Do you have multiple versions of the software on your machine? This looks like a glitch with the install and I would suggest using the CreativeCloud app manager to uninstall it and then later reinstall it. ... View more

Not that I'm aware of. You can stroke a path with a brush, and as you mentioned, setup the fade/pressure properties so it scales and shifts along the path. But there is nothing that magnetizes your wacom to the work path. ... View more

When you are in RAW and choosing to open the file. Does it open it normally, or does it open it as an object (Smart Object)? If it opens as a Smart Object some features will be limited. This could also be a conflict of having two versions of Photoshop on the same machine. ... View more

So it doesn't sound like anything is wrong with Photoshop here. It's operating as expected, and the issues is "Windows decides it isn't going to remount the external file system right away". When you first launch your computer does it make sense to open an explorer window and make sure your drive is mounted before booting up PS? ... View more

Make sure you're creating/editing in an RGB document in Illustrator. Second, make sure the color profile for your RGB document settings is set to sRGB so you don't see it shift when it gets to your browser. If the color you choose isn't a websafe color, even within sRGB, you will see small shifts in some colors. Especially in blues/purples like your sample value. So in your new document settings, change it from CMYK to RGB. Then when that document is open, go to Edit > Assign Profile, then choose the sRGB working profile. Export from there and then test. ... View more

You can only have the resolution that the image from the internet was saved as. So if you downloaded something, you could open it in Photoshop and look at Image Size to see the pixel dimensions, width and height. So for example if it's 800px wide by 600px tall, fairly common on blogs, that's the max resolution of that file. In Photoshop you can increase the resolution a little but if you do more than 10% you will start to see interpolation (reprocessing artifacts) that won't look good. ... View more

You'll need to provide the forum users things like: Version of Illustrator What computer system, operating system, specs, are you using. Illustrator may have crashed and you lost your work. It doesn't happen often, but it does occasionally happen. Here is an example of someone seeking out the recovery file back in CS6. There are other tutorials like this one out there that migth be of help to you. How to recover lost data from Adobe Illustrator - Stellar Data Recovery ... View more

My first thought is that you need to look up what the refresh (Hz) rate is of each device to compare them fairly. And are they both set to the same pixel resolution and color space. ... View more

Interestingly if you have three areas of pure primary RGB values (255 for each) and then run DeSaturate on them. You'll get the same appearance as you do with a Black to White Gradient Map. EXCEPT for Adobe RGB (1998). That gives a very different result in the reds especially. I suspect it has something to do with the mean averaging of the hue value relative to the size of the gamut you're calculating the average for. a 50% mean average in one gamut will not be the same, relative to coordinates/position in the gamut for Adobe RGB as it is for ProPhoto RGB. ... View more

I don't believe there's a way to auto-calculate the curvature of the join. But, once you've made your join you have a few options to curve that point. 1. You can use the direct select tool to select the newly joined anchor point, and you'll see a blue dot appear below/outside of the corner-joint. Click on that and drag and it'll round the corner for you. 2. If using a heavier stroke you'll see you can change the stroke value to have a rounded miter instead of a sharp miter. That's in the stroke panel as an option. 3. You can use the Effects to Stylize > Round Corners. There are other options too, but all of them will be produced after the corner is joined and not done automatically. ... View more

Regardless of which selection technique you use to isolate the pixels you want to keep, use a Layer Mask after the selection rather than deleting the pixels. This gives you the ability to adjust how much you're cutting out from the background afterwards by refining in various ways. ... View more

Do you need to bring the file in as a 3D file for the carving software to work? I've seen others convert the file to grayscale, and then bring that into a 3D program like ZBrush to see the depth extrusion generated by the grayscale tones. Depending if it's inverted or not in software, whites being a high point, blacks a low point, and the grays shading in-between. Although we can fake depth maps in PS to simulate the look of carving, it's not quite the same as a true depth file being sent into a carver/router/cnc. I've done this with vendors who are using waterjet for cutting forms and then lazer for etching. The carving element makes this a bit tricky. If you do just go the convert to grayscale and send it be carved, I would recommend exploring posterizing the image after you've made it grayscale. It can look a little bad onscreen, but minimizing the number of levels (shades) available to the pixels can reduce the variance between each photosite speeding up the process for the carving. Also, remember to apply contrast to your image so that you're getting an actual black to white span on the image. It may look bad on screen, but that depth threshold is relative to the thickness of your material you want to carve into. So if Black is 0 depth and White is 100% height, adjusting the contrast with Levels can show you in the histogram exactly where your carving will vary depth. Good luck, and post pics of your finished carve! ... View more

Hi Caleb, here is a quick video of how to do the effect. I show you how to make the mask, and then how to adjust it using the gradient tool after the mask has been applied. At the end I show you how to adjust it. 1 minute video.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n37HvrJ6pg-3vdwnUI9BQiD6JFqLP12b/view?usp=sharing Blending Mask Illustrator.mov - Google Drive ... View more

You can do this with the Transparency panel in Illustrator. Draw a shape over your photo that you want to use for the mask. Select the image, and the shape you drew over it. Then in the transparency panel click to create the mask. Now with the masked image selected (in my example there was a rectangle the same size as the image). Click on the mask thumbnail in the transparency panel. Now you can fill it with a gradient swatch, and after you choose that gradient fill you can use the gradient tool to adjust it's position, length, etc. A black to white gradient mask will give you the blend effect you are looking for. ... View more

Here's a video clip of me showing you how to join lines into one object Path-Join-Movie.mov - Google Drive You can approach it this way, selecting all the paths that were created and using the Object > Path > Join feature. As long as the anchors are close enough, when it expands it will join them. At the end of the video I show how you can use the direct select to select to points and use join to auto-draw the connection. You can also use the join tool if you want to go around the object and bridge anchors together more manually. ... View more

It's because your File > Place part of the action is pointing to particular image file so it will always refer to that. I would suggest coming at this backwards. Let me explain. The Image Processor script in PS allows you to choose an Action to add to the process. So you can use Image Processor to say "open each image in this directory and save it as a JPG. But at the bottom of the dialog box there's an option to run an Action during the sequence. So you need to make an action that expands the canvas to the size of your background graphic/template. This will automatically scale outward from the center by the default. So set the new canvas size to the exact dimensions of the template. Now place the template graphic, this is only one file, so it'll always point to that template graphic in the center. With it just being placed, that layer will be selected. Choose to send to the bottom of the Layers stack. (CMD Shift [) Flatten Image. (Don't add a Save or anything to the action.) So once your action is made, you can use Image Processor to run the batch JPEG save, and play the action on the sequence from the panel. ... View more

You could try to skew and distort a basic shape as copies on multiple layers and then use the tween between frames, but it won't be as fluid as that example you provided. That would be better served in Adobe Animate or After Effects. ... View more

It's likely an issue with Color/Image modes not being aligned with your printer profile. Are you printing from Illustrator and seeing the difference with InDesign? Are you printing the Illustrator art from InDesign after placing it in InDesign. ... View more

For production files (files going to prepress or printer), always keep as RGB and embed the ICC profile and let the printer do the conversion, or convert/build in press ICC profile. These conversions use Relative Colorimetric Intent. Absolute Colorimetric Intent is used only in proofing, and not at all times. For instance, if you have a printer capable of really small dots (where you can't see the dots on the proof), then you may want to use Absolute Colorimetric Intent. However, if the printer doesn't have enough nozzles and you see the paper simulation of the press paper as dots on the proofer paper, then you would want to use Relative Colorimetric Intent. If your proofer paper is about the same color as your press paper, then you'll want to use Relative Colorimetric Intent. Is there anywhere in your print dialog for simulating paper? This page has some good info: https://www.colourphil.co.uk/rendering_intents.shtml ... View more

Have you tried using the export panel, under the artboards tab? You can set sizes and formats there and it gives more control options. Collect assets and export in batches ... View more

If you draw your diagonal line, then with the Arrow used to select the line, hold Option (ALT windows) click and drag a duplicate. Now press CMD + D or (CTRL + D Windows). That will repeat the same distance and angle you dragged from the source point. Each time you press the CMD + D quick key it will repeat again, and again. ... View more

His clouds are great. If you look at this sample of his work, there are some clear indicators that they are using a mixture of texture brushes, and also the smudge tool in PS to flick some little wisps off the edges of the clouds. What makes the clouds so great is the approach. It's painterly, and usually involves 3 main areas of tone. A shadow portion, a strong highlight portion and a middle tone blending between the two. After that it's a mixture of texture brushes, or smudging, throughout all the samples I've seen on DeviantArt. So using a mixture of a textured brush I made this first by painting with the textured brush and building up my tones. I started with a dark tone and worked my way towards light, similar to the samples you mentioned. Here is a link to my PSD file, and the .ABR Adobe Brush I used to make this. Cloud Painting.zip - Google Drive After getting the blocking in for the shape and shades.  Use the Smudge Tool, also using a textured brush, to blend, swirl, and move things around. Using about 50% pressure in the options bar. After this I used the smudge tool set to about 10%, and turn on the finger painting option. This allows you to not only smudge, but pick up some of the shades from the last few pixels you smudged. Just like finger painting, the tones travel with your next smudge stroke causing some blending to mix together. Just remember, real low pressure here! In some of his posts he says he's using photos of clouds and converting them into a Photoshop Brush. To do that, you just crop an image to a cloud you like. Make a selection of it, preferably after removing the background, and then going to Edit > Define Brush Preset. You can also do a google image search for "clouds transparent backgrounds" and turn those into brushes. Lots of free ones online! Good luck, and happy painting! ... View more

I believe that stupidity is a symptom of the operating system, not Photoshop. But you can set folders in things like Actions, Image Processor, ACR, etc... ... View more

That is definitely a challenge. I used to deal with that for an electronics company I worked for. Republishing and working content for quite a few languages. German (Deutsch) was always a real challenge. Although some of the languages weren't allowed to have hyphens which caused even more challenges. Other than manually doing it, I'm not sure I have a great solution. Sorry. ... View more

In a nutshell. Yes, it went away. As JJMack​ mentioned above, there are other options available now through other means. Adobe Bridge is included with Photoshop's installation and has an option seen here: Create web galleries and PDFs with Adobe Bridge ... View more

Purely for testing purposes could you try the following. Choose the layers, and in the Layers pull down menu choose Merge Visible Layers. See if it retains the opacity of the washed out icon of the tree. If it does, great, then save it as a PNG and see if that displays correctly in your final application. If not, we have a unique problem. ... View more