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    What Does "Trending Content" Mean?

    On the PSG home page, there's a section called Trending Content. I never noticed it before, but looking now, I see a bunch of 16-year-old items of little interest and with almost no activity in them. Opening one of them reveals a deleted post. In what sense are these items "trending" and merit...
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    Saturation Differences in Photoshop vs. Firefox Browser

    In a recent free edit request (Remove Hair Strand, posted by Flowers), she liked my edit but asked me to restore the original image vibrancy. I did not make any image adjustments at all, yet when I view my edit in PSG compared to her original post, I see obvious color differences. Here's a...
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    Need Help Creating a Custom Brush

    I'm trying to create rope in Photoshop. I used the pen tool to create this basic shape, which I saved as both a custom vector shape and as a custom brush: If you string enough of these together, you get a reasonable simulation of rope, like below. If I set the brush spacing to about 60%, I...
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    Creating a Hue Map

    @thebestcpu John, First question: a few weeks ago you created this Hue Map of the image of boats in a harbor (first attachment; OP was R.Braverman). Can you please tell me how you did this? Second question (and anybody is free to answer): In an entirely unrelated tutorial (for identifying...
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    Identify the Artist

    I found this image of a steampunk locomotive that I want to use in a composite. I'm trying to identify the artist who made it — or perhaps it is AI-generated — but all I can find are several Pinterest references, which I think are merely people who posted it to their Pinterest folder, not the...
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    Anyone Know How to Fix My Display?

    I have Windows 10. Had some computer issues today and called Tech Support, who corrected the problem remotely. However, I now see a display issue that wasn't there previously. When I try to open an image file, the icons for PNG and JPG used to display a thumbnail of the actual image. But now...
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    Interesting Effect

    I saw this illustration in New Yorker magazine. It's by an artist named Lola Dupre and she makes these by hand using paper and scissors. I've been trying to replicate the effect in Photoshop, but I'm not there yet. I started by creating a starburst pattern, which I used to mask, enlarge and...
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    Shrinking and Enlarging Images

    In a recent thread about fitting baby pictures into a 4x6 canvas, both @IamSam and @thebestcpu suggest using Edit>Transform to shrink the baby photos to size (after converting to smart objects). That method should work just fine, but I’m wondering if there's a difference in image quality when...
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    Tapered Stroke on Paths

    Continuing the discussion from yesterday's thread on creating this pattern, I have (sort of) figured out how to apply a tapered stroke to a vector path. Select a hard, round brush. Set its pixel size to be the thickest part of your stroke. Open the Brush panel. Set the brush spacing to...
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    Sluggish Response Time in PSG

    Anybody else having trouble with the PSG website? For about a month now, I often experience very sluggish response. Opening the website can sometimes take upwards of one minute. Once I'm in, it's often very slow navigating among the forums and threads. I'd say this happens about 50% of the time...
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    Photoshop and AI

    @JeffK , That edit is pretty good ! I'm still (and always) against AI on philosophical principles, but I can't argue with the result.
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    What Do You Think About AI in Photoshop?

    Artificial intelligence is in the news a lot and has also made its way into Photoshop with such things as Gigapixel AI. I have some thoughts and I’m curious what others think. Hypothetically, let’s say there is a new Photoshop plug-in where you simply enter a set of instructions. For example...
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    How to make a cut at exactly 45 degrees

    This feels like a beginner question that I’m embarrassed to ask. I have a rectangle on its own layer. I want to cut off the ends in a 45-degree bevel, as if the rectangle were one side of a beveled picture frame. How would I do that? I got it done in a complicated way by constructing a custom...
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    Movie Poster Effect

    I saw a poster today for a new movie (in the U.S.) called Cocaine Bear, about a bear that finds and eats 70 pounds of cocaine and then starts rampaging all over the place. The movie itself is probably not my cup of tea, but I did like the poster and I gave myself the challenge of trying to do it...
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    Make fireplace grout pattern dark.

    Nice job @IamSam. Can you explain what you did? I tried this one myself, but didn't post it. Mine came out ok, but yours is much cleaner and more consistent. Here's what I did: Fill the entire shape of the tiled wall with black. Apply Blend-If to allow the black to appear only if the...
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    Ability to Underline Text

    The ability to underline text was removed from the PSG functionality after the last big overhaul several months ago. Any chance of restoring that? It sometimes helps to underline things, for added emphasis.
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    Understanding the Contour Editor

    Does anybody know of a tutorial that explains the Contour Editor? Photoshop comes with several pre-set contour settings and also has an editor where you can customize and create your own. But, other than trial & error guesswork, I can't figure out how to predict ahead of time what a particular...
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    Recent Pencil Drawings

    Lately I've been studying figure drawing—full figures and portraits. Been drawing my whole life, mostly in an intuitive, observational way. But now I want to be more academically "correct" and more formal about it, including a detailed knowledge of anatomy. I bought about eight books on how to...
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    PSG Error Message

    Has anybody else been getting this message lately while trying to access PSG? I've had this happen several times before, where it won't let me in. Not sure if it's something on my end or, as the message implies, the PSG server can't handle the volume. Usually, if I wait five or ten minutes then...
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    Question About the Hand Tool

    After all these years you'd think I would know this. If you view this video starting at the 2:00 mark, he uses the hand tool to reposition the image on the screen. I'm not talking about moving the Layer Styles window, I'm talking about how he moved the image itself on the screen. In my...
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