Go to Edit > Preferences > General, and in the Options section, un-check the Auto Show the Home Screen box. ... View more

Photoshop has a feature called Photomerge that you can use for this. First, when taking the pictures, make sure you have quite a bit of overlap between adjacent frames, like 30%. It also helps if there's good detail — open water and clear skies don't work well. Including some objects on the floor and ceiling might help, too. Once you have the photos, open them all up in Photoshop, and File > Automate > Photomerge (down there at the bottom of the menu). Choose Cylindrical: objects in the room may have that 'panorama effect', but the wall will be mapped to a flat rectangle.   Once you have the merged photo, there are a number of ways you could select and mark areas of certain colors, but a lot of that depends on the particular image and colors. ... View more

If the initial feathering value is zero, you can control the feathering  by using Gaussian Blur in Quick Mask mode, which you can refine with the various tools under Image > Adjustments.  ... View more

" Just using a mouse you would need to draw out a Path then stroke the path with pen pressure checked."   Like this: While the stylus offers more control, stroking a Path is good for long smooth strokes   ... View more

@Jeff Arola That was indeed it. ... View more

What app is the second picture? ... View more

It looks to me that a Shape made with the Shape tool is a "Live Shape", and shows a bounding box if the Shape or Path Selection tools are selected, but not the Direct Selection tool. Paths and Shapes made with the Pen, and converting Text to Shape, do not. If you drag one of the nodes with the Direct Selection tool, a popup says "This operation will turn a Live Shape into a regular Path. Continue?" The bounding box will go away, but the Shape has been altered. I don't know any easy way to convert to a regular Path without altering the Shape. ... View more

What you describe sounds like using the Pen tool to create a Shape. ... View more

Could you please post a screen shot showing the Layers panel? ... View more

I don't know if this will work, but if you look at your Adobe account, under the Plans and Payment tab, there is an Activated Devices section, with an option to deactivate. ... View more

If you add a point to each leg, equidistant from the corner, and then delete the corner point, you will be left with an open shape. Click on one of the end points to pick up the path, and then the other to close it. ... View more

> In all seriousness, what is wrong with Ctrl/Cmd + V to paste in a new layer?  It's a single command.   I don't think I've ever needed a blank document the size of the clipboard. I very frequently want the clipboard to open in Photoshop. Why should I enter a keystroke to avoid something I never want? ... View more

un-check the Contiguos box in the Magic Wand options.   ... View more

My first idea was just turn it over, like the Cake Slice Illusion (one slice gone, or one slice left?):  https://lapercepcion16.blogspot.com/2016/03/ilusiones-opticas.html  ... View more

I'm not sure if this is what you're after, but I tried converting the image to Lab mode, inverting the Lightness channel, and converting back to RGB:   ... View more

I wonder if photographing the pages with ultra violet or infra red might help. ... View more

One way is to run the Ruler tool along one edge of the photo, followed by Image > Image Rotation > Arbitrary. The angle from the Ruler is automatically loaded. Click on OK, and the image is rotated with extra canvas added to accommodate the rotation.   ... View more

Alt+Shift+Ctrl+E for Stamp Visible. Not accessible though the menu; keyboard shortcut only. ... View more

Maybe one could have a script that would get the locations of the recent files and put them in a list, where they could then be opened in Windows Explorer to be renamed or deleted. Deleting a file in the list might cause glitches later, so the script should maybe rebuild the recent files list after the editing. ... View more

I saw on my Adobe account page, under "Plans and Payment" there is an Activated Devices tab, with an option to deactivate a device. I used this to clean out any residual activations on my retired [but still (barely) functional] old computer. I'd always thought activations were per app, not per device. ... View more

Are you talking about the edges of the artwork?  If so, do a search for "gallery wrap". ... View more

Leslie, I was hoping you would come up with the idea first, since you are a better cartoonist than I am . . . ... View more

This has been the case for years. You can avoid it by temporarily changing the resampling to Nearest Neighbor.  ... View more

What happens if you do it via Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color? ... View more