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Overlay a graphic on a photo or image
How would I overlay a graphic (a logo in this case) on a t-shirt and make it look like it's really there, not just superimposed (wrinkles, lines, etc?) I don't have photoshop or any adobe software, ...
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How to get this blur texture effect in photoshop?
I'm trying to get an image to look similar to this photo:
I'd guess they took a picture of the monitor with a regular camera. But I'm more interested to know what effects / filters they used to get ...
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Photoshop: How to save only the masked area of an edited photograph?
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If you have a PSD file that consists of one main mask (masking all other layers), isn't there an easy way to save just the masked area as an image?
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So I have a photograph I've ...
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When shrinking images, does it matter what percentage I use?
I frequently shrink down large images for online photo galleries. What I want to know is, when I tell photoshop, et al, to shrink my image to a certain size/percentage, will it retain better quality ...
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Frosted glass effect/texture/filter/pattern in Adobe Fireworks?
Is there a way to do this with Adobe Fireworks?
I know its possible using Photoshop with this tutorial.
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logo on building
I have a company logo i would like to photoshop on a building for a promotional ad. The problem is that when i put the logo on the building it doesn't look very real, it should look like its painted ...
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How do I remove background from this image?
I am having hard time removing background from this image.
I tried using Magic Eraser and also Background eraser tool. Both of these do not work perfectly.
The reason could be the fact that lower ...
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When saving an image as a PNG or JPEG, does photoshop/GIMP only save the top layers or all the data?
I need to send a file to someone but it has sensitive information on it that I would not like to share. I was going to just scan the document and edit out the sensitive information with a layer ...
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How can I fix the edges of foreground objects pasted onto a new background?
How can I cut out a foreground object, e.g. a person, from one picture and superimpose it onto a new background without making the edges look bad?
The problem I've come across is that if I have for ...
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What should I do when scanning Hand Drawn images?
My friend is an illustrator and has lot of sketches that she wants to digitize to put online and is also working on a children's book.
How should she scan the images and what are some beginner steps ...
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How Can You Remove Grain from Photographs? [closed]
I've took some photographs at a photoshoot last week. The lighting conditions weren't right for the shoot (my fault entirely) and the camera we used was a compact. Unfortunately this means that the ...
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Extract individual layers from a PSD without much effort
I have to daily work with PSDs of iPhone Apps. These PSDs contains App designs like buttons, texts, background images, etc.
I have to extract images of each elements from these PSDs and convert it to ...
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Illustrator CS3 - upscaling placed or embedded raster graphics with interpolated antialiasing on export?
I've designed some popup banners (output dimensions 840mm x 2000mm @ 300dpi) and used vectors throughout with the exception of some stock photography for their backgrounds. I've been Linking all ...
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Can adjusting color (or grayscale) properties of an image affect its visibility in daylight?
I'm trying to find ways to make images more visible under daylight (i.e., when daylight reflects off the image screen/print). For my project, I want to display digital images on an electronic display ...
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How to isolate artwork from games for fan art
Wherever there is a popular game, there is fan art: custom wallpapers, t-shirts, etc.
One thing they usually have in common is that they feature artwork from the game, or something close to it. ...
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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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Face illusion in ads
http://doityourself.edublogs.org/files/2008/10/club-med-illusion-ad.jpg
I'm trying to achieve the same effect, but I can't even get close to what I need. What I basically need is to merge face/body ...
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What do you call the parallax-like effect when panning or zooming still photos, and how is it done?
Many commercials and documentaries use a technique where a still photograph is panned or zoomed, and a parallax-like effect is applied. When zooming, some figures scale differently from others and a ...
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Photoshop a low-res image to make it appear higher-res
I want to enlarge an image to a bigger size. This will cause pixelation. So I want to apply some treatment to it in Photoshop that will suppress some of this pixelation. Of course I cannot generate ...
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Preparing photographs for black and white photocopiers
I am preparing a textbook for use at my school. Eventually, I might hand-draw all of the illustrations, but in the meantime, I will use photographs. Some of these photographs will fill 1/3 of the ...
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Change the color of a part of an image in photoshop
In the below image, the bottle neck 's color is green. How do I change the color of this to make it white using Photoshop?
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Removing people from pictures seemlessly
I'm currently trying to remove a person from a photo that tried to be cool and photobomb, but i'm at a loss as to how it can be done with no loss of photo quality.
My attempts have been to use the ...
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Wacom hobby-grade graphic tablet, vector graphics application, drawing size question
I do some caricature, cartoons and illustrations, as hobby. I believe that I am okay'ish with pen-n-paper, but recently decided to go digital.
Given my budget, and a quick assessment of needs and ...
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How to simulate long exposure light trails using Photoshop?
I just want to know, how to apply lighting effects in roads using Photoshop see the below image
how to achieve this ?
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How to make a picture look like it's torn off?
How do I cut off the boundary of a picture all zig zag like it is in this picture
Or in this one
I have Paint.NET, a free image editing software. How can I do this in Paint.NET?
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Better ways of vectorizing photos than Illustrator's Trace?
Are there any better ways of vectorizing photos than Illustrator's Trace? I don't have one of them Wacom boards so I can't really do this by hand.
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Tools to convert from 16-bit RGB to 24-bit RGB and vice versa
Are there any image editing or research tools, commercial or otherwise which will allow me to:
map colors (images) from 16-bit RGB (565) space to 24-bit RGB (888) space or vice versa
save files in ...
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Low res vertical photos using Photoshop CS5
I´m using .raw files in CS5 and saving them to .jpg and they are all unedited...
The portrait photos are all being compressed and have low res while the landscape ones are fine, why is that? I have ...
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Highlight stray non-background pixels
I am editing an image in GIMP that has a few nearly-transparent (resp. very light) pixels scattered through an otherwise transparent (resp. pure white) background.
Is there a command that will ...
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photo editing effect
what is that effect that makes it look like a camera was rotated 20 degrees or so while taking the shot? it makes it kind of rounded at the edges, like this:
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How do I match image brightness in Photoshop?
Say I have an image that had it's brightness adjusted. I also have a small portion of the original unmodified image like this:
Is there a way in Photoshop CS5 to have the image's brightness ...
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How to a make a cloud from an outline and blend it into a photo of a skyline
I'm trying to take an outline and blend it in as a cloud in a photo I took. I've tried rendering clouds within the black outline and then mushing it around with the Liquify filter (not pictured), but ...
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Scratched/Etched onto wood look
What would be the best way to create an effect of "keying" someones name into a piece of wood in photoshop? I've used a hard 2px brush with a tan color and it looks good. Just not believeable. What do ...
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how to open mutliple pdf pages in photoshop
I am actually trying to save all pages in the pdf as a png image but here i can't open all pages in one time.
i have read here for how to open pdf pages
I have to open one by one and then i am saving ...
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Photoshop blurring peaks (it's hard to describe in text)
I want to know how to blur something in peaks, here's a picture to help describe it:
Segment C is blurred the most then B then A to create an effect like the one on the right but with blur.
I was ...
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Changing the background of the picture to white
I have a passport picture in which the background is light brown. I need to change that background to white. Is there anyway I can do that using Inkscape or any free tools?
Here is the picture:
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How to fill color in this bottle using Photoshop?
I want to fill "ink" (color) into this empty ink bottle using Photoshop?
Please let me know the steps.
Thanks!
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How to fix extra exposure in a part of a photo?
How can we fix this extra exposure at the bottom of the vase in the attached picture
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Photoshop - Eraser tool - how do you edit multiple layers at once?
Is there anyway to use the Eraser tool on more then one layer at once?
my question stems from a project I'm working on where i am cleaning up a scan of an architectural drawing. The Architect has ...
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How to remove/replace color on human skin and hair in Adobe Photoshop?
In Adobe Photoshop is it possible to completely remove color from a subjects skin and hair while maintaining the shadows and highlights, similar to the outcome of the image below - which I imagine was ...
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2D to 3D image effect
Does anyone know of a way to give images a 3D effect, using any Adobe software or other software.
I saw this but it doesn't show how it's done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuoljANz4EA
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Merging two images and highlighting different regions
I have 2 images, one taken with flash on(A) and other with no flash(B). Both images highlight different parts of the view.
How can I add details from both images to create a new rich in detail image?
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bmp alpha channel issues
SlavaSoft Paint Express is an image editor that I try to use for re-shaping one of my Android app's assets. It takes in a .png file, auto-convertit to .bmp (it can't work with PNG format), I do the ...
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Add borders to side of image
I have a square image that I am looking to turn into a landscape sized image by adding solid black borders to the left and right of the image (optionally with a fade to white type gradient). I know ...
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How to get a full background from a photo?
Usually one wants to get rid off the background in a photo. In my case I want to get rid of the 'objects' of the photo and remain with a 'full background'. By full background I mean that I'd like to ...
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GIMP: How to crop a layer?
I have a screenshot where I want only a part of the pasted image, and I want to turn the white that's in it transparent.
First I need to crop the pasted image. I have selected the layer and a ...
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PS Scratch disk obsolete?
I have 16GB of RAM and I do not believe that I can saturate all that RAM. I am only dealing with 16MP+ photographs and I will not be opening 20+ images at a time.
From my understanding scratch disks ...
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Should I remove or add pixels and then scale up?
I would like to make this image to have 4:3 ratio, so it then later can be scaled up so it completely fits a 400mm x 300mm paper when printed.
It can not be cropped any more, so the size is ...
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How to create an art asset that can be dynamically colored in software?
Specifically, I have a bunch of photographic crayon images. I would like to remove the color from one to produce a neutral image that I can load into an iPhone app that I'm writing and dynamically ...
