Stay safe. Big earthquakes suck. I was the San Francisco one in 1987 - convinced the earth was going to open me up and swallow me, or the powerlines were going to electrocute me. I was 10 miles from the epicenter. I think you have a fabulous direction to go in! I love to see the creative mind at work when tackling a challenge. ... View more

I don't have any ideas for you, just wanted to say I think it looks great and this is quite the challenge you have set for yourself! Ok, maybe one idea. Try playing with the satin layer style, it's pretty weird and might help with the shiny bits. ... View more

If the lighting of your son and the lighting in the image you are pasting him into is very different, it's going look like crap - no matter what you do. Can you post a screenshot? Photoshop isn't magic... ... View more

I don't think it can. I use save for web legacy to save animated gifs. Generate is designed to save a bunch layers as image files. You won't likely be creating an animated gif in a file with a bunch of unrelated layers. It would be too confusing. ... View more

Refine Edge has been replaced with Select and Mask. Select and Mask had a rocky start and didn't work correctly. It's been fixed in CC 2017. Can't help with older versions... ... View more

You want to use a layer mask for the photo and brushes for blue. ... View more

I think you forgot to attach it, I don't see anything. If you designed it in Photoshop, it needs to be large enough to print nicely. Let's say you are printing your yearbook at 300ppi. The logo needs to be 300ppi at the size you want to print - so if the logo is going to be 2"x2", it needs to start out that big or bigger at 300ppi. For future reference, this is why logos are designed in Illustrator, not Photoshop. ... View more

Well, a screenshot would help. How big is the logo, what did you design it in? I would love to give you an answer, but you need to give me more information. If it's designed in Photoshop and not large enough, it's going to be low quality. ... View more

If it's in Illustrator, just change the fill colors. If it's in Photoshop, there are different ways, but a screenshot would help, so would getting this question in the right forum for more help   . ... View more

Use layers. You have your drawing of your boy on one layer and color his parts in on different layers - one layer for skin, one layer for shirt, one for pants, etc. The drawing layer is your top layer, the others go underneath. Eventually you want to learn layer masks - this will get you started for now. ... View more

PSB... means Photoshop Big. you are making a big file so yes. i recommend 150ppi, but you can probably get away with smaller. RGB should be fine, leave it in CMYK if its already there. trade show graphics, printed on vinyl from an inkjet? inkjets print higher quality at lower resolutions and like RGB. they convert the colors for you. ... View more

Is your hard drive full? I would start making some backups... ... View more

What kind of certifications and to what end? Just curious - I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor and don't recommend it. I also discourage my students from becoming an ACE unless there is a clear advantage for you like a job or money. The tests are not fun and are expensive. The classroom in a book series is great - you want to order each book for each app. Going through them on your own is tedious - I use them to teach.  Lynda.com is awesome. You might also consider taking a class - I teach one on one online. ... View more

I love the quick selection tool - it's my favorite! It also takes a bit to get used to it. Everything that Barb said and: It's a brush - and the size of your brush also sets the tolerance. Bigger brush = looser selection. Use your bracket keys (next to the P) to make your brush bigger and smaller as needed. Don't let the edge of brush touch the stuff you are trying to not select. It expands on it own - as you are experiencing. Selecting the background is tricky - select the person, then you can always invert your selection after. Practice and patients... ... View more

I don't think you can - you have to change accounts. ... View more

He looks like a naked Cookie Monster, but I've had a couple glasses of wine... ... View more

Expressionism is my favorite. ... View more

Deke is my favorite - I always recommend him to my students. I also think for newbies it's very difficult to learn from videos. You have to have some experience under your belt. I bet my career on that one as an Adobe Instructor! ... View more

Whatever kids k-12 hate... I've never met a kid who likes contemporary art. I love it. If they think they can do it better - it's contemporary art! ... View more

You can use extract inside of Dreamweaver, they removed it from the cloud. ... View more

ping and jif... I'm not changing it now! ... View more

Adobe has taken up a significant part of my life! I do have hobbies - one is digital scrapbooking - using the Adobe apps! The other is art. I picked up a pencil a few years ago and started drawing. I trade artist trading cards with people all over the world. I trade on Illustratedatcs.com if anyone is interested... It's tons of fun and now my office is full of art supplies - acrylic paint and Copic Markers . I also love Disney. I love to trade Disney pins, I have an awesome trip all planned for Sept. with my cousin - no husband or kids allowed. I have a 16 and 12 yr old, so they don't need me much anymore, giving me time to do art. I wish I could actually make a living doing art and do it all the time. As for Adobe, I've been using Photoshop since version 1 and have made computer games, owned a web design business, owned a photobook company and now I teach. Teaching has been so slow.... good for art, not so good for Disney trips . I'm considering an actual job... too lazy to really look for one and hoping the perfect one just falls in my lap ;P. ... View more

I concur with sandee... InDesign Publish Online... It's fun and if you already know InDesign, easy, peasy. ... View more

‌im on a 27" iMac, everything is current and up to date, running El Capitan. I Have tried multiple types of files, single PDF, etc. nothing works. I also made one in CC and tried to open it in XI, same blank screen. Its not the files That are the problem. ... View more