Embroidery (and

[VmusicV]

Hi,

I've been a photoshop user for a number of years. I am not some amazing advanced user - buy I pay my money for the product and expect improvement over time. Uhhh it's not really becoming easier or BETTER for people like me.

FIRST: My short term need is put some type in a ps document, and make it look like it is embroidered. I wasted money on something from Envato Elements, that couldn't even be installed. I looked on YouTube most of the videos about PS embroidery are people trying to sell you their "actions" or "templates" or something.

                     ANY THOUGHTS        (I am on the latest version as of 11/09/2024)

For those of us who aren't professional - we want a tool that ALSO offers more simplistic solutions. Example given - Alien Skin Eye Candy (or whatever it was called).  Photoshop still LACKS simplistic ways to put waterdrops on something, put rust on a subject, motion trails, textures, displacement maps (automatically) etc. (many of the things that Eye Candy has).

My request above is another example - an embroidery look.  Please don't tell me 42 steps - I'm not an advanced user. I want something with a few settings I can adjust, not 23 layers and adjustment layers and 8 other things.

AI - very disappointing.  I feel like Adobe got it out because other companies already had this. But it's lackluster, and honestly seems to be getting worse with each release.  When it first came out, the Eraser Tool took text off of a billboard or shirt or whatever and replaced it with the background; now with newer versions it has gotten WORSE -  it's trying to replace text your 'erase' with something that looks like text, but is not legible.  Great Example for lousy AI: I create some text, select the text area - and use Generative AI to fill it in with embroidered thread.  FORGET IT.  It has no clue what to do. It's literally clueless that (a) there is text and (b) what thread or cloth or string is. I don't want to have to watch 75 videos to "trick" the AI tool into doing what plain English should tell it to do.

EMBROIDERY -  So, c'mon photoshop - how in a few simple clicks, or instructions - make type look embroidered? I saw this link here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/embroidery-effect/m-p/10496804#M24930...

     Somewhat complicated

Phrustrated in Philly

[davescm]

The answer which I gave in the reply you linked is not complex, requires 5 steps only, results in three layers (one of which is tthe starting text, and uses no plug ins (therefore costs you nothing but a bit of time). There was an extra step if you then want to bend the result to fit an existing image e.g. a hat, but that would be the case no matter what you used to create the effect.

Why not just try and follow it, and ask questions when you get stuck (if you post screenshots it will show where you may be deviating from the process).

Dave

[Pete.Green]

In Photoshop beta under Filter > Parametric Filters is an Embroidery filter -- That might be useful for your purposes @VmusicV .