― james, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sean, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
:-)
Personally, I save all important selections as alpha channels, make a new layer for just about everything and work with the pen tool to get detailed bits. I generally have dozens of layers and 5 or 10 alpha channels by the time I'm done. The pen and the smudge tools are things I never used until a few years ago. For some reason I thought they were for dopes, imprecise and awkward. Then, I figured out if you use selections properly, all the tools have their major advantages. I love photoshop and can pretty much render anything I want to, faces, bottles, elephants that look like photographs.
DG, the best exercise you could do would be to take a glass full of water or wine and try to draw it perfectly. It'll help you to realize that shadows are never shades of black and light is never white. Choosing realistic colors is what sets amazing artwork apart. During the process, you'll intuitively figure out how to use the pen tool and how to create selections based on weird shapes of reflected light. And blur is about the only filter you ever want to use. Those filters are tacky, man.
Good luck, DG. Don't get frustrated, there's a lot to it, but it's cool as hell once you understand it all!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Mark S, those are things I've recently done is the only reason I thought of 'em. Elephants is kind of an odd one, I suppose, but you should see how odd the design is. Virgin Mary with the head of an elephant and a lotus flower where the sacred heart should be, holding a monkey with a halo of elephants circling her head, holding nose to trunk, nose to trunk. Some arabic type, velvet curtins and sort of a tarot card look, but with regular "suits" corners. I'm still working on it, but it's gettin' there...
― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kodanshi, Thursday, 20 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
RIGHT?!
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
It's just red writing on a white background! It's THAT simple! :)
I did manage to select the colour I want, and drop it onto the old colour using the paintbucket, but that doesn't change the shades of red on the sides of the letters and it looks k-scrappy.
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
Can someone with skillz help me out with what is probably a simple problem?
A friend was fucking around on Photoshop on my computer the other day, and now whenever I cut something and paste it into another picture, the pasted image appears semi-transparent, even though the fill and opacity is all the way on 100%. I've been trying to fix this for over an hour, and it's driving me nuts.
If it helps at all, I'll give a few more details. When I cut from an image, it leaves a little feathered hole where the selection was, instead of a clean line. This happens even though the feathering is turned down to 0 pixels.
― Z S, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
you've not changed the 'mode' to something other than Normal by mistake have you, in the top tool bar ?
― Ste, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 08:21 (sixteen years ago) link
does anyone have adobe postscript
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
or know where i can dl it for free
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
or what it even is
Postscript is a programming language, albeit one that is usually both written and read by other software. It is not something you buy.
What is it you're trying to do?
― Jacob, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you want to read a postscript file? If so, get GSView or something here: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
― mh, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:59 (fifteen years ago) link
No.. but what do you need to do? I do have most Adobe software access at work..
― daria-g, Thursday, 8 May 2008 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
This happens even though the feathering is turned down to 0 pixels.
A few minutes after posting this, I think I realized that feathering was in fact at 20 pixels or something like that.
― Z S, Thursday, 8 May 2008 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
After many years of not having a computer I finally got a laptop and reacquainted myself with Adobe Photoshop. It was like the return of an old lover from my teen years, but with a few hundred more vaginas, and I can't remember how any of 'em work.
^^^irrelevant post of no help to Roxy or anyone, i have no help to offer, sorry
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Roxy -- are you thinking of Distiller, maybe? That's part of Acrobat Pro. And yeah -- what you need to do is a key question. :)
― kenan, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
GOD yall are nosy
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
if i'm thinking correctly then postscript is kind of like a beefed up printer protocol - ie, it tells your printer how/what to print.
― Viceroy, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
7 years later, can we finally ask DG how he got his hands on a copy
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i forget
however i recently got cs3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― DG, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
don't ask, don't tell
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
no it was legit :(
― DG, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
back in the day getting macromedia studio 8 for £60 was quite a coup
― DG, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
wau at nude spock
― blueski, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Virgin Mary with the head of an elephant
no wonder this blasphemous heretic got banned
― blueski, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Photoshop CS4: Classic or dud?
― ASCII NED (libcrypt), Saturday, 29 November 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The new display technology throws me off a bit. Images at different magnifications can look very different.
― ASCII NED (libcrypt), Saturday, 29 November 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Getting desperate for a Christmas present for my Dad, who's a (very) serious amateur photographer and uses Photoshop Elements. I can just about afford the Photoshop CS4 if me and my brother both chip in and if I get the student version (I have a part-time student card so I guess that would work).
Is there any other giftable software a photoenthusiast would like, or is Photoshop basically it? He uses a PC.
He would never consider using cracks, hence worth us considering this present.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 14 December 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd recommend Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (currently on v2.1) - gets rid of a lot of stuff a photographer wouldn't use, simplifies the workflow and provide a great tagging/cataloguing system. I couldn't cope without it now. A lot cheaper than PS-CS4 but quite a bit more expensive than PSE7.
Does his PC have plenty of RAM? Adobe recommend 1GB for Lightroom but I think 2GB is needed.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 14 December 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never used Lightroom and don't know the extent of it's processing tools, but it sounds like a great idea. Alternately, maybe you could find someone selling CS3. Very few people are upgrading to CS4 at this point.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 December 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
lightroom is a good idea if he's going to use it for his photography. not sure about the cost difference tho.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Sunday, 14 December 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
If he's a Mac user, then Aperture is a very good, photographer-centric image editing app. Lightroom can be considered Adobe's response to Aperture.
― TEENAGE DIALECTICS (libcrypt), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
They have a CS4?
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, and it's dope.
― bachmann boehner overdrive (kenan), Thursday, 7 May 2009 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hi2d-rNV3wqwKS82-H4VtDYcEI5Q?docId=CNG.640a4b54110c821400e5cddea60d6b2b.611
:O
― conrad, Thursday, 7 October 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
;_;
― ledge, Thursday, 7 October 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm finding it weird that there are a number of people on here & the ilphotography threads say they can't afford Photoshop and Lightroom, but have been on other threads talking about acquiring films/tv and music via certain internet wonders of sharing.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
adobe products have finally achieved gotten bloated with enough bad features to be an apt fit for microsoft
― akm, Friday, 8 October 2010 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― www.askjeeves.com (Z S), Friday, 8 October 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
OH FUCK! oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 8 October 2010 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
this is all just rumor and speculation right now anyway.
― akm, Friday, 8 October 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
:P
― conrad, Friday, 8 October 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I've just been reading that recent editions of photoshop need to have a certain resolution of screen before they will allow you to save properly. 1024x600 which it doesn't look like I can access on my computer. I'm just wondering if it has always been like that or if it might be possible to get hold of an older version and use it successfully.Without the ability to save things the application's usefulness is sorely limited.
Is this a problem that other image editing software suffer from. Or am I better trying something like Gimp?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
AT the moment I just get no dialogue box coming up when i press save as & the only possible way of saving is to turn off the image at the x at which point it asks if you want to save the image that's being thrown away but then you can't come back and save differing versions of the same project.Kind of sux really.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
ive used ps since the pre-creative suite days up to cs5 don't know what you're referring to about required resolution. no dialogue box for 'save as' sounds like your photoshop install is corrupted
― am0n, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
wow you've seen a lot of shops in your time!
― Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
i can tell from some of the pixels
― am0n, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i've never run into any issue re: screen resolution and saving either, sorry!
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
try this¿?
http://www.nextgenupdate.com/forums/gfx-tutorials/394721-fixed-photoshop-save-problem.html
― am0n, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, I'm thrilled that they've finally caught up to the rest of the world (and the rest of their apps) and made CMD+Z the all-around go-backward function, but damn. It's going to take me another five years to quit hitting OPTION+CMD+Z to go backward more than a step.
― pplains, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Same with swapping shift-resize!
― sktsh, Friday, 2 November 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
Good Lord, that too.
Why even still have the little lock icon up there if it doesn't do anything?
Though, yes, the new way is better.
― pplains, Friday, 2 November 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
oh man that made me so angry and perplexed the first time I fired up the new version
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Friday, 2 November 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
i have a feeling adobe broke photoshop elements on my mac but blames apple and offers a "license fixing tool" that doesn't work in order for me to agree to language that it is not responsible for breaking photoshop elements on my mac in any way. cool trump-y move.
― cheese canopy (map), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
I attempted to open an image of a $50 bill today and GOOD LORD, I had no idea ps was so psssy about that sort of thing.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
Oh yes. I have actually been there before.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
Fortunately, Illustrator doesn't give a shit – which is so true for most of what I try to use illustrator for.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/20/adobe-lightroom-ios-update-photos-deleted/OOPS
― calstars, Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link