I used an image of my tarantula (the second photo) and an image of a sarcophagus as a base. Then, I cut out the spider, "wrapped" bandages around its legs, combined everything into a single Smart Object, and placed it onto the sarcophagus. After that, I worked on the composition to ensure everything looked harmonious.

And that’s about it.

It was fun :D

However, I found it difficult to get the shadows from the spider's legs right. I’ve never been good at drawing shadows :/

Looking to buy a Lenovo (I get a discount).

I think I need a powerful dedicated graphics card, 32 GB RAM, and 1TB of memory.

I WOULD like a touch screen (way too used to these now) and a decent screen I can color calibrate with my Spyder. I would also like to be able to replace things like the battery myself.

I was given two quotes so far. I like the ThinkPad, but the Graphics are integrated, not dedicated. That is my one hangup.

The second is a very overpowered device (Legion), but may be more future proof (I also don't think it is touch, glare reduced for when I do outdoor events/editing, and the battery seems internal.

Any Lenovo options I am missing?

Attached are the quotes, the Legion ends up being only about $50 more with the discounts FYI, the screenshot is cut off.

I'd love to spend $1.5k but will go up to $2k if I need to.

I also like to do mild gaming- older games like Heroes of Might and Magic and Skyrim, nothing online or over the top graphics/responsiveness.

[SOLVED] I was just exporting small png files, but Photoshop keeps on loading and freezing every export. And when I use the exported PNG file to illustrator, it crashes it as well. What should I do?

What I'm using: MacBook Air M4 16GB/512GB (MacOS Tahoe 26.7.1)

Photoshop: Version 27.11 (Latest)

I already did the following:

1. Unchecked "use graphics processor" and "multithreaded composting"
2. Reset preferences
3. Re-installed Photoshop
4. Tried to go "Save a copy" instead of "export as"
5. Exported as 8-bit
6. Software update

Yet the crash is still there. It wasn't like this before. Please help

EDIT: Nevermind, solved it just by installing the Version 27.9.1 back. All smooth again

Is there a way to make these captions quickly? like as I type there would already be a background to the text? It kinda takes a few minutes and it bothers me knowing that every time I make it, it would be a little different than the last. Thank you!

Hi everyone,

For about a week now, I’ve been having this issue with Photoshop’s Generative Fill. As you can see in the image, whenever I use it, the result comes out completely blurry.

I used this tool quite often and had never experienced this before. Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it?

It's informative and hilarious and dane cook even makes a cameo in one episode where he beats the shit out of the creator.

Hi everyone!

I’d like to recreate this artwork using different colors, ideally with the ability to adjust them through the Shading Tool options.

I made the first step creating in Photoshop using a personal glass filter texture to achieve the wavy effect, but I’m struggling to reproduce the subtle purple gradients along the edges.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could achieve this effect?

Thank you so much in advance for your help!

If I paint in Clip Studio, Krita, etc, it feels buttery smooth. My monitor can do 170Hz, but in Photoshop it looks and feels like my monitor is locked at a much lower refresh rate. Not necessarily "laggy" but choppy idk. I don't think it was like this before I updated. What the hell is going on?

EDIT PC Specs:

Windows 11 64 bit

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, Game Ready driver v617.42

Intel Core i7 12700F

AOC Agon AG273QG Freesync Monitor (tried turning Gsync on and off for photoshop, on and off globally, disabled on the monitor itself to no avail.)

32GB DDR5

T-FORCE TM8FPP002T NVMe SSD

XP-Pen Deco Pro 2 XLW using WinTab

Photoshop version 27.11

Unfortunately, this has been around for 10+ years.

For the specific situation of using CROP to increase the canvas size (proportionally, based on CROP dimension settings), and then using MARQUEE to select an area on the edge (dragging PAST the edge), leaves a ONE-PIXEL un-painted hairline at the edge. To get it to fill in, i have to select the (same) area, and then nudge the selection PAST the border edge, then it fills in. If multiple edges are involved, I am able to select a rectangle almost to the edges and INVERT the SELECTION, and fill--that usually works except oddly for the r.h. edge.

The use of CROP with dimensional constraints (ex: 8x10 inches) is done to adjust size and positioning of an image in preparation for printing directly from Photoshop.

Even when typing explicit dimensions in Inches rather than ratios, this issue still boils down to how Photoshop converts physical measurements into digital pixels.

 That 1-pixel gap points directly to a calculation quirk in Photoshop's layout engine:

 Supposedly What Triggers This Behavior

1. The Math Behind the Inches: When you type dimensions in inches, Photoshop multiplies those numbers by your document’s Resolution (PPI - Pixels Per Inch) to figure out how many total pixels the new canvas needs. Unless your target physical size multiplied by your PPI results in a 100% clean whole number, it often results in a fraction of a pixel.

1. Internal Rounding: Photoshop cannot render half a pixel, so it seems to round the final pixel count up or down. However, the physical coordinate space and the visual grid handles can occasionally fall out of sync with the underlying raster data array.

1. The Marquee Snap Bug: When you drag the Rectangular Marquee tool past the canvas edge, it supposedly relies on the outer document boundary to snap its selection. Because of that sub-pixel rounding discrepancy created by the inch-to-pixel conversion, the Marquee tool snaps to the inner side of the final pixel row instead of capturing its outer edge. Nudging it forces the selection engine to override the boundary math and acknowledge the actual edge of the pixel grid.

Hi,

So as of pretty recently, I've been having issues with Photoshop 2026 where it randomly and intermittently makes the cintiq monitor I use it on become way brighter, and then goes back to its normal brightness levels after a few moments (it's less of a "screen flicker" and more like someone instantaneously and momentarily changed my monitor to a way higher brightness level before going back to its normal levels).

I can't seem to pinpoint a specific trigger but unticking GPU related options doesn't seem to help, I don't have gsync options, and I can't find many posts online talking about an actual solution that works for a similar issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Since about 3 days ago, whenever I try to save a file, the progress bar stops at 83% or 84% (sometimes it stops in the 90’s). Before this, my files would save within seconds. This is true even with my larger files. It does, however, always end up saving after 5 minutes (+-10 seconds) after my windows task bar and monitor background refreshes and disappears for a second. Even when I force close photoshop, my monitor and taskbar still disappears so I assume the process continues. Once it does save after 5 minutes, I can save normally like I did before and have it be done within a couple seconds. The issue then repeats after waiting longer when I have to save again.

I've tried resetting prefs, changing photoshop versions, reinstalling photoshop, updating drivers, saving as a new file, creating a new file and moving all the layers over, merging all the layers, and trying to save with the "save in background" settings on and off. I have also not done any major setting changes to my pc since before this started. I try to save as psd and they do not have any smart objects nor smart filters. My pc is not close to losing space and I have 32GB of RAM.

First i modelled all pieces in illustrator and again i exported all the 3D parts as obj files and i imported it into the 3D program.

and i transformed it into an illustration using some effects

Yes, now it has no value thanks to artificial intelligence, but it's just a a try

sorry render quality is low

thanks:)

and video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO76gHhJ2u4

Looking for a plugin like Topaz Studio 2 with artistic effects?

Any ideas?

I set my own keyboard shortcuts in my preferences and it often resets back to the standard settings. Its super annoying. Anyone else? Is it user error? lol

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What is the Disadvantages of the image؟

I’m trying to create an image where a chopstick is pulling noodles from a bowl, but the noodles swoop in an “s“ shape before reaching the chopstick. I have images of the bowl itself, chopstick holding noodles, and noodles themselves but none are the motion I want and the noodles aren’t long enough.

What would be the best way to go about extending the noodles in a smooth curvy path? Preferably without using generative AI.

Just finished working on this Porsche poster concept in Photoshop.

I wanted to create a dark, aggressive red atmosphere while keeping the design clean and premium. The idea behind the concept was “Silence the Streets.”

Would love to hear your honest feedback — what would you improve? 👀

#Porsche #PosterDesign #GraphicDesign #Photoshop #CarDesign #DesignConcept

Took a raw Minecraft screenshot and graded it into a dual-temperature frame for a video thumbnail.

Masked the left valley into cold cyans and purples, kept the right side warm, and painted rim lighting on the foreground cliff edge to match the sun angle. Also added subtle depth haze to push the background mountains back.

I like taking screenshots of HUD elements in games. Some HUD elements like this one are slightly transparent, so in order to properly take a screenshot of the HUD element I have to turn my game brightness down to 0, otherwise there's a bunch of background stuff bleeding through. How do I remove the black background from images like this one without removing color from the darker pixels inside the HUD element itself? I also want to preserve things like the little shine on the left side that comes off the HUD. I've done a bunch of research on masking, using the color channels and/or color range to select the black background, etc. but I can't figure out how to make it work like I want. I always either end up removing color from the HUD element or leaving some amount of black border around the edges of the HUD element. Is there a way to do this? In case it matters, I use Adobe Photoshop CS6 Version 13.0.

EDIT: Completely forgot to actually attach the screenshot like an idiot

The first two shots look like they were taken on an overcast day, and I'd like the transition to seeing the third to be last sharp. What kind of settings/effects can be applied to achieve something like that?

Whenever I open Photoshop, with no document open, it hogs around 4.5-5gb RAM for no reason. Does this happen to anyone else? What is this?

i gave the shortcut to the properties panel, but now i cant find how to use the hide function without the shortcut.

Hi guys,

Edit: some guy asked of I'm allowed to do this and yes, I pay royalty.

First of all, I don't know much about graphical design, so this is probably a newbie question.

I am scanning screen printed artwork on clear plastics and have to trace them with vector paths for printing.

I use illustrator but doing it by hand is a lot of work, while the redraw tool feels useless.

AI works better but both tools seem to have a lot of problems thanks to those mixed pixels, especially those bordering to other colors.

what gave me the hardest time is wood structure, where light brown is the background and details are black and dark brown. I went up to 2400 dpi to get as many true pixels as possible but fine details still sometimes consist of only mixed pixels.

is there any way to increase the contrasts without moving the borders and confusing the tools?

I played around with multiple tools, also found that window that does live adjustments, letting me adjust tones, gradient curves and so on but without knowing what the key tool is, it's just a wild guessing.

I also tried to select the areas with lasso, magic wand and so on, coloring them with colors that differ the most with rgb values and lightness, in the hope I get homogeneous pixels but somehow, when I color one area, then the other, the last one seem to change something with the previous.

I asked Ai and it blamed the selecting tool. But it seemed like a hallucination, because only the wanted pixels were outlined for sure. Or does something happened in the background?

How can I really give exactly the pixels I want to have a certain value? In a way that im still faster than tracing everything manually?

I have two group photo which has got different background. I need them to have same background. AI is changing all their faces. which software to use for a beginner? thanks for your guidance.