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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Photoshop, how to draw a double line
I want to draw two lines next to each other (or one black line with white in the center)
This line will be very curvy and wind around on the page.
Does anyone know if this is possible in Photoshop? I'...
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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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Smart object not directly editable in Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
Could not complete your request because the smart object is not directly editable
Any way to fix this?
I tried cutting the image parts; it didn’t work.
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How to uninstall Adobe Photoshop without login?
I can't believe it. I want to get rid of Photoshop that is installed on a Windows 11 and it asks me to log in without any options to skip it when I attempt to uninstall it from the Windows app window.
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Why are Photoshop .psd thumbnails now showing in Windows 10 file explorer without installing anything?
Are Windows 10 File Explorer thumbnails now available for .PSD images without a plugin? I have NOT added any add-ons like SageThumbs and suddenly they are showing up! See screenshot below.
This has ...
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How do I make an image background transparent in Photoshop?
I have an image with a white background which I downloaded. I want the background to be transparent. How do I achieve this in Photoshop?
What I did was, select the background of the image, using ...
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Google Earth .kmz files are opened with Adobe Photoshop on OSx Mavericks
I frequently get GE placemarks as email attachments. Whenever I click on a Google Earth .kmz placemark my Adobe Photoshop CC launches. I can't find anyplace in PS preferences to block auto launching. ...
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Changing Photoshop resize keyboard shortcut
I know Photoshop has 2 hotkeys to change brush size. First one is [] brackets and the second one is "Alt + ctrl + second mouse button".
Is there any way to change it to "Alt + ctrl + second" or ...
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Adobe Photoshop 2020 Menu Disappeared (NOT the toolbar)
As can be seen on the screenshots below, the titles in the menu bar and each window disappeared. It seems that the menu itself is still there because I can choose options blindly clicking on the ...
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How can I change the color of a custom shape in photoshop with multiple colors?
I am working with custom shapes in photoshop and when I click bucket fill, it fills the entire image with one color. Are there ways to make the image multiple colors? For instance, if I had a ...
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PhotoShop CC 2014 uses too much disk space
I have the following problem with Photoshop: When I open up a document (approx. 15MB), PhotoShop uses 5 to 7GB disk storage immediately.
When working with smaller documents it just takes more time ...
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How to delete what is inside a path?
I am new to Photoshop, and I can't find the answer of this anywhere, everyone is talking about how to add or remove anchor point from a path, but when I create a path over a shape or other part of my ...
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can't merge down layers photoshop cs6?
I have adobe Photoshop cs6 installed only the 64 bit I didn't install the x86,
now I can't merge down layers I tried ctrl+D but didn't work besides "merge down" command is dimmed
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Double blue arrow on every single one of my files, is that bad?
I know it's caused by compression and I also know how to turn it off, all I'm asking is if this compression on files from Photoshop or Illustrator or even other folders is bad? I have no clue what I'm ...
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How to tell what fonts are missing that Chrome wants?
I had a horrible problem with photoshop CS6 hanging on Windows 7. I ended up uninstalling like 500 fonts to fix the problem. Now some webpages do not look right, they are clearly using the wrong font. ...
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Quickly retreive 512px image thumbnail/preview from 10GB+ PSB on MacOS?
Is it possible to quickly (milliseconds) extract a 512px image thumbnail/preview from large images (10GB+ PSBs) on MacOS?
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I need to quickly get an image preview/thumbnail (~512px) of a batch ...
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Why does importing a PSD from Creative Cloud libraries into After Effects return a tiny image?
I created an asset in Photoshop which is 1105x165, converted it into a smart object, and added it to my Creative Cloud libraries, so that I can access that asset in After Effects. This makes it so ...
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Photoshop: Converting bitmap to shape
I have a low res image with a S shape which I want to use. However due to the colors and the quality of the image i cannot get a good smooth edged selection or work path of the S shape in the image. ...
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How do I get Photoshop CC 2017 to recognize my second AMD VGA video card?
I tried reinstalling it and the driver but Photoshop CC 2017 will not recognize my second AMD VGA video card. Obviously it’s very slow to work like this. Any clue how to solve it?
Latest driver.
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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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Layer visibility shortcut in Photoshop
Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle layer visibility in Photoshop (CS3)?
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Photoshop and file permissions after April 2018 Update
I have two Administrator user accounts on my computer, A and B. There's a common folder in A's Dropbox that I use for storing images, and that folder has full access permissions for both user A and B. ...
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How can I align multiple images in Photoshop?
I have a bunch of pictures of my face that I've taken once a day. I want to make a timelapse out of them. They are all pretty similar, but I want the timelapse to look good so I want to make my face ...
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Is there any way to save a PNG-8 file with Alpha Transparency in Photoshop?
I recently discovered something that I previous thought was impossible: PNG-8 files can store Alpha Transparency in the same way as PNG-32 files can. Not Indexed Transparency (like GIFs), but full on ...
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How to get .PSD Photoshop thumbnails to show in Windows 10?
I have a problem where thumbnails for Photoshop (PSD) files won't show in Windows 10. Instead, only the default program icon for PSD files is shown. Thumbnails for other image files are working ...
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Merging a folder of 34,000 images in Photoshop
I have a folder of 34,000 images (all the exact same size) and I would like to layer them all on top of each other, doing something equivalent to Photoshop's "Darker Color" layer blending ...
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Identifying information contained in Adobe files
For many file formats, there are typical types of metadata that one may want to erase if they do not want personally-identifying information to be associated with the file. EXIF data in image files is ...
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Photoshop showing strange box around documents and black 'blank space'
I installed Adobe Master Collection CS5.5 on a new MacBook Air and when I open a document (new or previously created image) and I make the window for the document larger then the image itself, you can ...
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How to change the shape of a smart object in Photoshop?
I downloaded a photoshop mockup file which contains "floating screens" (see below).
In photoshop, these screens are created with smart objects.
So, when I double click on the smart object ...
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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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Photoshop: show layer edges by default
Is it possible to set option "Show layer edges" (View -> Show -> Layer Edges) to true by default?
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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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How to use Photoshop CS6 without an Adobe ID?
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I have a legal Adobe Photoshop CS6 serial number. I have downloaded the Photoshop CS6 from the Adobe website. I have installed it with my legal serial number. Everything until now is fine. ...
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Windows 10: How to disable menu bar toggle by pressing ALT?
Is there a way to do this on W10?
When using any editing software like Photoshop, Illustrator or in this case PyxelEdit, I use ALT+scrollwheel to zoom in and out. Afterwards, the menu bar is focused, ...
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Photoshop enable Multiple undo?
I'm used to applications allowing you to perform multiple undos at once with Ctrl-Z. I've found that at least the default setting in photoshop is only a single undo. How do i change this (im a ...
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How can one use Apple’s new emojis in Photoshop?
I’m trying to render a large version of one Apple’s new emojis in Photoshop.
I know how to write with emojis in something like TextEdit, but I need the emoji to have a transparent background.
I've ...
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Could not save a copy as 'filename.pdf' because of a program error
I've been trying to save a psd as pdf file in PhotoShop but I get the following message:
Could not save a copy as 'filename.pdf' because of a program error
I'm using a mac if that helps.
Anyone has ...
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how to move offscreen (sub window/menu) back to screen
Everyone explains very well and simple how to move an offscreen menu back to visible field of the monitor, but nobody tells how to move a submenu.
By submenu I mean something like when you open ...
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How do I find which serial I used for Photoshop CS5 on my computer?
I want to move my Photoshop CS5 installation to a new computer.
Unfortunately, I lost the paper with the cd-key.
Is there a way to recover the serial from my local installation?
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How to stop MS Office from hijacking my spacebar?
By company mandate I installed Microsoft Office. As soon as I launched Outlook I noticed I couldn't use Spacebar in Photoshop to pan around an image with the Hand Tool anymore.
I have observed this ...
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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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"Select forward layer" keyboard shortcut - include invisible layers
Due to my non-US keyboard I've had to make an Action that maps "Select forward layer" to an F-key.
However the "Select forward layer" doesn't select invisible layers.
Is there a way to select the ...
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Xmouse controlling zoom in Photoshop
I have a Logitech MX Master mouse, and I've installed X-Mouse to customize my buttons more than Logitech offers in their software.
In Photoshop you can zoom in/out by holding alt and srolling the ...
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Auto-blend Layers on Photoshop or Layers to smart object median/mean stacking for noise reduction image stacking?
The title is the question. When trying to make a minimal-noise picture process I use:
shoot stable burst shots of a scene
align the shots (with a clumsy homemade python program using Opencv or worse ...
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Why does Illustrator run slow when high resolution images are imported to it?
I import a high resolution (more than 6000x6000 pixels) into Illustrator while designing. This makes Illustrator operations a little slow. Similar thing happens when you use some stipple shading brush ...
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Preserve quality parameters when saving jpgs in photoshop
I have a bunch images, all saved using JPEG, quality: 90, subsampling ON (2x2).
When saving as .jpg in photoshop Save As dialog offers no 0-100 quality option, nor a subsampling checkbox/setting.
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Loss of stabilization when using pen in Photoshop
Here is a comparison between drawing in Photoshop with a mouse and a pen (first stroke is the mouse, second is the pen). There is a lot more stabilization with the mouse than with the pen, even though ...
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Photoshop operations (color range, blur etc) extremely slow on Azure Win10 VM with GPU support
Because of lack of GPU on my computer, I needed to use Photoshop on Azure. Everything is super fast but when I use any kind of effects, and operations like color range Photoshop too slowing, lagging, ...
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Drop shadow on one layer affecting another layer
I am working on Photoshop, I added a drop shadow on two different layers, the drop shadow have a different color on each layer, where these two layers meet they form a dark blackish shadow, how can I ...
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Photoshop Technique for Such Effect - How Was It Done?
If you take a look at the DevDays logo, or the Graphic Design presentation from FOWA, there are certain letters in the logos that are extended upwards or in some direction, such as the V and Y ...
