Oh, yes please Ewan.  It was bad enough when Michael Barrymore moved to New Zealand, but thankfully, that only lasted for two years.  Noel b└ööÞý Edmunds came here and stayed, and is not terribly far from me.  (He lives in Motueka — I'm at Rapaura in Marlborough).  His business includes a 'Wellness Centre' where idiots with more money than sense pay for contactless massage, chakra realignment, and to have their chi topped up.  Thankfully, it does not include bungee jumping.      The vendors forgot to mention that the property was prone to flooding before they overcharged him for it.  This is the Welness Shed Centre. ... View more

What workspace are you using?  If not already set to Essentials, switch to it, and reset Essentials. The Motion workspace can be a pain regards shortcuts, for instance.  You mentioned Ctrl N, and that's one that does not work in the Motion workspace.   When you get things set how you want them, then be sure to save as a Cusatom workspace with these options.  It's a great way to save your custom shortcuts and toolbars. I have been having issues with the beta version and window focus.  If the document window does not have focus, then shortcuts might not work.  This is too intermittant to be even close to be sure about, but AFAICT it only ever happens with the beta version.   What keyboard are you using?  Does it have a gaming function that lets you turn off a bunch of keys? Are you using something like G-Hub, Synax, or i-Cue, and if yes, does it have app specific profiles?  If yes, then you are probably going to need seperate profiles for release and beta versions.    When Edit > Shortcuts says that a shortcut is already used for something else, you do know that you can ignore that?     ... View more

A 100% repeatable Photoshop crash under specific circumstances is certainly a bug so why was this post immediately moved into general discussions where anyone responsible for looking at bugs won't see it? By @annie_421   Hi Annie.  I don't think we have had a lot of threads about issues with the Topaz Ai plugins, and I have been using Photo Ai (V3.6.2) trouble free for a good while with Windows 11.   I just tested the conditions you mentioned, and it worked OK.  If anyone reads this and has Photo Ai or Gigapixel, and is using Windows 10, it would be appreciated if they could test with the conditions Annie mentioned.   Incidentally, I held off renewing Photo Ai updates after the first year, because it was quite a lot of money, and I was not seeing any major differences.  I am glad that I did that now, because Photoshop is catching up with the Topaz Ai, and we will have those functions natively.  I'm talking about de-noise and upscaling. ... View more

Are you saying that Firefly is generating excessive areas of uncovered skin?   There's some irony in that if it is what is happening to you.  We see a lot of posts from people annoyed that Generative Fill refused to work for them because the image had something like a beach scene with people in swim suites. The fix for that is to temporarily remove excess skin from the layer. Use Gen Fill, and unmask the skin back.  You can't just hide that skin behind a layer mask.  It has to be removed from the layer, and any layers that still show it, turned off.  It works every time AFAIK. ... View more

Hasn't worked on me Dave. Being serious for a moment, this Ai malarkey is getting clever.  It extended my Firefly avatar image, and did the above when told to 'Make the person holding the dog very overweight'.  I thought it might throw up an error because the term 'overweight' contravened its nanny filter, but it seems that fat tummies are not as unacceptable as too much skin.  (Nano Banana with Select All) ... View more

The long-lost Andy Warhol "Citrus Marilyn" painting has been found!   Jane By @jane-e   Bugger.  I should have read the other comments before posting my own Jane.  Looks like we all agree on the Andy Warhol theme though. ... View more

That has a real Andy Warhol feel to it.  Welcome to our SFTW threads Dan. ... View more

I just tried drawing with the online paint tool: https://sketch.io/sketchpad/ - this works great. Clean and fast. 🤷‍🫤 By @oprie_ma   If it works OK in other apps, then think about the API that connects the tablet and Photoshop.  Do you know if you are using Windows Ink, or WinTab?  Windows Ink will be found in the driver/preferences. Wintab uses a tiny text file.   Rather than type it all out, all the information you need can be found in this guide:   https://lazynezumi.com/tabletSetup   If you don't currently use Lazy Nezumi Pro, then I thoroughly recommend it.  I think you can try it out without committing to it.    https://lazynezumi.com/photoshop       ... View more

This is called Free Transform Step & Repeat, but has other names.  It is exactly what Conrad suggested in his first reply, but it does not work well with vector (shape) layers.  It also doesn't work with Smart Objects, but there is a work around.  This means that each new object is a copy of the previous copy, so you lose resolution. ... View more

Conrad, I have 'sort of' managed to do it using the 'New Smart Object via Copy' trick, but it was a bit of a palava. The crux of it was that I was unable to make a vector line transform into the wave shape.  Even as a Smart Object it would not budge.  So I had to make it a solid shape by offsetting a path by one pixel and joining them.   This makes for a clunky line, even with just a one pixel offset. On the up side, these are Smart Objects, so edit one, edit them all. ... View more

OK, I missed that.   The only way I can think of doing that is with nested Groups or Smart Objects each with their own mask.  It would be better to see the entire picture, and understand why the OP thinks they need that workflow.  There could be a different aproach that avoids that complication. ... View more

 are you using a VPN By @Ged_Traynor   Ged, my wife talked me into getting NordVPN. Mainly for the phones while travelling, but it went on everything.  It was a giant PITA.  eSIMs would not work on the phone, and I was getting constant failures to connect on my Windows 11  system.  I completely uninstalled it from my devices without telling my wife.  She eventually did the same because she was unable to log in to her newspaper subscription.   ... View more

I(n English the error says Open the Libraries panel to syncronise resources with storage in the Adobe Cloud.     I wonder if you might do better using 'Save As' and in the window that opens, select 'Save to cloud documents'.   So long as you use the upper fields in the next window, you are linking to your Adobe Cloud storage.   You can use this link to translate these images. https://translate.google.com/?sl=pt-PT&tl=en&op=images ... View more

Thanks for your suggestion.  The important word here is: mask. In a mask, while creating a black/white gradients, only the last gradient is editable as far as I can tell.  By @BibbidiBobbidiBob   You would be best off using the new Gradient tool for this. So long as you select the Mask tool and the layer mask, it remains fully editable until Zaphod Beeblebrox finally arives at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.      The Firefly engine did such a nice job of making the robot look sad.  It's little thing like that, that make these Ai tools so useful. ... View more

I'm not sure I am getting this.  The cat appears to be on its own layer with transparent background.  Is there a reason you can't carry on working that way keeping the layers?   If the original is a flat document, then copy layer and Remove Background. Ctrl click the mask to select it, and expand the selection a couple of pixels. Use Generitave Fill to fill in the cat hole in the background. Keep everything layered going forward.   I feel sure you knew that, so what am I missing? ... View more

Always a treat when you post Lesley. I'd love to know what your process is?  Your line work is always immaculate with those beautiful curves.  I always love how you do your hair (if you know what I mean).  You have great gags as well.  Have the time I don't know if I am enfusing over something created with Firefly, but we always know that your images are the real thing.   ... View more

What exactle is giving you this error? There is Generitive Fill and Generate Image.  Then you have Select Subject, the Remove tool, and Enhance Detail all use Ai.   Have you tried different prompts? Does your image have a lot of exposed skin? Both can lead to error messages that are not as clear as they should be ast to why the Ai decided not to play nicely.     ... View more

Blimey John.  That picture has to be twenty years old!  I actually have that green fringe in real life. ... View more

This made me laugh JR.  I looked at this and wondered how the scale compared to reality?  I was thinking that the sun would be bigger, but a quick Google suggests that you are much closer than I thought.  So thanks for today's science lesson 🙂 ... View more

Hah! I love that lettice ruff.  I think the apple glasses would have worked well on the initial image.  The lemon slices clashed with the rest of the image IMHO. ... View more

You can have all the Photoshop skills in the world, and they'd still be no substitute for true artistic talent and imagination.  This is beautiful.  It's maybe a shame that the lemon slice glasses are not a perfect fit for the image, but they link the image to this week's SFTW brief, so I guess they have to be there. ... View more

@nataliia_1015  Are you using Windows or Mac?  If Windows, then Lazy Nezumi Pro fixes the shoelace artefact you are showing top left of your first screen shot.   What do you see in the Preview  window with Angle jitter turned on and off? Does the issue only show when the Control is set to something, and specifically to Direction? What are you using to draw with?  Is there a difference between tablet and mouse, assuming you are using a tablet? Have you seen the trouble shooting guide on the Lazy Nezumi site?  It's the best resource I know of for this sort of problem. https://lazynezumi.com/tabletSetup   You certainly shouldn't be getting the shoelace artefact, which has me thinking that there might be something going on. ... View more

Thanks Trevor.Dennis .    With edite>Generative fill I see nothing but same only option as in top bar : to chose the firefly model . nothing extra .     I assume structure reference is "composition" one, right?   By @kirkr5689   Hey, my apologies!  I forgot to mention that I was using the beta version.  😞 ... View more

I asked Generative Fill to place her in the background.  My prompt was something like 'A young woman with a black and white striped shirt, wearing a French style black beret. The lady has a sterotypical moustache' . I used the Firefly 3 model, and this was the best out of six (the first three were pants).  None of them had a moustache, so I had to add that.  I was going for irony while hoping not to be rude about French people.   The location is not even in France judging from the English.  This took maybe five minutes, but I don't feel bad about that as I sometimes spend hours on these uploads.  I especially enjoyed the album cover thread, and I absolutely loved some of the images that generated.   I was wondering about doing a 'movie poster' SFTW.   Either recreate an existing poster, but mostly for people to design their own about real or made up movies or TV shows.  Would that work @davescm ?  ... View more

It really isn't a problem. Just use nested Smart Objects. ... View more