I have an Instagram account and X, but I rarely use them. I used to use Twitter to follow ULA launches if I was going to photo it. Instagram i look at occasionally, but rarely post.  I do spent too much time on FB, but rarely post or comment on anything political or religious.  I have a host of friends that do post that stuff and who get all hot under the collar if you don't see things thier way. Many have said to unfriend them if you don't believe as they do. Some I have, not because I disagree with them on some things, but I'm not sure I want to be friends with anyone who is so closed minded. A lot of them are all in their little bubbles, feeding off of each other's similar opinions. I have one friend who was ready to leave the U.S. in 2020, if Trump one. She had talked to an immigration lawyer, but since Biden won, she stayed. I haven't heard of she's planning to move again, but I don't look at her stuff much anymore, as she only wants people who echo her views.  ... View more

You can get the pixel dimensions in Bridge, Lightroom, Photoshop, via scripting, etc. How do you want to get them and for what purpose: seeing the size before you place or after placed, etc? ... View more

If I understand what you want, that would result in an image that looks posterized. Using color range, there will be some transitioning of feathering. To have no feathering, you might want to set the fuzziness all the way down. Then to be totally sure that no transparency has been selected, use the magic wand tool and select a known totally transparent area. Reverse the selection and use that for your mask for your solid color layer. Keep one color the entire image, or you will likely end up with transparent areas. ... View more

As others mentioned, you need an image layer and not an adjustment layer. If you want to include the adjustment layer, create a smart object layer of everything.  ... View more

Is this just with the paint brush or other brushes? Do you have a high value in brush smoothing? ... View more

Our place, here on the central Coast has an interesting way to charge for water. It seems that the local residents own part of the water company. We are charge a minimum rate for water, even if we're not here to use it. Then you get charged more per tier of usage. ... View more

Moved to The Indesign forum, from the Photoshop forum. ... View more

What Colin is doing is cool, but it falls short of the lighting effects in that with lightig effects you can create a light that is more directional/cone shaped, like a flood with a reflector next to a wall. With the new masking tooks, you're kind of stuck with oval mask, unless you get into some complicated masking. In Colin's example, his image helped with make it look like a diretional flood in that the barrel on the left was already dark. ... View more

Yes, always have to take what's posted on the Internet with not only a grain of salt, but the whole shaker. ... View more

I don't doubt that something like that happened, but I'm hoping it isn't getting to this order that the entire story isn't being told. I've seen a lot of post by rescue and aid groups that have had to hide their donations, as "government agencies" are coming in and confiscating them, then redirecting the supplies to other areas and taking the credit for the supplies. I remember my brother trying to work with FEMA, when his house was damaged in an earthquake- it was an exercise in red tape and frustration. And that was a pretty small disaster area, unlike Helene which was massive. I can see why people are getting frustrated and mad, but violence isn't the answer. Having only lived in NC a short time, I have gone into the real deep back areas, but I've run into a few whom I wouldn't want to cross. ... View more

That's good that it was debunked. These days, it's hard to tell what's factual. ... View more

Just an article on Axios Charlotte That stated insurance companies want to raise rates, here in NC, around an average of 42%. Here's a quote:   The proposed rates differ across the state, with the Rate Bureau requesting a 99% increase in some coastal areas, around 40% in Charlotte and around 20% in parts of the mountains affected by Hurricane Helene, AP noted. ... View more

Yes, it is very sad for people who have no where to go or no means to get there. I've always thought about that. One reason, earthquakes don't bother me - just bam, no time to prepare. I was often sent to FL for work, and when a hurricane would be predicted, they would send us inland to shelter - usually Orlando. One year, I think 1999, Huricane Irene came, and they thought it would miss Cocoa Beach, so they didn't evacuate us. Well it was a dead hit and just hovered there for a bit. Luckily, it was only a cat 1, but it took out the bridge acoss the causeway. In the morning, the winds were going one direction and a littler later, they were going the other direction, as the eye passed us. Here's a shot I took during it. ... View more

Sad that she won't leave, but there always seems to be someone who doesn't listen to reason. ... View more

This looks horrible! Those wind speeds are insane. At least they're expecting it, unlike where Helene ended up - that's not downplaying the severity, but hopefully they can be better prepared. I've got a high school friend who lives in the path. I was going to contact him, tonight to see what he's doing, but it was late. I'll try tomorrow, morning. ... View more

How were you creating your selection to make you mask, in the first place. a lot of the automatic selections are just a good start and often need tweeking like you did here. ... View more

Yea, Chimney Rock was devestated. ... View more

Yes, it was off the charts for a hurricane to have so much power that far inland. I was hoping to go up to Chimney Rock in the fall and take photos, but doesn't look like a good idea, this year. ... View more

There is an Adobe employee, Joe Pearl, who lives near Ashville. It took several days for him to respond to my message about how he was doing, but he finally did. His home suffered no damage, but communication is spotty or non existent, at times. He's still trying to get utilities back. He managed to get some gas 45 miles away, for his generator. Such a horrible mess out there! ... View more

Thanks, yes, we're okay. We are actually out in CA when it hit. Our daughter was watching our place. She said that there was a good amount of rain and some strong winds, but no damage. ... View more

Better at home knowing there aren't chemicals on things. Looks great. ... View more

Moved to the Camera Raw forum, from the Photoshop forum. ... View more

The rules are voted in my the homeowners. We have a HOA "Police" in our cul-de-sac, and we got a violation the first 2 weeks that we were there, for putting a birdbath in our front yard - even though the president and another board member have them in their front yards - see photo. Our neighbor across the street got into it with her, as he wanted to put up a full sized totem pole, in his back yard that his 95 year old uncle carved. He did manage to get approval, but the ARC said that he could only place it in two locations - both of which were right in front of his windows. He didn't listen to them ans placed it where he wanted - see photo. Our neighbor also got gigged for having a retractable screen door. Well he got fed up with them and got on the board. We can now have birdbaths, in the front yard and retractble screen doors. He wants me to get on the board, as well. ... View more

There is also a technique using auto blend, by masking out the areas of each image you want to exclude, but leaving a good amount of overlap. There are tutorials, on this, on Youtube. ... View more

That's interesting that PS does that. I would agree that your situation should be affected by Adobe's rules. This isn't want you were really asking about, but a workaround might be to create a duplicate document and remove the nudes, leaving just the background, then expand the background, and finally putting the nudes back in. ... View more

That's a hard call. There are so many programs that now require a subscription that I don't bother with learning or getting new things, as I just wouldn't use them enough to justify the cost. I still have an old version of Microsoft office 2010 that works, so that's good. I can justify upgrading to their subscription version. Used to love Filemaker, for database, but it's now a subscription, so I stopped using that. So many others. They all add up to too much to spend on software. Got to be very selective, now. ... View more

Very nice! Our HOA doesn't even allow vegetable gardens! I used a have a little garden, when I lived in Los Angeles. Too a fair amount of work. I had another little one, when I moved to the central coast. I could never seem to get a mandarin orange to grow well there, which was one of my favorites, in LA. Now I don't even try in, NC. Although I am thinking of taking out some shrubs that I don't like and planting blueberries.  ... View more

Yea, it is a PIA to reset everything!!! Unfortunately it has time be done, sometimes.  ... View more