
D Fosse
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D Fosse
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‎Feb 21, 2025
02:28 PM
Picks correctly from the pasteboard here too.
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‎Feb 20, 2025
11:26 PM
OK, got it. Does seem like a bug. Not at my workstation right now, but I'll try later and see what happens.
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‎Feb 20, 2025
02:29 PM
Not sure I understand the problem - according to the Layers panel, the light color is the top layer in the lower screenshot? Your color picker is set to "sample all layers", so that checks out too.
There may be something wrong here, but your screenshots seem perfectly fine?
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‎Feb 20, 2025
01:42 PM
Up left in the options bar at the top. It's half hidden under the tooltip in your screenshot.
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‎Feb 20, 2025
01:39 PM
1 Upvote
Actually, your system info does not list AVX/AVX2 support. It should be right up there at the beginning, under system architecture.
Obviously, an M2 will have AVX2 support. Apparently you're running under Rosetta emulation, could that be the reason? Current versions will run natively in Apple silicon.
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‎Feb 20, 2025
01:27 PM
Your brush is set to Screen mode. Set it to Normal mode.
(can a moderator move this from Bugs to Discussions?)
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‎Feb 20, 2025
01:25 PM
You keep saying toolbar, but apparently you mean the menu. Sorry to be pedantic, but we need to know what we're talking about.
Can you show a screenshot? Is the whole dialog blank?
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‎Feb 20, 2025
12:39 PM
1 Upvote
As Ged says.
Just to add that ACR uses the GPU independently from Photoshop, and ACR is generally a little more picky. It may well be that ACR is choking on the dual GPUs, while Photoshop is able to work with it.
Without a fully functional and supported GPU, ACR won't run at all.
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‎Feb 20, 2025
12:35 PM
2 Upvotes
To preserve color you need to embed the color profile. This is true whatever file format is used.
Without an embedded profile, the colors are undefined.
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‎Feb 20, 2025
12:29 PM
Show the full interface including the Layers panel.
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‎Feb 20, 2025
12:27 PM
There is no Select > Color Range in the toolbar. You need to go to the Select menu. Which one do you mean?
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‎Feb 20, 2025
12:25 PM
Hey, I didn't know that 😉
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‎Feb 20, 2025
04:32 AM
2 Upvotes
Make sure you always embed the color profile, and use a photo viwer that actually supports color management (not all do, but Windows Photos does).
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‎Feb 19, 2025
01:14 PM
Sorry, read in a hurry and misunderstood (I read quick mask instead of quick selection). But then the answer depends on exactly what you are doing.
You need to describe more precisely and show a screenshot.
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‎Feb 19, 2025
12:55 PM
2 Upvotes
With two screens, I understand that this profile business complicates your simple procedure a bit. But the point is - without this crucial step of assigning the monitor profile, the screenshot isn't accurate. And unless you then convert to sRGB, you can't put the two screenshots together.
So you really have no choice. Or rather, your choice is accurate, reliable and repeatable result on one hand, or all over the map and unpredictable on the other. Even if "simpler", the latter is pretty much useless.
I have a Photoshop action triggered by the F2 key, which fetches the screenshot from the Windows clipboard, and dumps a finished PNG right on my desktop. Doesn't get any simpler than that. That action is set to assign the profile for my main screen. I haven't needed it, but I could easily make another action triggered by, say, the F3 key that uses the profile for the secondary screen.
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‎Feb 18, 2025
11:13 AM
Press Q, or the icon at the bottom of the toolbar.
If you've activated that channel in the Channels panel, click the eye to deselect it, or click the RGB channel.
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‎Feb 18, 2025
03:41 AM
1 Upvote
As Per says. This is an untagged image, and the two applications have different default working color spaces. From the looks of it, sRGB in Photos, and Adobe RGB in Photoshop. If it had an embedded profile, that profile would be correctly read in both applications - and they would be identical.
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‎Feb 18, 2025
02:34 AM
Yeah. It seems AI kills not only creativity, but also basic quality control.
Entropy seems to be the word that sums it all up. Luckly, the resistance movement is active and hasn't given up yet 😉
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‎Feb 18, 2025
01:25 AM
2 Upvotes
Yes, but this is all related to how AI basically works.
I heard something interesting on the radio the other day: Asking ChatGPT to tell jokes. It was hilarious - not because the jokes were funny, but because they were spectacularly not funny. In the discussion some explanations were offered, the most credible being that AI is built on prediction and probability - but a joke is breaking predictability, a 180 degree shift in context. AI can't do that.
AI can never surprise! It can only repeat. It can not learn from one situation and apply that to another situation, because that's breaking predictability, and AI can't do that. Hence the deformed hands.
It has also struck me how ridiculously easy it is to recognize AI-generated posts here in the forum. They jump out. Same with AI-generated images. They are boring and astonishingly unsurprising. It takes cliche to a new level.
If anyone still thinks AI is "creative", they don't understand the meaning of the word.
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‎Feb 17, 2025
10:52 PM
1 Upvote
@stockphotog.miller
Dave is just trying to explain how this actually works.
If you have frequent power outages, you really, really need a UPS.
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‎Feb 17, 2025
09:43 PM
See Ged's post above.
The only way to free up one of your two activation slots is to deactivate one of the previous.
That was always the case, but the difference now is that Adobe will no longer reset activations if you have used up both and you can't access the old installation(s).
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‎Feb 17, 2025
03:24 PM
1 Upvote
Yes, which is what we've been saying all along. It's not that it isn't technically possible. It's that it doesn't make any sense.
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‎Feb 17, 2025
03:21 PM
1 Upvote
If you're not making a custom monitor profile, Windows will set sRGB IEC61966-2.1 as default.
In other words, the same correction will be performed regardless of the monitor's characteristics. So the actual numbers sent to screen will always be the same, and that's what is recorded in the screenshot. And as a result, the visual appearance will vary from wrong to very wrong. The profile will just be more or less wrong.
All that said - all this shouldn't be necessary. With a little care in setting the white points (which is the main variable), it should be possible to get the two displays very close. Admittedly, this is always easier when the two displays are fairly similar to begin with. In any case, there won't be any dramatic differences with correct calibration/profiling.
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‎Feb 17, 2025
02:59 PM
Denoise runs entirely in the GPU. It doesn't touch the CPU.
It takes advantage of the newer generation RTX series GPUs, which have "Tensor" cores optimized for AI based tasks. The older GTX series doesn't have this technology, and will always be very slow with Denoise.
An RTX 4060 will denoise your 26 MP files in about 10 seconds.
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‎Feb 17, 2025
01:23 PM
1 Upvote
There are two icc profiles you need to have in order for accurate display. There's the embedded document profile, which is a standard profile, and then there's the custom monitor profile at system level, which is unique to your display. Photoshop uses both to display the file correctly.
Your two screenshots are identical, except one has some black clipping. That's often indicative of an inaccurate monitor profile.
What is the embedded document profile in Photoshop? This is the color space Camera Raw has encoded the RGB file into when sending to Photoshop:
When you Export, are you embedding the profile there? The checkbox to embed the profile is unchecked by default. Once you check it, it sticks. You can, and most often should, convert to sRGB in Export - but the profile still needs to be embedded:
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‎Feb 17, 2025
12:39 PM
How are you setting up your printer color management? What is the image's embedded color profile?
These are the print settings you need to watch.
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‎Feb 17, 2025
11:20 AM
1 Upvote
Scaling down a pixel image will lose quality. That's pretty much the definition of a pixel image.
The industry standard for logos is to create them as vector files, which can be infinitely scaled without quality loss. That means Illustrator. For web use, save out to SVG, which is the standard web vector file format.
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‎Feb 16, 2025
09:48 PM
2 Upvotes
Post the full Help > System Ifo from Photoshop.
Do not increase the RAM allocation, that chokes the whole system and only makes it worse.
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‎Feb 16, 2025
12:46 PM
Uninstall and reinstall Photoshop. If still no go, uninstall and reinstall Bridge. Make sure you click yes when opening Bridge and it asks to activate scripts.
Most likely your file associations were broken in the update (if you uninstalled the previous version).
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‎Feb 16, 2025
12:41 PM
3 Upvotes
Stop, reset Color Settings to default and start from the beginning. You have set your monitor profile as working RGB, which is something you should never do! That sets color management policies to "off" and disables all display color management, thus defeating the whole purpose of using a calibrator in the first place. The monitor profile is ignored and not used with your settings.
Set working RGB to a standard color space, set color management policies to "preserve embedded profiles", and don't change that setting again. That's how color management is supposed to work.
The calibrator software sets the monitor profile up at system level automatically, no user action required. Just run the software and then don't do anything.
As for the screenshots, here's the correct procedure. You need to make the two screenshots separately, as per the following:
The numbers sent to screen have already been converted into the monitor profile. The original document color space no longer applies.
To get accurate color in a screenshot, you need to first assign the monitor profile, for the above reason. Then convert to a standard color space like sRGB.
For a dual screen setup, the two monitor profiles are obviously different. Photoshop color manages the two screens separately, sending different numbers to each screen for the same color.
Once you've made the two screenshots, assigned the corresponding monitor profile for each screen, and converted to sRGB, you can put the two sRGB files together and they will now be correct.
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