Semaphoric
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Semaphoric
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Jul 02, 2025
Are you using a graphics tablet?
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‎Jun 29, 2025
06:21 AM
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There used to be a pattern maker plugin with Photoshop that did this, bu the results were so-so. After trying it a couple of times, I went back to constructing patterns by hand.
Perhaps with AI it could work better,
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‎Jun 25, 2025
02:18 PM
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‎Jun 25, 2025
02:18 PM
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Could you post a screenshot of the Layers panel?
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‎Jun 23, 2025
05:43 PM
Larry, neither had I, but they are there in v26.8. They work quite well, from my limited testing. Adobe is slowly getting these new Gradients up to speed. Now if they can only fix the foreground/background color update bug.
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‎Jun 23, 2025
05:32 PM
You control the placement of the Gradient with the two end handles. The one at the start of the Gradient adjusts the position, and the one at the end adjusts the angle.
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‎Jun 23, 2025
05:44 AM
Please post the results you are getting, and also the original (or a link to it). Also, a screen shot of the Layers panel would help diagnose things.
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‎Jun 20, 2025
07:27 PM
One other way of indicating motion comes from the early days of Race Car photography with large format focal plane shutters: Rolling shutter is not a new thing.
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‎Jun 20, 2025
04:02 PM
The blur effect is incorrectly applied in the second image. It is physically impossible for a single moving object to move at different speeds. Therefore it is also impossible to clearly recognise parts of the face etc. By @pixxxelschubser Not unnecessarily. Where the bottom of a spinning wheel meets the ground, its forward velocity is zero. The flanges on rail road wheels even move backward at that point. This is why the Spin filter is not suited to this Speed lines and motion trails are some others that people think are "correct", but are not realistic at all.
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‎Jun 20, 2025
12:52 PM
You could do this using the Polar Coordinates filter. Frst, be sure Overscroll is checked in Edit > Preferences > Tools. Use the Pen tool to make a Path (not a Shape) with end points on the "outside corners" of the template, and a third point between them. With the Direct Selection tool, select the middle point, and drag it down so that the Path aligns with the "outside edges" of the template: Use the Ruler tool to find the length of the vertical leg of the path. Image > Canvas Size with twice this length in both fields. Set vertical and horizontal Guides at 50%. Select the Path with the Path Selection tool, and Edit > Free Transform Path (Ctrl+T) to position it so the middle point is in the center of the canvas. With the Path repositioned, click off the Path in the Paths panel to de-select it, and Edit > Transform > Again (Shift+Ctrl+T) to reposition the pixels. Select All, and run Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates, Polar to Rectangular. The arc at the top will now be a stubby rectangle in the corner: Drag this with the Move tool into your artwork document, so that the template rectangle is in the corner, and scale it proportionally so that the top of the rectangle is aligned with the top of the artwork: With your artwork a Smart Object, adjust the size by dragging the right side so it just covers the rectangle. Canvas Size with the Width copied and pasted into the Height field, expanding out from the corner. Nudge the artwork layer up one pixel with the up arrow key (important!), and run Polar Coordinates Rectangular to Polar.
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‎Jun 18, 2025
06:28 PM
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Trevor Win10 has individual screen scaling , too. However, I found I have to set both to 100% for my old workspaces to display correctly, not just the one with all my panels.
I did notice one thing I have not seen mention of: the Histogram panel is now fully re-sizable. It can be stretched all the way across the desktop (if you like). A definite improvement over the state of things one year ago.
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‎Jun 18, 2025
03:48 PM
I was laying out a new workspace, arranging panels on the second monitor into blocks, one with the Layers, Channels, and Paths panels docked side-by-side, with all three the same height. I can position them as a unit with the top bar, but have to re-size each separately.
I had just changed my Desktop magnification to 125%, so the several Workspaces I made over the past year weren't usable. When I built them, and again with this one, I thought, "This would be so much faster if I could . . ." I thought I'd ask here, to see if there was a trick I didn't know. Setting up a Workspace is the only time it matters, so it will probably not concern me again until I get a 4K monitor or something.
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‎Jun 18, 2025
12:02 PM
When panels are docked side-by-side, one can drag them around as a unit with the bar at the top edge, but the resizing grabbers on the bottom edge remain independent. Is there any way connect them, so hat the whole block can be re-sized at once?
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‎Jun 18, 2025
06:25 AM
@Ged_Traynor I was using the Shape tool. It also works properly using the Path Selection tool. When using the Move tool, the problem the OP describes occurs. The radius icons are visible, and hovering over them changes the cursor to a small arc, but they can not be moved.
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‎Jun 18, 2025
05:39 AM
It's working as expected here.
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‎Jun 16, 2025
09:05 PM
It would be so simple if one could turn off the "Perspective" feature when transforming, so that only one dimension would be changed, leaving the other dimension alone.
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‎Jun 15, 2025
07:11 AM
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Over two years, and this still hasn't been fixed.
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‎Jun 12, 2025
06:30 PM
OP said 8-bit, not 32.
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‎Jun 11, 2025
06:25 PM
I've wanted this for a long time, sort of like Illusrrator's Art Brushes, but for pixels. I don't know if it could be done in real time, but something like Filter > Render > Flames, but for Patterns seem logical.
One thing that should be considered is what happens going around a corner or sharp turn. I've run ito this trying to fake it with Polar Coordinates. The inside edge will get compressed, and the outer edge stretched, so the inside could turn into pebbles and the outside into boulders. It may be better to stroke a Path with some sort of Procedural render thing, placing the cobblestones as they fit. This would hold true for other patterns too, but some would be easier to deal with than others.
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‎Jun 10, 2025
07:11 AM
Trevor, I use Step-and-Repeat a lot, and share your frustration with the lack of snap. I usually just get it close, zoom in to 1600% to fine tune. I'll give your method a try. Ideally, I'd like to set up and perform the transform without taking my hands off the keyboard. As it is, I press Ctrl+T, grab the mouse to get to the Option Bar, and back to the keyboard to tab through the fields. This is a gripe I have about using the Option Bar in general.
The icon for the Reference Point is not, as far as I can tell, able to be accessed from the keyboard, and requires a click on a tiny, six-pixel square from a tight grid of nine. Having to squint at the screen to set it sure slows things down.
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‎Jun 08, 2025
06:54 PM
I'm on Windows, so I can't give any guidance on Mac Preview.
When I open a .CR3 file from my Canon M6 mkII (which has almost the same sensor as the R7) through Camera Raw into Photoshop, using default settings, it shows nowhere near the noise yours does.
One thing you might try is downloading a demo version of a third-party Raw converter, and see if the problem persists.
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‎Jun 08, 2025
05:52 PM
Again, are you developing in Abobe Camera Raw?
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‎Jun 08, 2025
05:29 PM
How are you developing what I assume are .CR2 files? Photoshop does not open these directly, but through Adobe Camera Raw. There is a new noise reduction tool in ACR which I find works well.
The other image, in my opinion, is a mess. Any detail around the eyes is gone. Basically, the noisy one is sharp, and the other one isn't. Again, details on how you are opening the "raw" files will help.
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‎Jun 08, 2025
04:50 PM
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Would the stencil be like a sheet of paper with cut-outs, or on a woven screen, like a silk screen print?
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‎May 30, 2025
12:37 PM
Photoshop does not run via the cloud, it runs locally on your computer. Try saving your filters in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2025\Required\Plug-ins\Filters.
Some older filters will only run under 32 bits, which would require an older version of Photoshop. There may be other plugins with the same functionality that run in v2025.
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‎May 28, 2025
07:00 PM
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Go to Edit > Preferences > Tools, and un-check Overscroll.
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in Photoshop ecosystem Discussions
‎May 27, 2025
05:39 PM
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‎May 27, 2025
05:39 PM
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"Older Software"? Which version of Photoshop are you running?
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‎May 21, 2025
04:26 PM
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If you could re-photograph it with raking light at a low angle, that could enhance the three dimensional texture of the quilting.
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‎May 19, 2025
05:42 AM
I didn't know that either, Trevor, but I've seen Faux Bold give people trouble in the past. The other Faux styles don't seem to have this issue.
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in Photoshop ecosystem Discussions
‎May 18, 2025
06:32 PM
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‎May 18, 2025
06:32 PM
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In the Character panel, make sure the Faux Bold icon is not selected :
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‎May 11, 2025
06:13 AM
Would it work with an Intel processor? I see that Microsoft offers the Surface Pro with Intel on their Small Business site: Surface Pro for Business 11th Ed. Copilot+ PC, Core Ultra Laptop Price & Specs | Microsoft Store
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