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[glacial rock]

Yeah, I think. When I'm using the Adobe website, I just sign in with my Google Account and both my licenses are there.

[ripe quest]

The first step would be to sign in to your Adobe Account. However, I'm not sure if Photoshop Elements is available using the same methods.

[glacial rock]

Adobe ID works fine when I'm coming from the website, it's only when I come from the installer that it refuses to work.

[glacial rock]

Yeah, I'm currently logged in on the website. The installer requires me to log in again, separately.

[ripe quest]

You might need to contact Adobe Customer Care. I don't know how you access an existing license for Ps Elements. It may be a separate license (compared to Creative Cloud).

[glacial rock]

You can access your products/licenses on the "Manage Account" option on the website. That's where I got the installer from.

[ripe quest]

OK. But if you're having problems getting at your account or the installer from your account, you'd probably need to contact Customer Care. We can't access customer accounts from here.

[glacial rock]

I've got no issues accessing my account. The issue is getting the installer to recognise my account. Does that make any sense?

[ripe quest]

It makes sense but I can't do anything about it. We have zero access to customer accounts here. You'd have to constact Adobe Customer Care. Does that make sense?

They can check your account, license, perhaps get you to the correct place to download, etc.

[glacial rock]

Yeah, it makes sense. By this point I wasn't really looking for a solution, just trying to properly explain my issue. Which since you understand, seems like I've done reasonably well.

[ripe quest]

It would be difficult to identify the exact brushes that were used in this. Adobe provides many different sets of great brushes here: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/brushes.html - Try out the Dry Media and Gouache Sets. There might be brushes in there that are similar.

[viral palm]

Once you have all the parts on the layer selected if you want to remove some areas you can hold Alt key then select the parts you don't want to be included.
Holding ALT+Select will remove selected parts from the original selection.

[tame cape]

Hi @gleaming ermine
Could the menu command “Copy merged” Shift+Ctrl+C help you?
🤔

[river otter]

Hello everyone

I've come to ask for help

I want to change the color of this from Green to Red

How do I do that

[thick tangle]

Hue/Saturation adjustment layer

[tame cape]

What about white and yellow - should it stay that way?

[river otter]

The white could stay but now that you mention it, the yellow should actually be a bright red; like a pinkish color

[river otter]

Thank you I'm messing with it now

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @thick tangle (current: #113 - 15)

[river otter]

I never use photoshop so this is all new to me

Trying to watch a tutorial on the hue/saturation thing but it's about changing the color of a woman's dress, would y'all say this is harder than trying to change the color on a dress?

[thick tangle]

U can select "Greens" in that roll up where it says Master and then mess with range of colors down there with sliders and when its how u like it then u can adjust the color to whatever u want

[thick tangle]

Thats just an example ... works pretty much on everything simple... that one u sent should work perefectly...

I can send u a quick vid if u want / need to ...

[river otter]

yes please!

[thick tangle]

Alr gimme a sec

but send the pic

so i can show u on that picture u need

[river otter]

Here is the pic

[thick tangle]

im gonna eat something real quick then i'll send u the vid

[river otter]

sounds good

[ripe quest]

I'll do it. One moment.

[ripe quest]

If you just want to shift the entire thing to red, you can simply add a Hue/Sat Adjustment Layer and Colorize it...

[river otter]

That's perfect!! Thank you, my good sir!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2562)

[thick tangle]

alr

[tame cape]

Another flexible variant with gradient map adjustment layer

[river otter]

You are all super helpful, thanks a lot!

[gleaming ermine]

no unfortunately that command is greyed out, so is not supported for this action.

[gleaming ermine]

I have multiple layers selected, not just one layer. What I want is to be able to select multiple layers and then make a selection in the document and when I then copy that selection I would like it to copy all the document content within that selection across all selected layers. Such that when I do the paste it creates a new layer that has said content from those selected layers within the selection box.

Unfortunately the copy command only copies the document content from the selection box for the top most selected layers. The other selected layers are ignored.

A (tedious) workaround is to duplicate the selected layers, then merge them (into a temporary merged layer), then make the selection on this new merged temporary layer, then copy the selection, then paste it (creating a new layer), then delete the merged temporary layer.

[molten light]

Yo i've got a question and i wanted to know how one creates these lines in these images, i think they look sick but i dont know how you do them

[tame cape]

To be able to copy something you need a selection ...

[brittle goblet]

How can I increase the size of my working space? Currently its 500x500

But i want to be able to edit it whenever i want

resize

[ripe quest]

Image > Canvas Size... and enter new values.

[brittle goblet]

Would it be possible to drag the image from the bottom and that way i could decrease the size instead of typing exact values?

[ripe quest]

Then use the Crop Tool. You'll be allowed to interactively drag at the document edges to grow the canvas.

[viral palm]

Does the "Copy Merged" feature could help you?

[brittle goblet]

Also how can I save as an PNG only the selected things?

Idk how to explain it

but is it possible to save things that i am currently selected? not the whole image with all the other layers and stuff

[ripe quest]

You can put them in a Group. Select the Layers and do Ctrl + G. Then you should be able to right-click on the Group in the Layers Panel and choose: Quick Export as PNG...

Probably just easier to find a different shirt that is already one color. Or generate a new shirt based on this image as a Composition Reference.

[brittle goblet]

how can i have more CTRL+Z's while using the photoshop?

[ripe quest]

You can change the amount of History Levels in the Preferences.

[ripe quest]

Edit > Preferences > Performance... History States.

Then use the History Panel to visualze it. Main Menu: Window > History...

@analog shadow - Why did you delete your question?

[mossy karma]

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[molten light]

Help please

[ripe quest]

You'll have to find (or generate) the desired tartan pattern image(s) and crop/mask them into the appropriate places.

[analog shadow]

i already found a solution, would be troublesome to get notifs for other solutions

ty tho

[ripe quest]

Give me a few moments and I can take a look at it.

[molten light]

alright thank you!!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2563)

[ripe quest]

I think they probably built this with Adobe Illustrator.

[gleaming ermine]

It copies unfortunately from ALL layers in existence, not just the ones selected.

Thanks for trying to help!

[hazy parrot]

I have multiple unclosed paths in separate layers that form a closed path as a whole.
When trying to combine them (merge shapes), PS makes new lines. How do I avoid that and combine them as is?

[tidal kelp]

Hi! Im not sure where too ask. I have been around a couple of discords so I thought I could ask here. Im trying too sync photo with video in lightroom classic and it doesnt seem too sync. Does anyone know what could be the problem

[astral ravine]

Hello Everyone!! I'm starting a Youtube channel and I would like advice on Adobe software to use for editing. I don't know much about video editing so I'm looking for the easiest thing to do. Thank you in advance!!!

[tidal kelp]

I would recommend photoshop and premier pro

[glad sedge]

hello, i wanna apply stroke to the boundary of this image which is the blue line instead of applying stroke to the image shape itself. how would i do this?

[vapid flume]

You need to create a new shape (rectangular shape tool) that follows the blue rectangle display you have and then make sure this new shape (that is on a new layer automatically) have no fill and only a stroke

[vapid flume]

Can you show the sahpe? You'll probably have to use one of the boolean operations there

[glad sedge]

thats what i did in the end, i was wondering if there is an automatic way to do it. photoshop snapping feature definitely helps to align with the original image border, but i appreciate the response, thank you

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 834)

[vapid flume]

I assume the blue rectangle is your pixel content boundary? If that's the case then there is no automatic way, as you can't select automatically transparent pixels (the bits outside the spider but inside the boundary)

You can use guides instead of using the snapping to the shape, I guess here it's OK, but guides will feel a bit easier if the shapes are more complicated than that

[tame cape]

If you need this more often - there are scripts for this. I would have to search for them myself, but your trusted search engine should be able to help you.

[vapid flume]

@tame cape Good thinking about plugins
First port of call would be to search in the Adobe marketplace

you have access directly in your CC app (see the left panel)

if you don't have any luck there, regular repositories are where to search (gitHub etc)

[terse goblet]

I have this smart object i made and i put it in another smart object. I now want to use that nested smart object in my main scene. How do i copy it into my main scene and still have it linked in case i change something to the smart object?

[molten light]

Is there a sub that allows me to have photoshop & illustrator for a cheap price? The lowest is 30 euros per month but is there anything like 15 euros per month?

I currently have a subscription with photoshop only for 11.99 euros

[hushed niche]

Unfortunately, no. It is a request I’ve often seen.

[hushed niche]

Hi, could you elaborate on what you are trying to achieve?

[autumn current]

does anyone know this font?

is this look also able to be achieved on photoshop or illustrator

[ripe quest]

I don't know what font it is. Yes, you could do this in Photoshop or Illustrator.

[autumn current]

How can i achieve the look? Ik now how to do the gradient but hopw can i get that shiny stroke?

[ripe quest]

Probably by making a selection and adding a stroke on a Layer. Not a Layer Style. Then alpha-locking the stroke layer and hand painting on it.

I'd probably do that with several layers, tbh. Base color, shadows and highlights.

Then you can add the sparkles, lens flares, whatever afterwards.

[vapid flume]

Looks like it could be that
https://www.dafont.com/vintage-king.font

BTW it's one of the first you get when you do a simple "whatsthefont" search

[autumn current]

Thank u sm!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 836)

[autumn current]

i didnt know this existed, thank u

[vapid flume]

By the way, the D might be an alternate not available on the free font, you might want to check with the creator and they probably have a better one by paying

https://putracetol.com/product/vintage-king/

or maybe the person who did the logo recreated the D, could be both

[molten wagon]

hello

can someone tell me why when i use the color replacement tool and use white it goes to a dark gray kinda color

its in rgb mode

not even just the white all my colors are just kinda off

for example light blue kinda turns abit purple

[viral palm]

I think the problem is because you're using Color replacement tool with "colors" that have low (or non) Hue and saturation values. This tool is working better with colors not with Black/White or Grays. If you want to change colors in grays perhaps Hue and Saturation adjustment layer is more suitable..

[autumn current]

i exported my illustrator as a psd and opened it in photoshop its so blurry, how do i fix this

[viral palm]

Did you choose High Res when you Exported as? If you didn't, give it a try.
If you did, you could try "other" and go higher than 300ppi (600ppi) and see if it solves your problem.

Same Ai file exported in 300ppi and 72ppi

[onyx glacier]

Hey PS pros, I have a texture here and I want to make the white and different shades of grey, orange. Is there an easy way to do this?

[viral palm]

Add a gradient map over your design seems to be the easiest way.

[onyx glacier]

Thank you so much, and for your time

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 660)

[amber arch]

is there way to turn colour of this black bumper to this? i have tired myself match colour option but this is what i get it looks odd and not close to result i wanna get

pls help

[amber arch]

all the time i get the ,,odd look'' effect

sems like its impossible to change colour from dark to bright

[tame cape]

@glad sedge
I just “stumbled” across a script in the Adobe forum that would be relatively easy to adapt to your requirements.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-do-i-automatically-create-a-shape-frame-around-an-image/m-p/14158672#M759913

[formal palm]

How could I design this type of sweater? fat brush strokes on the mockup in illustrator?

[lone oracle]

Hello, I followed an YT tutorial for a neon logo and so far it all worked but how can I make something like this transparent?

[lone oracle]

just like this e.g.

[formal palm]

i only know a way in illustrator but i think if u ask chat gpt it can handle this too @lone oracle

[tame cape]

First: save your PSD.
Click on the eye of the black layer in the layers panel. If you see a gray/light gray checkered pattern - then save as PNG24.

[lone oracle]

In Ps it looks like this then & saved like the second picture after clicking on the eye of the black layer and saving as png24.

[dusk thistle]

Hello. I have a problem with exporting from camera raw. Exported images has a werid grid artefacts (I don't know how to name it).

Why is it happening?

[daring hamlet]

guys i am trying to get only the image part in this canvas... how do i export only the image?

[nocturne cairn]

Have a look at the Trim option within the Image menu. The options that could particularly help you are…

• Transparent Pixels AND
• Top Left Pixel Color

[daring hamlet]

i used ruler and manually reduced the canvas size... is it a good way?

[nocturne cairn]

That's a totally fine way to do it. Just make sure you haven't left any areas with transparency.

[nocturne cairn]

You might also want to check out the Crop tool

[daring hamlet]

if i crop the backgroud... the left out part is still transparent... i dont want it to exist

[nocturne cairn]

A couple of Photoshop filters that might help you out...
Filter > Render > Clouds
Filter > Render > Fibers

[daring hamlet]

ill try the transparent pixel you said

[nocturne cairn]

You can always add a layer of pure white and put that at the bottom of the layers within the Layers panel

[daring hamlet]

i want it to not exist... i want canvas to dimish

bro how do i export only the part i wnat

[nocturne cairn]

No worries. My suggestion of a solid white background layer can be useful when you have an image with transparent holes in it.

[daring hamlet]

if i have the project like this... how do i export only the red part that i marked?

[nocturne cairn]

If you have a Photoshop file with lots of layers and you only want to export out a portion of the canvas, a quick and dirty method could be to duplicate the image. Then crop, export and delete this duplicate.

[nocturne cairn]

This method is good if you don't want to mess with the size of your original document.

[daring hamlet]

alright thanks

[nocturne cairn]

No worries. Good luck.

[river otter]

hey guys

i have this gif here and i want to decrease the file size without losing quality to at least 10mb (its 20mb rn) does anyone have any idea how?

[vapid flume]

With a gif, there only a couple of ways to reduce the size
1- reduce the number of frames
2- Reduce the number of colours in the the indexed table (and test all the "simulations" available)
2- Reduce the size in pixels

Only 2 lowers the quality, but 1 will make the gif shorter or less fluid and obviously 3- will display smaller

[nocturne cairn]

File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy)
Choose Gif from the dropdown menu in the upper right corner and play with the options.

[vapid flume]

What Michael says 🙂

[nocturne cairn]

What Sandrine says 🙂

[vapid flume]

You first! 😂

[nocturne cairn]

Let's call it a combo answer

[hushed niche]

If you save in jpeg, there won’t be transparency. A quick way if you want to keep your document intact would be to merge all layers in a new one: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E, select and copy the part you want, new document, then save it.

[hushed niche]

Hi, it looks like this because Ps is set to show transparency with a checkerboard. (You can change this in preferences)

[spiral forum]

Hi. This is just a Text field, why is my font looking very... pixely? Despite it not being rasterized

with effects off

[tame cape]

Normally the conversation should be conducted in English. But I'm afraid that something might get lost in the translation/re-translation. That's why I've put it in German again below. I probably misunderstood your first question. What exactly do you want to be transparent? Unfortunately, you can only see part of the layers in your last screenshot. And these are then duplicated and triplicated??? Could it be that you have deviated a little from the tutorial? Or would you like a different result? Because your result is very different from the “Craft Beer PNG”. Somehow a masking of the letters is missing - or some other step in the tutorial. Unfortunately, you haven't linked the tutorial either.

Normalerweise sollte das Gespräch auf Englisch geführt werden. Aber ich befürchte, dass bei der Übersetzung/Rückübersetzung vielleicht etwas verloren geht. Deshalb nachfolgend noch einmal in Deutsch. Wahrscheinlich habe ich deine erste Frage missverstanden. Was genau möchtest du transparent haben? Leider sieht man auf deinem letzten Screenshot nur einen Teil der Ebenen. Und diese sind dann doppelt und dreifach vorhanden??? Kann es sein, dass du etwas vom Tutorial abgewichen bist? Oder ein anderes Ergebnis haben möchtest? Denn dein Ergebnis weicht sehr stark von dem "Craft Beer PNG" ab. Irgendwie fehlt eine Maskierung der Buchstaben - oder irgendein anderer Schritt im Tutorial. Du hast das Tutorial leider auch nicht verlinkt.

[tame cape]

Without specifying the image size/resolution/size of the font/font settings etc., no statement can be made. Sometimes you can see some of the information in a full-screen screenshot. Here, unfortunately, not at all.

[spiral forum]

Yeah i think its cus my canvas too small

[tame cape]

This is often the case.

[glad sedge]

1. the desired result (something like that)

2. what i have right now

question: how do i achieve the first picture automatically? basically i wanted to apply stroke but also fill the gap between the text so the stroke kinda create a shape that is precisely like the text. what would be the keyword for this? i know how to do it in illustrator but not sure how in photoshop

as of now what i did was just fill the gap with brush on new layer and then merge them.. hopefully theres a way to do it automatically, thanks in advance

[tame cape]

Hi @glad sedge
This is not (automatically) possible in Photoshop. But in Illustrator you could achieve this result with a few effects.

Btw. Did you miss my answers to your “frame problem”? Or has it been solved in the meantime?
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[glad sedge]

ah okay got it. and yes ive seen your reply on the frame problem, its been solved manually but i appreciate the suggestion. i think using a script to achieve it would be very effective, might consider using it in the future, thank you

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @tame cape (current: #20 - 108)

[tame cape]

You're welcome.
Scripts are really super effective. The linked script may not do what you want, but it can easily be rewritten. Just write here if you are interested.

Regarding your “contour filling problem”, maybe there is a semi-automatic solution via action.
Try:

• Ctrl+Click on the font icon in the layers panel
• expand the selection (at least half of the largest gap you want to fill)
• contract the selection (same value)
• fill on a new layer below your font

[glad sedge]

wait that might actually also work, let me try

[tropic tusk]

Can someone please remove the people from this image please , Content aware fill is messing it up !

[fleet flame]

Hey, I have a question that maybe someone experienced knows the answer to, The first picture is the default one, second is with saturation set to 0 and third picture is with a solid color set to color layer. I want to turn it into grayscale and I know how to do it, I just want to know what is the "better" or more correct way of doing it?

[vapid flume]

There is no "better" way to do it, ultimately you need something that has no colour value, just tones.

IMHO the best way in that you get the most control over how it looks, is the "black and white" adjustment layer

[fleet flame]

Okay, Thank you! :)

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @vapid flume (current: #8 - 837)

[vapid flume]

You can control the black and white rendering of each colour separately. That said, litterally whatever works for you

[lone oracle]

Das Tutorial war das hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoX9scQ57lc&t=
Mein Ergebnis ist auch genau wie im Tutorial ("neon-artiger" Text und hat halt den schwarzen Hintergrund).
Ich möchte halt so einen Neontext aber ohne den schwarzen Hintergrund, also transparenten Hintergrund. Ich habe auch so 3 andere Tutorials angeschaut und da arbeiten alle mit einem Hintergrund (sei es scharze Farbe, eine "Mauer-Textur" etc.)
Deswegen hatte ich anfangs das zweite Logo geschickt, weil das "neon" ist, aber ohne Hintergrund.
[Habe nochmal alles angehangen]

[tame cape]

@nabiel

wait that might actually also work …
Unfortunately no.
But unlike most scripts available, it works with a vector shape. But if I read the thread in the forum correctly, it creates a new group with two thick, centered outlines to simulate a “double outline”.

All you would really need to do is comment out the steps to create the group and the second vector shape and change the width, orientation and color of the outline. Then you should get the desired result.

---

Unless you mean the contour-filling problem. I suspect that the suggested steps could actually help you. (Because this is how the effects work in Illustrator).

[frigid lagoon]

In Camera Raw 17.1 when looking at raw files from my Sony camera the color profiles in the dropdown sometimes have Camera Landscape, Camera Neutral and a bunch more listed. Other times they are not there when I browse different folders of Sony Raw files. I have hit browse and went to the Camera Matching section however they are not the same and simply have Camera FL, Camera NT etc where the other one which has them in the drops down have actual names. Screenshots below, any idea?

[vapid flume]

If I am not mistaken, these are "presets" taken from the Camera's own presets. Those presets within ACR/Lightrrom are meant for you to replicate the look of the JPEGs generated by the camera (when you shoot Jpeg+RAW)

for example this is what I get when I open any random file in ACR

[frigid lagoon]

That sounds correct and what I thought it was however depending on the folder I'm browsing in Bridge, when I load a raw up in camera raw sometimes they are there and other times they are not.

Seems dependent on the folder I'm in (inside of bridge)

[vapid flume]

this is what happens when I open a RAW photo with a specific camera (ricoh)

[frigid lagoon]

Sometimes I get exactly that, other times I get a list of Camera presets. Strange..

[vapid flume]

I was meant to work on clients files reproducing what their Jpegs showed (generally over saturated with split colour shifts in Shadows/Highlights) and that was my conclusion. That said I didn't really find any straight up explanation aboutt that one. The fact that I only own one camera and rarely shoot Jpeg+Raw anyway makes the testing of that dependent of what my clients give me

So I cannot be 100% sure

I found that, I need to read it in its entirety
https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/zojw7u/profiles_in_lightroom_must_know_for_beginners/

Also, I should have asked in the community forum, but I keep forgetting. Sometimes you get the devs chimming in there and you might get other perspective

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/ct-p/ct-lightroom-classic?page=1&sort=latest_replies&lang=all&tabid=all

By the way, if you decide to ask the question, if you could share here, I'll see if I can keep an eye on the answers/highjack it 🙂

[frigid lagoon]

Is it really a Lightroom question? I'm going from Bridge to ACR to Photoshop and ACR is where the problem exists.

[vapid flume]

Yes, you can also ask it on the bridge forum, but since Lr and ACR share the same engine, you should get the same answers either way. Photographers hang more in the Lr forum so I think you'll get more luck there

Check if you get the same stuff in Lightroom so at least you'll be sure

Just create a small new temporary catalogue and see what you get

see the kind of questions people have already asked (there are more)
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/is-adobe-standard-camera-profile-really-the-same-for-all-cameras-lr-and-camera-raw/m-p/11929577#M227582

[viral palm]

I see two main problems to get a good transparency look with your png file:
1 - Your glowing effect is based on a gradient map Black to Bright orange > if you remove the black background it kills the gradient map effect.
2- Clouds renders are set to multiply to give a nice random lightning on your logo but Layers blend modes need at least one layer with visible pixel under to works ( if you don't display the black background => no black pixels to multiply with the cloud render pixel => Full cloud layer will be visible.
Your file isn't constructed in a ideal way to make it a transparent png... I would suggest you to avoid any blending mode technique for the outer glow if you want to make a transparent png (doesn't support blending modes on export) and try to make your outer glow with a wise choice of bright colors with low opacity only...
For the effect inside your text => No problem but you'll have to mask out the cloud render with a selection of your text to limit the effect inside.
I know, it's not the answer you were looking for but I just wanted to be honnest...I don't see any other way... Perhaps someone else will... Good luck

[lone oracle]

Alright, thank you for your answer though!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 661)

[brazen lion]

can anyone help me with removing this background without having to manually do it. the ai wont work as well

[fast plank]

hello does anyone know how I can open, edit and save dds files

[ripe quest]

There is no file filter for DDS included with Photoshop. It would require a third-party plugin.

[fast plank]

do you know a plug-in?

[ripe quest]

Try this: https://developer.nvidia.com/texture-tools-exporter

[ripe quest]

Note: I have not used this personally. I just know many people use this one.

[brittle goblet]

"History states" was always set to 50 and I still have only 50 CTRL+Z's?

i ONLY HAVE 2 CTRL Z'S

SO CANCER

nvm it's actually 1

[tame cape]

Which version are you using? Could it be that on your computer “Undo” is still controlled with Ctrl+Alt+Z? And Ctrl+Z toggles between Undo and Redo?

[brittle goblet]

I don't know but it's an really old one and yeah indeed Ctrl+Alt+Z works fine

[tame cape]

Exactly. That was the default setting in older versions.

[ripe quest]

Is there a question here? You can modify the number of History States.

[brittle goblet]

yeah the question was "why do i only have 1 ctrl+z even tho its set to 50?"

but i already got an answer

[ripe quest]

Just know that the higher you set that number, the Temp file Photoshop creates will be larger. Thus, you will need appropriate Scratch Disk space for that.

Not sure what "I only have 1 Ctrl Z" even means. Open the History Panel and look at the History States available there.

Do you not have Scratch Disks defined for Photoshop?

[tame cape]

He still has an old PS version with the old standard Ctrl+Z setting.
😉

[wispy nexus]

hey

i downloaded shadowify 2 plugin

does anyone know how can i preview before applying it please

[keen plume]

How do I remove cars from picture?

[tame cape]

too poor a resolution to achieve a good result. Nevertheless, here is a variant with the Remove Tool.

[keen plume]

Thank you. Still looks nice to me

[willow sphinx]

So this is a quick basic sketch on the project I want to do

Do you think the sun is where that yellow dot is? I'm having a hard time figuring out the lighting that I would have to do on the character.

[viral palm]

Hard to guess exactly the position of the sun on the original picture...There is so few shadows on this image... IMO, looking at the ice particles around your character feet, your sun doesn't look so bad.

[willow sphinx]

oh right, I didn't even think to look at those

[willow sphinx]

Thanks

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 662)

[pseudo mica]

how can i change my brush color i just trying to draw stuffs with photoshop

[willow sphinx]

You can change color using swatches as well

[fair lantern]

Hey can somebody help me edit my dff, txd modell?
I dont really know how to use these programs.
I have 2 mta skins with dff and txd model, I want to remove the first skins hair, and the second I want to change the color of the shirt

[atomic gull]

very dumb question but how do I move text?

never mind i figured it out by accident lol

[viral palm]

When you paint/draw in photoshop it could be usefull to open the color panel (set to color wheel). You just have to click on the color inside it to change your foreground color.

[orchid agate]

how could i remove the white background from this text?

[ripe quest]

Since it's just black and white, I'd just use Advanced Blending...

Pro Tip: hold the Alt key and click to split the handles.

[orchid agate]

thank you!! i never knew you could do this

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2565)

[amber arch]

What effect should i use to mąkę this bumper look morę like fender

I tired different light mixing IT didnt give effect i wanted

[fair lantern]

Hello im searching for help with 1 game skin.
I want to remove his hear and fill the hole in his head, texturing it right because its going wild for me

[willow sphinx]

How is the lighting on the character?

(I haven't done any color correction or anything I'm just working on the shading right now)

And the yellow dot is supposed to represent the light source

[viral palm]

So far so good! Highlights ans shade areas look good for me... Don't want to be picky but you perhaps could add more contrast between shades and light but I know it's a question of taste here. Good job!

[willow sphinx]

Omg you are amazing, and the gif is so helpful! Thanks a lot.

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 663)

[lyric ridge]

I want to extract only the iron bars from this picture, are there any ways to do this with efficacy? I know that I can use the brush tool but that is too slow

[willow sphinx]

You can use the magic wand tool

[lyric ridge]

where would i find that?

[willow sphinx]

Select and mask might do the trick as well

[lyric ridge]

could you explain this in more detail?

im new to ps

[willow sphinx]

Yeah sure

[willow sphinx]

So the magic wand tools selects areas of an image based on similar colors, tones, and brightness

If you click the white parts of the image with the wand, it will select all the white parts

[lyric ridge]

and how can i remove it? (or make it transparent)

[willow sphinx]

When the part you want to remove is selected you can hit the backspace button

[lyric ridge]

oh i see, thank you very much!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @willow sphinx (current: #272 - 6)

[willow sphinx]

yeah no problem, if you hold shift you can select multiple parts as well

[tame cape]

@willow sphinx
I agree with @viral palm A stronger contrast in the shadow areas of the figure is absolutely necessary.

However, there is another problem: the figure is much too big compared to the trees! If you want to incorporate the comic figure “the giant from outer space”, then the proportions are right. A human would have to be much smaller. Now everything looks unreal because of the wrong proportions - although the lighting conditions are right.
🤔

[summer violet]

Is there a way to place reference images in a PS document?

[vapid flume]

You can place them in another document and "undock" the tab they are in, so you can have both images visible, you can also set your workspace to show to images either vertically or horizontally

1st option

[summer violet]

Unlock, as in drag them out the tabs list so they hover?

[vapid flume]

Second option

[summer violet]

I see...

So if I wanted more reference images, I got to make a document for each?

[vapid flume]

click on the tab and drag the top bar (where the name is) to where you want. Now click back inside the doc you want to work on to bring back focus (so you don't accidentally work on the reference) you can also make sure your reference has its layers locked)

[summer violet]

I see, I see

[vapid flume]

Absolutely, and if you have more than 1 screen, you can drag your extra docs into the second screen

[summer violet]

Yeah options 1 and 2 are clear
What about multiple references?

Oh ok

[vapid flume]

You can have more than two, so check the menu for specifics:
Here you can go up until 6 in the same view, but you will need a hell of a big screen

[summer violet]

So from what I understand I can just open the JPGs and PNGs I got and arrange them

[vapid flume]

Yes, I do that all the time! Particularly when I need to match colours between images, it's super useful!

[summer violet]

Mhm, alright

Much appreciated!

[vapid flume]

No worries!
Again, as usual, for more info, feel free to have a proper look at the help files.
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/viewing-multiple-images.html

[summer violet]

Well, PS crashed

Hm

[summer violet]

Retrying worked

[vapid flume]

OK, I'm off for the day!
Happy new year everyone!

[celest yew]

Happy New Year to you too

[vapid flume]

https://tenor.com/view/newyear-happy-new-year-cheers-duck-cat-gif-4894378

Happy new year to Ducky as well 🙂

[celest yew]

yes, they deserve it

[ripe quest]

I can almost hear the dubstep when I watch this GIF. :D

[viral palm]

To add what @vapid flume said, Did you consider the use of artboards?
Pros: Doing so you can keep your references image in the same document (you can create a mood board on one arboard and your design on an other).
Cons: your file size will increase and artboards are a bit performance consumming.

[summer violet]

Yeah... about that, I didn't want to hinder my PC

I considered it, but I passed

[orchid agate]

i'm trying to make a design for my friend with her favorite artist, but i think it looks kinda boring

do you guys have any ideas? should i change the font?

maybe i should go for more of a magazine clipping design for the font like i did with the photos

[orchid agate]

is that better

[willow sphinx]

Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely some things up

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @tame cape (current: #20 - 109)

[short pelican]

what up chat

so i've been to a gp recently

and i was just hired to shoot around

have some fun and whatnot

and my camera chose not to focus right as i was taking an absolute gem of a shot

can anyone help me save this

[lyric sinew]

that's impossible, unless maybe you use AI upscaling, because you can't bring details into existence in Photoshop

[short pelican]

So I’m cooked

[willow sphinx]

I made the character smaller. How do you think it looks?

This was the original size

[dusk willow]

Does this server have a good place to ask for feedback on an adobe photoshop plugin that I'm building?

[willow sphinx]

Probably just general chat

[dusk willow]

Great, I went through the rules and didn't see any specifics about it. Wanted to ask here first! Thanks

[willow sphinx]

Yeah, from what I see the feedback channels are for projects specifically

[viral palm]

THat's a question of taste... Both are ok, It depends how giant you want the character to be.
By the way love the glowing clock! Nice job!

[willow sphinx]

Sounds good, and thanks!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 664)

[ember sorrel]

why do my brushes look all the same?

[viral palm]

Are they custom made brushes?

[ember sorrel]

i'm guessing yeah i downloaded an .abr file for them

[viral palm]

Sometimes, depending the brushes shapes Stroke preview can be similar... You can turn off the stroke preview if you want to compare the brushes shapes.(I show you how on the short video)... Good to know : if you have loaded several times the same abr file photoshop doesn't overwrite the brushes so it's possible the same brush has mulpiple copies.

[nova cedar]

Hey, I wanna apply a lens blur on my drawing but want the center still in focus. How can I exclude the focal point from the filter?

[ember sorrel]

oh great thank you!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 665)

[wary lake]

so let's say i have a bar, similar to a loading bar. but i want to cut it into 365 equal sized separate layers. is this possible quickly?

[zealous venture]

Hey, does anyone know why I can't login?

I was trying to post at the forums, but I can't login to do so...

It's been like this for a few days iirc

Tried different browsers with the same result

I might try a vpn maybe?

[white dome]

Hey guys, I got some pictures of mostly nature that I want to edit to make the quality and colors better. I'm using Adobe lightroom and can't get it exactly how I wanted them. Could someone help me out with the edits/ presets? Dm if you can

[ripe quest]

Opera isn't supported. Try Chrome.

[zealous venture]

I'm using firefox

And for some reason I can login in my phone

But I can't even download CC

Because you need to sign in first...

[ripe quest]

I just tried and the service seems to be working. https://account.adobe.com/?lang=en

[ripe quest]

If this persists, you may need to contact Adobe Customer Care.

[zealous venture]

restarted my machine and it worked again

smh

[ripe quest]

Cool. Glad you got it sorted out.

[coarse elm]

I'm having a similar issue to the one above. Restarting my PC has not fixed the issue and I'm at a loss. I'm getting Error Code: 206, server disconnection, but there doesn't seem to be any reason for it.

[ripe quest]

Open the CC app and sign out. Then restart the PC. This go back to the CC app and see if you can sign back in.

[fallow folio]

im trying to edit this photo: i took yesterday and i havent used photoshop for like a year. any ideas on how i could make it look cool?

[coarse elm]

The problem is that I'm installing it and getting the error, as in, I can't even install the app

[nocturne cairn]

"Cool" can mean a lot of things. Are you thinking of using it anywhere in particular?

[winged mountain]

can someone help me with an strange issue?

when opening any menu, like pressing ctrl K, or creating a new layer my app just freezes and makes the windows beep sound whenever I try to click on anything

I've never had something even close to this before

[ripe quest]

Try pressing the Enter key and or changing tools. Click on the Move Tool.

[versed elbow]

Hey guys, i'm trying to make a basketball graphic and I want to make like the background to be the city of the team and i want to make it like there is a court and a player is on it, but I am not sure how to make it look alright. I have attached a picture of an example. Can anybody help me? I am just not sure how to make the court.

[frail moon]

happy new yeay 2025 !!! guy's
Hi i need some help ... for some kind of simple beginner work.

see the H and the ç ? i want to get rid of it but i want to keep the lines. So step 1 I removed the letters (select by color panel + shift +f5) . step 2 I have added the lines, the pattern is based on a circles centered concentrically so I have cut and pasted in the back of the main pic and rotated the pasted the pic by moving the anchor point at the center of the pattern.

step 3 same on the other side for symmetry then erased the useless parts. and make a nice joint but now I have a problem that's where i need help.

we still can see the changes the the lines the the pasted pics. and the colors variation mess up the illusion.

is some kind of automatic tech to fix it it need need to be not visible like "wow I didn't know there was a H there ?"

[royal birch]

hey guys
i wanna ask how can i make the road black or gray like that and the focal point red etc

[viral palm]

You can use clone stamp tool or Generative fill feature

[viral palm]

Not sure to understand... The road is already gray... Are you asking how to do the same than the picture shared?

[royal birch]

Ok lets say the road gray alr i want to change the color of road in other color i can?

[dapper scroll]

whats the name of this font

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955886864194240513/1212448232467202068/cooltext453154377500825.gif

i cant find

[viral palm]

You can add a layer above> set its blend mode to "color"> paint the color you want> play with opacity if needed.
Note: My exemple is a rough sketch to illustrate my words... Is it the effect you're looking for?

[grizzled spade]

How do i convert the image to sketch pls help like the one given

I'm a total rookie

[tame cape]

Ok.
I didn't know that you posted in several channels at the same time. Here is my solution with generative fill.
#💬chat-general message

[viral palm]

Try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgWDoQoXFto&list=PLxnU1cisTgXOiFfSmXuJNb_9r8oDHrpLd&index=76

[grizzled spade]

okies sir

[grizzled spade]

How do i know the width and height of my image?

Is it 900x900?

[winged mountain]

does not work

I'm dumb as hell lol

the window was opening on my other monitor which was turned off

[viral palm]

Yes your image is 900x900 pixels.

When your image is open in photoshop you also have a quick access to this info here

[grizzled spade]

Oh ok, I tried and followed the steps in the video but didn't get it as good I can share the psd and stuff here u can take a quick look over it please?

I think I didn't have the same result since i used a different resolution

10mb limit without nitro

https://we.tl/t-I97DfuZxWb

Here is we transfer 88mb file due to psd

I followed all the steps, but this is what i got and his thumbnail is so dope

[floral umbra]

can someone help me ?
How do I make this image, but with another flag ? (one that isnt just lines). Is there a tool for this type of thing ?

[earnest goblet]

perspective tool

[floral umbra]

but how

do I cut a part of the flag into the side of the pyramid ?

or how

[earnest goblet]

yeah

[floral umbra]

like this ?

[earnest goblet]

ummm not really

match the perspective first

[floral umbra]

?

oh ok

on the pyramids themselves

[earnest goblet]

NO

wait

[floral umbra]

ok

[earnest goblet]

ctrl+j

and do the other side

[floral umbra]

what tool do i need to hold for this

[earnest goblet]

select it and ctrl+T

[floral umbra]

it doesnt let me edit only 1 corner

[earnest goblet]

use distort then

[floral umbra]

its edges arent straight lol

[earnest goblet]

lmao

I gotta go try to figure it out yourself or wait for someone else

[floral umbra]

?

u mean you ?

"You gotta go" ?

[earnest goblet]

I gotta go,

[floral umbra]

oh ok

thx for the help anyways

[grizzled spade]

Helppppp

[viral palm]

You could have to play with settings to get the expected result... Settings used in the tutorial are for the used images each image has its own parameters... Try different pattern scales and Blend if settings... You are the only one who knows how intense you want the effect to be. Be aware that scales used are file resolution dependant so if your image is smaller you have to adjust your settings.

[grizzled spade]

I tried changing them, but ig as i said I'm a rookie, I don't understand how each parameter effect the other one, and hence able to not understand what is going on with my image

[fast sorrel]

I am trying to undersatnd how i can use creative cloud as a backup solution. I seems that files cannot be accessed locally, in order to create an external hard drive backup, unless i want to do them one-by-one? Is this true?

[hexed vapor]

Hello! Im a complete beginner in PS! I want this picture to look realistic! How can i colour grade myself more fitting to the background? And how is it possible to mask out the firework sparks? have a good one thanks!

[hushed niche]

With so much noise, you must look at the image at 100% magnification, CTRL+1

[grizzled spade]

I'm on Mac so it's command + 1?

There we go

[hushed niche]

What is the size of his image in the tutorial?

[hushed niche]

Hi, besides for your Lightroom pictures, creative cloud was not a backup but a syncing solution, and that part has been discontinued: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/file-storage-quota.html

Real backup solutions are places like backblaze.

[hushed niche]

There are some tips for good composites: https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/photoshop-tips-to-make-your-composites-more-realistic/ or https://www.youtube.com/live/p_NRtWcajdw?si=wfz1uWahqLqoxPsU

[grizzled spade]

In the tutorial he has size at 3000x2500 pixels
Whereas I have it at 900x900 pixels

[tame cape]

Try the tut again - with this image

[royal birch]

yea tyty<3

[fast sorrel]

In its new form, it is solely as a sync across multiple devices and when a true backup is needed, the files must be downloaded individually? For an non-enterprise user? I hope i am making sense. As it stands now, I do not see how i can use "place linked" in the creative cloud files.
Also, what does "Make available offline always" mean, now?

thank you for your knowlege here.

[finite oriole]

Hey all. I’m fairly new to photoshop im very beginner, I’ve dabbled in it for years. Just not serious projects.

I have a question, I want to take 2 photos and have them kinda merge half and half with a slash in the middle like / kinda slash. I use iPad photoshop. Please help if possible! Thanks

[finite oriole]

Like this

[cosmic scroll]

That's a pretty straightforward use of "masking". Basically a mask is how you tell photoshop what parts of the image to show vs hide. So say image 2's layer is above image 1. You'd select the part you want to show, then hit the mask button. It would create a mask that makes only the previously selected part visible.
I'm not sure how to do it on the ipad version specifically though, it looks like it might not have the polygonal lasso tool for example for selecting straight lines

[gleaming ermine]

Is there a "magic" selection tool? That selects the pixels of the color I click on and then I can adjust some tolerance for deviation from that color to include in the selection

nvm

I found it. It's W for magic wand

[cosmic scroll]

Yea there's the "magic wand" tool, but you might also want to be aware of the Select > Select Color Range menu

[gleaming ermine]

Now I want to delete the selected pixels, so I press Delete. But photoshop doesn't only delete the selected pixel, it also changes the transparency of some pixels outside of the selection? How do I completely disable that feature?

[cosmic scroll]

I believe behind the scenes a selection isn't simply yes/no selected per pixel, but a range. A selection of a pixel might be for example 50% selected, and if you hit delete, it would basically make it half transparent. And the 'marching ants' which shows what is selected will only show when it's above a certain threshold, so there might be some pixels that are only partly selected below whatever threshold (might be 50%), but still will be changed if you hit delete

[gleaming ermine]

?

what on earth

that can't be right. There has to be a way to just disable all of that

I have some pixel selected. I want to clear them. The end.

How to? 😁

[storm path]

Any assistance with why the PSD looks like this?

[cosmic scroll]

I would use Select Color Range and set the "Fuzziness" to zero, that would make it so anything that gets selected would be "fully" selected. You can hold shift to select multiple colors.

Actually you can also try unchecking "anti-alias" on the magic wand tool options

[gleaming ermine]

alright, so it was the "anti-aliasing" check that had to be cleared. It wasn't showing before because I had used W key to get to the tool. When you do that the magic wand tools toolbar is NOT displayed at the top, because it was actually another tool selected "object selection tool". All of the tools under the button has the "W" key assigned, so therefore the anti-aliasing check box wasn't shown because magix and wasn't chosen. After I right-clicked on the fourth button on the global left menu I could click directly on the Magic Wand tool, thereby making the Magic wand tools toolbar appear at the top of Photoshop, which causes the "anti-aliasing" check box to be exposed on the user interface.

[cosmic scroll]

Ah ok good to know the anti-alias option worked. I realized it basically just as you posted that lol

[gleaming ermine]

yeah I also wasn't using the correct tool, since W key only activates the top-most tool in under the global button, which wasn't the magic wand, but instead the object selection tool.

Why nothing happens when I try to flip this?

I click on "Flip horizontal" and nothing happens, it is not flipped.

I first make select around the graphic. Then I right click and choose transform selection. Then I choose Flip Horizontal. Nothing happens though?

ok nevermind. it has to be done at a layer level. So with the layer selected choose Edit -> Transform -> Flip Horizontally

[cosmic scroll]

Oh yea turns out the "transform selection" > flip horizontal is literally flipping the selection box, not the pixels that are selected, if that makes sense. But since a rectangle is symmetrical it ends up being the same. If you were to hit the flip button while transforming a selection like this it would be more obvious:

[tidal olive]

hey pretty new to photoshop, just wondering how does one do this effect

[storm path]

Any assistance?

[cosmic scroll]

You'll need to be more specific, not sure what you mean by "like this".

[tidal olive]

?

[cosmic scroll]

I'd try making a black and white adjustment layer first. Then make another 'levels' adjustment layer and play around with the sliders

[tidal olive]

ok

[young prairie]

What is the brush used in these ink splatters? And are the faint background objects just images with under an overlay filter?

[storm path]

The file is evidently corrupted. How do I rectify that?

[modest shale]

Hey everyone.. So, I'm looking for someone expierenced in photoshop. I'm a real estate agent looking to have business cards designed. I am willing to pay for the designs if they come out good. If anyone is up for the challenege let me know!

[ebon plume]

Anyone know how I can become better at digital drawings? Any free courses available? If so, please share. I am mainly interested in working in fresco but I know alot of people are also using procreate.

[misty moat]

any one know how to change the white part of the feathers?

[devout bobcat]

Does anyone know where I can find this pile of US cash or something very similar?

[viral palm]

Since your image is Black and white you can simply paint on a layer with its blending mode set to Multiply.

[misty moat]

thanks

[viral palm]

You can try on Adobe stock, there is a free section.
https://stock.adobe.com/free
I had few interresting results with a "us bills pile" search...(If you have budget you also can search on regular adobe stock)

[devout bobcat]

I will try it

[river otter]

Hi guys, I want to blend these images(get rid of the lines in between them) how do I do this?

[devout bobcat]

Mabey try generative fill?

[river otter]

what is that

[devout bobcat]

The AI feature in Adobe Photoshop

[river otter]

ok where can i find it

[devout bobcat]

When u make a selection of the line you should see a dialog box with the word generative fill somewhere do you see it?

[river otter]

ok i see it, trying it out now

didnt work.

[surreal granite]

why is the triangle shape larger than the others? they are all 250x250 pixels

[misty moat]

any one know how to do an embroidery effect like on the first pic

[surreal granite]

right click on layer -> blending options -> bevel & emboss

[grizzled spade]

okies

[misty moat]

it does not do the texture of the first pic its not the same

[viral palm]

That<s because of the sharp angle when the the "align" option of the stroke is set to "center" or "Outside"... If you set the align option to "inside" all 3 shapes will have the same height... If you want to keep the align option to "center' or "outside" you'll need to adjust your triangle.

[surreal granite]

in all the iterations of the shape variation of the logo, the circle is always closer to the triangle than the square

its weird fr

[reef fable]

hey

any one know how can reproduce the gradient of this pokemon card? i tried but it's trash
if anyone can do it for me or explain how to make it

[river otter]

can anyone here tell me how to blend images in PS?

[sweet field]

There's many ways to do it, so the exact way will depend on what exactly you need

[sweet field]

I think you're just missing more colors in it. There's a bit of yellow and blue that you don't have in your gradient, for example.

[river otter]

just want the line between the pictures to be more of a blend/gradient between them.

[reef fable]

thx ! yeah but where ?

i can't manage to get right

[misty moat]

.

[river otter]

but yeah @sweet field can't quite figure it out, used the gradient tool, layer masks, generative fill. none of it seems to really work. tried to follow youtube tutorials as well

for context im trying to make a youtube banner.

[sweet field]

What you can try is merging the pictures together into one layer, then selecting the parts where they connect so there's a bit of an overlap, and then using blur on that selection. Either gausian or motion blur, depending on what you want out of it.

[sweet field]

Just where they are in the original should work. Are you trying to do the background of the pokemon itself? Because the pokemon also has an effect that is more like a freeform gradient in Illustrator. I suggest maybe trying that? However the gradients in the illustration follow the shape of the pokemon, so I'm not sure what you would do in a flat image. Those seem to be done with a soft brush and selections, as well

[reef fable]

thx again for the awesome help

but i changed my mind and made different since i can't get it right !

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @sweet field (current: #23 - 98)

[river otter]

i suppose that works... i wanted more of a natural blend like this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkZNNU_47ng. sad part is it just paints the entire damn thing white.

idk how all these people are doing it and why it isnt working for me, i follow the stuff step by step.

[plain root]

Hey, Im trying to find a way to seperate my project into four parts that intercect with a circle in the middle. can anyone help me with this?

[coarse elm]

I keep getting stuck in the sign in loop. I cant even install PS or CC since I can't sign in.

[bronze marsh]

What's a good method to paint realistic highlights that aren't hazy? Currently using paintbrush and hue and saturation inverse coloriez trick

[bronze marsh]

sign in on the creative cloud app itself

as well as the website

[coarse elm]

The problem is that I can’t download the app

[bronze marsh]

huh weird

[coarse elm]

The installer requires you to sign in, which I can’t do

It’s whatever I canceled my sub and got a refund

[willow trench]

attempting to resize a text box to fit the text results in the layer underneath being selected and the box staying the same size. Any idea why? (I should note that the direction in which I am resizing is horizontal)

Edit: Deleted the original message so I could add this gif that perfectly explains what I mean

[grizzled spade]

I tried the whole tut again, this is the result

Please help

[grizzled spade]

us moment 🫂

[buoyant sonnet]

hey i’m new to photoshop but would love to learn more, im interested in making cover art for music but im unsure of how.. could someone help me learn?

[vapid flume]

You need to learn the software first to be honest, what you wnt to do later will depend on the foundations you have learned at first.
Best thing is to head over help>hands-on tutorials in Photoshop and start from there. You will learn all the basics such as selections, masks and colour correction.
Note that depending what you need to do it can take a while to learn it all (I'm still learning after more than 20 years) so patient and perseverance is key. Good luck!

[grizzled spade]

@vapid flume Help

[vapid flume]

I saw yesterday that you got a lot of help from other people and you've been at it for quite a long time. I didn't follow the full conversation, so I will leave that to the people who know a bit more.
The only thing I can say in regards to the results you have is that following tutorials step by step can be a bit tricky unless you have exactly the same image dimensions, as some filters results depend on the size, so it could be your issue. When a tutorial is good they explain you why you get such results as well as how. If you keep following a tutorial to the letter and don't get the same results, then more often than not (and provided that you didn't skip any step) it means that you need to try a similar tutorial but better explained

You'd be astonished by the number of VERY BAD tutorials out there (and I'm not even talking about those who teach BS as well)

Being on YouTube isn't a licence to teach 🙂

[vapid flume]

Difficult to say but it looks more like you accidentally grab the shape underneath your text instead than your text box. Try to lock the shape layer to see if that's the issue. I can see the focus switching from your text layer to your shape at one point so that what gave me the hint. (Just throwing this here)

[willow trench]

I ended up deleting the layer and using a point text layer instead. I'll try this next time I encounter this issue again (this is not the first time)

[vapid flume]

Text boxes are best when you need to align to other design elements (in Photoshop, other software work differently) so that's a good switch.
TBH, text features in Photoshop lack a bit, so it can be tricky compared to, say, Illustrator

[vapid flume]

You should be able to convert a text area to a point text layer though. Let me check

[willow trench]

I can do it from point text to paragraph but not vice versa from the amount of times I've right clicked the text layer lol

nvm, I see the option now

[vapid flume]

Should work with a right click

[willow trench]

Just tried it with a layer in a nested group (4 groups deep) and the option isn't there. Take it out of the nested group and it can be converted. Very strange behavior tbh

Could it have to do with it being copy-pasted?

Just tested that theory

Yes it is

New text layers can be converted back and forth. Copy-pasted text layers cannot

[grizzled spade]

Hmm Someone helped me with the image dimension they changed it to as same as the tutorial but i still couldn't get the best results

This is my last piece that i did, From another tutorial

[willow trench]

Very goofy (and kind of annoying) behavior

[vapid flume]

That's new to me! You learn every day 🙂
But then I don't use that much the text features in Photoshop, so I might have overlooked it.

[willow trench]

glad I could inadvertently teach you something about PS :)

[vapid flume]

Don't worry, I learn a lot being here 🙂 That's one of the reason I'm here!

[distant hearth]

Hello, I'm new to the server, and I'm a pretty experienced photoshop user, but as of late the program has had terrible perfomance problems that I have no idea how to fix, could someone help me?

[willow trench]

what kind of performance problems? FPS lag or slow file reading?

[vapid flume]

Well difficult to say without more info, but having shared this link on numerous occasions here, I know it had helped a lot of people
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html

[distant hearth]

fps lag most definitely, anything I do has changed nothing, I even went into a previous nvidia studio driver and still nothing

[distant hearth]

I was on here earlier and nothing helped, I have an RTX 4070 with an Intel 13th gen i9 and 32 gb of ram

I doubt it's an issue with specs

[vapid flume]

Yes, but there could be an issue about how the PS is set up, and that's explained in the link

I have a similar set up as yours and have no issues

[distant hearth]

I have never had issues with photoshop performance wise until now, it's only been a recent thing

[vapid flume]

Maybe following an update?

[distant hearth]

I'll definitely check if I missed anything, thanks

[vapid flume]

things get changed and preferences can disapear

[willow trench]

@distant hearth Does your CPU have integrated graphics? If so, see if PS is set to use them instead of NVIDIA GPU

[distant hearth]

the first time I had this issue this was the solution, but this time it does seem to be using my nvidia gpu, so I have no idea what to do

[vapid flume]

First port of call is to check here if you haven't already

Edit>preferences>performance

[distant hearth]

I've messed with this menu all night, no changes

[willow trench]

how much RAM is allocated to PS?

[distant hearth]

I have it set to 70

[vapid flume]

Have you considered a RAM issue? (I had one with my previous PC, Photoshop was the app most affected, I ended up changing one Ram bar)

[willow trench]

what do you have for the advanced GPU settings?

[vapid flume]

Nothing unusual

[willow trench]

I meant Andy lol

[vapid flume]

OK

[distant hearth]

same as this

[willow trench]

ok, so nothing different across all 3 of us

does seem like a RAM hardware issue

[vapid flume]

Also just one thing, I know it concerns 3D in the Nvidia settings panel (not the GEForce panel) but check how things are set up. I know I was easily carried away changing things here, and there are various contradictory advice on Youtube about what to do here
I'm not technical by any means and ended up resetting the whole thing.

You can check the settings by app (in the drop down menu) see if there isn't anything untowards

[distant hearth]

although when opening my task manager

I'm noticing something

although photoshop says it's using my gpu

I think it's still using my integrated graphics

[willow trench]

relevant question: what size documents you working with?

[distant hearth]

1920x1080 300dpi

doesn't matter what you change it to tho, still performs the same

[willow trench]

what if you set the global setting to use the NVIDIA GPU in the NVIDIA Control Panel?

[distant hearth]

attempting that now

originally it was on auto select

for global

still the same unfortunately

should I restore?

[willow trench]

sounds like the only thing left to do at the moment. If that doesn't work, it might be a physical issue with a RAM stick

at that point, you'd have to do a memory test on your PC

if it comes to it, check the memory using the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool

when doing the RAM test, remove all but one of the sticks and run the diagnostic tool. After the test concludes, if there are no errors, swap the stick for another. Repeat until all have been tested (making a pile for the tested sticks and the faulty sticks if there any)

more details in testing for faulty RAM here

that link will take you to a help article from corsair

if you need the link for memtest86 as described in the help article, here it is
https://www.memtest86.com/

[distant hearth]

oh my god

I figured it out

I was right

even though it said I was using the gpu

it was running on integrated graphics the entire time

[willow trench]

so switching it to global NVIDIA worked?

[distant hearth]

no, I had to change the power mode on my computer to basically turn off the integrated graphics

so photoshop would basically force itself to run on gpu

wow

[willow trench]

that was way too unnecessary of a fix lol

it should not have required that much effort

[distant hearth]

that's what I'm saying, not sure why it had to be taken so far

[vapid flume]

Good news in the end 🙂

[distant hearth]

well it's running great now

I appreciate all the help in the end

[vapid flume]

THanks for the help @willow trench

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @willow trench (current: #958 - 1)

[willow trench]

I just set the NVIDIA control panel to use the RTX 3070 in global and that was good enough. I had slow reading issues and just had to assign the D: drive as the scratch disk

[willow trench]

np

[distant hearth]

I've had this issue before, and doing this was the fix, but for some reason, it wouldn't change this time around

I appreciate all the help from @willow trench and @vapid flume

thank you all so much!

[grizzled spade]

Can someone help me on how i can recreate this digitally on Photoshop ☺️

[willow trench]

completely random question for Sandrine lol

is the ine pronounced een or like pine?

[clever hollow]

can someone help me in dms

[vapid flume]

een 🙂

[grizzled spade]

@willow trench

[vapid flume]

and eeneuh if you're from the south 😁

[grizzled spade]

what south? Specify/Elaborate

[vapid flume]

It's one of those things that isn't really well rendered in English

[vapid flume]

Have you tried running a wikipedia search?

[grizzled spade]

renedred is a word?

[grizzled spade]

😵‍💫

[vapid flume]

Sorry babe, English isn't my first language and I type too fast. Edit is my friend

[willow trench]

corrected to rendered, meanwhile I thought she meant "remembered" lol

[vapid flume]

South of France? MAYBE?

[grizzled spade]

That's better

All u had to do was specifiy what south u talking about

[vapid flume]

Better than what? It could have been South America for all that you know? (which would have been kinda similar)

[grizzled spade]

🤦‍♂️ Please protect me (Protector of men)

[willow trench]

meanwhile I'm thinking the American south lol

[grizzled spade]

💀 "South of france" is better than "South"

[grizzled spade]

us bro us, that's why i asked her to be specific

[vapid flume]

FFS, a quick search would have been better if you were so hyped up about it, I was trying to make a light hearted comment

[grizzled spade]

🤫

Don't chat here

[vapid flume]

OK, I'm off for today anyway

[grizzled spade]

.

[vapid flume]

Have a nice day everyone!

[willow trench]

you too!

[grizzled spade]

Thnx for all the help

[grizzled spade]

Help please

[grizzled spade]

Repost :- I need help recreating this on Photoshop so that I can use it as a Wallpaper in My Bedroom please help and suggest i have no idea how to do it, also the image or the text in the left is in SVG format

[waxen crystal]

can any experts help me with something very simple?

jus need help blending two colors together better

devansh whats with the emohis

[gleaming ermine]

I forgot how can I display the x,y position of the mouse cursor in the document?

[ripe quest]

@grizzled spade Yes. Please stop with the emojis.

[ripe quest]

Main menu: Window > Info

[waxen crystal]

@ripe quest any way u could help me out?

[ripe quest]

Maybe. Feel free to provide a better description of the issue.

[waxen crystal]

i need help blending two different colors with like a sharp edge

like its obvious that its not blended if that makes sense

[ripe quest]

I don't know what this means.

[waxen crystal]

do you see how you can clearly see a difference

i want it to be a smooth blend

[willow trench]

so a full gradient?

[ripe quest]

You can make a selection of the area and try using a blur...

[waxen crystal]

yes

[ripe quest]

Or you can create a Shape and assign a gradient to it.

[waxen crystal]

it was originally a gradient but i didnt like the brightness so i selected an area and manually edited the color, but now u can clearly see the line

[willow trench]

so did you want to make it more transparent?

[waxen crystal]

no, just want to remove the line

like you can kinda see a clear line diving the colors

[willow trench]

undo the change you made to the middle

[gleaming ermine]

Thank you. Is there any to ONLY show x,y position so that I can undock the window and make the window small and put it somewhere else? It takes up a lot of space just for me to see the coordinates...

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2566)

[waxen crystal]

it was too long ago

[willow trench]

you'll have to remove the gradient effect then and make a new gradient of the same colors

if you straight up painted on the layer, you'll have to delete it and make it again

[gleaming ermine]

Size of coordinates is like 1% of the info window, I don't need anything else than the x,y coordinates

[waxen crystal]

didnt paint, just like selected a portion and adjusted the brightness and stuff

[willow trench]

did you try selecting the exact area again and messing with the brightness again?

[waxen crystal]

yes, but the problem is that i want the brightness

like the brightness is what makes the color look better

[gleaming ermine]

Is there maybe a script to change the UI to display only cursor x,y in the bottom left corner for example right next to the zoom level? There's an unused bit of interface that it would fit in just perfectly

[ripe quest]

I don't think there is any other way to conveniently display that. Maybe you could script your own plugin to do it. Not trivial and a lot of work since the Info Panel already does this.

[ripe quest]

You'd have to search for that online. I don't know of anything like that offhand.

[gleaming ermine]

Can I check what color is on a fully transparent pixel?

[ripe quest]

"Check?" You can sample a color with the Eyedropper Tool and then look at its values.

[gleaming ermine]

No, that doesn't work. I use eyedropper tool on a fully transparent pixel and it gets nothing

[ripe quest]

A fully transparent pixel is transparent. There is no color value.

[gleaming ermine]

Maybe that is the case in the photoshop interface. But an image will have color channels. The alpha channel may be set to 0 so that you can't see the colors, but the color channels still have values

So Im looking how to check what color values photoshop will put into the transparent pixels when exporting an png for example

[grizzled spade]

hellpppp

[gleaming ermine]

Can you drag and drop svg into photoshop?

[willow trench]

yeah so unless the whole thing is made brighter or whatever you did to that section, the line is going to be obvious. I was trying to figure out exactly what you did and from my own testing, the only way is to revert it by either removing and remaking the gradient or undoing (which you stated you can't do). Messing with only a portion of the gradient will lead to revealing the exact point where it transitions

[ember sparrow]

Why can't I pain with the brush here?

I made an empty layer

[ripe quest]

The tool you have selected is the Eraser Tool.

[gleaming ermine]

Seems that I will have to use GIMP on the export PNG

[ember sparrow]

ok, i'm blind actually

[willow trench]

try clicking the icon under the eye dropper /j

[ripe quest]

OK. What am I supposed to take away from this video? Why are you posting it here?

[waxen crystal]

hmm okay, so you cant really think of any ways to maybe make it less obvious?

[willow trench]

not really, no

[ripe quest]

Please use #💬chat-general for project requests. @clever hollow

[willow trench]

at least other than messing with the brightness adjustment layer that should've been created if you did the way I did (under Adjustments)

[gleaming ermine]

GIMP can get the color of transparent pixels, but photoshop can't. (apparantly. maybe you knew of a way to do it in photoshop too. Or maybe photoshop just isn't capable of doing that).

[clever hollow]

sure

[ripe quest]

OK. Good luck with Gimp then. Sorry we couldn't help you there.

[gleaming ermine]

hmm,, alright thanks for you honest wish of good luck for me. I wish you a nice day and good fortune with photoshop 🙂

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2567)

[tame cape]

As D.Humann already said:
Photoshop shows you the color values down to 1% opacity. At 0% opacity it is completely transparent. This means that there is no color information.

[rancid shuttle]

hello, I would like some help please to change the exact color however the base background is red and I would like to change the color in the hue/saturation in my slaps with a specific color, as you see the background color is different. Thank you in advance for your help

[wild spear]

Can you tell me how it can be fixed?

[stark wharf]

What are you referring to?

[wild spear]

How can I do that?)

[tame cape]

This depends on your Photoshop version and your knowledge.

e.g.
Remove tool
Generative Fill
Clone Stamp
Combination of other retouching tools

But once again the question: What is it actually? Torn pants?

[gleaming ermine]

Actually a png has color values on the color channels also for fully transparent pixels (alpha channel with a value of 0). But photoshop seems to not display that information for pixels that are fully transparent. Gimp does. If photoshop does have a way to display the values of the color channels of transparent pixels that'd be wonderful. But so far it seems the program is designed to hide it.

[wild spear]

It's a torn jacket elbow.

[ripe quest]

Yes. Pixels can have R, G, B, A values. However, the Eyedropper Tool is a sampling tool. Its not "designed to hide it." The tool wasn't designed to interrogate pixels in a PNG file.

[ripe quest]

If you like, you can go onto the Ps Community Forum and make a feature request to add that capability to Photoshop. Maybe there will be enough interest to add it. In the meantime, you can write your own script or UXP plugin to enable that feature. The latter are not trivial endeavors.

[ripe quest]

I would try just painting over the area with the Remove Tool.

[ripe quest]

I would try to completely remove the background. Then create a new one. Attemping to match semi-transparent pixels with a solid color fill might get tedious.

[rancid shuttle]

ok thank you, how do you change the shade of a color then?

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @ripe quest (current: #3 - 2569)

[gleaming ermine]

interrogate pixels

Thanks for the suggestions D. Humann 🙏

[ivory panther]

can anyone help me

indesign program

after i turn off the hpnenate the text is missing

[tame cape]

Hi @ivory panther
Use a standard dummy text **with spaces **or use wider frames.

Background:
If your typed number of characters exceeds the length of the frame, there are no spaces and hyphenation is switched off, then the whole “word” “disappears” in the overset text.

[ivory panther]

help me bro

missing

[tame cape]

Did you read my post?
🤔
Also use spaces.

[ivory panther]

pliss i dont understand😭🙏🏻

any utube tutorial🙏🏻🥹

[tame cape]

Why?
Do not enter overlong “meaningless words”. Use normal words separated by spaces.

Or use the dummy text function:
Menu: Type -> Placeholder text

[ivory panther]

ouuu i got ittt

thank u very muchhh

🥹🥹🥹

sory my english is bad

thank uuu @tame cape

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @tame cape (current: #20 - 110)

[ivory panther]

🙏🏻

[finite oriole]

Can someone explain how to do this for me. On iPad

[ripe quest]

Make a new Layer and fill it with a Color. Then Transform and skew it on an angle. Then "clip" the image to the Color Fill Layer with the Clipping Mask.

[ripe quest]

I'll try to record the process if you want or can't figure out what I'm suggesting.

[finite oriole]

I’ve never seen it done like this before. That’s cool. I’ll try it out

[ripe quest]

It's just a Clipping Mask. Given your use-case, this is probably the easiest method on iPad. :)

[grizzled spade]

How can i make smth of this sort of neon for this image?

[neon ridge]

I need help removing a blur that overlays on an animal when I had taken the photograph I didnt see the blurred piece of grass overlaying on the animals chin
I know how to remove hard objects in the way most times, but it becomes a lot more difficult when its blurred

You can see the green blue over laying the SL

[neon ridge]

Additionally is there anyway to have two tabs of the same image up at the same time when working on something in my example:

I am zoomed up super removing tiny details on a bear I caught last week, but I also want to see the image as a whole on my second monitor both being updated in real time yk

Note: Figured it out nvm

[tame cape]

Note: Figured it out nvm
To answer this question for others as well:
Menu: Window -> Arrange -> New Window for ...
opens a second window in 100% view

[gloomy wadi]

Hey id like to make something like the picture sent, i have a player pic and textures overlay but im new to such photoshop editing and i don't really understand how they did to blend the player picture so well with the overall color. I tried some lil tweaks like blending options but i just cant find a way to do something as clean as this
Thank you if anyone helps me :)

[floral umbra]

can someone help pls

[viral palm]

I think the player picture has been made with a gradient map.

[tidal olive]

dms

[gloomy wadi]

that's it! thank you so much for replying with a video as well, really again thank you 🙏

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 666)

[tame cape]

In addition to the good tip from @viral palm:
Use a multicolored gradient and a few effects (or an overlaying pattern) to “refine” the result even more. @gloomy wadi

[neon ridge]

I know how to remove backgrounds, but it becomes a struggle when its a super hairy subject. Any ideas/advice? tryna make a solid black background

for this photograph

I could probably cut out most of his top scruffy hair as its not needed

problem mostly lies around the neck area and sides

[river otter]

yo anyway I can blend these two layers so it looks natural?

[serene coral]

Yes, use layer masks!

[serene coral]

Have you tried anything already? Can you share the results?

[neon ridge]

Not anymore sorry I didnt save because I got frustrated and moved onto to the next one hahah, I tried using quick selection, select subject and I also tried playing around with the lighting but I couldnt get anything accurate enough because of how hairy the guy is

[sour marsh]

I'd recommend finding / making a hair brush. Very helpful for all sorts of things, not specifically limited to hair.

[pastel ermine]

anyone know why this is grayed out? I've just noticed, not used it in a while. NO IDEA why it'd be disabled, doesn't light up for any of the text in my project

[ripe quest]

Type has to be selected. Not just active in the Layer Panel...

[pastel ermine]

wow, thank you. Is that a new thing? I don't remember that being a thing before.

[ripe quest]

You could also just transform it with the standard Transform(ers). Edit > Transform > Scale, Rotate, Warp, etc. However, if you go that route, I'd convert it to a Smart Object first.

[pastel ermine]

indeed, I wanted to scoop it up from the base, like the netflix logo, so needed the text transform to do it nicely. Thanks again 🙂

[royal birch]

HEY guys i wanna ask
How can I put edges on a picture or building like this picture?

[pastel ermine]

the stroke function?

[ripe quest]

Dbl-click on the Layer (an empty part of the layer) in the Layers Panel and add a Stroke Layer Style. Choose a Stroke Weight and Color.

[royal birch]

tysm <3<3

[thick zenith]

Anyone know how to make a 2d vtuber avatar i'm trying to make my first one but im a beginer in need of assistance

I will be in vc to screen scare

[pastel ermine]

better to use a software like animaze and figure out how to reskin the 2d avatars in that.

[thick zenith]

i dont know how to get the 2d avatars from animaze

TwT

[ripe quest]

There dozens of engines to generate something. Generate a character and tweak to suit your tastes/needs.

[thick zenith]

ooo! like what?

:D

[ripe quest]

Uh. Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Firefly. heh

[thick zenith]

im trying to use photoshop

ngl i've only used ilistrator for school

[ripe quest]

What sort of character are you trying to make?

[thick zenith]

a human

:3

with brown eyes and brown hair

[ripe quest]

OK. Say more.

[thick zenith]

uh

[ripe quest]

Realistic, illustrated? What style?

[thick zenith]

anime

Wearing a black shirt that says AK. with white text and a red period

[ripe quest]

So anime, you'll probably want to use something other than Adobe apps. Adobe doesn't scrape (steal) images from the Internet so their anime generation isn't great.

[thick zenith]

in the right corner of the shirt

[ripe quest]

I would generate the image witout the text and add that later with Photoshop.

[young prairie]

Can anyone point me towards some good Youtube tutorials to replicate this type of artwork?

[ripe quest]

Seems like this is just black and white illustrations with paint splatter underneath it... (?)

[young prairie]

omg they have to be b/w, no wonder mines look faded

[royal birch]

W moderators ngl

[ripe quest]

I whipped this up quick...

[thick zenith]

Cute!!

[ripe quest]

I'm not sure what you're hoping to make but it shouldn't be that tough.

[thick zenith]

i got it now dw :3

See!

[thick zenith]

AWH :D

[fallow folio]

how do you think this youtuber turned this into this

[lime pebble]

with good shaders, used a editor to blur the background, and made a glow effect over the tower

[fallow folio]

ok nice

[ripe quest]

Generative AI

Or they actually modeled it with a 3d app like Blender. Probably this because it looks too good for generated pixels.

[ripe quest]

Please share to #💬chat-general . People who take on freelance and side gigs monitor that channel.

[last arrow]

How can i get rid of the glare and smudges in the background object

[abstract eagle]

How do you edit the corner curves on an object after its been skewed?

[ripe quest]

Create the rect using the Rectangle Tool in Shape Mode. Convert to Smart Object. Then add the Layer Styles. At that point everything is still editable, the base rectangle shape and the styles.

[grizzled spade]

lil help

[novel hemlock]

Hi, I need help with my PS, I can't get past this screen, any help?

[grizzled spade]

Lilttle help please

Any way i can make the lips better?

[vapid flume]

That's strange, this is not the latest version (It should be marked "Photoshop 20242 at the top)
2020 is an old version.
Try to download the latest version on the CC app.

[tame cape]

Hi @last arrow
You could mask the areas very carefully, then paint over them and stamp them. But without the glossy areas, it will probably look like it was just pasted in.

What makes me a bit suspicious - the shadows look very inconsistent. Did you edit the background? And accidentally removed some of the shadows?

Can you please show us the original image?

[last arrow]

Heres the original image along with the image after lightroom edits. I content aware filled the other signs on the wall to remove them and then gaussian blurred the background.
Also would it be any easier to make it look matte instead of glossy? If so, how would I go about doing that?

[polar swallow]

Please help me. When I apply any text style to any small text, it always looks distorted, for example, drop shadow and other effects. I need to make the text very large, then rasterize the layer type and make it small enough to look nice. Is there any way to make it look nice on small text? I saw in one of the YouTube videos that the exact same text style that I have looked nice on small text. Here is my video

[vapid flume]

Not sure you want me to help as well, but layer styles are dependant on the size, they aren't like graphic styles in illustrator that can be enlarged at the same time as the shape they are attached to. In Photoshop, you need to tweak the different elements to account for the new size (unless of course you rasterise or convert them to smart objects them before)

[polar swallow]

No man, I mentioned them because they often help me and I know them relatively well.❤️

np if you help me

<3

[vapid flume]

1st, not a man, but OK
second then, no worries, I'll let you wait until they can answer

[polar swallow]

amm... sry for 1st

(idk english well sorry)

[vapid flume]

Generally when you tag people, other might be willing to help but won't because they think you only want to talk to specific people

No worries 🙂

[polar swallow]

okay <3

thx for attention <3

[ripe quest]

I wouldn't mind if you can help them. Getting pinged at 4am is always so much fun. :)

[regal rock]

Hey i made this thumbnail for a youtube video. What do you think? where could i improve? whaat could be done better?

[vapid flume]

You can ask in #📝project-feedback !

[regal rock]

👍

[plain cypress]

Hey guys how do I make this effect

The blur on W

Which gives you two colours

[ripe quest]

Use two shapes. Convert to Smart Object. Apply a blur to each one.

Although, there might be more than blur applied. There could be some sort of Warp transform being applied.

[vapid flume]

I would try spin blur and/or path blur as well

[river otter]

hey is there a way i could make a old style map from images from google earth?

or this

[viral palm]

you could add a vintage paper texture over and play with blend mode to blend the picures together.

[river otter]

yeah i think im going to print out a picture and draw over it then scan it into photoshop and go from there

[viral palm]

here is a short video

[river otter]

ahhh okay thanks

[sly hawk]

I don't think that's what they meant did they?

I got the impression that @river otter wanted to use a google earth image as the basis, and end up with a style like they supplied.

[river otter]

yeah

[sly hawk]

There won't be a magic solution, but you can probably use google maps console/editor to get you a bit closer...

you could then probably apply a few filters to get you closer....

[river otter]

how do i get onto that page?

[sly hawk]

Try - https://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis/studio/styles/

[river otter]

oh okay thanks!

[viral palm]

Oh! Ok...Sorry

[sly hawk]

The "dark Strokes" in the filter gallery seemed to work quite well

obviously not perfect, but might get you half way there

[river otter]

is there a way to get the photo zoomed out but where i can sill see the houses?

actually nvm i dont think houses would look good

[sly hawk]

I also previously used to use 'Mapbox' for stylised maps - I think there's a free tier, but I paid for it for work. - however it was years ago

again, my maps were more for magazine, brochures, websites etc, so I wasn't going for an old authentic style

[fickle phoenix]

Hey evrry1. I'm a complete beginner so Would you please like to guide me in this tutorial which particular paint brush is he using because he didn't mention that as a beginner you've to tell us step by step in photoshop software 2021 version and if that brush is not there then how do I create this particular paint brush. Because in my case, my black color is coming combination of blurr black n bold black so how do I keep the color bold black in the rodgon sirs course beginner?

[viral palm]

If you want bold black on the whole brush stroke > set hardness to 100%

[regal rock]

Hey there! I tried to put the sword above the text but the Stroke kind of "bends" with it. how do i like leave the stroke to the original letter and not make it bend?

[ionic spoke]

hello all, any possible way to restore my friend's face? I think it was overexposed but it wasn't taken in RAW, so I have less than what i would like to work with. I have tried a few things but can't seem to get it

[polar swallow]

i changed ppi from 500 to 72 and it fixed

ty for help

[viral palm]

In the Layer style menu, check the option : Layer Mask Hides Effects.
It looks like you used a layer mask on your text layer.

[viral palm]

TBH, I don't think you can recover this picture. Almost the whole face is burnt (looks like more than 90% of Face's pixels are full white).

[ionic spoke]

that’s what i was thinking, thanks!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 667)

[regal rock]

thank you so much!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @viral palm (current: #9 - 668)

[regal rock]

Ive decided against using stroke still as i think it looks better without. i feel like theres a bit too much of the blue light on the characters face. How can i reduce the intensity of the blue lighting? just on the face.

Generally i want to make the face a bigger attention point so if you have any suggestions im open

with the blueg light i feel it kind of blends into the sword making it less visible

[regal rock]

another thing while we are at it. i accidentaly erased a bit of the dropshadow from the text and cant undo it anymore. how can i fix it? is there something like an inverse erase? normaly you would just brush over it again i guess but since its the dropshadow i kinda cant.

[shell meadow]

How could one make something like this? Brushes don't seem efficient with the rotation. Or would I have to just CTRL+J my way through?

[near badger]

does photoshop have an equivalent to the unsharpen mask and convert to lines and tones from csp ex?

[storm path]

Can someone just actually assist with how to rectify a corrupted PSD akin to this?

[rancid python]

I know this image has terrible quality, but the "border" (?) around the middle logo, which fades into transparency at the top, how would you make such a shape and give it that effect?

[ripe quest]

Draw a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool. Assign it a Stroke and no fill. Then you can use a Layer Mask with a gradient to make it fade out at the top.

[hushed niche]

Do you still have layers, or did you open a flattened copy by holding Ctrl+shift+alt?

[tame cape]

Hi @last arrow
Sometimes less can be more ...
yours
original
Suggestion

What do you think about this?

[last arrow]

Yeah I really like how that looks. How were u able to clean up the sign ?

[tame cape]

old-fashioned with clone stamp
I'm glad you like it.

[last arrow]

Thank you so much for your help !

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @tame cape (current: #20 - 111)

[storm path]

@hushed niche All the layers.

The corruption differs in CS8.

[storm path]

Holding control, shift and alt opens a flattened copy from File Explorer?

[shell meadow]

Guessing none knows how to approach this?

[sweet field]

That would happen if the top image layer is not overlapping the bottom image layer. The natural blend comes from those two images being the same, with the same colors and shapes, it would not look like that with two completely different images.

[sweet field]

Yup, I'm thinking duplicate and rotate each one.

[molten solar]

That doesn't look like it was created in Photoshop. It would be straightforward in Illustrator, but if Ps is your only tool, then make a custom shape and put that down multiple times, following a temporary outline as a guide.

[sweet field]

Unfortunately that doesn't solve the problem of having to rotate each one manually. I suppose you could put down two of them, rotated to different degrees, then use object>blend and expand appearance, ungroup, then manually move them around a bit

Nevermind, that doesn't work, but I solved it a different way

@shell meadow In Illustrator create one pointer, then use effect>transform, create whatever amount of copies, and set an angle of rotation to whatever degree you wish for the variation between each piece to be. Then object>expand and you can move each one. It will be faster than doing it in Photoshop

[molten solar]

Why is that a problem? It's simple. I would definitely do it in Illustrator, though. I'd more likely create a custom brush with shapes oriented to the path. That seems more straightforward, and expanding still allows for adjustments.

[sweet field]

Because they said in their original message that they would like to not manually rotate each one.

Brushes don't seem efficient with the rotation.

Though I agree that it's simple enough, there doesn't appear to be that many objects. It would certainly be faster than spending hours trying to finding a different way to do it 🤣

[molten solar]

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. It's going to be tedious in Photoshop any way you slice it (and I'm not a fan of "Give me an automated way to avoid doing the work"). What I meant about brushes was creating a custom brush in Illustrator, then you have all the control you need. I'd be willing to be that the original sample was done in Illustrator, probably using symbol sprayer and/or custom brushes.

[lapis hearth]

I know it’s really bad quality but does anyone know what font the “Fire EMS” is?

[sweet field]

We won't be able to figure that out for you, but look through https://fonts.google.com and https://fonts.adobe.com and you'll find something similar!

[stoic ore]

I know you can do dithering using Export for Web. Is there no way to do this as a live / smart effect?

[sweet field]

Maybe you're thinking of halftone patterns?

[stoic ore]

i mean, with all due respect i know what i am thinking of because photoshop does perform dithering in the Export for Web (Legacy) process. But anyway, are you suggesting that one can use Halftones instead

dithering is essentially like a kind of combined posterize / pixelation effect , i am not sure the specific differences with halftones, havent done that before

[sweet field]

It's not exactly the same, but it is essentially just a pixel based aesthetic. Since you're not talking about dithering specifically for its intended purpose. You're sure to be able to recreate it with a halftone-like workflow

[stoic ore]

ok thanjs

i so much wish photoshop would allow you to do custom image manipulation effects like this with scripts or live effects, its such a powerful program but so limitated in this way, i might even just try learning Gimp for this reason

[fossil depot]

Hi! How do I make it so the part of the png encircled in yellow is one with the background, but has a stroke on the outside portion without adding a stroke to the border of the background highlighted in the red line? If I include the png in the group where the background is, the stroke looks ugly (see second pic), so I want to avoid that.

I want it to look like the second picture without it making a border for the background, if it makes sense.

[tame cape]

Are you using the Stroke layer effect?

• Either remove the parts that should not have a contour from this layer and insert them into another layer.
• Or create a layer mask and check the “Layer mask hides effects” box in the Blend Options. Mask the areas where the effect is not desired. @fossil depot

[tame cape]

Hi @stoic ore
Photoshop offers various types of dithering in bitmap mode. However, these are hardly used anymore. I never thought about using them as live effects because the manual way via a new file, grayscale, bitmap insertion into the old file is quite fast.

As @sweet field already said:

… You're sure to be able to recreate it with a halftone-like workflow …

[fossil depot]

Thank you so much for this! I'll try those out!

The second option worked so far, thank you so much!

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @tame cape (current: #20 - 112)

[worldly spoke]

Hey guys, Why cant I use the hue and saturation adjustment?

Im trying to make the Skiis appear more green-ish, but No luck with that, it is just Gray, unable to select any adjustments...

I tried making a new layer, that also did pretty much nothing. No clue?

[vapid flume]

It would be great if you could include the whole interface there

There might be clues in other part of the screenshot that I can't see here

Also, imagine your skis are white or neutral grey (equal amount of all the colour elements, ie: Red, blue and green) then you can't change the hue when there is nothing to chnage it from

You have a "colorize" tick box you can use to bypass that

[misty moat]

Anyone know how to make the texture look like this what tool do I use?

[shell meadow]

@molten solar @sweet field Appreciate your input, thank you.

[fluid crane]

Gave +1 Creative Carma to @molten solar (current: #186 - 9)

[cinder hare]

Hi everyone i have a question

I'm trying to make custom skins for the sims 4 and the tutorial i am using relies on importing 3d object into photoshop to paint textures, but when i try to import .obj file to photoshop it says it can only be done in photoshop beta

[vapid flume]

With a layer style you can get an option that's called "bevel and emboss"

Click on your text layer to highlight it, right click, choose "blending options" and you'll get this

[cinder hare]

and when i try in photshop beta, its completely different and doesnt even let me rotate the model or anything. i'm familiar with blender bti dont understand this

[vapid flume]

tick "bevel and emboss" and play with the sliders

[misty moat]

It doesn’t come out as I want it to

It’s called embroidery but I don’t what tool to use

[vapid flume]

Unless you have an older PS version, this won't work
They have been phased out a while ago
This might be an old tutorial!

You can now do that using the Substance suite from Adobe, particularly Substance painter

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/substance3d/apps/painter.html

[cinder hare]

dang ok that makes sense its an older video

alright ill try that out instead thank you

[vapid flume]

Yes, that happens a lot. Honestly, unless it's very basic stuff, I never watch tutorials that are older than 2 years old

I tried with Blender tutorials and it's a disaster 🙂

[cinder hare]

blender guru to the rescue

he always has updated videos

thanks for the advice!

[vapid flume]

@cinder hare if you're a student, the whole substance suite is free!

[vapid flume]

Believe me, not always! (TBH, I stopped updating Blender for that reason, it's a case of going mad)

[cinder hare]

i am a student but i am out of country right now on holiday so i will just be using the free trials

[vapid flume]

Sure! Let me get you the form to fill if I can find it

https://substance3d.adobe.com/education/
read the FAQ at the end to see if you're eligible

[tame cape]

Hi @worldly spoke
something like this?

[coral steeple]

Hello