Questions tagged [images]
Questions that include methods for creating, editing, manipulating and enhancing images. Ask anything related to the design of images.
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How to maintain a high resolution image when uploading to social media?
Do I just 2x the size of the file while maintaining it's ratio? Like lets say I want to upload a high res image to instagram? What do I have to do to maintain a very high res image?
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Raster image opens in smaller dimensions in Adobe Illustrator
so I have this image that is 612x408px (300dpi?):
I create a new file in AI at 612x408px (72ppi) and when I import the image, the image imports in lower dimensions:
When I scale the image up to the ...
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What's the best way to remove a white background when the Magic Wand tool doesn't cut it?
I'm having trouble removing a white background with complex images like these ones. When I use the Magic Wand tool on them I just end up cutting way too much stuff away or not enough and leaving white ...
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Why can't I resize my image bigger than my canvas in photoshop using javascript?
my code
// get a reference to the current (active) document and store it in a variable named "doc"
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var layer = doc.activeLayer;
layer.translate(new UnitValue(...
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Exported photoshop image is 'darker/ stronger' when viewed on mobile
I noticed that the colors of the exported image from photoshop, when viewed from mobile, is 'stronger' or 'darker' but are retained when viewed on a computer/ laptop.
I'm unable to send a screenshot ...
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How to create linear falloff for line I drew?
I want draw alphas manually at 2D software. I need linear blur falloff for my lines I drew. How can I achieve this?
P.S. - i need create alphas for 3D software
I tried do my stuff in photoshop using ...
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A Problem with cropping an image in Photoshop CS2
Please can someone assist me with a very frustrating problem I've just encountered using my trusted old version of Photoshop CS2.
Up to now everything has worked fine (about 10 years) and I've edited ...
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color correcting scans
I got an Epson ff-680w but can't find any way to color correct the scans using a calibrated profile. My understanding is that this is the main thing to look out for when trying to scan in archive ...
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Do these colors fit in the logo?
In this logo that I am making, I would like you to tell me if it looks professional, or if it needs to be improved.
As you can see, it has a deep blue color around the face, and a red almost orange ...
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Have a large photo, approx 27“ x 56” @ 72 dpi that needs to be submitted at a max size of 5 x 7, also 72 dpi
When I change the settings in Mac Preview Ap with the Resample Image option unchecked, the result is a highly pixelated pic.
(Pic was taken on an iPhone.)
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Displaying older images on web for Retina/high pixel density screens?
I appreciate this topic may be old news to many of you, but after years of putting it off I recently got a new Mac and find myself out of the loop on a number of changes. Looking at my old website on ...
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Indesign: apply stroke to image contents, not image box
I have an image with a transparent background, which I'd like to apply a stroke to. The issue is, any time I apply a stroke to the image it applies to the image box and not the image shape itself.
Can ...
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Easy Image Hosting
Sorry for the most basic question. I'm looking at the code for my first website right now.
I'm just creating a portfolio page for my Illustration works, as an excuse to learn.
I want someone else to ...
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Hello! Does anyone know how to add this effect to photos?
As you can see above, the image part-way through fades away naturally into the background. Would anyone know how to replicate this effect with a full image? Thank you guys so much in advance!
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What are these type of images called? [duplicate]
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about graphic desiging.
Hi all,
I was going through some web designs on dribbble.com. Most of them had a peculiar type of images in their hero area :
https://...
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How to pixelate like this
How do I create natural (for lack of a better word) pixelation like this from a high resolution image? (image needs to be downloaded to see what i mean) For example, can I downsize it, allow the small ...
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How do I convert a series of PNGs to an OBJ or other 3D format?
I have a couple thousand (~13,000) images (named frame0.png, frame1.png, etc.) that I need to convert to a 3D format.
The X and Y of the images will stay on the X and Y of the 3D object file, but the ...
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How to flip only some parts of an image
I have several images with text on them. I would like to "ONLY" flip the texts in the images. Here is an example:
I want to keep the image intact except the texts where I need to flip them ...
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Indexed image color palette
I have an bpm 8-bit indexed image. I've extracted color palette from it in Photoshop but to my surprise it turned out that the palette includes much more colors than i can see used in the image. Is it ...
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New Windows 10. Lost Printhouse/photohouse & Photoshop. Need inexpensive substitute
I'm a 92 year old artist. Needs are simple: Scan images, select resolution, resize in inches, rotation, lighten/darken, contrast, sharp/unsharp, labels, bus cards, sheets with text bios with pics, ...
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can i use pixabay images to psd make mockups and sell them on freepik
Can I Use Pixabay Images As Background To Make psd Mockups And Sell Them on Freepik
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Convert website images for dark mode
I just converted my website to dark mode so it chooses the user system settings. However, most of my images and videos look horrible (too white). Are there any tools to automatically convert images ...
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Calculate pixels to cm with dpi
Can someone please tell me the formula used on this online cm to pixel calculator? https://photoresizer.net/pixel-calculator
I have images that I can easily get the dpi, bit-depth, pixel height and ...
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The exported image does not match the preview I see whilst editing
I basically exported an image after editing and found that it does not match the one I see while editing.
This is the image while editing:
This is the preview in the export window:
And the exported ...
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Software for optimising images for web… does it have to be Photoshop?
I'm in the middle of designing the portfolio section of my website. I'd much rather use Sketch and have each piece of work as a separate artboard.
I could of course use Photoshop but I prefer to keep ...
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how to enhance images captured from an old film recorder
I have 4 frames from an historical source showing an animation of a statistical algorithm (multidimensional scaling), ca. 1962. They were captured by a film recorder connected to a CRT display. A ...
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Problem converting SVG to PDF
I'm converting SVGs to PDFs (using a svg to pdf library) to use the PDFs in iOS development, but I'm seeing some strange behavior in iOS when I view the images — certain groups / layers seems to be ...
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Watermark suggestions for portfolio work
I’m open to either mobile or desktop applications, I’d like to start water marking my work and making illustrated marketing photos for advertisements.
I've tried a bunch of free apps but I’d like one ...
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using Sketch + JPEGmini pro for website images
I'm preparing images for website development. I'm working with images on Sketch, so exporting them (actual photos) as JPG with JPG quality at 70%. I'm then using JPEGmini Pro to reduce image size, but ...
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How would you create this “dissolved overlay” effect so that the text is one with image and vice versa?
I tried googling this one out, but no luck.
I can't wrap my head around this effect. It must be combination of liquify, noise, dissolve mixing, texture mapping maybe? Any help would be appreciated.
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How to create a PNG that looks different depending on if the background is black or white
So, I know that this question has already been answered before, however, the steps to actually create the image (the black cat/white cat image) were pretty unclear and it might also be somewhat ...
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Site Maps with data driven colour changing shapes
We create site maps for our clients which show where we have created station points (see example below)
I want to be able to dynamically change the colour of these station points (blue coloured ...
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GIMP - Image wont move at all
Tried every, Merge Down, move it, different image, uninstalling. Dont know what else to do.
Heres a little vid.
https://streamable.com/er09oz
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Help me Describe Why this Happens to my Client
I am having issues with my colleague opening my designs and telling me they are appearing too big or too small. This banner I actually created in Canva because I will have to create it for every brand ...
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Using a projector to white wash a brick wall [closed]
I would like to generate a custom picture that, when projected on a brick wall, would produce compensate for the bricks and mortar; to produce a visually uniform background (say white) to project yet ...
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How can I get crisper screen shots?
I'm not sure this is the optimal forum for my question, but I made my best guess. Please advise me if a different forum would be more suitable.
As you probably already deduced, I want to know how I ...
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Is there a way or software for non-designers to customize PDF design?
In the organization I work with - we often have PDFs we use for Sales that I have to customize to the client we sell to. This happens often with the same PDFs.
The salesmen want the flagship document ...
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Copy/Paste image with transparent alpha layer into illustrator
I often go to Google Images, search for something interesting and do right-click/copy-image then in illustrator I paste it. Unfortunately when the image has a transparent background, this background ...
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Photo has bright and darker on an aerial photo question
I am not very familiar how to manipulate with the photo i have has a bright and a darker in the same photos. I do not know if this is a common or not .
I got this from a contractor that scanned many ...
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Unorthodox question, but I need help knowing where these images came from
So I had some work done for me and I got a bunch of small simple images in the doc but I don't know where I can find similarly styled images for the future.
Here's a few of them:
Does anyone ...
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How to create multiple images from one .psd when exporting?
I am a newbie with PSD so please bear with me.
Someone created a .psd for an app I am working on. This .psd contains the screenshots for the Google Play Store. It is a single file with the different ...
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Recomendations of Word-to-PDF with high quality and keeping hyperlinks?
I want to save a Word (2016) as a PDF but keeping the native high quality of images and text hyperlinks. Currently I am able to do only one of those at once: I can retain hyperlinks if I use the ...
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Photoshop CC2019 auto-update all linked smart objects including nested ones
I have Photoshop CC2019 PSD document containing several smart objects that contains other smart objects that contains other smart objects. Some of these have linked layers. Normally, such images are ...
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Tricks to make a small image to take up a large space on a webpage
I need to create profile webpages for many people (100++ pages) and most of their profile photos (about 400x400) are small in dimension. But I have a large image space (1280x720) that I need to fill ...
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Any tool or tricks to convert the image colors into the colors of another image?
For example you have these two images
Your image that you want to change its colors:
And the image where you want to based your image colors:
The output image should be the first but all its pixel ...
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How to make parts of shapes in an area a different colour
I am trying to make the lines in this image of a lighter tone when they are in the box, similar to:
For example, on the green arrow at top left, before the arrowhead the shaft has a slightly darker ...
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GIMP: Procedure for universally enhancing photographs of any type of landscape?
Are there any image retouching that can be done with GIMP to improve the picture of any landscape (snowy, sunny, ...)?
If there are photographers and graphic designers among you, I would like you to ...
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Seeing what Threshold value a layer was previously set to
Hi I am trying to play around with a multilayer stencil I previously generated. In order to do so I would like to see what threshold value each layer was originally set to. Is there a way to go back ...
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Linkedin image grid
I recently noticed a new trend on Linkedin whereby a set of five images is uploaded to image gallery and they together form an image. Those images have two in the first row and three in the next.
like ...
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How to properly brighten a very dark image
I work at a cabinet shop and I'm a software developer.
My manager and I (Team of 2 Devs) created a program for our sales team to be able to layout and design kitchens, select color and species and ...
