A graphics and photo editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. So ubiquitous is its use in photo manipulation that it became a verb: "To Photoshop".
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is it mandatory to keep 72 dpi for web design? What if I create in 200dpi?
I have been designing web banners in photoshop for more than 1 year but never considered the DPI, as I was using the default 72 dpi, but now I want to know is it necessary to create web designs in ...
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Replace black background with a transparent background
How can I add transparent background on this image instead of black background, but I also would like to keep the partial transparency effect on some of the particles and particles borders.
Could ...
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Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality?
Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality ? Like this:
I've watched this tutorial : but the quality of the outcome is still far away from the one above.
Is there a way to ...
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What is the difference between Opacity and Fill on a photoshop layer?
The opacity and fill settings on a layer in Photoshop seem to do the same thing. What is the difference?
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Photoshop Alternatives for G5 Macs
I'm in the market for an alternative to Photoshop for my G5 tower. I tried GIMP and I'm a bit blah about it; are there any other options that you can recommend?
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What would be equivalent blue colour for this red/orange one?
I'm struggling to find a matching blue colour for this red one I've got: #cf3a1b
By 'matching' I mean similar feel, in terms of brightness, contrast, lighting etc...
I'm new to graphic design so I ...
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PSD fonts and Html Page fonts
I am a web developer. What happens is that the Client sends a PSD (Photoshop designs) to the company. Then the designer needs to create a HTML page from the PSDs
What happen every time is that the ...
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How do I turn off anti-aliasing while drawing shapes in Photoshop?
Whenever I create a square shape at 100% zoom, I get perfectly sharp edges. However, once I zoom in at any amount, drawing a perfect square (without anti-aliasing) is very difficult. Is there a way I ...
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How do I blend a black-background fire image in Photoshop?
This fire image:
As you can see, it has a black background, which I can't delete (because it would probably destroy the smooth-looking fire effect). I want to place some fire in a photo.
However, ...
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Techniques for very large image
I need to do a poster, 8m width by 3.7m height, consisting of photographic elements that will be seen from varying distances. I've talked to the printer and they can do it at 150ppi's.
The issue here ...
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How to show background texture through text placed on background in Photoshop?
Say you have an image of a wall or an old, creased piece of paper and you want to add text on that background. How can you make the texture of the background come through the new text in Photoshop so ...
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Any tips or resources for designing e-mail newsletters?
After spending hours in Photoshop I haven't found a great template I like. I love the design style of many newsletters I subscribe to.. including Smashing Magazine and Hongkiat.. but I wonder what ...
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How to save Photoshop file with for web with partial transparency over transparent background?
I have an image in my program which I want to superimpose against a background. However, the image will move around and I need the background image to remain in place while the front image moves. ...
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How to get a hand colored effect in Illustrator or Photoshop?
How do you create a hand colored effect, like in the image above, using either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop? I'd like to know how they colored the arrows and how to add a rough gradient like the ...
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In Photoshop, how do I take a grayscale image and transform it into shades of whatever color I want?
In Photoshop, how do I take an image in shades of gray, and transform it into shades of whatever color I want? I don't know the term for it, if there's one, neither the property of the image I would ...
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How to remove noise/grain on a picture, based on some “noise pattern”
I have a picture containing lot of noise (see example below). Using photoshop CS5, is there any way to remove/or minimize these artefacts ?
I know this is possible in sound editors (like Goldwave) ...
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How do you say “Layer” in Chinese? As in photoshop layer
I'm setting up graphic designs that will be printed in mainland China. Some layers of the image are just there to show print instructions, and should never be printed.
What's Chinese for "Layer" as ...
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How to make an inner shadow around a page in Photoshop CS2?
I'm working on a web site and want to create a bounding-shadow effect around the whole site, like in the image below. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've tried inner-shadow but it doesn't ...
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Creating large-scale high-resolution documents in Photoshop
I am a student trying to create collages in Photoshop sized* 4' x 4' and larger, resolution 300dpi, to be digitally printed on cotton canvas and silk.
The enormous file size causes my iMac to lag or ...
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What are good ways to handle extracting a portion , such as a logo, from a much larger PSD?
I am building web pages from a PSD.
The designer just made all layers on the same size canvas which makes it harder to copy into a new layer in its intended size.
What could be a good work flow to ...
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A very strange favicon file (atleast for me) where one single file contains 3 different sized images
I have this favicon file.
Dowload favicon file
I can not upload the image file since its does not have the proper format.
When you view this file in windows 7, you get the following.
This single ...
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How to compute the radii (radiuses) of corners for concentric rounded rects
I have a roundrect button that I want to contain within another roundrect. The containing roundrect should always be 1px away from the button.
If I make the radius on the container too small then the ...
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Removing guides in Photoshop
In Adobe Photoshop (I'm currently using CS5), is it possible to remove the cyan-coloured guide lines? I'm talking about the ones added by View > Guides.. > horizontal/vertical guide choice
I can't ...
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Who made these icons?
I've seem these icons on lots of sites, so I assume they are publicly available and free to use.
Does any one know who designed them, and the official site? And where can I find the Photoshop ...
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Automation of repetitive tasks in Photoshop?
Is there a way to automate some highly repetitive tasks in Photoshop?
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I have a folder of images.
For each of them, and I want to import each as its own layer
I'd like them to be resized ...
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What is this symbol in Photoshop CS3
What does this symbol in Photoshop CS3 mean? It doesn't look like a standard layer symbol, but yet it has gradient styles on it without any layer effects applied.
Thanks.
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How to view all layers in Photoshop?
Is there a quick way to do this, for example, short key or script?
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Photoshop showing low quality graphics
I have a strange problem in Photoshop. I had this background image that I had downloaded from a website to try and recreate something like it. After I downloaded it and opened it up it all looked ...
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What's the easiest way to create a disabled greyscale button with a graphics program?
In a web application that I'm building, I'm going to need several disabled buttons. I already have the enabled buttons and I want to know what the best and easiest way of creating a disabled version ...
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How do I move the color picker in a straight line?
Sometimes, when I'm trying to design something using a monochromatic color scheme, I want to make sure I get exact shades and tints of a specific color, but I don't know how I can do that because I ...
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My web logo looks pixelated after resizing
I am trying to resize my logo for the web but so far I have not been seeing the result that I want to. This is how my logo looks in PhotoShop
This is how my logo looks on my website when I remove ...
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Why is my PDF so huge?
This site seemed like the best match for my question.
So I'm about to graduate college, and I made a nice resume in Word. I used a kind of fancy tabling system that took me forever (I had no idea ...
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CS5 export layers as files no number sequence
I am using cs5 layers to modify and then exporting layers as files. While saving CS5 automatically adds some number sequence at the end thereby modifying my original filename.
It see to ...
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Merging Layers Before Saving?
I read somewhere that before you save your photo you should merge the layers, including watermarks, before saving then save. My question is this:
Is there any benefit to merging the layers (or ...
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Clearly display small font size
What techniques (or different fonts) could I use to fonts to make small text (about 10px) look nice in Photoshop?
Here is what I tried, but every time it looks blurry, or too bold:
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Select background against trees / hair
I've got this image. To take it I had to up expose the photo to make the house clearer and the sky which is already very pale has disapeared. Normally I would just magic wand the white sky and replace ...
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What Adobe CS5 program should be used to make A4 multi-page brochure?
I want to know what Adobe CS5 program to use to make A4 multi-page brochure?
I have the full master suite so I wanted to know what is best to use for this?
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Why does saving low quality JPGs as high quality in Photoshop increase their file size?
I have a low quality background image that is about 85kb. If I open the file in Photoshop and then save it at 100% quality, the file size increases to 640kb. This doesn't make sense, the image is ...
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How to edit pdf files in Photoshop without bloating the file size?
I have a pdf file of size 266KB which I open with Photoshop, crop out the boundaries and save it back again. The new file size is 7.96MB!
Since all I did was a crop, I did not expect the file ...
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Textures - How to use in Web Design
Basically, I love how people use textures in web design. But as most website designs are "fluid", how do you make them work for all monitors and make them seamless? For Example, on the website ...
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How would I recreate this horizontal line in Photoshop?
I've seen variations of this idea... in HTML, the <hr /> tag creates a horizontal line that can be used as a spacing tool to separate headings, blocks of content, etc... I'd like to create such ...
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Photoshop: Animated PNG?
Photoshop CS5 doesn't seem to natively support saving image as APNG even tho few of the major browsers already support it. Are there any export plugins or such available for Photoshop?
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How to import a picture file to an existing psd in Photoshop CS5?
I need to import other picture file to an existing psd in Photoshop frequently. However, I do only know one complicated way to do this:
Open the file with Photoshop.
Windows->Float All in ...
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How to merge two images, so that one will take the shape of the other?
Got two images, one of an old sheet of paper with jagged edges. The other is a photo of beach. How can I merge them together, so that the beach image will take the shape of the other picture, i.e. ...
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Shortcut for selector tool in Photoshop
Is there a shortcut for the selector tool in Photoshop (the very fist tool in the tool bar, the one selected when opening Photoshop) ?
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Photoshop Marquee Tool - Lost square corners
Our computer is used by several people and somehow the rectangle marquee tool lost its square corners and now only shows rounded corners.
How to change the marquee tool back to the square corners?
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How do I shift/remap one range of colors to another in Photoshop?
I have attached an image to hopefully explain better, but if say I have an image that ranges from color 'A' to 'C', and I want it to range from 'B' to 'D' instead - what is the best method?
I'm sure ...
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How Do You Use the Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop CS5?
How do you use the Magic Wand Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5? Apparently it changed from CS3 (And CS4.). Before, when you use the Magic Wand to select certain parts of the area, it would 'update live' ...
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How to create a pattern or tiles from rotated elements
I have a geometric pattern – say, a cross:
Which I want to repeat with some overlap and tile … easy:
The blue square marks the 100×100 px unit tile.
However, here comes the catch: I want to ...
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How to design a websites using thin fonts that will look good in a web browser?
I recently quite repetitively encounter the same problem - the fonts in photoshop don't look even close to the fonts embedded onto the websites.
Obviously - it's mostly about external, 3rd party ...
