Re: Dynamic text is now available in Photoshop bet...

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

Please push this tool to the programs more designed around text and vectors. By @BryceRobertsGD We don't have the stats for perpetual license versions of the Adobe apps, but when the Creative Cloud subscription model was introduced, legitimate paid subscribers increased from around 700,000 mid-2013 to 1.4 million by end of that year. Numbers increased steadily, but Photoshop numbers ballooned rapidly after Scott Kelby persuaded Adobe to introduce the Photography plan. There are now more than 37 million people with a paid for Creative Cloud subscription, with a large majority having just Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge. So would you deny this superb tool to all those people? That's just a bit elitist methinks.

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

Wikipedia has an excellent page on JPEG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG This one is best viewed on the Wikipedia page so you can expand each sample.

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

I have several Flaming Pear plugins that have to be super old now. The UIs are too small for anything more than a 1080 screen res, and are kind of clunky. Flood 2 is still very usable though. Fractalius used to be a star in its day, but is slow and its effects have been superceded but later HTML5 plugins from people like Topaz, and even the native Oil Paint filter. What would be _really_ nice to have a modern version of would be the various Kai Power Tools versions. They must have been years (decades) ahead of their time, and I can't think why no one has recoded them. It was KPT that came to mind when reading your post because author Kai Krause has parallels with Mike Finn, and having done it once, didn't feel like doing it again. There is also Lucis Art which was always a mystery to me. It used to cost something like $400 to $500 years and years ago when that was serious money, and it's effects were always questionable.

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

Your student is probably confusing file size on the disk, which I am guessing is a compressed JPG, and the document size when open in Photoshop.

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

Gemini 2.5 Flash, available within Firefly. Its primary purpose is for editing existing assets, rather than creating new ones. By @daniellei4510 I have been using it (mostly via the LMArena.ai page) but I was excited by this recent heads up from Terry White. I have helf off from getting a Nano Banana subscription because I was hoping it's full functionality would come to Firefly and Generative Fill, but I will subscribe if it doesn't.

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

I wonder if any of the Luminosity Masks would come close. I only have Sven Stork's Luminosity Mask, but the Tony Kuper extension is supposed to be the goto tool. You can contact Tony here

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

What would be really useful is a spring loaded shortcut to hide that box, or maybe toggle it's position. Another posibility would be to add Preferences to what can be saved with Workspaces. If you used a shortcut to swap between workspaces then you could efectively toggle the state of that pop-up and other Preferences via a shortcut.

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

A convincing looking spill @daniellei4510 complete with reflection. Dare I ask if it was illustrated or Ai?

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

@Christelle RD I hope you don't mind me suggesting this, but I'd have been inclined to increas contrast of the cap, and add a highlight to give it some shine.

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

I've seen a video of tourist picking up a blue ringed octopus. She was incredibly lucky to survive that encounter.

Trevor.Dennis · Sep 18, 2025

Regular poster @D Fosse does this professionally and will hopefully give you some tips. See if you can get hold of a copy of Fill Hunter's Science Light & Magic, which is the definitive text on all types of product photography. I think you might find a PDF version if you search.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 17, 2025

You need to make a selection of the tie at least, and copy it to a new layer. I also copied the colar to a new layer so we can hid the moved tie behind it if need be. The pen tool is the best means of making that selection. If we move the tie it will leave a gap at the bottom, so instead I have used Free Transform, and Ctrl dragged the top corner handles. Note that the knot has gone behind the copy we made of the colar. I tried removing the original tie position with Generative Fill, but it did not do a great job. I tried again asking it to remove the tie, and it was no better. So I had to use the clone tool. It was easy to do because the short is white with not too much shading. Finally replace the shading on our left of the knot below the coloar, and fix the tie on the right of the knot. This was done by carefully selecting the area and using the clone tool and pain brush

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 16, 2025

It did this with Generative Fill and the simple prompt 'Continue the pattern'. All three options were probably usable, but this was the best. I initially tried it without a prompt and the results were not so good. The shape of the selection made a big difference. I have a strong feeling that we are in a 'Watch this space' situation right now, as Terry White has hinted that the full Nano Banana engine is coming to the Photoshop beta version in a week or so. If it works the same as Nano Banana we won't need to make a selection. Just describe what we need to happen and the Ai will do it.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 16, 2025

Do you want to be able to snap to this grid, or just use as a visual aid. Would guides be helpful? You can create and save guide setups. You can create a pattern that will fill a layer with a grid. I have a premade grid that I keep in a CC Library, and I find that useful. If you can give us more details on how you would like to use this grid, that might help?

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 16, 2025

I have a copy if you're still interested. By @mark tc94605351 Mark, does it work with current versions? I was wondering if it dated back to Flash (pre HTML5). What does it do?

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 16, 2025

I have run into this problem before. If you use an outer area that is blurred and lower opacity, it still paints fully black because each stamp of the brush overlaps. So you need to make the shading part very thin like below, and experiment with spacing. You also need to set angle jitter to Direction, which leads to another problem, that being spokes in the outer shading on tight curves. Even with spacing set to 1% the spoke effect is still evident. So maybe better to use layer styles If you want to devote more time to it, take a look at Dual Brushes. A lot of Kyle Webster's presets work that way, so find something close and reverse engineer it. I

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 15, 2025

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 15, 2025

Very dark James. Very moody. I'm waiting for the glowing red eyes to rise up out of the water like the creature from the black lagoon.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 14, 2025

An interesting point about this is that it did not compress very well. At 1000 pixels wide and 64 layers (I think) it exported at 20Mb! To get under the forum's 10Mb max size limit, I had to drop the pixel size to 800 eide, and reduce colours to 64 (from 256). I was surprised as there are large areas of similar colour in both still images. They look surprisingly OK for having so few colours. I could have run the Oil Paint filter to flatten it making it a wee bit cartoon now I think of it. Blimey, I tried with all Oil Paint settings at minimum and Lighting turned off, and the Gif came down from 20Mb to 1.2Mb. It is back to 256 colours, but definitely a bit softer. I think the 64 colour version looked a wee bit better, but that's a heck of a file size saving. I initially started reworking the pen to orintate it to a more conincing writing angle, and then had a Duh! moment and simply flipped it. It's too small to see that the text on the clip is flipped.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 14, 2025

@Glenn 8675309 Coping and distributing with the Move tool's align features is definitely useful, but Step & Repeat lets us change each iteration progressively. That can be size, position, aspect ratio and angle. You don't need a plugin to create an array. If you click on the Align tool sub menu you distribute by object centres or the spacing between them. Distribute Spacing was introduced a few years back, but before that we used @Chuck Uebele 's free Space Equal Extension. Back in the days of Flash (before it changed to HTML5) we had the super useful Dmonzon Tools panel from Trevor Morris. I loved that panel!

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 13, 2025

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 13, 2025

Excellent John. It was a really big deal for me when someone posted SO via copy work around, so I am always pleased to see more ways of achieving things.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 13, 2025

@amy durocher this is an incredibly useful feature. Jim (ProDesignTools) linked to the free Adobe Stock images recently, and I have used a bunch of them since then. Oh wow. I see you have already added it to the Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts panel. That is even better! Note: I added the F3 shortcut by way of demonstration.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 13, 2025

@Aleke I am pretty sure the OP is referring to the trick of touching down at one end of the stroke and shift clicking at the other end. This works with most tools that use cursor presets, but does not work with the remove tool. He is absolutely right, because that is an extremely useful feature, and would be especially useful with the Remove tool. To be honest, I suspect a lot of peopl would use it to remove watermarks from copyrighted images (below)

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 13, 2025

If you are using the beta version (least ways I think it is still only with the beta) try Harmonize from the Contextual Toolbar. In this case it simply added some shading to the logo, but it is a very useful new tool. Do you need any help with Displacement Maps? They will shape the new content to the surface it overlays. You can see it has distorted the design to follow the cfolds of the shirt. Some manually added shading completes the effect.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 13, 2025

You need to use Antrohop support. They are the experts on their plugins, and will know about compatability issues etc. https://www.anthropics.com/support/portraitpro/plugins/ Ore you could try simply reinstalling the plugin. There's a chance that it will look for the correct path when installing, or it might ask you to indicate and select the correct path. Good luck.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 13, 2025

Try the shortcut Ctrl Shift F1 (make the UI darker) and Ctrl Shift F2 (make the UI lighter)

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 13, 2025

Hi @MahaB82A @AlanGilbertson The thread author is referring to Free Transform Step & Repeat, which is where Shift Ctrl Alt T comes in. It works reliably with raster layers, but is definitely problematic with Shape Layers and Smart Objects. So you could rasterize the Shape Layer, but we discovered a workaround for Smart Objects fairly recently, so lets see if we can use that here? OK, tested and it works, so this is the way: Create your Shape Layer, and make it a Smart Object (right click the layer) Right click the Smart Object Layer and choose New Smart Object Via Copy Apply the first Transform to that layer. Now delete that layer, select the original Smart Object layer, and carry on with the Step & Repeat (Shift Ctrl Alt T) It now works with shape layers and smart objects. Because the shape layer is a Smart Object, you can edit the SO and change will be applied to all of the step & repeat layers. NOTE: You must apply the edit to the original layer. It will not work if you edit one of the copied layers. Just one more heads up: Step & Repeat is an undocumented shortcut, and is not included in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts So if you reasign Shift Ctrl Alt T step & repeat will not work. I use it to arrange windows — from a Michael Ninness worksahop at MAX about ten years ago. So I have my new shortcut saved to my main workspace, and switch to Essentials when I need to use Step & Repeat.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 11, 2025

Hi Yvette. Possible reasons for text not showing: Text is the same colour as the background. Text layer is hidden behind another layer. Tex is so tiny you can't see it. This is not as unlikely as you might think, and can happen when you create a new image, and confuse image size inches for pixels, and inadvertantly end up with a canvas >30,000 pixels wide. Text layer is outside the document window. Try Ctrl clicking the text layer's icon which will load it as a selection, and show you where it is located, and what size it is.

Trevor.Dennis · ‎Sep 11, 2025

With the Remove Background tool, if you have an image with a transparent background, it does not consider the subject in the image, assumes that the image is already with the background removed, and only marks the selection of the entire image and does not remove the background from the subject. By @jesus_1170 Hi Jesus. Can you show us a screen shot, or more detail about what you are seeing? I tried testing what I thought you might be getting at by expanding the canvas so it had a transparent area all round it, but Remove Background still worked as expected. (Kudos to the first person to recognise the image 🙂 )

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