I would love to see your curves adjustment on this. I'm thinking you may not be pinpointing the location of the adjustment, so it may be coming out more heavy-handed than you're prefer? You can have crisp white, but you want to be sure not to blow it out to specular. So, pick a place on the high end of the biggest lump on the histogram and pull up - making certain to have NONE of it attach to the top of the viewing area (specular white). Then, pick one shadow with the finger icon, to pull down on, and increase contrast in the area.  Attached, is a rough selection, but the general idea I'm getting at. I hope it helps. ... View more

Can we please have more information on your system setup and versions? Which OS? How much RAM, storage, and graphics card power? How much room is left on your hard drive? With this info, we may be more able to address your specific issue. ... View more

Hi. Considering it seems to be fixed after you restart the Huion driver, this may be a problem with the driver, itself. However, if you suspect it's not, please review the "Bugs" section at the top of the Photoshop Ecosystem portal. I'd suggest a search there for a similar issue and upvoting it, but if you don't find something, please post your issue there, so we can be sure Adobe Developers see it.  ... View more

Not sure if you're necessarily doing all the steps, so I'll list them here. File>New Set up your parameters Hit the Save icon next to the file name space This will open another PRESET DETAILS space, in which you can name the Preset (as opposed to giving a name to a new file) Then, hit the save button again.   At this point, it should show up in your Saved tab. Please let us know if that's not happening correctly.  ... View more

I SO love this! How did you get your own reference photo in there? Or, did you? ... View more

The Brooklyn Bridge is home. I love these!!! Here are mine:  My nickname filled with tropical flowers, Woods in the style of Eyvand Earle, and a hypnotized cat in a tropical paradise! EDIT: Had to add one more - orange hibiscus with white puppies sleeping in it, backlighting and macro photography added. These are such a blast!     Okay - so, I LOVE the tropics! 🙂 ... View more

I haven't tried artist style on text, but I did on an image. Asked for Eyvand Earle woods and loved the results. For text - I messed up at first, too. Then, saw in the dialog at the bottom of the page. Put your word(s) in the left side, and the style on the right. ... View more

SOOO excited to have gotten my invitation today. This is even more awesome than I'd anticipated! Thank you! ... View more

Hi. Did this work in the past? Photoshop CS5.1 is VERY old  - 13 years old - and so many of the technical ways fonts are currently written, may not translate to such old technology. ... View more

Hi. Did you do the transformation after you applied the filters? To me, it looks like when you increased the size of the pixels, the computer tried to resize the effect, but it's not very good sizing anything up. There are a fixed number of pixels and when you bring the cat image up in size, you're really simply stretching pixels, which then Photoshop need to try to resolve by essentially guessing how to rebuild them. If I was doing this, I'd try first - before ever bringing the cat into the background - the Neural Filter named Super Zoom. And, if it's being resized a lot, I'd do it in smaller increments (convert for Smart Filters, first). THEN, when the cat's the right size, move it into the new image. THEN run your filters. Hope this helps. ... View more

Hi. Had you tried this with a Curves adjustment before? While Apply Image will create a grayscale image IN your mask, it doesn't make your image a grayscale. Masks are about blacks, whites and grays - color doesn't exist in a mask, because it's only about whether that layer displays or hides your adjustment. So, if you're using an adjustment layer that's made to alter color settings, it won't grayscale the image out at all. Now, if you use that same masking technique on an adjustment layer meant to remove saturation (eg: Black and White, Hue Saturation, and others), you can control how MUCH of that happens.  The sole purpose of a mask on an adjustment layer is to show and hide how much of any adjustment layer affects the image below. ... View more

I agree with @Stephen Marsh  - but had been thinking how easy this would be to do with Find/Replace in your text editor. ... View more

Depending on how much you intend to enlarge the image, you will likely encounter quality options either way, without using a 3rd party app (which also isn't perfect - but many are better). Your option 1 is likely going to give you the worst results - with all sorts of image fuzz and pixel disruption. If by "Resample Filter" you mean the Super Zoom Neural filter, you'll likely get much better results, and it gives you more control. Otherwise. please clarify what you mean by "Resample Filter" - Oh - and if you mean Adjust>Image Size - that'll be just as bad as the free transform IMO. With either of those, try doing small increments and building - that improves the result, somewhat. ... View more

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/select-mask.html This would be a good start for you, on this. ... View more

For the area not near her arm, you might even want to duplicate the background to a new layer (select some of the wall with the rectangular select tool, and Cmd (Ctrl)+J or Layer>New>New Layer Via Copy. Then, on that layer, use the Transform>Warp on those pixels. For the arm area, Clone absolutely would work. You just have to ensure you're not trying to clone from the pixels directly next to the area you need. When you Option (Alt) click to get your sample pixels, choose from the area above that has no arm. You may also want to do that on a new layer (and on the Clone Tool, tell it to Sample All Layers in the Options bar). Cloning takes practice, but if you do it slowly and consistently check and adjust your sampling area, you can do some magic with that tool. ... View more

Hi. The tints measurement in InDesign is all about the amount of ink that's going to be sprayed on the page in process printing. We simply see a visual representation of that lesser amount of ink, as a representation on our monitor.  Since most of Photoshop is about RGB color, and contiguous tone, we're not given such precise ink controls.  To accomplish what you seek, I'd suggest creating your work in Photoshop, and placing it into your InDesign document. ... View more

Cool! Thanks! I can't wait to give this a try!  Can you please tell us which method you're using to do your conversion to B&W? ... View more

Hi! Isn't the depth blur amazing! I agree, I'd love to see it as a regular option (out of beta). Thing is, we're a user to user forum. Sometimes, Adobe does look at these, if they're about particular problems, but they don't normally get into all the questions. So none of us are informed ahead of time, as to their plans and timing. Wish we knew more! BUT - if there's a particular addition or change you'd like to see to this beta, before it goes out to permanent status, I'd recommend adding your request at the Feature Request button at the top of this form. That way, people can see that request and can Upvote it. The more votes Adobe sees, the faster they are to get on it! ... View more

OOh - I can pretend I've visited Lichtenstein! 🙂  Thanks for looking that up!  Wish I had more time to put into this one.... with this weather, the beach had my mind all worked up! 😄 ... View more

Had some sunny daydreams with this one. Images from Pexels: Martha Sales and Quang Nguyen Vinh ... View more

Awesome!  ... View more

Now, THAT'S funny!  😄   ... View more

Hi. If you'd like help in pinning down what may be happening, please share some screenshots. But if it's just a bug report, please add it in the Bug section at the top of this forum.  ... View more

By default, a background layer is intended to be rectangular and opaque. It's generally a "locked" layer, in that you can't change those 2 parameters. When making alterations to that layer which may require transparency or translucency, your layer will change to a "regular" layer. For example, if you use the crop tool and turn off the Delete Cropped Pixels option, you'll have a converted layer, because PS needs to retain those pixels, but hide them from you. If you have Delete Cropped Pixels turned ON, you will have a background layer, because the edit was "destructive" (permanently changing pixels). ... View more

Woah - this thread's been going a while! @m1b , I haven't used Launchbar in years, but I DO run a few apps that do things to the clipboard (most are disabled, but I use iClip ALL the time...  I never did find any of my plugins or extensions to fix this - and I haven't attempted it again in ages, but I will now - and then see how it works if I disable iClip (if necessary). Thanks. EDIT!!! SO, I see why I haven't worked on it again. I'd forgotten about it being a problem! I can see that, because it works perfectly well now.  It may be about having upgraded. I don't think I have any different plugins or clipboard apps running, from when I first posted...  Anyway - it really is working exactly as it should be, now... Thanks!!! ... View more

Hi. It's hard to future-proof within the budget you mention. Right now, the model you mention would be great (but already above your budget). Thing is, you may want to check what you mean by "a number of years". And, how you feel about performance.   Right now, the recommended RAM for Illustrator is 16GB. As time moves on, these apps seem to always want better GPU and RAM, so buying at the minimum now will work, but it will eventually time out. Nobody knows how long that is.   That being said - I was comfortable with performance hits, so my previous computer served me well for 10 years (with upgrades). In 2020, I bought a new iMac, with an INTEL processor, not the M1 or M2 (granted, the M1 was pretty new, then). Personally, for the money, I am just gambling with how long it'll be before Adobe decides to drop support for the older chips. The biggest benefit of the Pro vs the Air is the ability to upgrade the RAM. That might help you for future-proofing - but it'll cost you more now. Hope this helps, a little... ... View more

I'd think the oranges/pink/purple thing would be more about your printer having a problem with red inks, but can't tell from what you're giving us. Please send us a screenshot of your size settings in Photoshop, and your printer driver settings. ... View more

Try using the View Menu - first, set up your CMYK in View Proof Setup, then turn on View Proof Colors   ... View more

I haven't found a way to zoom in that panel, but it'd be a great option! Please go to the top of this Photoshop Ecosystem community, and create a feature request. If I see that, I'd definitely upvote it! ... View more