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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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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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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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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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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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.
Is ...
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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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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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How can I fill / replace only %100 transparent pixels with a selected color in photoshop
There are countless examples to add background layer
That is not what I want because if you have semi transparent pixels that breaks their color
What I want to achieve is only replacing %100 ...
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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 remove transparent border in Photoshop
When i create a new project and just add one layer and fill it with black color i see a transparent border, but after saving photo it disappears. I even can't remove they with bush or pencil.
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How to move dashed stroke along path in PS 2022
I have a dashed line and want another dashed line to align with the gaps and dashes:
Even when setting the dash length and gap size perfectly they don't align.
Is there a way to move the dashed line ...
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Photoshop CS6 will not open and keeps saying there is not enough RAM when it has worked before with less free memory
So this question goes hand-in-hand with another one of my posts, Urgent: Cannot run any program as administrator, gives file system error (-1073740791) on Windows 10, in that I believe they are ...
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Photoshop - is there a way to have preset grid spacing options?
I work with grids of icons in Photoshop all the time and am constantly needing to change the gridline settings.
For clarity, this is the setting I mean:
For example, just now I needed to change ...
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Can sips -g capture image data on Photoshop .psb files over 4.5 GB?
When using the command sips -g profile on a .psb over 4.5GB, it returns nil. The same is true for -g bitsPerSample and -g space, though -g dpiWidth is able to capture data.
All these commands work as ...
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Imported vector object from Illustrator to PhotoShop is blurry
I have an object created in Adobe Illustrator, I copied this object to photoshop as a Smart object.
However, when zooming in or saving, its edges are not smooth!
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The object is imported to ...
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os catalina color profiles unable to find and delete. where can i locate them?
i am trying to delete unwanted col profiles that appear in photoshop print module. i have tried looking in profiles,col sync but cannot find them. example: Generic RGB profile.
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Why would a web app not support incognito mode? [closed]
I tried to use the Photoshop web beta while using InPrivate browsing in Microsoft edge, but I was faced with this error:
You may not have the minimum amount of disk space or RAM, or are accessing in ...
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Using clipboard in Word and putting Photoshop to foreground results in both not responding for 20 seconds
Edit: I updated thread title and the opening post to reflect new findings.
I'm sorry for returning to an old and already resolved issue but I'm sort of desperate.
I started to experience an issue that ...
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How can I make Photoshop menus dark?
Photoshop menus are white:
Even with dark mode on:
I also use Win10 native dark mode:
How can I make Photoshop menus dark?
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Screen and mouse pointer acting weirdly in adobe apps
Please check this video - https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/vvtl93/mouse_pointer_acting_weirdly_on_adobe_apps/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
As you can see, when I ...
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Unable to log into a valid account after trial expired
This might be really basic but I can't figure out how to log into my valid Photoshop account.
Previously was on a different trial account which has expired. Fair enough.
But I want to log out and log ...
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Im trying to make an action t filter my files by day to different folders , any idea: doesnt work
Please help, eed an action to select files like images, and videos basically to filter on different kind , and another action to filter by day.. cant make it worrk on automator, any advice ill ...
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How to bulk replace images with placeholders of same dimensions, with a unique visual identifier?
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I have a few private GitHub repositories of games I have made. I want to open source the codebases, but many of the images used are licensed so cannot be shared freely.
Since the image ...
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Photoshop 2022 incompatibility with GPU driver and DirectX
I have a AMD HD 7470 on my a bit old pc, with Core i3-3220 and Win10 x64 OS 20H. I have a problem when I run Ps 2022 on it. When I install last version of video card driver from AMD website (last ...
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How do I crop/straighten, apply settings, then save and close with Photoshop actions?
I have two actions right now. The first crops and straightens the photos from an image. They are scanned pages from a scrapbook. An image might have 4-6 individual images in it. Crop and Straighten ...
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Adobe XD CC 2020 get error when install
I try to install Adobe XD CC 2020 in windows 10 2017 but get error such as this image :
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What is the process to create this style of text warp?
Looking to recreate this style of warped text. I've tried the warp text styles that are available; arc, arc lower/upper but not able to get near this desired style. Would love some pointers/guide on ...
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How to save anchor points in photoshop?
In Photoshop, I am drawing a irregular shaped polygon using pen tool by adding anchor points. I want to use this polygon with different style of lines (e.g., dashed line, dotted line, different color ...
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How can i use alt symbols on photoshop CS6?
OS: W10/W7 64bits.
PS: CS6
I want to use musical and math symbols, but they do not seem to work.
For example the musical flat symbol: ♭.
According to plenty of websites, the alt code is alt 9837:
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Run multiple instances of Photoshop
I have both Photoshop CC and Photoshop CS6 installed on my machine.
Sometimes I have to scan things with CS6 because it's 32bit and rely on some things (twain32 but also other plugins) and have ...
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Save a photoshop file that opens multiple canvases?
Let's say I have multiple canvases/windows open and want them to all open up when the photoshop file is opened. Is that possible?
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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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How can Adobe Photoshop's trial in a VM have "expired" when it was installed today?
I created a new VM in VMware just the other day, with the latest Windows 10 Enterprise Trial.
Then I installed Adobe Creative Cloud, with a freshly registered account, and downloaded Photoshop inside ...
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Photoshop closes files very slowly
When I try to close Photoshop files, each file takes about 5 seconds to close. I made a video to show you what I mean: https://streamable.com/5av58x
Notice that after I click 'close' on each file, the ...
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Is it possible to quickly export a .jpg and .png simultaneously in Photoshop?
I work with product images for an online retail site. Each product image needs to have a .jpg copy and .png copy. Currently, I just export once as .jpg and then export again as .png. This is both time-...
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How to get GIMP to recognize Images or Pictures folder as the default folder for images?
The computer I'm currently using (Lenovo ThinkPad, Windows 10) doesn't have a DVD-ROM drive, so I can't install an old version of Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. I'm making do with GIMP 2.10.14....
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Photoshop 6.0 stopped working on Windows 10
Starting fails with this message:
Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry, but
this error is unrecoverable.
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Issue placing image into Photoshop from iCloud Drive
So, I store a lot of images on my iCloud drive, more often than not when I try to drag these image files into photoshop I get the following error: "Could not place “.imageName.jpg.icloud” because ...
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Display color mode settings vs Windows / Software color profiles, AdobeRGB
I have monitor with 99% Adobe RGB and 95% DCI-P3.
For the color space in OSD settings, Standard = Adobe RGB, DCI = DCI-P3, sRGB = sRGB (sic!)
In Windows color management default one is set to sRGB ...
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Photoshop: What is the simplest and fastest way to draw geometrical shapes like a circle or square?
I wanted to draw a circle and I thought this could be accomplished by using a simple brush but there isn't a circle or square shape available.
Please note that by circle I mean a simple closed curve ...
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How to turn off PowerShell notification [duplicate]
How to turn off this pop-up PowerShell notification that appears at start-up?
When trying to install Photoshop from torrents, I had to disable Windows real time Defender, and the msvcr100.dll file ...
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How to capture windows Image for deployment [closed]
I would like to capture Windows 10 installation. Basically I have Windows installed on my laptop. The installation is ideal. It is activate, has office, Photoshop, chrome, ... installed. I want to ...
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Integrated graphics only or integrated + dedicated
Consider the following setup:
A machine with a processor (plus integrated graphics) and
another machine with the same processor and integrated graphics
but aditionally a dedicated graphics card which ...
