Questions tagged [photo-editing]
Questions about the process of manipulating a photo to achieve a desired result. Ask anything about photo editing techniques such as cropping, colour adjustments, applying filters, enhancing, airbrushing, and anything else design related.
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Q: Gimp vs Photoshop
I have been using Photoshop since the beginning of time. Other than the infamous Paintshop Pro, it is the only image editor I have used.
I am about to embark on an adventure of trying out GIMP as a ...
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How to cut a large photo into a grid of smaller photos automatically in Photoshop?
Is there a way, maybe a script, that would help me cut an image into say 50 images?
I have a massive panorama I would like to print on normal stock photo paper and I am using Photoshop.
The output ...
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Best way to flatten a curled photographed book photograph?
I have photographed some pages of a book for reading. This is much faster than scanning and you don't have to carry the heavy books. However, the photographed books are not as nice: curved, skewed, ...
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Generate close-up photo of laptop screen (with pixels)
Given a standard screenshot, would you know how to transform it into a close-up photo of laptop screen effect, in which you can see the pixels.
Example:
or even better, a more 3D image like this one.
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How can I remove the unwanted background from a scanned handwritten signature?
I need to upload my signature in a PDF document, but I do not know how to edit the background of this image.
I wish to remove the bluish-tint background, and make it pure white.
Can anyone help me ...
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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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How can I remove SUN light/shadow with Photoshop?
There is this image.
As you can see, top half is brightened by suns light, other half has shadow cast on it.
I would like to make both parts same so it looks like there is no shadow.
Is there any way ...
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Techniques for cutting out hair accurately
I use the Pen Tool for 90% of the situations where I need to cut someone or something from a photo but sometimes it gets tricky, especially when it comes to hair.
Let's take the following image for ...
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How to colorize an image as in the example?
I have seen such an effect being used in many places however I haven't figured out how to replicate it via Photoshop.
I have tried desaturating the image, placing it under a layer of solid colour and ...
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In GIMP, how can I identify and match the saturation of an image
I have various album covers which are low resolution, but the colours come out really pretty.
I have higher resolution images of the same covers, but the colours are very different, much duller and ...
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How to turn a shiny metallic surface into a matte surface?
How do I turn a glossy/shiny surface into a non-shiny or matte surface in Adobe Photoshop?
I have here two images. The first is the image I would like to manipulate. The second image is the look I'm ...
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What changes might be considered offensive when altering a person's profile image?
I've been editing profile images for a webpage displaying the employees of a company.
The images were not professionally taken, and because of that features like wrinkles and body posture are ...
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How to change the color of an uneven surface to white in Photoshop?
I want to change the color of the surface of a sofa like this
to white without losing the uneven surface and wrinkles. How should I do that using Photoshop?
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Adobe Creative Suite alternative
The programs that I am mainly interested in is Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator (create vector art), Adobe Flash (for animation), Adobe Premiere Pro (edit video), Adobe After Effects (VFX/motion ...
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How to edit a ring-shaped image into a straight line?
I am looking for a way to make the image below straight - like in the line. To make it clear - it would be a tattoo template, which will be placed around my upper arm.
Is there any solution of this, ...
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How to fit a vertical headshot into a horizontal frame
I am frequently asked to make vertical headshots fit into a horizontal size, to display on my company's website. I'm often given low-quality images with sharp cuts to the person's shoulders or ...
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How is this red/blue effect created?
How do I achieve this effect in colours. I've seen similar effect on Halsey cover art as well. Proficient in CC so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard, just thought I'd ask here first.
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How do I convert an RGB black and white photograph to just CMYK black
I have a JPG that is part color and part black and white. How do I convert the black and white part to just black on CMYK? Right now the black and white section is made of all the colors. I tried ...
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How to create an artistically posterized monotone portrait?
Can anyone please tell me what this greyscale vector style is called and how can I achieve it?
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I was informed I should put my image in Photoshop and adjust the levels and run the cutout ...
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What is this style, a grid of varying dots, called?
What is this style called? I want to recreate this effect on a photo myself. Also, does anyone have tips on how to accomplish this?
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What would be a less distracting background for white?
I was told that the photo on the left is too bright and the white shirt on white background blending in.
When I tried to use some kind of neutral color (like grey) as a background I was told that 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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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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How can I remove background from an image of a transparent object?
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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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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How can I modify an image to have colors that flow into each other and what is this effect called?
I have been trying to find the name of this effect in this image
Specifically, how the image has been converted to white and a spectrum of colors that flow into each other. I would like to know how ...
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How to reduce enormous GIMP (XCF) file size for simple photo correction
Thank you in advance for your help. I am a fairly new GIMP user with no Photoshop experience, so bear with me.
A batch of 600 images was ruined by something inside the camera that caused a smudge to ...
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How to simulate long exposure light trails?
How can I apply long exposure lighting effects to a road (ideally using Photoshop or Illustrator)? See the image below for an example.
How can this be achieved?
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How can I determine which drawing tablet is right for me?
I do some caricature, cartoons and illustrations, as hobby. I believe that I am okay'ish with pen and paper, but recently decided to go digital.
Given my budget, and a quick assessment of needs and ...
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How do I fix this photo (poor quality, saturation, color) in GIMP?
I have a photo with poor quality and lighting that needs to go in a print newsletter. There is some lighting issues, and a blue-ish color in part of the image. I'd like to fix the image using GIMP.
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How to convert any fabric to look like leather / latex?
I am new to photoshop and I need a little help.
How can I change the material of any dress to look like leather/latex?
Ref pic:
I tried using Filter > Filter Gallery > Artistic > Plastic Wrap ...
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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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How to remove scratches from shiny object
I have a simple cropped picture of a cornet (my gravatar, actually). However, it is many tiny scratches that it has accumulated over the years (it's 50+ years old). Anyway, because the photo was taken ...
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Chroma keying in Photoshop- problems with reflection
I took a few head shots for a friend recently. We were going to do it outside around or downtown area, but due to inclement weather had to use a green screen last minute. It was evenly lit, but ...
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How can I color grade like Liam Wong's Tokyo Night series?
I found this image that has a similar color grading to Liam Wong's Tokyo Nights series though it isn't actually his, and I'm curious as to how the effect may have been achieved.
It's obvious 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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Gimp Jagged Borders
I'm trying to create a bordered, transparent circle.
I created a circle with the ellipsis tool, then Select->Border, then Edit->Fill with FG Color. The result is a terribly jagged border.
I tried ...
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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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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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What is the name of hobby grade equipment to create photos where the background can be easily removed?
I know that in movies they use green screens or similar to be able to edit out the background from shots. But what is the name of a piece of equipment or setup I need in order to take a picture of say ...
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Why does my line drawing look so sad
I'm trying to create a line drawing of my friend Steve, I was Steve's best man at the wedding where the photo was taken. I like the shot because the smile it subtle but definitely there.
I've been ...
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How can I edit a scanned business card?
My client gave me a business card to create an advertisement. I scanned it, now I want to add clipart and edit text. How do I activate the document and make changes? I am using GIMP and Inkscape.
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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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Modify pixel art size without losing aesthetic
I have this platform of pixel art:
I want to modify its size to make it bigger, and I want to conserve the pixel-art aesthetic, like this:
But when I press Start to set the size, the piece turns ...
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How to edit pictures that have turned out to be too dark on print?
After a print review, all my pictures turned out to be too dark and dull. How should such a picture be edited, say on a picture editing software like Lightroom?
These are images that have been ...
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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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Qualities of a full-page website background image
We are trying to create a web page with a full-size background. The following pages are our inspiration:
http://www.august.com.au/
http://www.levehytter.no/
http://danielfiller.com/
We have created ...
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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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Convert anti-aliasing on color to anti-alias on transparent
Assume I have an icon on a pure white background in a PNG image. The icon is a solid color, with edges anti-aliased, so they are blended with white. I need to delete the white background so that the ...
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Applying a gradient to bloat/blur effects in Photoshop
I am trying to recreate the effect demonstrated on the logo for the Tate galleries in the UK with Photoshop.
Here are some of the logo variants:
Using quick masking I can emulate the gradient ...