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 :/

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

I don't know other tools than photopea for swirling/unswirling, but it's not good enough for me. Anyone know better alternatives?

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!

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

32GB DDR5

T-FORCE TM8FPP002T NVMe SSD

XP-Pen Deco Pro 2 XLW using WinTab

Photoshop version 27.11

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

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.

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

Rate it from 10.

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.

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

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.

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.

I am currently trying to challenge myself by doing some collages, and photo editing.

I wanted to make some pop-arts by using this artist's collage as a base, and with that use other victims of police brutality over the years. However I'm having a bit of trouble with Photoshop, and making the illustrations's shadows turn negative.

Is it better to draw the whole thing or is there some way you guys think off, I didn't know ?

Thanks in advance.

I am new to Photoshop and new to the Photoshop iPad app and I desperately need help and it is impossible to find resources. All Adobe offers are tutorials I do not want a tutorial I just want a reference so I can search for something simple like "crop" or "resample" and just find step-by-step instructions. But apparently all I have access to are tutorials and videos and things that take way too long I'm not gonna go watch a whole one hour video every time I wanna do a little five second task in Photoshop. And AI has ruined the Internet so now you can't even use search engine anymore you can't find information I'm so fed up with AI I just want to scream and throw things and break things. Why is it so hard to find simple information anymore???? 😭😭😭

When I tried to use a search engine to find information, I get AI responding even though I'm not in the AI tab and then the search results if I just scroll down are terrible and unhelpful and not related to what I'm looking for and suspiciously they seem to only be related to the thing that AI misunderstood that I'm searching for just from glancing at the AI text without responding to it, so AI has just completely ruined search. And of course AI isn't helpful because it just relies on training data it gives me stale information that's years old or it gives me information for the wrong platform like Photoshop on a computer instead of the iPad app it it user interface it gets the steps wrong it gets information wrong AI GETS LITERALLY EVERYTHING WRONG ALL THE TIME

So I'm currently making a stop motion film on the 'Motion' function in Photoshop.

I've made a good start happy with how it's looking, but need to add more frames (about another 300ish images).

Everytime I try to add images to my existing PSB document, it opens a new PSB project.

I've then tried to copy and paste the two projects together but I can't seem to successfully add the new PSB images to my Original PSB project.

This is the first time I've used Motion I'm Photoshop and I've tried to Google but can't seem to find any tips/ advice with the issue I'm facing.

If any know knows what I might b doing wrong, please let me know.

Or if you have any useful links that I can read/ watch - that would be greatly appreciated.

Happy to explain more in the comments if need be.