About Trevor.Dennis

'It was one of those nights when the sky came down and wrapped itself around the world.'     It's the sort of line that you have to read hearing that NY 'cup of cawfee' accent in your head.  It's a while since I read any Mickey Spillane, so I might have to treat myself. ... View more

He had to get his bloodpressure down somehow Jane.  I wonder how many Big Macs go into creating an arse like that?  (will this get past the forum bot?)  [EDIT] Blimey it did! ... View more

Bang Bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon Dave's Head..   ... View more

I have always used Alt backspace to fill selections whether they be in layer masks or normal layers.   ... View more

If anything could do it with a ready made plugin, then Filter Forge would be my best guess.  Are you just trying to produce random monochome fractal noise or specifically a landscape effect? ... View more

I think you should be sorted by now, but for future reference this link is well worth bookmarking https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/photoshop/kb/preference-file-names-locations-photoshop.html   You mentioned being a Mac user and I don't know how the Finder works, but for those Windows users who don't know, you need to make Hidden files viewable in File Explorer to access the App Data files. ... View more

Load the files into Photoshop layers and turn all but the background layer off.  (select layers and Ctrl ,) Select the next layer up the stack and turn it on and use Select Subject to select the bird.  Fine tune with Slect and Mask. Repeat for the other layers.  Fine positioning as required.   The selection tools are so good with Photoshop now, that this will be a breaze.  It will take hardly any time, and with the same sky as a background you should easily get a very good result. ... View more

I'm guessing that you have Wet Edges checked in Brush Settings ... View more

Do you have the latest version of the NIK plugin? Is your video card driver up to date? What is you system hardware? How old is it and what spec? What operating system are you using? ... View more

Or Bridge if you don't use no stinkin' Lightroom. ... View more

LOL, I do love your illustrations Leslie.  Their hair is very cleverly done.  I'd be pleased to have even half of your talent. ... View more

I've had a few phone gags arrive in my inbox this week.  This was my favourite But this was a close second   ... View more

I don't know how to control opacity with speed — not even with Lazy Nezumy Pro — but in Brush Settings > Transfer set control to Fade.  You'll need to set the Fade value according to your expected brush stroke. But what you can do with LNP is invert pen pressure controls size so that the harder you press the small the stroke.     ... View more

Why not outline your issue in this forum where there is at least as much expertise as with the chat support? ... View more

Blimey.  We mentioned the Banksy paintinf that featured a traffic cone and shopping trolly in a recent SFTW.  It has just sold for $9.8 million! https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/banksy-monet-painting-intl-scli-gbr/index.html ... View more

The irony of your image is that I'd be very susprised if someone somewhere does not actually make an olde worlde telephone in a digital flavour. ... View more

A total liberty as it isn't Dave's render, but the thought is there. 😉 ... View more

I'm thinking Bunson Burner, and all those strange and wonderful experiments we did in the school chemistry class, like making nitroglycerin — it was a tough school. 😉   ... View more

Hah!  That's clever.  I like it. ... View more

Jane, several people were talking about the new AI driven Smart Portait tool as if it were the work of the devil on PetaPixel today.  It's sad when photographers (the group of Photoshop users who seemed to be making the comments) take themselves so seriously, and I strongly suspect hypocritical as there surely can't be many Photoshop users who have not used it to clean up a portrait to some extent.  I'll leave PJs out of that.  A PJ at our local paper lost his job a few years for removing a facial blemish from a subject known to him, and which was printed in the paper.   Are the Sneaks online yet?  Yep.  So what are people's favourite new features? https://petapixel.com/2020/10/21/adobe-sneaks-show-advanced-deblur-tech-smartphone-based-3d-modeling-and-more/   ... View more

Dave, I missed a trick there.  I should have included LAB Man in the super hero line up.  I think Blender Man might beat LAB Man in a test of strength because he has 3D muscles.    😉    I'd be chuffed if you wanted to use the graphic for your avatar btw.   Looking at Norman's graphic, I see that the chest motiff  has slightly less subtel warping.  They were both displaced, but with tiny values ( 1 and 1 for Blender Man).  When it gets down to those tiny numbers the shading has more effect, and I just use the map a couple of times set to Multiply and Screen. Jacob, are you referring to  the person in the line standing behind Blender Man?  Are people not allowed to stand in front of other people where you come from, or am I missing something?   ... View more

A city protected by its Super Heros! ... View more

Flood2 is definitely Flaming Pear's best plugin ... View more

I thought it needed brightening up a wee bit.  BTW In case you are worried that I have spent hours masking the logos, I just add 'transparent png' to Google image search and Place Embedded. ... View more

We just did — vote that is.  Jacinda had the best Labour result in 50 years of NZ polotics.   ... View more