Questions tagged [adobe-photoshop]
Graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. So ubiquitous its use in photo manipulation that it birthed term "Photoshopping".
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Is there a way to show/hide Photoshop layers using Actions?
I've searched superuser and Google, but it seems there is no way to show/hide a specific layer in Photoshop using Actions.
Is there a way to use Actions to show/hide one specific layer in a Photoshop ...
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Using function keys as Photoshop shortcuts
I was trying to add keyboard shortcuts to Photoshop CS5, after watching the ctrlpaint tutorial, using function keys. I was able to map F3, F4 and F5 to Zoom Out, Zoom In and Fit to Screen just fine.
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Photoshop issue saving image as lesser filesize then reopening and saving again
This is driving me absolutely mad.
I save for web at 100%.
I open back up. I save again at 100%. It is bigger than the last time.
It keeps doing this over and over and over it could be infinite ...
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Exporting .psd to .jpeg changes CMYK to RGB?
I don't know much about Photoshop. I created a business card in RGB profile but the printer needs it as CMYK.
I therefore just went to "Mode", changed it to CMYK 16 Bit and thought that was it, but ...
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Opening a .jpg image in Camera Raw
How can one open a .jpg image in Adobe Photoshop's Camera Raw directly from Windows Explorer in Windows 7?
I know how to open it via Bridge and from inside Photoshop, I'd just like to know whether I ...
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How do I cover a transparent layer in Photoshop with black?
In Photoshop CS4, I created a new completely transparent layer. I then selected the entire canvas and right-clicked to fill it up with a color.
However, I received the following error:
Could not ...
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Using the "Content Panel" content from PSE in PS
I own a copy of both Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop Elements. Overall I use PS for everything though I am not a graphic designer and some of the content in PSE is very handy. Mainly the content in the "...
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Corrupt Monitor Profile
When launching Photoshop I received the error "Your Monitor Profile appears to be corrupt. Please re-run your monitor calibration." I assume this happened because I installed a new video card (went ...
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Create an inner shadow?
In order to create an inner shadow, I always make a rectangle and add an inner shadow. The problem is then the rectangle still shows. I just want the pixels of the inner shadow and not the rectangle. ...
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Whats this Photoshop filter name
Could someone tell me what the name of the filter that extracts part of the image that is selected by a brush. What you do is go around the outline of an image with a brush and then fill it in and ...
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Precise Selection in Photoshop?
I have several images I need to cut out from specific places but in different PSDs.
Say I want Selection Rectangle 200,300,400,500. How can I just type this in and get that.
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How can I make a layer "blend" into an existing picture in Photoshop?
I am trying to insert a cropped out part of one picture into another picture.
I am copying over a layer, but my issue is that the target picture is a little grainy. The layer lines up perfectly from ...
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How can I convert the color in this button into an alpha transparency so that any background will show through, changing the color of the button?
The button has a layer in it that has a bevel/emboss filter on it. I'm stumped.
Here's the PSD that I'm trying to convert.
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Perspective Issue
I have an issue with perspectives. I am trying to draw lines onto this 3D rectangle in the mage below to create a block paving type effect. If you've never seen block paving, it's square blocks of ...
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Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Action
Is there a way to make an action of pre-made adjustments layers? I have about 10 adjustment layers set with different blending modes and opacities (basic stuff, no masks etc), but would rather not go ...
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How to use foreign type characters in photoshop?
I need to use Chinese characters in Photoshop CS for Windows 7. What do I need to set up to make this possible?
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Why are my images saved in Photoshop CS3 so large?
I have taken a screen capture, pasted it into a "new" image in CS3 and cropped it down to 800 X 522 pixels. What I can't figure out is why the hell I can't get it under a 2 Mb file on my computer. ...
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Photoshop Filter Render > Lighting - Couple Questions
In regards to the Photoshop Filter > Render > Lighting I have a couple questions.
First: The easiest way I have found to light the photo is to create a new layer and choose Apply Image and make a ...
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I changed a setting in Photoshop and it won't launch. Can I alter settings another way?
I changed a setting in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 that's installed on my work's machine. I was getting a, 'Not enough RAM to open this file' error when trying to open a PSD so I changed the RAM usage setting ...
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Why does my Photoshop CS5 slow down to a crawl?
I have Widows 7 installed on C:. I have 4GB RAM on my laptop. I had installed Photoshop CS5 on D:. And I had set 5-8 GB for virtual memory on E:
Space on drives after above consideration:
12 GB is ...
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Saving multiple tabs in photoshop
I have a couple of "tabs" of photoshop running. How do I save all these tabs into one single "project file" so that when I open this "project file", it would open all of the "tabs" ?
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Photoshop settings reseting by themselves?
I have had Photoshop CS 5.1 reset all of my settings several time without me telling it to do this!
I closed Photoshop and everything was fine. When I launched Photoshop the next time my setting were ...
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Eps file problem
This morning I bought a file from fotolia. I tried to open the eps file with photoshop but got this error:
"Could not open the file since PostScript instructions could not be analyzed".
What can I ...
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Psd Icon in window not showing
I am using CS3 on winXP. After using CS3 for a couple months, I felt that I no longer needed cs3 on my computer, and I uninstalled it.and moved to cs4,now today i found some file missing in cs4 so i ...
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Photoshop Multiple Layer Masks
How can I link two layer masks together?
I'm trying to create a divider bar in Photoshop, that fades out at each end (see picture).
As you can see, I have it fading out at the bottom. How can I do ...
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Softening borders with Photoshop CS4
I want to soften the edges of an image similar to this image:
I tried using the blur tool but nothing was happening.
Can anyone tell me how to reproduce the results of that image?
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merging a photo into clouds
I have two pictures:
(1) a pic of sky with clouds
(2) a pic of some patterns
I like to use (1) as basis, but want to fill clouds with the pattern in (2). How may I do this? I use Photoshop on ...
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Photoshop CS5 - Export flattened layers in groups to their own files
I have 10 groups of flattened images which need to be trimmed, exported to png and placed in their own file with the same name as the group. I can't find the script to do this anywhere and was ...
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Photoshop color effect
Online I see a lot of brush collections. Sometimes they are tagged as High Resolution brushes. When you use these brushes you see "objects" appearing in the page while you draw (circles, for examples)....
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Can Photoshop remember the colors I previously used?
I'm using Photoshop Elements 7, and I'm looking for something like what's in GIMP's color picker, where you can easily select any of the last 10 colors you used before.
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Photoshop CS3 freezes upon open in Windows 7 Pro 64bit
I've tried nearly everything to get Photoshop to open. I've tried putting a ~ in front of the twian device, as suggested on another site. I've tried running licence recovery as suggested in other ...
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Alpha channel areas inside and outside of something
I'm looking at a photo of a pair of eyeglass frames. All around the eyeglasses--extending to the four JPEG edges--are pixels consisting of RGB values 251 through 255, depending on where I click with ...
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Photoshop, how do I move a layer above the top group
In Photoshop, how is the most easy way to move a layer, which is inside a group, outside the group when the group is in top.
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Fill gradient numerically(by entering values)
In Fireworks or Photoshop, is there any way to fill gradient with numerical precision? I'm not talking about setting up gradient but to fill/apply it.
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How slice PSDs on Ubuntu?
I really hate booting into Windows 7 just to boot up Ps to cut out some stuff and then flip back to Ubuntu... plus, if I missed something or other, its a mega pain to reboot again.
Gimp also doesn't ...
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How do I make sure my color stays the same in my different .psd files?
I asked two Photoshop experts I know but they haven't got a clue because all my settings are exactly the same, in both files. (except the RGB type!)
I use RGB color, 72DPI, 8 bits / channel.
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Photoshop CS tool display problem
I'm using Photoshop CS and can't seem to display the top-upper-left tool highlighted in red in the image below:
Can anyone explain how I can display this tool?
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Automate Photoshop CS3 Guide Creation
Is there any way create multiple guides on the fly in Photoshop in an automated fashion? For example I want to create horizontal guides every 18px all the way down my document(which is 1000px tall). I ...
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Virtualizing WindowsXP on Linux Fedora 12 for Photoshop
I am running a Linux server from 2000, I have Fedora12 installed as the OS. I know you can visualize Windows XP on the system to be able to run Windows programs, but the problem is I My server has ...
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Photoshop: automatically make border smoother
How can I make the border of shapes smoother, without re-touching it in detail ?
Is there any Photoshop advanced functionality doing it automatically ?
See example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72686/...
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How to set default save location in applications
Especially in dreamweaver and photoshop.
And do you know of any application that lets me jump through all the common save locations for dreamweaver.
For example, I save .php files on C:\Wamp\www.
And ...
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Dragging a shape in Photoshop doesn't show outline
I've created a shape in Photoshop with the Rounded Rectangle tool. Now I want to reposition it. When I use the Path Selection tool to move it, Photoshop doesn't seem to pick up the shape. When I let ...
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How can I create perspective images?
How can I create an image like this?
I use GIMP. Are there any plugins to do this? If not, are there any other ways to accomplish this, such as in Photoshop?
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Multiple Image outputs
I'd like to output different sizes of the same image from photoshop all at the same time. For example, I have a 1920x150 banner that I would like to output into smaller sizes but the same dimensions, ...
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Every time I open Photoshop CS3, it says it needs to repair itself
It happens every time I open, and I do click Repair. I repaired disk permissions on my drive to no avail. The problem started after using Apple's magical migration tool to move from my Powerbook G4 (...
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Dynamically embed an artboard to multiple other assets in project
Is there a method or a way to create a photoshop canvas with one or multiple artboards, and be able to dynamically add this artboard (like an embedded asset) that will change dynamically in all my ...
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Photoshop Text Texture
I wanted to add this "spray effect" to the text but I can't figure out how I can apply it only on the text so the image is not dark.
Basically I would like to know how I can use the layer &...
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Photoshop enable continuous undo
A lot of programs will do continuous undo while the undo key is held down - MS Word for example, will keep undoing while Ctrl+Z is being held. Photoshop seems to offer "multiple undo", but ...
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How to release Photoshop CS6 export in sandboxie software?
When I run CS6 in sandboxie and I want to export a file from CS6 then I get following question from sandboxie:
And if I want to use photoshop batch editing then this question is annoying and and ...
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Adobe Camera Raw custom settings can be saved, but saved presets don't work or can't be read
Photoshop 2021 or 2023, updated Adobe Camera Raw.
I open some raws in ACR, ctrl+S to save, and let's say I change settings to jpeg, 1080p, sharpen. Save that as a preset and name it preset-1.
Then I ...
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