If seen reference to that in this forum before Dave, but not tried it.  I have now watched a short video and will give it a try later.  I wonder who the go to channels are for After Effects?  Like Jesús Ramirez and Colin Smith are the guys for Photoshop.  When I searched for CC Power Pin I got a LOT of hits, and we know that there are some questionable Photoshop channels on YouTube. ... View more

I obsessed over this after this thread (or possibly another) was woken up.  It annoys the heck out of me how perspective warp stretches the wide end and compresses the narrow end.  It doesn't matter how you go about it. Ctrl draging a corner handle has exactly the same effect, and so does pasting into Vanishing Point.   I've even tried to hack it with Content Aware Scale using its Protect feature, but it doesn't really work.   I asked Colin Smith in a recent short he put up about Vanishing Point, but he doesn't know a workaround either.  You'd need some way of pre-compressing a layer's content towards one end before using FT > Perspective.   ... View more

I could have sworn that Rasterize Layer worked.   @neuromancer_mad  Assuming your username comes from the William Gibson book, I just finished listening to the audiobook two days ago. I'm not sure how many times that is, but at least three.  My greatest regret as a SiFi fan is that there will never be another Culter book  Apparently there was an offer to make a TV series, but his family decided against it, mores the pity.  They did an excellent job with Foundation, and the Dune movies were also very good. ... View more

Expected result Free Transformed to fit. ... View more

If I am reading your post correctly, then that's exactly how you would expect the gradiant layer to be displayed.  You can run the gradient again being careful to place the start and end point justoutside the boundry of the layer you are clipping to, or you can Free Transform the gradient to better fit to that layer. ... View more

I'd also like to learn how to use Premiere or Davinci to create short, unpretentious videos.   By @Alex32252670s8p0   You might be interested in some tutorials that Jim on ProDesignTools is promoting at the moment. They are incredibly powerful apps, and have their shair of Ai enhanced features.    Free! Get 23 Hours of Premium Training for Premiere Pro and After Effects | ProDesignTools ... View more

Start with a gradient using the required colours.   Filter > Render > Fibre  Note: Fibres will only give you vertical lines, so we need to rotate. Transform the fibres to make them horizontal. Add a couple of black to transparent layers.     When you want to do something like motion blur, it helps for the filter to have something to get hold of, so adding noise before the blur will help. I like to get assets from this 3D site  because we can orintate the model to fit our perspective, and grab a screen shot.  It helps if you have a 4K screen as that will give your screenshot lots of pixels.     ... View more

Could it be to do with settings?  Has the default setting changed for instance, and now has a higher starting point?  I use Topaz Photo Ai, and I have feeling I am seeing much the same thing with edges, especially, being over done giving it a semi cartoon look, but the plugin makes its own decision on how hard to start at, and I have to dial it back.   ... View more

You should talk to Dave about systems for 3D renders.  He makes full use of living close to the North Pole as it keeps his mini-Crey nice and cool. ... View more

Jane, my surprise was that from following Harm Millaard and Bill Gehrke on the Prem Pro Hardware forum and their PPBM5 results table, and the highest placed Mac was something like 250th.  So my expectations were suck in that long ago past.  I just checked the site (mainly so I spelled their names right) and the 3930K system built with their advice, is still placed 17th out of what was several hundred systems at that time. 🙂  We lost Harm way back, and Bill's last post is from 2018, so I don't know if he is still with us.     ... View more

I'd be interested in how long people typically go between replacing computers.  I think I am aropund five to six years, but I like to keep an eye on performance charts for CPU, and drive.  I also look at motherboards and how many M.2 slots they have, although you have to be careful about PCIe lanes.  I am not super flash in that respect, but our Dave is clued up and always happy to help.    I have stayed with 64GB memory for my last two systems, because it never got close to maxing out on my last system.  But I do see some surprisingly large photoshop temp files, so I absolutely prioritise drive performance.  That continues to be an area where significant gains continue to become available.  I then spend what I feel gives me the best bang for buck GPU (currently RTX4080).       We all follow the Puget Systems articles as they give real world performence information that you can filter by the apps you will be running. Also look at the systems they sell as they are based on a huge amount of testing.   Finally, I now have a workstation supplier that I trust here in New Zealand (Compulsion Tech).  I have had some bad experiences once waiting a _very_ long time for a promised build, and after an amazingly good experience with the above company, which involved several conversations with the owner Ben.  I was able fine tune the spec of one of their high end workstations and he had it to me in no time at all.   Something that has surprised me recently, is that among our group friends on this forum, Jane has the most powerful system by a good margin, and its a Mac!   ... View more

We had eight hours in Lisbon on our way home from Spain (Santiago de Compostela) two weeks ago.  We planed to go into the city but the luggage lockers were all taken, so we had a boring wait at the airport. The friends we were with had already spent a few days in Lisbon, on their way to Porto (where we met them) and had been on the funicular.  As you can imagine, we talked about it on the phone last night, and they said they'd been crammed packed in, and that there were way more than forty people in it.   We now know that the cable linking the two cars snapped, and that the Gloria car was very near the top of the 265M slope, so had all that distance to pick up speed.   It is sad that this weeks SFTW subject happened to be a funicula, and I feel sure people will now be thinking twice before using the Saltburn lift.  As Dave has said, we will be thinking of the people who died, and those who were seriously injured.  I am not sure that I can add more images to this thread.      ... View more

You can make the line drawing stage finer with the right image (not too busy) by using the Oil Paint filter.  You'd try to smooth out the details getting a semi cartoon effect.  There are lots YouTube video describing the workflow, and they were producing beautifully fine lined line drawings.  The invert and colorize stage would be the same after that. ... View more

Even Donald Trump has bigger hands than that Jane. 😉 ... View more

I've watched a couple of videos and read the quick start guide.  Least ways, I've seen a reference to downloading a manual, and that video has a lot of information.   Can you clarify what you don't have access to with Windows?  I assume that we can only upload a reference image with Mac? It's not free, but its just a few cents per image, and my experience so far with Gemini 2.5 Flash/Nano Banana has been very positive.  There's a tip on the page you linked to about disabling Auto Reload which I am reading as stopping it from eating your credits without you asking it to.   So are you using it, and what is your experience so far? Is using Nano Banana directly inside Photoshop a better workflow? ... View more

Just to show that Photoshop isa not dead, Camera RAW and our Noel's Starfilter Pro 4 Although I could have asked the Ai to 'Increase contrast and color saturation, and add some highlights to the tip of the brighter points'  I think I like the Photoshop version better.   (In case I have confused anyone, the image below is the Ai edit. ) My LMArena window had timed out (about ten minutes) and I had to open a new one. ... View more

Very impressive.  I was obsessing with Gemini 2.5 Flash, Nano Banana, KlingAi etc. most of yesterday, and it leaves the Firefly engine for dead.  Did you do this directly in https://gemini.google.com/app or another site that uses the G2.5 model?   I found a hack opening LMArena.ai in an Incognito browser window.  It gives you a bunch of generations, and when it stops working, open a new Incognito window.  The UI has already changed from the six day old video that I found the hack on, so that might not last.  Things are moving so quickly right now, and with Firefly offering the G2.5 model, and others, as an option, I feel sure we are soon going to see some changes to the Adobe and Photoshop tools.   One of the big advantages with G2.5 and Nano Banana is that we don't need to make a selection.  Just describe what you want to edit with the text prompt. for instance:   I opened LMArina.ai. Wait for it to check you are human and not a bot. Click on the image tab, and I pasted this complex shape directly into the text prompt window. I told it to: 'Apply realistic shading to this shape, and colour it red. The light is coming from the top right corner.' The image I started with was about 500 pixels wide, so I upsized it just using Photoshop Image Size, so the result is pretty rough.  It sharpened it up and did a decent job of the shading.  Imagine how long it would take to select every fasset doing this manually in Photoshop? @Turtle.PSD  How did you animate this and output as a GIF?  Or did you create a video and change it to a gif in Photoshop? ... View more

That's quite a big ask of the Sky Replacement tool.  We are getting used to the incredibly good selections that 'Remove Background' and 'Subject Selection Tool' are now capable of, but I doubt that Sky Replacement has the same selection algorithm.  So you have to cheat.   Use Sky Replacement and then select the Subject Selection tool, and drag a box around the ferris wheel. That will make a decent selection with the spokes unselected.  Copy that selection and move it to the top of the layer stack.  You can see the black disk that is hiding the ferris wheel in Sky layer's mask.   If we Alt/Opt click the layer mask to view it full screen, we can see that it did start to make a stab at selectinf the gaps between the spokes.  Not a very good one though.   No worries.  We'll paint out the ferris wheel with a soft white brush allowing the underlying Sky layer to show through. Our copy of the ferris wheel above the Sky Replacement group completes our workaround.  We can see that I did not paint out enough of the mask at the bottom of the ferris wheel, and the sky is much too bright for the original image. So I fixed the mask and clipped a curves layer to the Sky group.  I also set the curves layer to Luminosity to prevent it influencing the colour of the new sky.  The lit up ferris wheel now shows as it should against the sky.   It is definitely possible that the Development Team will recode Sky Replacement to use the new selection algoithum eventually, but IME these things can take a very long time, if they happen at all.   ... View more

I'll add that Photoshop Temp files can be left behind if Photoshop does nopt close properly.  They can be big files, and can soon add up if you have had a series of Photoshop crashes.  So check the root directory of your scratch drive, and any Photoshop Temp files that do not have that day's date, or are present when Photoshop is not open, can safely be deleted. To reinforce what others have told you, Photoshop uses these temp files as additional working memory, and when you consider their large size, having a fast drive for scratch space is super important if you are hoping for a seamless Photoshop experience.   ... View more

Firefly now has the Gemini 2.5 Flash model as an option So far, Generitive Fill only has the two Firefly versions as options, but I am hoping that will soon change.  From what I have seen, Gemini 2.5 will give us much better results. ... View more

The advantage of using Gemini 2.5 Flas to do this is that you don't need to make a selection. I simply told it, 'Replace wood timber of this cabin wityh a darker textured wood'.    I only got the one go because it is no longer free after 1st September, and while Firefly and Generative Fill now have the Gemini model as an option, you still need to make a selection.  It is so much easier with a simple text prompt, so I am hoping that option is coming to the Adobe implimentation of Gemini and Nano Banana.   ... View more

Blimey.  I  must have typed this out a good few times now, but this is how I do it.   I have an Adobe folder in My Documents. In that folder I place my Photoshop assets and presets, and I place a shortcut to those folders in the relevant Photoshop folder.  This means I can share the same presets with the current release version, plus beta and 22.2 which I have installed just for Lighting Effects.  It also keeps everything safe after a major update I also place any new fonts I download into a My Docs folder so I have them for when I get a new computer.   The downside is that when you export something like a Brush .abr file it saves to the default location, and you have to remember to move it to the My Docs folder.  It then immediately becomes available in the other installed Photoshop versions.   I save things like shortcuts and toolbars to custom workspaces, and share those workspaces between versions.  We have  had a few new tools in recent years (Remove Tool, Star Tool, Adjustment Brush) which means updating the Toolbar and resaving your custom workspaces.   I expect you know this, but with Windows to make a shortcut you locate and right click the folder, choose Show More Options and then Create Shortcut. That creates an icon like below, that you can drag/copy to the folder you need to point back to your My Docs folder.   ... View more

From your previous posts (2018) I think you were using Windows.  Is that still the case?   I might, just possibly, be a display issue related to your video card driver, but I think Liquify uses the GPU, so you can turn off GPU acceleration to test it.  So my gut tells me this is going to come down to resetting preferences.  Your best bet is to do this manually. https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually   ... View more

Reminds me of driving to the top of Mount Evans in Colorado (I see it has been renamed to Mount Blue Sky now).  On the way up we passed a guy on a racing bike, and he was doing pretty well considering this is (apparently) the highest paved road in America, at 14,266 feet.  We caught him up later and it took ages to pass him because of how fast he was moving!   When you get to the car park there is a short track that winds its way to the summit.  I did a lot of climbing in those days, so thought 'I don' need no stinkin' windy track', and walked directly up the steep slope.  When I got to the top I thought I was going to die because I could _not_ get my breath back!      More recently (year before last) I spent a week in hospital (three days in ICU) in Cusco Peru with Accute Altitude Sickness, and that was only 11,000 feet!  I had seven, hour long, sessions in a hyperbaric chamber which left me partially deaf for a couple of months.  I'm not allowed to go to that sort of altitude again.  If my wife (a retired nurse) had not noticed I was away with the fairies (my blood oxygen was 53%) I would not have woken up the next morning. ... View more

Michael, for the most part this forum is manned by ordinary users like yourself, who have no obligation to answer posts.  Your post is not too bad, but rants are generally ignored and those posts go unanswered.   For now, open Task Manager (Ctrl Alt Delete) and look for an instance of Photoshop in Background Processes.  If you see one, select and click on End Task and Photoshop will probably open.   Or you can restart your computer, which will also work.   When this happens, I fin't it can be fixed by resetting Preferences.  You can't reset Preferences from within Photoshop if you can't open it, but this manual method will work.     https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually         ... View more

Any Genesis fans here?  This one reminds me of this track from Wind and Wuthering. ... View more

Thjis is the prompt I used:   'Redo my original image in the style of Salvador Dali. Give the rail carriages long extended legs and drape a melting watch over the fence.'   I must try Gemini again to see if it wants some credits.  I'm not entirely sure what features are 'Standard' and what features use Premium Credits.  I still have a full quota of Premium credits that expire in four days time, so I really ought to have a play with them. ... View more

The thread is not locked at the moment.   Just to add that I often have the issue with various beta versions.  It tends to clear with a preference reset, but I usually just clear the orphaned process in Task Manager (Windows 11).  I find that other issues lead me to reset preferences with the beta versions maybe once a month or so, so I just wait for one of those situations to come around, and carry on deleting the left behind Photoshop process.  ... View more

Aleke, I had a similar problem about week ago, except Save For Web(Legacy) was throwing up a  'Path not found' error.  It was doing this with release, beta and 22.2.  I restarted my Windows 11 system.  I tried different frame animations. I made new frame animations from scratch.  Same error message every time.   I make a lot of frame animations and have used save for web dozens of times.  I started a new thread on this forum, and got a couple of ideas from Stephen and Bojan.  They didn't help, but the next day it started working again.  My computer had not been turned off, and Photoshop (beta in this case) had been open, so I don't know what could have changed.   We all hate intermittent problems, and while we are pleased when they fix themselves, we obviously prefer to know what was causing them. ... View more