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The_Dreaming_Sentinel
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The_Dreaming_Sentinel
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Jun 02, 2019
06:01 AM
I don't want to reset the preferences, I've meticulously optimized them all quite recently, and it took me about an hour or two to go through everything and test the different processing speeds. I've noticed it has this clone-stamp tool when I select the blender brush outright, which is what it does in CS6. However, when I select it through a painting brush that just happens to use the blender brush tool, alt works as expected with the eyedropper. This is a very strange thing.
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Jun 01, 2019
01:28 AM
For some reason, when I use the blender brush and press alt, the eyedropper tool no longer shows up. Instead it's a crosshair that behaves as though it's the clone-stamp tool, and uses it's stamp as the paint for my brush. It's the weirdest thing and it's stopping me from using the brush! What is this? Why is it happening? I am so confused right now. I can't set the eyedropper tool as alt under keyboard shortcuts either, just letters like "I".
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May 25, 2019
05:30 PM
1 Upvote
Ok, so for others reading this thread I highly recommend this article by Puget Systems here: https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Photoshop-CC-139/Hardware-Recommendations . It explains a lot of how the hardware of a computer interacts with Photoshop's software - which doesn't match how computer hardware should theoretically work. Great stuff.
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May 18, 2019
09:49 PM
Thank you, CPU 1 has been maxing out. My apologies for my confusion. If this is the case, would it be possible to increase the threads Photoshop allocates for the brushstrokes? Or use the threads more equally, seeing as I only seem to have 12? I don't use it for much else other than painting, but I'd also prefer to not bug it up. I guess I'll be sticking to 300dpi and experimenting with the brush stroke settings. There's a sweet spot I've found with adjusting the other textures and effects where I can almost get them to look like the original brush, and they work faster big. Then I've been using the original ones smaller. Thank you for taking the time to describe this in so much detail, you've actually helped me more than the Adobe Customer Support people I spoke to
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May 18, 2019
04:49 PM
Here's a screen cap, mid-brushstroke:
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May 18, 2019
04:22 PM
I've done that, in both the "Dragon Center" and Task Manager's CPU graph, and it goes to 20 - 30%. You're making an assumption that I didn't check properly when I wrote about my problem, which is fair as it can happen, and you also don't know that I try to be as thorough as possible before starting a thread. I'll send you a screen-cap later today, if I remember. I was trying to be helpful in writing the "trick"; others reading this thread might not know it, especially less experienced digital artists. It is a cunning action to do, especially if the end product is still a large file, as they might not think of it as a temporary solution to their problem to down-size it while roughing out their canvas.
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May 17, 2019
09:49 PM
I have fiddled with the brush spacing, unfortunately for textured brushes it changes the look and feel a lot. A spacing of about 10 works well for the general ones though I will try experimenting more with these however, if I can get brushes to look similar enough big then I can save them as different presets, specifically for the large-brush size painting. This problem is just so strange though, my computer is able to turbo-boost up to 4ghz (3.9), it's just odd it's not using all the processing power. Another trick for digital artists is to just use smaller canvases at the right dimensions, and 72dpi to make thumbnails, then upscale the image size as more details are added. It just makes them a bit blurry, even when using bicubic smoother, and crunch-wise the computer should be able to handle it 😕 I'd be happier if I knew it was maxing out and doing the best it could. That it isn't is super weird.
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May 17, 2019
08:15 PM
I just bought a new laptop, with 32GB DDR4 memory, as well as Intel Core i7 8750H processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB graphics, 512GB PCIE M.2 solid state drive, 1TB hard drive, etc. This was because my old computer lagged, and I had some graphics driver errors coming up, which I thought was the problem. But the textured mixer brushes (I'm using "Kyles", which Adobe endorses) still lag, when they're big. I can work on an A4 document at 600dpi, or an A3 at 300dpi and they still lag (though the latter lags less). Haven't tried anything bigger. Even the non-textured ones lag, as well as other brush sets I've used. The laptop is plugged in, and I have all the latest drivers for my graphics card, and the Wacom 13HD tablet I use with it. I've gone through and optimized Photoshop's performance (it has 85% of the RAM allocated, and the scratch disk is the SSD; I'm storing the paintings separately on my hard drive). What makes it weird is that, despite the unworkable lag, Photoshop claims to be running at 100% efficiency, and my computer stats report not using more than max %30 of the RAM, CPU and GPU at any time. So why is Photoshop lagging instead of using the extra processing power to run better? I've contacted Adobe Customer Support several times over this, but nothing's solved the problem so far. I've done screen shares twice, and will continue following it up. However, if anyone else is experiencing the same problems, I'd appreciate any feedback or "me too's" on this post, in case it's a bug Adobe needs to address. I'll let you know if it gets fixed, too. So far I've trouble-shot turning different graphics drivers off, fiddling with a whole bunch of performance settings, installing older versions of Photoshop, etc. Note: Smoothing and sample all layers are on when I paint, but they need to be. They're features I like to use, and my computer *should* be able to crunch them.
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Nov 12, 2018
01:27 PM
1 Upvote
Thank you, this has done the trick! I am blown away by the fast response and thoughtful answers. Thank you all! ❤️ pixxxel schubser I'm still learning, I've been using CS6 for about a year but before then I think I used CS5 for for poster and print formatting, years and years ago. I'm getting more into text formatting now, so really appreciate the advice
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Nov 12, 2018
12:57 PM
Hi all, I've recently upgraded from InDesign CS6 to InDesign CC 2019. However, indent formatting options aren't showing up on my control panel (despite being selected that they should be visible - screenshot below). Instead, to the right of basic text formatting settings (justified, centered, etc.) there's a blank space. So far I've only managed to find and access the indent settings through opening the properties tab, but I need to find a solution for this as it won't let me drag the Paragraph box under index or pages - it's stuck connected to the long properties column, which takes up way too much space for it to be open while I'm formatting books. My instinct is there's something obvious I'm missing, so if anyone could help me make indentation settings visible on the control panel that would be amazing. Thanks, Rianna
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