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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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How to use Photoshop CS6 without an Adobe ID?

Background 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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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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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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Can we save image slices in sub folders in Photoshop?

I am using Photoshop CS5, by default, Photoshop saves image slices in a folder named images. This is fine but there are lots of images, saving them all in a single folder becomes quite messy. What I ...
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Is there a way to automate changes in saturation/levels for 300 different batches in Photoshop?

Alright, so I have 300 folders. Each folder contains several images. For each folder, I want to change both the saturation and levels (Photoshop) of all the images within. Each folder needs different ...
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Photoshop GPU Sniffer uses %50 of cpu even when photoshop is closed

I have photoshop cc, Weirdly, the Photoshop GPU Sniffer has two instances, and both use %20 each even when photoshop is closed. How can I fix this? Is this a bug? Ps. Screenshot:
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How to increase video memory for virtual machine?

I have a Linux host running Windows 7 in a Virtualbox guest. I am trying to enable 3D accelerated functionality in Adobe Photoshop CC running on that guest, which requires at least 512MB of VRAM. ...
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Finding the Darkest & Lightest Pixel with One Click in Photoshop

Is there no way to find the color values for the darkest or lightest pixel of the image with one click? Programmatically, this is a basic level task, and compared to that manual workarounds to do this ...
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How do I cut up a layer into several others?

Basically I've got a picture of all 6 strings on a guitar, and each string is assigned to a separate layer. I want to split these 6 layers into 120 layers by splitting along the 20 fret lines. I ...
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why is adobe photoshop tcp listening on my computer? cloudfront

I closed photoshop and seems like there are no adobe process running. (macos) Though if i type in terminal: danass$ lsof -i 4 i get among others : Adobe\x20 589 danass 9u IPv4 ...
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How to change hand tool shortcut in Photoshop

I have been wondering if I can change the key binding to trigger the hand tool (default: Space). I know how to change the shortcut to activate it (default H) but I don't want to change this. I want ...
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Can I disable OLE pasting from Photoshop to Word?

When I copy an image from Photoshop into MSWord it defaults to creating an OLE object instead of a bitmap image. This is never what I want as it is harder to work with, and incredibly slow. If I ...
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Why have multiple PNG files been transformed to glitches on the external hard drive?

Pictures have been made and edited using Adobe Photoshop and saved as PNG on a MacBook If the hard drive of the PC is almost full the edited pictures will be copied to an external hard drive in order ...
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How to separate indepedent selection to multiple layers in Photoshop

I found a picture that contains a lot of of sprites and I would like to divide it into separate layers to use it in my video game (after asking permission from the owner). To do so I have to create a ...
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How to increase performance of Adobe Creative Suite 6 via hardware upgrade?

A friend (who doesn't have a SO/SU account) has had a licence of Adobe CS6 for some time. Mostly uses Photoshop and InDesign. He doesn't want to upgrade to Creative Cloud for the reasons such as ...
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Photoshop display doesn't show everything I've drawn

I am using Photoshop CS6 and I have a strange problem. I opened Photoshop one day and it looks as if a setting has changed. While I am working on it and I zoom out to see the full page, a few lines ...
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Photoshop CC: How to set default transform reference point to top left?

I work on UI projects in Photoshop CC and need to be able to set default transform reference point to top left to make it easier for me to precisely position elements. It always keeps defaulting to ...
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An unknown or invalid jpeg marker type is found

I tried to resize about 25,000 photos via a batch operation in Adobe Photoshop CS6. However, I receive the errors: could not complete request because an unknown or invalid jpeg marker type is found ...
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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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Key out the background of a green screen video using Adobe JavaScript

I am trying to key out the background of a green screen video using Adobe JavaScript but when I render and export the video as PNG sequences the PNG are appearing with a black background. Can anyone ...
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Photoshop 5.5 won't start after upgrading to windows 7 from vista

I have photoshop 5.5 working just fine under windows vista, I upgraded my PC to windows 7 and when I start photoshop 5.5 it just hangs. I see the main screen open but nothing happens and I just get ...
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Photoshop with Bitlocker

I found this entry (Photoshop's activation software overwrites fixed drive adresses) in the TrueCrypt documentation that scares me quite a bit. How does Bitlocker handle this issue? Similarly, how ...
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Wacom tablet pen tips

I bought an Intuos 3 6x8 several years ago but do not use it much, primarily because I have found it difficult to adapt to the pen. I would appreciate advice on how to deal with this issue: as I bring ...
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Making sure the lighting on multiple layers in a Photoshop image is consistent

I am trying to superimpose people (gotten from other pictures) on top of another image in Photoshop but the lighting on some of the new people make it obvious that they aren't in the original picture. ...
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Remove or identify Photoshop on Open With List

Problem When using Windows Explorer's Open With... context menu, many image types show two Photoshop CS5 entries. One is the 32-bit version, the other is the 64-bit version. However, they both use ...
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Batch render lots of layers?

I have many layers for playing cards. They are all hidden right now. They are all named, e.g.: 2h, 3h, 2s, 3s... Right now I'm manually enabling it, saving it as 2s.png, disabling it and so on. Is ...
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Collapse all layer styles at once with Photoshop

I'm looking for a way to collapse all layer styles at once using Photoshop. When I say "layer styles", I mean the list under the layer of all the styles that a layer has. I know you can click the ...
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How can I align layers side-by-side and crop them automatically in Photoshop CS5?

How can I align layers side-by-side and crop them automatically in Photoshop CS5? Here's an example: Here is another example: I found the solution with this sprite generators, but all them have the ...
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Workflow: suggest a versioning and file control for Designer and Developer

Our company are having hard time managing project files and managing versions of PSD, HTML, PHP, and CSS files. Can anyone recommend a good software or workflow to handle files and versions. Here's ...
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Why Do I Get Artifacting In Photoshop Artboard

I get this wicked magenta and black artifacting when in Photoshop CS4 on Mac when I resize the window. It doesn't affect the image canvas, but it's on the artboard all around it. Hardware: Early ...
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photoshop - scripts - export - layers to files MISSING

I am using Photoshop CS4 on a Mac Powerbook - I am missing the ability to export layers as files by going to scripts - export - layers to files . Does any one know where to get this plugin(?) ...
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Unable to Align Layers in Photoshop Properly with CS2

Cannot Align Semi-Transparent Items? Windows Vista, Photoshop CS2. Steps to repeat: Create new document Fill a circle on a new layer Drop opacity of filled circle to 10% Create new empty layer below ...
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How to open multiple TGA files then save them compressed as 24 bits in Photoshop?

I have a huge amount of TGA files from the game Counter-Strike (environment files such as sky, grass, water etc) and they are pretty big. There were some other TGA files that I manually opened and ...
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How to show/hide layer by name in GIMP?

I received a pack of .psd files from a graphic designer that I need to use in the desktop app I'm developing. I managed to open those files in GIMP (I work on Ubuntu) The problem is that there are ...
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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? Use Case 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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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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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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Trying to search in Photoshop getting error : Something went wrong type error cannot read properties of undefined reading quickselect. how to fix?

I'm trying to get to the Discover Panel, but no matter what I tried I can't search. It's showing this error. I'm on Windows 11 pro using Photoshop 24.1.0 I tried to click in the upper right corner ...
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Is there an option in photoshop to find the average darkness of pixel color of a certain image?

I'm trying to compare the brownness of multiple apple slices using photoshop and it has sucked me down a rabbit hole on the internet with information completely overwhelming me. My goal is to compare ...
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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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troubleshooting wrong postscript font name in photoshop

Can anyone give me some more tips on how to fix/troubleshoot postscript font names? We have several computers that run scripts in photoshop and on most, photoshop has a postscript font name of Trocchi....
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PNG -- extract transparency mask, color, then reapply

I have a PNG which is basically some icons colored in certain ways, with a transparency mask around the edges of them. I want to recolor these icons in certain ways. The way I want to approach it is ...
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Let the currently-running Photoshop on MacOS execute a script, by terminal command

In Windows, users can let the current-running Photoshop execute a JSX script by the following command line, for example: C:\path-to-Photoshop\Photoshop.exe D:\path-to-script-file\MyJsx.jsx I would ...
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Advanced find and replace text in photoshop

In photoshop, let's say I have a few texts layers with contents like this: Text layer 1: 1@@text01@@abc Text layer 2: 2@@text02@@cef Text layer 3: 3@@text03@@hgi I would like to replace all the ...
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remove local hosts from terminal on mac

I'm trying to instal adobe cloud, but it doesn't work because I believe some of it's servers are blocked in my terminal. How do I remove them? I know how to open terminal, but that's it. I'm not the ...
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Turning scanned black and white diagram into specific color in Photoshop

I have a black and white diagram, and want to change the lines of the diagram into a specific hex color in Photoshop (CC). I've erased the background, which I don't need, and in the hue/saturation ...
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How to create this smudgy text effect on Gimp/PS?

I've been trying for the past hour to understand how to do the following effect on Gimp, but I can't figure it out. I thought that I should create 2 copies of the text layer, move them (one up and ...
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Photoshop, black color instead of transparency when pasting from clipboard

After reinstalling Windows I got a problem that transparency is lost when I paste image from clipboard, from another program(like browser). Instead of transparency photoshop using full black color. I ...
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JPGs or PNGs created by ImageMagick look darker than their 32 bit tiff source

I am working with ImageMagick (Version 7.0.7-36 Q16 x64 2018-05-29) on Windows 7. I am trying to convert a 32 bit tiff to a png. magick.exe convert a_32bit.tif a.png However, the resulting image ...
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