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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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How to fix photo perspective and crop to a perfect rectangle?

I have a picture of a document. The camera was not perfectly perpendicular to the document. The top is shorter than the bottom. How do I create a free form selection around the document in GIMP, and ...
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How would you have this kind of design in photoshop with stamp?

**I have collected certain stamps from google I tried it once but i couldn't get it. Help me out........... **
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Help recreating stencil effect

I'm trying to replicate an effect I've seen before; how can I get an image like this to look like this? I've tried starting by making a stencil using thresholds but I feel like I'm always losing too ...
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Painted Edges With with transparent background

I'm using Photoshop CS6 and I wanted to turn a photo I had to look like it had a painted edges effect. I've been following the below tutorial and using a painted edges overlay over my picture, but I ...
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How to make circled enlarge of part of a photo (5Head emote effect) in GIMP

Is that possible to make 5Head of someone's head in GIMP? 5Head is a picture of a guy's head with circled enlarged forehead. I've tried to mark the forehead and do anything with basic tools, but I've ...
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Is there a certain type of image name for this design?

Want to know if its more photography than photoshop editing. Basically what I'm trying to say is if I can take a picture and replicate this design in photoshop.
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How to make a selection that includes multiple layers with a free form selection

I'm really new to photoshop, so please excuse any ignorance. I have watched numerous tutorials to try and figure this out. I have a blueprint for a patio I am designing. I put the pavers on it and am ...
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How to save in photoshop image with layer style?

Hello everyone, I have an issue I can solve and I tried many thing but never succeeded, so, in the first picture I have a smart object (based on vector file) when I copy it to photoshop it comes with ...
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How do I get this vector field effect on an image?

I recently came across an image in which there was a photo of horses running and (what appears to be) a vector field: it looks like they may have taken a screenshot of an edit mode in whatever ...
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Patterning face with a straight line brick-like pattern

I would like to apply a texture of a brick wall to a face. Goal is to turn a face into a statue made out of bricks. Ideally, I would like to make a method to turn this into a series of photographs. ...
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Check EXIF orientation

When you create a photo with your camera, the image stores the camera orientation. (https://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/exif-orientation.html) I'm trying to find an app that will show these flags....
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Batch resize vertical photos to a square without cropping using a blurred background [duplicate]

I have about 3000 vertical images that I need resized to 600x600 pixels each. I've compressed a few using Photoshop where I have duplicated the image and then Gaussian blurred it to cover the ...
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Is this considered actual Graphic Design or part of photography? [closed]

Kindly have a look at this. I'm not sharing the link of Instagram page because it might violate policies. I've designed all of them. Most of them (where box, pills and sachets are present) are photo ...
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How can you define the closest actual plane using Vanishing Point?

In this photo, there's only one corner visible. That's why it is becoming difficult for me to define the floor plane (the plane on which objects like glass are placed). I want to put a Sachet over ...
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GIMP - How to get selection info?

How would I get pixels information based on a selection using GIMP (or any other software)? For example, just like in PS I want to select a specific region of the image and have information about its ...
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Remove reflection on glass but keep background intact

I took a photo of my grandfathers medal cabinet. I want to get rid of the reflection and make the medals below it visible, just like the other medals. I found this article but either I'm doing it ...
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Blur face without changing luminance

I'm a cognitive neuroscience researcher designing a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment based on the Flashed Face Distortion Effect (https://vimeo.com/27138942). The goal of the ...
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Is it possible to add a gif to a still image?

I really want to add a gif to a still image but I have no idea if it's possible. Thanks for anyone's help ♥
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Question about photoshop effect

how do I get the effects shown in this image, does it have something to do with dodge and burn?
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Why doesn't opacity value work for Gradient Map in photoshop?

I've noticed it many times. When you apply a gradient map in Photoshop to any image or layer, the opacity doesn't work for any points (highlighted in yellow). Basically, I want one color to be 100% ...
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How to indentify original color in a white background picture

I have a picture of which contains a letter. The letter had a certain opacity when layered onto the image. I look to find the original rgb and even opacity of the text that was written upon a white ...
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How to convert a cylindrical pattern into a plane?

I have a single photo of a cylindrical object from an unfortunate point of view with an image printed on its side. Are there any utils or plugins to unwrap the texture of the cylinder in the photo ...
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How to change the color of a surrounding environment as if it were night?

I want to change the color of the surrounding environment like we are at night
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how to revert transform box

I have a photo in photoshop I rotated it and I want the transform border to be straight and not rotated ( straight after rotation ) how can I do that? Thank everyone
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How do I learn a certain type (link given) of digital art?

So I have this friend on Instagram who posts digital art (her Instagram is maegandawnsyiem, it's the first link that you see on Google), and I am so in love and fascinated by it. I really want to ...
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How do you find right plane/perspective to place a product on a photo?

Someone on GD.SE commented that I don't know how light and perspective works. Moreover, the product I placed here near plant is in wrong plane. How do I know if it's right or wrong plane and ...
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Do shadows of an object have a color?

In the following image, I placed the box manually. Created the shadow and reflection. Now, what seems a little odd is the colors of the shadows of the box and plant pot are different. Plant pot's ...
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Is it drawn? Can I achieve something similar to this by editing image in Photoshop?

I think this somehow may be achieved using threshold, but I'm not sure
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How to do this black/white background

I wanna know how to do this black background with little white details behind 'mata'
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How should I approach wrapping objects in composite shapes in Photoshop?

I'm a mixtape designer, who took a long break to learn and get better. This is one of the last things that i cannot seem to find a decent tutorial for at all. In this image, i imagine the designer who ...
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Flickering Disaster in some photos with A7III

I made a disaster with Sony A7iii silent shoot, I have a huge flicker in some photos. Is there any way to fix it a little at least? Thank you so much!!!
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How to automate four-up photo creation

I've got a large number (about 300) of 4x6 photos that I want to reformat by making each into a 2x3 photo, and making one 4x6 composite image from 4 of these. (I want to make them smaller because ...
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How to achieve this effect for pictures in Photoshop?

I tried Torn edges, but my results are noticeably different from these pictures
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How to create the typical "MAN RAY" effect?

I've always been a huge fan of Man Ray (the artist/photographer). Fascinated by his negatives on gelatin silver print, I was wondering how I could recreate his signature effect with my own portrait ...
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Airbrush Illustrator Effect

I am trying to figure out slowly how the following artwork is produced. Would you guys have any clue? It looks like the base work is a photograph, but has a lot of similarities with these faded, ...
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Remove small cracks on a black and white photo in Photoshop

I have a photo that is not of very high quality and and these kinds of small cracks all over its surface. Is there a way to reduce this effect?
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How to remove background from Complex in Photoshop

I have tried to remove the background from the image below but it just disfigures the image. I have used adjustments->Replace color, Hue and saturation layer, magnetic lasso and manually erasing ...
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Is this effect (leaf hair and mustache) as easy to obtain as im thinking?

So, in my estimation, it looks like, you would just take the image you wanted to mask as the hair, and then just place it along the hairline? I guess the issue i have is making it look organic, like ...
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What would be the workflow for performing the same steps for multiple images in photoshop?

I am expecting a job where I have to perform the same steps for many similar images, i.e. removing the background form the subject (sushi items), crop the image to the size of the subject, then resize ...
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Restore transparency to a part of an image

I have this image: Downloadable here. I need to isolate the libellula and "restore" the transparency of its wings, the areas highlighted here: I haven't problems to isolate it but how can I restore ...
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How to remove this Rays

I am new to Photoshop. I want to remove the rays in the upper left part of the photo. I am stuck in this part of editing... The Photo:
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Which techniques do you use to find the right brightness setting for a photo for web?

I'm taking photographs of paintings on a white wall, and I am post-producing them for use on a website. Very often I'm asking myself "Is this the right brightness? Too dark? Too light?". I know that ...
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Outer glow turns gray scale on artboards with transparent background

As long there are no artboards in my PSD the outer glow works fine. But as soon as there are any, outer glow turns to grayscale over the transparent background of artboards. These are my outer glow ...
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how to create a UV mapping (?) of a texture onto a product photograph based on a calibration pattern

UPDATE: Here you can download high quality images of calibration patterns as well as them printed on socks if anyone wants to give this a go Pardon my lack of vocabulary, this is not my area of ...
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aliasing a scanned text (removing blurry or non black pixels)

I have a scanned text like this: And I want something like this: Do you have any idea how can I achieve that? Thanks in advance!
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How to straighten the sides of a photograph of a frame?

How can I straighten the sides of a photograph of a frame. I use an old verion of Paint shop pro 5.0. My camera distorts the straight sides of a photo and causes them to curve. See my photo:
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Photoshop How to achieve "Fight Club" style photo editing?

Here is a style that is close to what I want to go for (just don't want the paint/sketch effect): Question It comes down to two interrelated things I don't understand. How to create the teal/blue ...
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How can I change this picture to orange color in photoshop?

I have following image in blue color, which I need to change to orange keeping the that style also. I tried https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RBAeCtFOBo, but it gives very dull orange color ( versions ...
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How do I create a fuzzy fade-out-to-transparent blur effect on the background of an image in PhotoShop

So I have an image like this: I created a layer mask, and painted with a large feathery brush on the mask to remove the background as best as I could, and then ran it through a plugin, result in this:...
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How to display better a product on a outdoor photo, without making it look childish and unrealistic?

For my next campaign, I have to use a half back and white, half colored photo of any Indian monument (Represents our Independence Day). I also have to show 2 products --- they are EKG / ECG Machines -...
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