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

Layer > Ungroup Artboards Or you can create files with: File > Export > Artboards to files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmrJhk0x5zg&t=273s ... View more

Thanks Alan.  I only happened across it yesterday, and have been confused because Nano Banana has a payment plan, but Gemini 2.5 Flash was working at no cost for me.  I have only made three images with it so far.    About a week ago I got a canvassing email from PanosFX and I was close to paying for its Cartoonizer.  I'd asked Dave Jane what they thought of the PanosFX tool, and then happened across Gemini 2.5 for the first time and realized it had made a lot of Photoshop add-ons irrelevant.  Perhaps that is not entirely true now you have confirmed that the Google tools are not free after all.  I'll check out your link.  BTW  It has been 1st September for the last 21 hours here. 🙂 ... View more

I promise I am not going to rely on this Ai going forward, but for now, it is so much fun, and AFAICT no Generative Credits were involved.   Ged is going to have a wonderful time with his imagination. ... View more

We are thinking that they are doing their best to avoid bad press for their Ai model.  You can get round it by copying just enough to enable the fix to a new layer. Turn off the original layer, make your selection and use Generate.    ... View more

I love the shiny chrome trolley Myra.  I would trust some of the shoppers at my local supermarket with it though.  They would have to sweep up dozens of severed toes at the end of the day. ... View more

This took two mninutes with Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash.  Apprently Firefly is now offering the Google model, which means we can use our Gen Creds (the Nano Banana image generator/editor is not free).  I am a long way from working it out, but YouTube is full of videos about it.  https://gemini.google.com/   ... View more

I missed that Jane.  I responded to a post that had an Android tag yesterday, and wondered what was going on.  In fact I seem to missed a few things while I was travelling.  I saw a super resolution feature on Deke McClelland's channel from several weeks back that I had also missed.  😞 ... View more

Reminds me of the Running With the Bulls that loonies do in Spain.  It's supposed to be the true origin of the secret to being chased by a bear... which everyone knows.  Of course, not everyone can out run a funicular rail car, and it is super easy to trip. ... View more

I can't get it as close using just Photoshop.   Filter > Stylize > Find Edges Desaturate (Ctrl Shift U) Curves layer   Invert (Ctrl i) Hue/Saturation layer set to Colorize Adjust saturation and lightness to suit ... View more

People are talkiong about Gemini 2.5 and Nano Banana right now, and it is pretty amazing. I found an image something like your example, asn asked Gemini to make it into a B&W line drawing. I opened the result in Photoshop. Inverted it and colourized with a Hue/Saturation layer.   This is what Gemini 2.5 can do       ... View more

I did the above edit manually, and it is not super great.  I'm playing with Gemini 2.5 and Nano Banana right now (isn't everybody?) and asked it make my Firefly avatar look terrified, and it did a way better job.   https://gemini.google.com/ https://nanobananaimg.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Ve7hNl9P0 ... View more

I used a 'Glyph' in the tet field.  By @creative explorer Hey, that's a good idea.  The windows Alt code is 'Alt 3' for ♥ My favourite Alt codes are: Alt 64 @  Alt 0128 € (Euro) Alt 0151 — (em dash) Alt 0163 £ (UK pound/sterling) Alt 0169 © (copyright_ Alt 0176 ° (degrees) Alt 0188 ¼ (quarter) Alt 0189 ½ (half) Alt 0190 ¾ (three quarters) Alt 241 ± (plus/minus)       ... View more

Hi Keith.  Yes, so long as it is raster content like an image layer.  To copt the entire layer you have to select it first (Ctrl A) Ctrl C to copy. If you use Ctrl V to paste, it will create a new layer.   Just one thing.  I see you have used the Android tab for your post.  Can you confirm what version of Photoshop you are using, and on what operating system? ... View more

If you have a steady hand, you can use the brush with Symmetry turned on. Turning Smoothing wqay up will help. Note: I don't have a steady hand so I stroked the path I made. This will make a raster heart 0of course. ... View more

Find a heart you like and paste into Photoshop. Center it and drag the Grid axis to the center and line up the heart image. Turn on the grid.  This can help get you nicer curves. Make a path for one side of the heart. Copy it (drag to new path icon) select the copy and flip it horizontally around its left edge. Select its points, and paste to the original path. Join them together.  (Much easier with Illustrator, but still doable with Photoshop) Make the path a new shape.  Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color ... View more

Open the Shapes panel. Click on the pop-out menu and choose Legacy Shapes and More (if you don't already have it). Use the search bar to look for Heart. ... View more

I have had recurring problems with key-bounce with the gaming keyboards I like to use.  Google has always told me that I am far from alone, and there is no fix.  I have had five of these high end keyboards now, and I dread to think how much they cost when added up.   So I am wondering if something like this is happening with your situation Bojan? Google your mouse plus 'button bounce' to see if it is an issue. What are you using btw?   Do you have another mouse you can try? Try adjusting Double Click mouse setting   I have had Windows arbitrarily overwrite drivers — usually with major updates, so check that your mouse driver is still from the manufacturer and not a Microsoft one-size-fits-all rubbish driver. ... View more

Are you sure the Beeb will want it's gear back if it means sifting through Alien poo? Are these Aliens into HiFi?  It looks like they have the world's biggest tweeters on to of the funicular undercarriage. And I have just noticed the Robot Wars weapons on the front of the funiculars.  Giant pincer on the left, and one of those grab devices that is carefully designed to almost, but never quite make it, in those fairground toy grabbing machines.   ... View more

I've realized that I need to clarify a couple of points about the above post. 1) I have Quick Mask set to Color Indicates — Selected Areas    You can access Quick Mask Options by double clicking its icon at the bottom of the toolbar. I showed how to harden a mask using Levels, but it will usually be easier to paint out the grey areas with a fully hard brush with opacity and flow set to 100%   Using a brush does not always cover when zoomed way in, because even a fully hard brush is Anti Aliased. So I use the Lasso Tool together with Alt/Opt to select, and Alt/Opt backspace to fill. The same thing applies to Quick Mask. Paint with black to reveal, and white to conceal.   I often wonder if people realize the options you have with layer masks and Quick masks. You can apply most Photoshop filters. You can select and area to apply an effect locally You can paste the clipboard into a layer mask by Alt/Opt clicking the mask first. This useful for applying things like Render > Clouds to randomise cover.  I used that to make this illustrated denim texture look more real as an example.     ... View more

When you select an object, and copy to its own layer, or add a layer mask, it might not all be selected. You can test how solid the selection is by turning on Quickmask (Q) If it has a layer mask then you can Opt click the mask to view the mask full screen. Quickmask will show as solid red if the selection is solid.  The feinter red interior shows that area is semi transparent. With the layer mask, it will show as full white for a solid selection.  The feinter areas we see in the Quickmask view show up as grey in the layer mask.   I have placed a layer with black lines behind the flower, and we we can see the lines where the flower is partially transparent.  I'm guessing this is what you are seeing.   A quick fix is to copy the flower layer several times. Each copy will thicken up the flower interior.     A better fix is to view the layer mask (if there is one) full screen again (Opt click the layer mask) An+d use a levels adjustment to remove the greys.  Note this has to be directly applied and not an Adjustment Layer. That little spike in the middle of the histogram (red arrow) represents the grey area. By moving the whites slider to the left (cyan arrow) and just to the left of that spike, will make the greys full white, and thus full transparent when you return to the image.   Is this what you are seeing? ... View more