working on a project for my digital media class where we edit ourselves into a show or movie frame and i really wanna make myself look like i’m in the shot, how do i tweak it to make it look better?

How do I achieve an effect like this, with the streaks/background behind and over the subject? Do I use a radial blur?

I have my own photos with a backlight on my subjects but I’m having trouble trying to blend it better.

Salut à tous !

Je suis graphiste freelance depuis 8 ans, et j’ai toujours eu le même problème : je ne savais jamais vraiment combien de temps je passais sur un projet, et j’en avais marre que mes clients négocient mes devis..

Entre les petites retouches, les « juste un dernier changement » et les allers-retours, je sous-facturais sans m’en rendre compte. Et quand je présentais ma facture, le client négociait encore, et je n’avais rien de concret à lui opposer.
Alors j’ai développé mon propre outil : ChroKo, un plugin pour Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, et InDesign (Mac et Windows).

Le principe est simple : un chrono compte le temps actif passé dans les applis (pas le temps où l’ordi tourne dans le vide), le même chrono est partagé entre tous les logiciels, et il vous sort directement le prix ou le supplément à facturer en fonction de votre propre TJM (Calculé dans le plugin).

Depuis que je l’utilise sur mes propres projets, je négocie beaucoup moins : quand un client conteste, je lui montre le temps passé, preuve à l’appui. Ça change complètement la discussion.

Je viens de le sortir et je cherche surtout des retours de gens du métier : qu’est-ce qui vous manquerait, qu’est-ce qui est inutile, est-ce que vous l’utiliseriez ?

Pour le lancement, j’offre 10 licences d’un mois (Mac ou PC, toutes les applis). Il suffit de m’écrire à [contact@chroko.fr](mailto:contact@chroko.fr) ou via le chat du site, c’est activé sous 24 h.

C’est sur chroko.fr et sur la marketplace Adobe (« Chroko Timer for Adobe… »).

Merci d’avance, je réponds à toutes les questions !

After finals i have been designing

You can find my ig @elyk.desktop

I don't know why its greyed out I copied my image and selected but its greyed out and idk why

Hi everyone, I've been wanting to do a photo with all the animals I've ever had in my life. I've finally made it but I'm looking for advice on how to make it better if anyone has any advice.

Disclaimer** the background and watercolour affect was made by ai the fish is also ai. All the placement was me.

I used to use google search for anatomy and animal refs but AI is making my life difficult. I'm trying to draw animal motions (right now jumping frogs) but there's a bunch of anthro slop mixed in and i want to study real photos of real animals. If there's a good website or something i can use i don't mind paying for it

Smart Align is a small plugin that allows you to intuitively align layers to “selection” or “canvas” by simply using a shift modifier. 

• No more dropdown menu!
• No more grayed-out buttons !
• Just hold shift. That’s it. Works just like Figma! 

Also! 

• Includes an align-center button. 
• Aligns multiple layers to the canvas without needing to group them.  

Totally FREE! 

PS 24.2+ 

Get it here:

https://ko-fi.com/s/8f78d2465d

Demo video here: 

https://vimeo.com/1239022151

I am making a video timeline and for some reason when I use effects like transitions or turn the photo to a smart object. I get a message saying it can't find it. How do I safety reset it to be able to do these things? And not mess it up more?

So I added these tattoos and did my best to get the skin colour to match(erasing the tattoo's skin tones and subtracting as much out in selection tool) as well as warp a little to feel like its actually on skin. I feel like it's still noticeable that it's an edit, is there anything else in photoshop I can use to blend them better?

Hello, i want to see if there is a way to reach this effect or something close via photoshop, without the use of ai ofcourse. Please and thank you in advance

Hey everyone, I made **Retext**, a browser tool for editing text inside an existing image when you don’t have the editable design file.

In normal use, you open a PNG, JPG or WebP, select detected text—or draw a box—and type your replacement. You can adjust the font, size, color and spacing before downloading. Images and edits are processed in your browser, and no account is required.

Matching is approximate. Plain backgrounds are easier; unusual fonts, textures and angled text can need more work.

Editing is free, with **two free downloads** to inspect your results. More downloads cost **$9 USD once**, with no subscription.

https://retext-editor.pages.dev/

I’d appreciate honest feedback: would this help with any image-editing tasks you actually do? What would make you stop using it?

I've been trying to streamline my JPEG export workflow in Photoshop, and I'm finding this unnecessarily frustrating.

My workflow is fairly straightforward. I resize my photographs to 2500 pixels on the longest edge, apply Smart Sharpen, and then use Export As to save them as JPEGs.

My preferred Export As settings are:

• JPEG Quality: 5 (out of 7)
• Convert to sRGB: Enabled
• Embed Color Profile: Enabled
• Metadata: None

The problem is that Export As doesn't consistently remember my settings, particularly JPEG quality. I find myself having to configure them repeatedly.

I've experimented with Quick Export and Save for Web, but neither has been an ideal alternative. Quick Export doesn't provide an option to explicitly embed the color profile, while Save for Web produces significantly larger files.

For example, when exporting the exact same photograph at 2500 pixels on the longest edge:

• Export As: JPEG Quality 5 (out of 7), Bicubic resampling, Convert to sRGB enabled, Embed Color Profile enabled, and no metadata. Resulting file size: approximately 1 MB.
• Save for Web: JPEG Quality 60 (out of 100), Optimized enabled, Bicubic resampling, Convert to sRGB enabled, Embed Color Profile enabled, and no metadata. Resulting file size: approximately 2 MB. Even lowering the quality to 50 still produces a file around 1.6 MB.

I'd happily stick with Export As if I could just save my preferred settings or automate the process through a Photoshop action.

Am I overlooking something obvious? Is there really no way to create an Export As preset, retain its settings consistently, or automate it without resorting to scripts?

It seems like such a basic feature for a program as mature as Photoshop.

PS. I used AI to write and troubleshoot this and found no workaround as of yet.

I recently got a new computer and update to a newer version of Photoshop. For some reason the files I save in the newer version have brighter/paler colors than the old version, almost like there's a milky overlay. I made a gif where I compare the old and the new version of the same file to demonstrate the difference.

I saw some suggestions for a similar issue telling me to turn off Pref/Tech Preview/Precise color management for HDR display as well as Pref/Performance/Use graphics processor, but neither change anything.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

i modelled all pieces in photoshop.

Hello, i want to see if there is a way to reach this effect or something close via photoshop, without the use of ai ofcourse. Please and thank you in advance

this style has been trending lately and i really like it

if anybody knows what its called or how exactly i can make it that would be much appreciated!

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One thing I miss about macOS is being able to preview design files without opening Photoshop every time.

On Windows, viewing PSD files usually means opening them in Photoshop, which can get annoying when you're browsing through lots of files.

I don't really know how to do it tbh so some guidance and tips would be wonderful, thanks!

By still-life, I mean the backrooms still-lifes, not the art forms that depict non-living objects. I apologize for not clarifying

Has anyone gotten this error message when trying to add to a mock-up before, and how did you resolve it?

Hi,

I’ve made icons on another app and the exterior black outlines are not the same size and it won’t let me edit them. Don’t ask, there is no way around it.

I have imported these png files to photoshop and I contracted the original black outline away and tried to put in a new outline on photoshop where I can select the size I want myself.

When I add this new border of the perfect size, it is really blurry and fuzzy no matter what I’ve selected to try and fix it.

Has this happened to anyone before when you wanted a solid non-blurry black outline? How did you fix it?

It’s driving me crazy!!!!

so to give some context, i am using photoshop 2025 26.11 , and im working with a laptop (so integrated graphics) and i have 16gb of ddr4 ram, i7 1255U , and alot of storage.

now for the issue, while using photoshop i would be cutting out manga panels and such so i can animate them on After effects(no issues with AE) , and while cutting or using the pen tool , it just freezes and closes itself all of a sudden, and ive even reinstalled it once, and it does the same thing, i thought maybe my image was too large? since i upscaled the image, so i decided to test it on a non upscaled image and it still crashed, i even just opened a new file and waited a little and it once again crashed, and mind you, while working on Photoshop , my CPU isnt even t 30% and its taking around 1.5-3gb or ram , so it isnt even an issue with my performance (Little disclaimer: im not sure what photoshop utilizes whether that being CPU or GPU) , the point is i am very tired of this issue, id be cutting for like 10 minutes and just as im about to finish it just crashes, ive tried running as administrator, nothing too, so does anyone have a solution? much apprectiation.