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A little bit crazy, but:   By @Lettera71   FYI if you use the forum image widget to add your images, it will show them full size.   1500 pixels is about right.  If you paste directly into the thread, it produces a sort of big thumbnail, which is what I think you did in your second attempt to post the image.  I fixed it in your post above, but I don't dare try deleting the second post because, I'll end up deleting the entire thread, and Dave would be after my blood! 😞 ... View more

Woah there Nikki.  That could lead to a nasty accident. I spared y'all the leakage 😉 ... View more

Lots of nice artwork this week.  🙂 ... View more

 I am slightly concerned over the axe at the bottom! 🙂 Dave By @davescm   I was trying to do a Ged, and dream up the most rediculous attachments for the multi-tool.  Ged would have had fold out elephants, a large trolly jack, and and auto-inflating hot air balloon all contained in that handle.   ... View more

He looks rather excited!!!! By @derekwatson   It's hard to un-see it once given that mind picture Derek.  Hmmm... I have just noticed my unintentional pun. Oh well. Never mind. ... View more

It doesn't get any cooler than that Nils!   ... View more

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That's a strange one, and not something I have seen in the 16 years I have been doing this.  It is particularly strange that it has persisted through moves to multiple different computer builds.  It seems obvious, but can you think of anything that is common to all these builds?  That could be third party plugins, hardware like graphic tablets and other specialist pointing hardware.   You can eliminate plugins by opening Photoshop while holding down the shift key.   Anything else that might help isolate the issue.  Does the same issue persist across current release and beta versions? Does it happen with V22?     You need to remember that there are now in excess of 37 million people using legit, paid for, versions of Photoshop, and your issue is not common.  So there is something particular to your set up that is behind it. We need to track down what that is. ... View more

Wallpaper! (Not recommended if you drop acid)  By @Leslie Moak Murray I have no idea what you are talking about Leslie. GET THOSE SPIDERS AWAY FROM ME! ... View more

They have to be a pair of Pat Butcher (East Enders) ear rings. ... View more

That's beautifully reshaped. I wonder if some shading would add to the 3D effect? ... View more

Can I use this new image (created with real and AI), for promotional purposes? By @G26366916e0p4   Yes. ... View more

I expect your colleagues were too sensible to throw charged electrolytics at each other Dave. 😉  Unfortunately, my workmates were not so grown up.   So it's not impossible that a BIG enough capacitor might have energy enough stored to launch a rocket skyward.  Come to think of it, I bet those electromagnetic rail guns use big capacitors as an energy source.   ... View more

It might be easier if you used your own language, and we'll use the forum translate function.  You need to give us as much information as you possibly can, to give the translation the best chance of passing on your issue. ... View more

@arteandrea Krita is a free digital art app like Photoshop, and possibly the most well known alternative.  Scribbler is an effect that does this:   Video turorial     ... View more

It ocurred to me that the only reason a person might have such a tiny image is if they found it online.  If it was their own image then there can't be a phone or camera anywhere that does not create 4Mp digital images.  So I used a reverse image search and found this.  Still well short of 4Mp, but a lot bigger than the one the OP posted. ... View more

Hi Avery.  Have you tried saving that image and viewing in a different application?  These sort of artefacts are usually GPU related, and a display issue rather than a corrupted image.  If you try saving and viewing and the issue persists, then we can look more deeply. ... View more

If you mean file size, then the image in your post is only 159kb.  A tiny fraction of 4Mb   If you are talking about pixel size, then you need to be specific. It is currently 600px X 460px.  What size do you need it to be? ... View more

I don't have the Polygonal Lasso tool in any of my toolbars, because, like Conrad has mentioned, you can do everything with the ordinary lasso tool plus the Alt/Opt keys, which makes for a more fluid workflow.  It gets a bit finicty when you want to remove from a selection, but it is still doable.  Hold down Alt/Opt and click anywhere inside or outside an existing selection. Release and reapply the Alt/Opt key, and keep it held down as you click each point around the area you want to remove.  When that area would be contained within a straight line to current cursor position and the starting point, realease the Alt/Opt key and it will automatically complete the remove area. ... View more

@cdl Did you notice that Donna was talking about Photoshop Elements?  If you are also this issue with Elements, then you should ask on that forum, because AFAIK there is only one regular poster on this forum with any experience with Elements.   It feels likely that Elements will also use Ctrl/Cmd ; to toggle Guides visibility, but it could also be Ctrl/Cmd H with toggles visibility for all Extras, (Grid, Guides, marching ants...)   I can't think of anything else that would cause Guides to disappear after dragging them out from the Rulers. ... View more

Kevin, it's building the animation that is so much easier in a video timeline if you have multiple moving elements.  With one moving element you can make frames with step and repeat and use Make Frames from Layers, or you can tween.   It takes no time at all.  But when you add a second element, it gets complicated.  You have manually turn on the right layer for each frame. That's bad enough, but gets much worse when you need dissimilar movement.  At this stage, the frames are the frames. You can't change that without messing up the first element, so you have to work out the relative movement between the two (or more elements) and it takes a long time and the results are nearly always a compromise.  Plus, frame animations are jerky.   If you use a video timeline you can stack video groups and treat one independently of the others.  It's super easy, and far less complicated.  I only cottened on to this recently, and even then I didn't think of exporting the video timeline to a GIF.   It turns out that you still use Export > Save for Web, which I got from one of Conrad's posts.  I am not sure I'd have thought of it otherwise.  This has 150 frames, is just 150kb, and is smoother than if I did it with a frame animation timeline.  Plus it loops!     Video timelines have way more options than frame animations. Something else I have been doing is render out a short clip and bring the .m,p4 back into a new timeline. This gets around some complications.  I will almost certainly be using video timelines going forward. ... View more