS.
For those who still like to read, then the HelpX articles are still an invaluable source of information.
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/blending-modes.html

[bronze sapphire]

All photos

and yeah I think I'm on the latest PS

like it starts out fine then after a few uses it starts doing stuff like that

[stable monolith]

but they dont leave an adjustment layer behind, what if i want to apply the same adjustment to other images? auto'ing them seperately will result in contrast and color drifts, catastrophic for frames of a video.

any way to mimic autocolor with an adjustment laayer? couldnt find anything.

[serene coral]

curves have the auto button. and if you enter options you can pick one of 4 options

[stable monolith]

i tried that, auto curves or levels seems to produce entirely different results

is there some way to get the application to tell you what it did with autocolor/autotone?

[serene coral]

then duplicate the layer, set it to difference blending mode and fiddle around with adjustments until you find this. auto options you are trying to use are destructive and very rarely used overall. I'm not sure why you need the exact copy of auto settings. or use auto in camera raw

[cedar kestrel]

The grey shouldn't even show up. It's a grain layer

[cedar kestrel]

But yes it gets fixed

[somber hinge]

i need some help

i have a picture of a hand and one picture of a watch. how do i blend them into one pic.

please help.

[serene coral]

sounds like you can use layer masks to achieve this. have you tried it?

[somber hinge]

I am a begineer without much knowledge. ( Idk most of thing)

So, idk.

Need some guidance.

[somber hinge]

the watch pic has a different backrgound

[serene coral]

https://discord.com/channels/547473772727238676/1045711257178738760

[somber hinge]

Oh, Okay. Thanks a lot. 🫡

[iron sedge]

does anyone know how to remove eyelashes covering eyes while keeping details of eyes.

remove tool and clone stamp and spot healing brush arent working that great

[lucid crane]

Ok, I had a look at the image you posted earlier. Two thoughts: in the full image, could you copy from the other eye?
You could copy the existing iris, pop it into a layer above, rotate 180 degrees and blend it into the area that has the eyelashes 🙂

[sly hawk]

Seems strange that you'd want to... aren't they natural? Who doesn't have eyelashes? 🙂

[iron sedge]

everyone does it on youtube i seem to notice

i just want the eyelashes removed from the eye pupil and sclera itself like shown here

[iron sedge]

the eyelashes would still be there though?

[lucid crane]

The bottom part of the iris has no eyelashes over it. Copy, revolve 180, blend over the eyelashes at the top 🙂

[iron sedge]

ohhh i see what you mean, ok ill give it a try once im back on the computer. Thank You @lucid crane

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @lucid crane (current: #29 - 71)

[iron sedge]

also how do you pronounce or say your name?

is it like Juan?

[lucid crane]

Sort of: yoo-an
The E is mainly silent

[iron sedge]

ohh ok i see

[solar fox]

can someone help me replicate the lines on this pic?

[distant adder]

Do you want to remove them ? Dm me for more details

[knotty tulip]

you literally were helped with this earlier

[somber hinge]

Um, I couldn't understand.

Can anyone help me 🙏🏻

i need some help
i have a picture of a hand and one picture of a watch. how do i blend them into one pic.
please help.

[ivory rampart]

You need to learn about masks as Wertos pointed out

Without understanding layer masks you won’t be able to blend hand and watch together

[ripe quest]

I showed you how to do this yesterday.

[somber hinge]

uhh

[fervent shore]

hi all 🙂 what would be the most efficient way of removing the stand "lens cap" from this pic?

[ivory rampart]

Just select it with lasso or other tool you prefer and mask it

[somber hinge]

can u help me with the hand thing

[ripe quest]

And replace it with what?

[fervent shore]

exactly, i can mask it, but when i just fill it in with black it doesnt blend to the background

i have a picture of the background without the figure, but it doesnt quite match either

[ivory rampart]

Just use gen fill shoul fix it

[fervent shore]

gen fil isnt reliable to produce the same results every time, i have like 100 of these to do

[ripe quest]

Then replace the bottom and the entire background with a new gradient.

[ivory rampart]

^

[fervent shore]

i was trying to avoid cutting out every figure, auto select subject never gets it right

[ripe quest]

Then you'll have to do the best you can and refine the masks.

[ivory rampart]

I cant learn about layer masks for you , you should look into beginner tutorials suited with photoshop

[fervent shore]

thanks

[ripe quest]

I used the Object Selection Tool. Layer Mask. Then added a Gradient Layer below it. You could probably refine the mask a bit to make it cleaner.

[somber hinge]

How do I strech/resize the hand image in that?

[ivory rampart]

Ctrl+t

[somber hinge]

Okay, Thanks a lot.

[ivory rampart]

But by the looks of size it will look bad

[somber hinge]

Uh yeah, but its okie.

How do I rotate?

@ivory rampart

(Sorry for the ping)

[fervent shore]

drag around the edge after CTrl+t

[ivory rampart]

Or catch dot in corner

[somber hinge]

It is getting enlarged then

[ivory rampart]

It will show new cursor

[somber hinge]

Okay got it

Thanks

How do i blend this

anyone ?

help

[fervent shore]

try the belnding drop down in the layers panel

but i think youre gonna have to cut them out idk

[somber hinge]

dis?

[solar fox]

yeah I know, but i really need the exact same thing

if some can help me i will be very thankful!

[ivory rampart]

Easiet way would be to just mask that hand

[ripe quest]

Please stop posting the same thing multiple times.

[somber hinge]

How

[solar fox]

im sorry, im just very hurried..

[ripe quest]

Also, if you want someone to make it for you, you'll need to post the request along with a description of what you want created to the #💬chat-general channel and wait to see if someone is interested in working on it.

[ivory rampart]

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/masking-layers.html

[solar fox]

oki thanks!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2286)

[iron sedge]

i tried it and it doesnt work, the eyelashes are still covering the eyes, i cant make a mask of just the eyes with the eyelashes covering it

[ivory rampart]

https://youtu.be/aNpO6G72O3w?feature=shared

[iron sedge]

trying to get the image to have no eyelashes covering the eye itself.

[ripe quest]

You're likely going to have to use some combination of Clone Tool, Remove Tool, and digital painting to do this.

[iron sedge]

i tried clone stamp and remove tool but it leaves like a weird residue behind

unnatural look left behind

[ripe quest]

Welcome to the wonderful world of image editing. Part of being effective is learning different techniques and how to execute them to get the effect that you want.

[fervent shore]

i wouldn't call it wonderful 🙂

frustrating, maybe, time consuming, for sure

[iron sedge]

yeee ik lol, i just wish i knew how people are able to do it. Its a very time consuming thing to learn these small little details.

[ripe quest]

Its wonderful when you figure it out and your plan comes together. heh

Or maybe its wonderful when they write you a check for the work. Maybe both. :)

[iron sedge]

would you happen to know any videos or anything at all that would help and i could give it a try

[ripe quest]

I think you're going to have to learn about digital painting and retouching. Probably start there.

[iron sedge]

i couldnt find any videos what so ever showing "how to remove eyelashes from pupils", retouching is the only thing ive been doing so far. Guess ill keep searching. Thanks anyways 😄

[ripe quest]

What is this thing going to look like without eyelashes?

[iron sedge]

i found 2 sites that sort of show it but the person had very short eyelashes so using remove tool was easy for them and natural looking

[ivory rampart]

Just ask that person to shave their eyelashes and redo shot 😏

[iron sedge]

im just wanting to keep the eye details behind it while having the eyelashes be removed BUT only from pupils and sclera.

[ripe quest]

It seems like that would be entirely hideous and unrealistic, but ok.

[iron sedge]

simplified, remove eyelashes covering the sclera and pupils while keeping eye details

[ripe quest]

Does it have to be this photo of the eye? What about finding a different image?

[iron sedge]

these are pictures that have done it. It looks amazing to me

[iron sedge]

i mean its a retouching of someones face that i am doing so it kinda has to be their eye.

[ripe quest]

I guess I don't understand the goal because you cannot show a close-up shot of the eyes without seeing eyelashes.

[iron sedge]

goal is to remove eyelashes that are only covering the eyes itself

[ripe quest]

And this is an EXTREME close-up.

[iron sedge]

not the whole actual eyelashes itself

you are confusing me

im confused

im talking about eyelashes not eyebrows

[sly hawk]

In your image, the eye is 3-4 times larger than the later image/example you shared?

[lucid crane]

Ok, rough attempt by the method I mentioned

[somber hinge]

I want to ask a question, that so basically, there is a pic and I selected the subject and now I want the background to be masked. Can this happen.

[iron sedge]

these are just example pics of what i want them to look like

[iron sedge]

how were you able to do that? It also looks slightly unnatural but thats way better than i can do

[somber hinge]

Anyone help

[lucid crane]

Copy iris to new layer, turn 180 - mask in to suit

[sly hawk]

Seems like a strange challenge you've set yourself here.... - I think Gen fill is enough to help 'tidy them up', without it looking wierd.

[somber hinge]

Can anyone tell me how do I make this little realistic.

[iron sedge]

i tried gen fill like you did but it doesnt entirely remove it

[ripe quest]

Add some shadows under it.

[iron sedge]

ill try this again

[somber hinge]

how

[ivory rampart]

You can mask whatever you want

[sly hawk]

yeah, a little shadow 🙂 - just add a layer between, paint in some black and lower the opacity down.

[ripe quest]

Paint Brush.

[somber hinge]

Ye, i did see this

[somber hinge]

.

[somber hinge]

ookie

[somber hinge]

uh okei

[ripe quest]

Uh. Cool.

It looks unrealistic because there is no light or shadow on the thing and no shadow under it against the skin.

[somber hinge]

Uh

[somber hinge]

pls guide 🙏🏻 😭

[tulip stirrup]

I would like to ask a little question. I have a question. I pressed clear 3-4 times, but it came up like in the picture. What caused it?

[somber hinge]

Oooo, Thanks a lot bro! 🔥

[sly hawk]

No problem.... bro 🙂

[sly hawk]

You could also consider making it a tiny bit darker on the side facing 'away' from the lightsource. - however I imagine a well balanced studio shot of a product, probably would have even lighting throughout.

[somber hinge]

Uhhh

What the heck happened. 💀

My laptop is heating up so much 😭

CMD is using 2GB rn 💀

[ivory rampart]

More layers in ps it will take more resources

[somber hinge]

How much is minimum

For Photoshop

[lucid crane]

Going by the shadows on the hand those are too dark

[ivory rampart]

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/system-requirements.html

[somber hinge]

How do I delete these from recents?

[lucid crane]

The shadow is better in brighness but its too far away from the bracelet especially if its hanging on the wrist of a vertical hand

[somber hinge]

What is SSE 4.2

[somber hinge]

Ooh

[ripe quest]

Move them to a new location or delete them from your PC. Then try to click on them. When they won't load up, Photoshop should remove them automatically.

[somber hinge]

Ohkay

[wary rivet]

Damn, that's annoying.. so there's no relative position flip; I have to create a margin beforehand

[serene coral]

There is, just specify the anchor point before flipping

[wary rivet]

That does require manually moving it to the centre though, right?
Cause anchor points, for some reason, don't snap to smart grids..

[thorn panther]

why is panning the canvas (via scrolling or ctrl + scrolling) is so slow?

[somber hinge]

i have seletec the part i dont want, how do i mask it

[serene coral]

Depends on your system scrolling speed settings. But I usually use the hand tool (hold space bar and drag with your mouse)

[thorn panther]

oh thx

[somber hinge]

help !!

[somber hinge]

helpp

[serene coral]

Hold alt and press the mask button at the bottom of the layer panel

[thorn panther]

the fact that the discord emojis are actual tool buttons are the most genius help I ever seen

[serene coral]

Anchor point will snap to the center, corners and centers of sides. It won't snap to smart guides but that's a good idea! I think you should describe it in #1093156942647660615

[somber hinge]

Thanks 🔥

[wary rivet]

Hm, okay, I will-
Also, is there a way to hide/unhide the anchor point? Cause mine seems to be invisible when I use it

[serene coral]

While in transform mode, make sure it is checked in the options bar at the top, on the very left

[wary rivet]

Ah, thank you

[wary rivet]

Ooh, of the actual image itself, not the canvas

[serene coral]

Yep

[glass forge]

Hehe hand.jpg

[somber hinge]

lmao

[opal locust]

how can i make the red blocks yellow to mimic the Marlboro Gold variant

[marble shale]

can someone refer me to a slicing guide for images in photoshop everything i need to know

[ripe quest]

Do you have a specific color in mi-nd? I don't know what "Marlboro Gold" is.

[opal locust]

RGB: 220, 177, 24

[tame cape]

Do the red areas also have such extreme JPEG artefacts in the 100% view?
😵‍💫
In my opinion, it would certainly make more sense to recreate the surfaces as separate vector surfaces. You only need to draw straight surfaces. That should be quite easy and the result will be much better.

[ripe quest]

You could just do Color Range Selection. Add a Solid Color. It will get masked. Then refine the mask a bit. It might be close enough for you. I don't know.

[opal locust]

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2288)

[tame cape]

something like that

[opal locust]

yap

[ripe quest]

That's not the color they stated above but it doesn't matter. With a Color Fill layer, it can be assigned to whatever color.

[tame cape]

@opal locust
That would be more of a
190, 166, 105

And for a really good result, I would redraw the areas as vectors. Then there will be no artefacts at the edges and your image will look much sharper.

[opal locust]

Thanks will try it right now

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @tame cape (current: #92 - 18)

[tame cape]

Here is the area (in the centre) as a vector for comparison.
Depending on your level of knowledge, you may also be able to recreate the other surfaces for an even better result.

[void glen]

Hi Im combing 2 images together and they both have like foggy skys. Whats the best way of matching the colors of the skies? they are both grey but one is darker then the other. Thanks

[serene coral]

Place them one next to another and use curves (Ctrl+m) to match the brightness

[void glen]

perfect thanks!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @serene coral (current: #6 - 889)

[serene coral]

What method are you exactly using to distort this?

[void glen]

is there a like more automatic way then just doing it by eye tho?

a more exact way to match the colors?

[serene coral]

There's this "secret" adjustment called match color, have a look https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/matching-replacing-mixing-colors.html

[void glen]

looks interesting, ill check it out, Thanks again

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @serene coral (current: #6 - 890)

[void glen]

yes worked perfectly, just had to play around with the 3 settings under match color.

[serene coral]

Glad it worked, have fun!

[wicked knot]

hi everyone, I’m a beginner to photoshop and am trying to replicate the text of the following image in my product. I cannot quite get the warping to mimic the sort of “squished” expression of the text. does anyone have any advice? Anything is appreciated

[sly hawk]

Yeah, there is a text warp feature. - have you found that?

[wicked knot]

i did

check it out

[wicked knot]

thank u man u are saving my highschool

[sly hawk]

You beat me to it 🙂

[wicked knot]

but u did that out of the kindness of your heart

may whatever higher being you choose to follow bless you for your benevolence

[sly hawk]

What's your end goal anyway;/

?

Making a jersey/logo?

[wicked knot]

copy that sweater lol

yeah spirit wear

[sly hawk]

Cool. - You can create the same 'arch' for the subheading in the same way

[wicked knot]

like this?

it has to be trimmed a lil but

[sly hawk]

Do you know how to make the double strokes?

[sly hawk]

Almost, but the text really needs to stay 'upwards;

[wicked knot]

yes i just noticed that

hmm

so an arch warp is better here then

i used pen tool for that

[sly hawk]

Arch not Arc - yeah! 🙂

[wicked knot]

my god i hope u wake up every day and feel happy

the world is so mean sometimes but people like you make it less

check it out

[ripe quest]

You could try it in Adobe Firefly. :)

[wicked knot]

WHAT

HOW DID U DO THAT

Firefly?

[sly hawk]

You can create multiple 'strokes' around text if needed.

Just make them progressively larger...

[wicked knot]

Ohhh

For the outline

And that works on raw text? no conversions necessary?

[sly hawk]

Yes.

[wicked knot]

Neat!

[ripe quest]

Adobe Firefly (https://firefly.adobe.com) Then use the "Knights" image as a Composition Reference.

[sly hawk]

Convert to a smart object if you wish, but you don't need to.

[wicked knot]

Whoa thats cool too

[sly hawk]

adboe?

https://firefly.adobe.com/

[ripe quest]

Just another idea, if you're so inclined to play around with that.

[wicked knot]

So once I complete my design, I can import into firefly and get what is basically a render?

[ripe quest]

It renders a flattened image, yes. There are no layers.

[wicked knot]

Makes sense, the day AI can produce layered images I feel we will all be in trouble lol

[ripe quest]

That's where Photoshop comes in. You can still do all of the image compositing that people have always done with Photoshop.

Now you can just render custom image assets.

Anyways, its good to know both tools.

[wicked knot]

And I can tell you right now, no AI will ever explain like you two did

well, maybe i shouldnt say that

[ripe quest]

Adobe GPT isn't replacing us just yet. heh

(looks around nervously)

[keen pond]

Hello, looking for some help. I have 2 images (cropped for example) which contain screens, one image they are turned off, one they are turned on. The angle/height the photos were taken at are ever so slightly different, I need to take the content from the turned on screen and edit it onto the turned off screen image. The turned on screen has the deeper black to it which I obviously want to keep in the edit. is there an easy tool for this/any of the ai features?

[wicked knot]

Maybe polygonal selection tool? then once you have the image perspective warp onto the original

[ripe quest]

You should be able to distort that into the correct perspective.

[keen pond]

Ty, wasn't a tool I was aware of so will have a read 🙂

[wicked knot]

So correct me if im wrong, but a smart object is kind of like a photoshop document in a photoshop document?

Like a composite shot?

[ripe quest]

Its just the Transform Operation.

[keen pond]

So should I cut out the screen I want, bring it in as a layer then transform it?

[ripe quest]

This sort of setup as it pertains to the Layers...

[ripe quest]

I suppose you could cut that out of the original image. I found a version of that logo and brought it in.

[keen pond]

Yeah I'd rather cut so it looks more authentic

Cool, I shall try it, thank you

[ripe quest]

Well... my version was done in like 5 mins to show you how I might set up the layers.

[keen pond]

yeah understandable

[ripe quest]

It might work...

[keen pond]

Damn that's good, what was the exact order of doing things for that?

[ripe quest]

Give me a min.

[keen pond]

I have a screen on the other side i need to do but my face is blocking the bottom right corner like the head on this image so cropped it for obvious reasons

[ripe quest]

It might be something like this...

[keen pond]

Wtf I did not expect that level of help, you are awesome dude!

[ripe quest]

Rock-n-roll. :)

[open harbor]

How come I dont get the generative fill option when right clicking a selection?

[ripe quest]

Does Generative Fill work at all?

[open harbor]

I don't even have the ability to use it

[ripe quest]

Window > Contextual Task Bar....

[ripe quest]

You need to be signed in to an Adobe Account to use cloud-based services.

[open harbor]

I am

I have the task bar enabled

Still no generative fill

only content aware

[ripe quest]

You sure about about that? Open the Creative Cloud app and make sure you're signed in to an active Adobe Account.

[open harbor]

I am signed in yes

Still no generative fill option

[ripe quest]

What sort of subscription do you have?

[open harbor]

Pretty sure it's all apps

Its 2024 adobe

photoshop

dont know why it wouldn't be there

[ripe quest]

I would first try, opening the Creative Cloud app. Signing out. Reboot the computer. Open the CC app. Sign in and try it again.

[open harbor]

Still nothing

[ripe quest]

Then you'll have to contact Adobe Customer Care and ask them what's up with your account.

[rigid cave]

i want to resize this but only the length and when i try to it does it with both length and width what can i do

just want to make it fit with the box on the top

nvm just clicked on the little lock on the top left

[short loom]

how could i imitate the vhs-like quality of this photo?

[stark wharf]

Try this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss-TfmHnn4Q

[short loom]

Thanks!

[stark wharf]

There are a number of actions available usually best aren’t free

[nimble iron]

***why my first image
Is not blending well with the background unlike 2nd and third image I m need need for help ***

***I m trying two different border just to ask her which one suits better ***

***How is second n third image background so well blurred ***

someone pls help em

[sly hawk]

This one?

You've just forgotten to lower the opacity.

[nimble iron]

It's already 50 in l

All

[sly hawk]

what happens if you lower it to 0?

[nimble iron]

@sly hawk also buddy how is second so better so so much better than mine
It's looks good

[nimble iron]

Transperent just background

How is background in other two so blur

[sly hawk]

2nd image? - You mean the one on the right?

[nimble iron]

Ya second one and third one both looks better and thier background is totally or 70 blur I tried every blur didn't work tho

[serene coral]

can you please screenshot your layers panel? we have no idea what's inside...

[nimble iron]

Ol

Ok

[sly hawk]

The reason yours looks dodgy is probably because of you having too many background gradient colours. - These 'info panels' or whatever they are, are already PACKED with so much colour, information etc. -

[halcyon widget]

Hello,
How could I reproduce an aura around my belt like in my other image?
But instead of the aura being golden, I'd like it to be pink.

[sly hawk]

EFFECTS > Outerglow

[nimble iron]

Means background image or just rectangle s

[sly hawk]

Rectangles

[nimble iron]

U suggest color then
Gradient or no gradient

[nimble iron]

@sly hawk @serene coral Look guys my layers in video plus it has every deatails

[indigo sleet]

Hi, I don't really know if this channel is the right one for my request but here I am.
I'm trying to extend some of my favorite album covers as a wallpaper size with the ai. And I am wondering if there is an easy way to improve the flow of the transition between the original cover and the extended part.

[serene coral]

you can try using the remove tool or spot healing brush on those

[serene coral]

so the problem is the gradient inside the rounded rectangles being too bright?

[indigo sleet]

I'll try, thank you

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @serene coral (current: #6 - 891)

[nimble iron]

Look these two images
Their rectangles blend soo well with background
It looks gorgeous while mine is 💀☠️

[sly hawk]

They're probably just 40-50% dark grey, or black...

[nimble iron]

Okie just tell me ur color code hex and tell me opacity

Also urs look good

How did u get acheron ine thou

[halcyon widget]

And you know what would be the easiest way to make my belt gradually disappear like this?

[serene coral]

in Photoshop?

[halcyon widget]

yes

[sly hawk]

Gradually dissapear? as in an animation?

[sly hawk]

id:guide

[halcyon widget]

yes as I showed you

[serene coral]

I would say layer mask but if you're using the video timeline you can't animate the mask like you could in Premiere Pro or After Effects. So if you need to use Photoshop, I would try frame animation and just create multiple frames with different layer masks

[real crescent]

How to make a brush so that it is like in 1 photo, in 2 I have it blurred

[sly hawk]

Use a PENCIL.

[serene coral]

👆 this or make sure your brush hardness it at 100% same with its opacity and flow

[nimble iron]

@sly hawk wow wht a guide
Ty for help
***How is this background so blur to be real
Last help
Help me with this ***

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @sly hawk (current: #5 - 976)

[sly hawk]

Sorry I dont understand the question:
How is this background so blur to be real

Are you saying that you want to make your current background image MORE blurry, or LESS blurry?

[nimble iron]

More blurry

[sly hawk]

The image above has the background on two different layers.
They have a blurry background, and then the character version seperately.

[sly hawk]

Ok, one moment.

[nimble iron]

@sly hawk also one last thing how to give color gradient like the image I tried color pucker didn't work

[sly hawk]

Does this help?

[nimble iron]

Ya I get it
It helped me
Ty buddy @sly hawk

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @sly hawk (current: #5 - 977)

[nimble iron]

One last thing how do I make these gradient color @sly hawk

[sly hawk]

They're just white, with perhaps 20% opacity.

[nimble iron]

Oh I c

[sly hawk]

the 'gradients' you're seeing is just the blurry background coming through

e,g, clouds etc

[nimble iron]

@sly hawk also the other color is black right
?
With how much opacity

[sly hawk]

dunno - just play around and see what works for you. - Guessing maybe 35%

[nimble iron]

Okie

@sly hawk last help can u tell me font name pls

@sly hawk also how to make this
Mine still looks off and weird

[sly hawk]

I don't know the font. - But perhaps try these:

[thick tangle]

Guys quick question

i have this water drop icon and i wanted to create "falling" effect so i've put 3 same drops with lowered oppacity but idk it doesnt look right ...

how can i achieve this effect so it looks good?

[sly hawk]

motion blur perhaps?

[thick tangle]

i dont want to put blur to it

should be like a logo or something

[sly hawk]

I see.

Isn't the fact that it's a droplet, by it's very nature, enough to show it's 'in freefall'?

Otherwise it wouldn't be droplet. It would be a puddle.

[thick tangle]

i also tried putting them into one, each one a little bit smaller but then it look like a blue fire...

[thick tangle]

well.. yeah but i wanted to put some depth to it so it doesnt look so "classic"

[sly hawk]

Have you looked online for much inspiration already?

[thick tangle]

yeah

see i was thinking something like this

but when i put more it looked like a blue flame and when i put it above it it doesnt look good

[tulip robin]

Can someone help me figure this out please! So I cut this design out of a white background and the blue background is how it looks on photoshop, clean edges. When I save it, it has a white border around it and it looks messy. I export > save for web > png-8

[ripe quest]

Use PNG-24; it has per pixel variable transparency. With PNG8, the transparency is either on or off like GIF.

[tulip robin]

It worked! Thank you so much

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2290)

[halcyon widget]

How could I reproduce the little stars that are on the outfits please?

[ripe quest]

Create one star. Duplicate and scale it a few times. Use that to define a pattern. Then you can fill areas with the new pattern.

[halcyon widget]

It's that I don't really know how to create the same star shape, I'm not very good at drawing

[ripe quest]

One moment

[ripe quest]

You could do something like this...

[halcyon widget]

just the 4 main sides are enough for me

[ripe quest]

Well, you can draw it with the Pen Tool.

[ripe quest]

I was able to duplicate this a few times, scale it, move it around and define a Photoshop Pattern (.pat) file. At that point, all you have to do is drag and drop it into an open document. It creates a new Pattern Layer...

You could use a Clipping Mask or a Layer Mask on a Pattern Layer so that it only appears over certain shapes or areas.

I realize that is probably not the design you want but here is the pattern if you want to play with it. Drag and drop it into the Patterns Panel.

[river otter]

guys how can i improve my experience in photoshop i wanna get better as a pro

[halcyon widget]

And how did you remove the background in black?

[ripe quest]

I don't know your current skill level but do as many projects as you can. They should be varied and employ all of the different techniques.

[ripe quest]

There is no black background. Its transparent.

[river otter]

my skill is beginner i make my pic colours look better thats it

[ripe quest]

I would do all of the tutorials that Adobe provides with the app.

[sly hawk]

Yeah, once the pattern is made, you can apply it wherever you need 🙂

[halcyon widget]

Because I just found star shapes but it seems complicated to me to remove the background in black without it impacting the stars

[river otter]

dude the thing is i did but at what to apply u know

i want something to apply on

[ripe quest]

Then try to focus on building a portfolio with the types of work that you want to do. Do the tutorials and try to apply the techniques to the projects.

[river otter]

When i paint with the brush tool there comes a big delay does anybody know why?

[ripe quest]

Lower the value for Smoothing...

[river otter]

Thank you bro

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2291)

[shadow ridge]

Use CTRL ALT 2, then
A) make a new layer and fill with white using ALT DELETE
B) use CTRL J to make a copy of the stars.
I believe that for this image A will be the best option.

[smoky stratus]

Hi, need help with replacing an image if anyone could assist.

I have the image of a work book which currently is at an angle which means the logo on the book is subsequently at this angle, but we have changed the logo and I need to replace the old one with the new png file.

[ripe quest]

Please don't ping people. You can ask questions here and if someone knows the answer (and is available to answer), they might reply. Also, it helps if you provide images; ideally, screenshots of the Photoshop GUI with the Layers Panel open so that people can see what's going on.

[smoky stratus]

Sorry for ping

HEART

[smoky stratus]

It is a sort of confidential image so can't really show it but let me show a mock.

[smoky stratus]

Logo is an image in the centre of that book.

[ripe quest]

It seems like you could just drag/drop the image in and distort the image into place.

[smoky stratus]

Is it easier for you to explain or should I watch a tutorial on image distortion?

[ripe quest]

I mean, what's your experience level with Photoshop? It seems pretty straight-forward....

[smoky stratus]

Newbie, just using it on a roommates pc for a one time task.

Thank you.

[ripe quest]

Hopefully, whatever image you're bringing in is the same proportion/aspect ratio as the book image.

Otherwise, its going to look squashed/stretched.

[smoky stratus]

Worked, thank you.

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2292)

[smoky stratus]

Thank you very much it worked

I appreciate it

[ripe quest]

Glad you got it sorted out!

[stuck haven]

Hoping someone can help me. For context, I am currently working on a commission when I suddenly could no longer accurately color pick colors I have place down. The bright blue is what I was triyng to color pick and the duller color is what I got. My mode is RGB color and I see that gamut warning but I can't figure out how to fix this and why it happened suddenly

[ripe quest]

View > Proof Colors... or View > Gamut Warning... are those turned on?

[stuck haven]

@ripe quest Nope, they aren't. Gamut Warning is also even greyed out

[ripe quest]

Is there a specific Color Profile assigned to the document?

Also, are you sure that document is RGB and not CMYK?

[stuck haven]

Yes, I am sure. And by color profile, do you mean this page?

Also, thank you for helping me out! 🙂

[ripe quest]

OK. Good. Next, are you using the Brush Tool and you painted there and you're seeing a different color? If so, did you check the Brush Blend Mode, Opacity, Flow, etc?

Or perhaps the Blend Mode for the Layer itself (if these are separate layers).

[stuck haven]

Both the opacity and flow were 100% and the mode was normal, same for the layer itself

[ripe quest]

Are you using a tablet and pressure sensitivity turned on for the brush? I'm running out of ideas.

Or something in the Brush settings.

[tame cape]

Can you please share a bit more of your screen? Including control bar, title bar, layers panel etc.

[stuck haven]

I am using a tablet but I do not have sensitivity turned on for the brush

[stuck haven]

Not sure if this helps at all

It all happened suddenly too, I'm wondering if maybe I did a weird command accidentally?

[sly hawk]

Do you have an adjusment layer above the one you're 'painting on'?

If you get desperate, feel free to PM me the PSD file

[stuck haven]

Just a normal clipping mask layer, full opacity, etc.

[stuck haven]

I'm gonna try to do some more research to see why this happening here but if I still can't get it working, thank you for offering and I'll send it 🙂

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @sly hawk (current: #5 - 978)

[sly hawk]

I thought your colour profile was going to be wrong, but it's the same as mine:

[sly hawk]

Hey....

Have you checked here?

I noticed your 'TEXTURE' brush setting was ticked

[stuck haven]

Was ticked the entire time I've been working with this file. Un-ticking it changed nothing

Also this is standard photoshop settings I'm pretty sure as well

[tame cape]

What happens if you draw on a new top layer with a pen instead of a brush?

[celest dune]

can someone here teach me how to photoshop words onto a piece of paper like hand written words, but make it look super realistic!! Im trying to learn ty

[proven valley]

Can any one offer any opinions on this any critiques anything off or anything they like about this picture

[opal vapor]

can anyone identify what technique/method was used here to turn a, say, 3d render object into these small white/black dots?

[sullen totem]

sorry to askin this latte time

but please tell me how to replace color for white.. without the dots on the web ..

this is original

this happends

[ripe quest]

Just go from green screen to white? Perhaps just dump all of the color and adjust the Levels...

[sullen totem]

thank you man 😄 u saved my day and how do i change the picture? to white color pleasee

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2293)

[sullen totem]

im pressing ok when im there and nothing changes

[ripe quest]

What are you talking about? Watch the video.

You could also change the background color by adding a Color Fill layer and using Advanced Blending on the web layer...

[keen yacht]

i was trying to remove some text on this red/pink image but this happened when i used spot healing brush.... why? and how to fix this ?

[sullen totem]

i hope people like u deserve more thank you i got what i want .. plus is there a way to remove white collor from backround because i need that png i forgot

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2294)

[cunning ember]

Hello does anyone know why my project looks different when zooming in, flattening layers, or exporting? its something to do with my adjustment layers i think. Thank you

[river otter]

not sure what happened , but just make the selection around the text and mask it . If you wanna remove the text from that image

[halcyon widget]

Hello,
And what is possible to generate a brush shape by artificial intelligence?

[serene coral]

I answered in the forum post you created

[serene coral]

this is because of how Ps handles antialiasing. For a sure preview, view your project at 100% zoom or flatten your layers (ctrl+alt+shift+E)

[serene coral]

yes, just follow regular brush creating workflow https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-modifying-brushes.html

[wispy karma]

hello I have a problem with replace color in adjustments I cant use it and idk why?

[serene coral]

is your layer rasterized?

[wispy karma]

yes

[serene coral]

anything else unusual about your project? bit depth, specific image mode? can you screenshot the whole screen?

[wispy karma]

I restarted photoshop and now it works somehow actually

Idk what was the reason

[marble shale]

why does my brush strokes look like this when it was different before

how can i fix this

[serene coral]

low brush opacity? layer opacity?

[tame cape]

Your text is on "Layer 4". Hide your motif layer "Layer 3". Then you can simply delete the text in layer 4.

[sly hawk]

You would hand write them first, then scan/photograph it, then layer one over the top and then, if you're lucky, just whack a multiply blend mode over the top one and play with the skewing and opacity a bit

[tame cape]

Your brush opacity shows only 71% (in the Control Bar)

[spare parcel]

how would I change the transparency of the grey gradient across the boxes only? I want to maintain the opacity for the stroke

[vapid flume]

It depends how did you create those boxes... Can you show the layers panel?

[spare parcel]

its a single image, the stroke and the gradient have both been rasterised

[vapid flume]

Where are the strokes, directly on the boxes layer? You could have separated the two by using layer styles. Otherwise if you want to have a different opacity on the same image you can either

• cut out the stroke and place it on another layer, or

• mask the stroke, invert the mask, and lower the opacity of the mask in the properties panel

It would make more sense to create a box (or series of), apply a stroke in the layer styles, as well as a gradient there as well, and control the opacity of each in the layer style panel

[spare parcel]

okay great thanks!

[cold trout]

Can anyone remove the paw and get me the backround please

[cold trout]

hey sorry to bother you do youknow how toremove something from an image to get backroun

[vapid flume]

for requests, please ask in #💬chat-general ... Thanks!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @cold trout (current: #925 - 1)

[cold trout]

ok i am so sorry

please forgive me

[vapid flume]

what exactly do you want to remove? can you show your image and layers panel?

[vapid flume]

no worries!

[cold trout]

i just want the backround like the yellow and white and black

but i dont think its possible with the big paw in the way

[vapid flume]

There would be two methods:
1 super simple, too simple it hurts in fact 🙂
Select the whole bit on the leftwhere there is no paw

[cold trout]

ohh you genius

but how do i fill the whole page tho

[vapid flume]

then go to the move tool and hit CTRL+T, it will show you this

holding shift you can extend the background to the whole image

[cold trout]

what like tool you use to get a perfect retangle sorry my english not good

[vapid flume]

Don't be impatient 🙂
Watch the little video!

Otherwise what you can do is loosely select the paw and go to edit>fill> and choose content aware fill in the drop down list of the fill menu

The easy method is best though 🙂

[cold trout]

i did that and it looks all weird

i use the content away mmethod for like letters

[vapid flume]

Which one did you do?

[cold trout]

im still watcing the video on hwo you draged it across

the reason iwant the backround is because meovv is a new girl kpop group so i want to make images for a fan page

ok i made the rectangle with the rentagle select tool

[vapid flume]

when you do CTRL+T, you enter the transform mode. while you drag on the right anchor like I did, it will likely enlarge proportionnally the whole thing. By holding SHIFT, it will only drag in the direction you decided

[cold trout]

yeah i entered transform mode

[vapid flume]

• with the rectangle selection tool, slect the whole bit without the paw
• with the move tool, hit CTRL+T and while holding SHIFT drag the handle on the right
• hit enter to commit to the transformation

[cold trout]

i did it sir

or maam

thanks alot

[vapid flume]

I'm not a sir 🙂

[cold trout]

i am sorry

please forgive me

[vapid flume]

No worries, just never make asumptions! 🙂

Glad you did it!

[cold trout]

ok i am sorry

i hope you have bless and wonderful day

or night

[vapid flume]

No big deal, don't worry

[vapid flume]

Lunch time!

[cold trout]

ohh what you having for lunch

[vapid flume]

A tomato and goat cheese sandwich, with homemade yogurt with Pekmez, and lots of coffee afterwards!

[cold trout]

nice home made yogurtsoud nice

have niuce day

[vapid flume]

you too!

[short carbon]

how to remove a background easy without doing all the circling

[vapid flume]

You could use "blend if" and remove the balck bits
https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/blend-if/
Or use the colour slection menu select>color range, and choose shadows in the dropdown menu.
It may need some manual twek so I suggest turning the selection into a mask, and paint back the missed areas on the mask instead of deleting the selection on the original.

Bear in mind that your purple is quite dark (not enough contrast) so you may need some manual tweaking

[short carbon]

Thank you for the help @vapid flume

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 708)

[vapid flume]

you can also try the magic wand with the lowest settings (see screenhot) , so it only picks pure black

[drifting adder]

What would be the way to extract shadows (for photoshop mockup) from an image with a texture on it such as this?

[serene coral]

since it's a 3d render I believe you could use the shadow pass? it would give you the most precise result

[lone stirrup]

how do i remove the top right seven and pick the number 5 and replace it?

[serene coral]

please do not ask for help in forgery

[lone stirrup]

im not forgering

its in photoshop im not making a fake id;

[chilly tapir]

the frick is this?

[serene coral]

what does it say?

[chilly tapir]

im using genuine adobe

[chilly tapir]

i translated it and it says something about how photoshop will be disabled etc

but i am using genuine adobe from creative cloud

[serene coral]

that's not your native/your current location language?

[chilly tapir]

it is

it's just i don't speak it very well

[serene coral]

ok, just wanted to make sure haha
try restarting Ps and see if it apprears again?

[chilly tapir]

ok

opening app

so far it looks normal

?

[serene coral]

ok, try to use it for a bit and see if this error comes back, that's really weird

[chilly tapir]

ok i guess

instant karma

it happend again

[serene coral]

do you have Creative Cloud installed? are you logged in? try logging out and in

[chilly tapir]

im logged in

what the heck just happend

[opal vapor]

can anyone identify what technique/method was used here to turn a, say, 3d render object into these small white/black dots?

[chilly tapir]

could be pixel art

[chilly tapir]

@serene coral thoughts?

[opal vapor]

these are dots, not squares

[chilly tapir]

could just be a specific type of camera

[serene coral]

well, could this be your problem? a program magically disappearing from your pc? haha

[serene coral]

these are definitely halftones but the technique here is top notch. where did you find this? are you sure this was made with Ps and not with the real halftone print?

[vapid flume]

Could be just grain (either "film grain" or just "grain" in the filter gallery or just standard noise, but colored instead of mono and desaturated slightly)

Looking really closely, it looks even more like " halftone dot pattern" . But we would need larger images to check that
Something like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbHEWOLgSc

in your first example

[opal vapor]

it's definitely PS and not mixed media

[serene coral]

you can clearly see the halftone pattern here. I'd love to meet the guy

[vapid flume]

IMHO it can be a "real halftone" done with the bitmap mode than a filter
More like if you did a sepapartion in Photoshop and re-stacked it afterward. I may have an example of mine, need to dig it out

[serene coral]

I know Spenceless does something similar but his technique is still a mystery to me https://www.instagram.com/spenceless_designz/

[opal vapor]

you can see this colored halftone in the part above but the white/black part to me it seems like it doesn't contain the halftone from above

although it's white and black so I guess you couldn't see the halftone?

can kind of see it here I think

[serene coral]

https://texturelabs.org/textures/grunge_305/

[vapid flume]

That's not the same thing/result, because there are lots of bright colours there, but this is a file made from 3 separations for use in screenprinting. What you see is the "result" when all the files are stacked as channels in Photoshop. In real life you would hand over 4 different files to the printer. Still 100% photoshop made

[opal vapor]

I think sandrine might be right saying it might be grain/noise

[opal vapor]

chatgpt actually suggested that too but to get it to look like in my ref is the main challenge

[opal vapor]

in that case, if you can turn this halftone into black/white it might be one way to get it to look close to the reference

[serene coral]

well, the whole point is in it not being b&w. halftone printing actually uses cmyk to get all the possible colors

[opal vapor]

I zoomed in further and you can see that some of the dots are colored

[serene coral]

can you share the source?

[vapid flume]

That would be that

when you change mode from greyscale to bitmap. The bitmap conversion needs a "method", that method being a halftone pattern.

[opal vapor]

I did try some of the halftone plugins I have but I'll have to find more and try them too

[vapid flume]

It's the equivalent of a halftone screen used before the advent of computers in the printing industry.

they were physical screens put on top of the image and the result photographed or xeroxed over.

[serene coral]

https://tenor.com/view/lord-of-the-rings-frodo-alright-then-keep-your-secrets-smiling-gif-26462584

[clear carbon]

anyone here has and uses after effect?

[lucid crane]

Yes, but for help you should go to the Adobe video discord or the main community: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/ct-p/ct-after-effects?page=1&sort=latest_replies&lang=all&tabid=all