I want this hand to hold a pencil how do | Adobe Photoshop | Page 1

celest crater Jul 9, 2022, 1:23 PM

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Find a pencil image and use a Layer Mask to mask out the portions of the pencil where it would be covered by the hand.

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:24 PM

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Where is the layer mask option

celest crater Jul 9, 2022, 1:24 PM

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At the bottom of the Layers Panel

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:24 PM

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sorry I am new to this

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:24 PM

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celest crater At the bottom of the Layers Panel

which button exactly

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there are like 20

celest crater Jul 9, 2022, 1:25 PM

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Window > Layers...

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:25 PM

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It's on

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I can see the layers panel

ocean socket Jul 9, 2022, 1:26 PM

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woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:26 PM

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yeah this one's locked

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can't click it

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oh oh

celest crater Jul 9, 2022, 1:27 PM

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woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:27 PM

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yeah I got it now

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nothing happened though

celest crater Jul 9, 2022, 1:28 PM

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It doesn't happen automatically, you have to paint on it...

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:28 PM

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Oh right

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now it says disk error or something

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celest crater Jul 9, 2022, 1:29 PM

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Well... that's a completely different issue.

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:30 PM

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do I need to defrag?

ocean socket Jul 9, 2022, 1:30 PM

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how full is your SSD/hard drive?

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:30 PM

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ocean socket Jul 9, 2022, 1:31 PM

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that's way too full

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I'm surprised your system is working normally. you should free up some space, if at all possible

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:32 PM

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how about now

ocean socket Jul 9, 2022, 1:34 PM

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yeah, better. now Photoshop should not throw the disk error. personally, I try to keep about 100 GB free from my C: drive. If you have a secondary drive or external drive, see if you can offload some files to there

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:36 PM

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will defrag help? @ocean socket

ocean socket Jul 9, 2022, 1:39 PM

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unlikely. defragmentation just helps with speed and only if it is an actual spinning hard drive and not an SSD. Trying to deframent SSDs will actually harm them

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:39 PM

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Alright

celest crater Jul 9, 2022, 1:49 PM

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You might want to add a bit of shadow on the pencil to account for the hand... Just a suggestion.

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Also, there is a white fringe of pixels around the entire hand that you may have to deal with. At least around the pencil area... @woven rapids

woven rapids Jul 9, 2022, 1:52 PM

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Alright

#I want this hand to hold a pencil how do