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after installation of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.2 on a Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit Service Pack 2, the computer will not run the program.  An error window comes up and the following error is stated:

This application has failed to start...

I am building an ad in photoshop.  I have imported two pictures.  How can I make the two pictures the same size?  ie. 3.5in x 3.5in each.  Where do I view the dimensions of an image.  When I click on Image - Image size - it only gives me the size...

I have never used Photoshop, but I have an immediate need to create an image that consists of multiple pictures on the same page.  For example, I would like to create a picture tht is really four smaller pictures nd save that image as a single...

I've attached the following image which is used as a navigation background. When you look at the sample, you will notice that the bar is in two different levels. It starts on the left side being shorter, but takes up the full height about half...

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I have created a photo mosaic but I'm noticing that one of the photos I used is a really bright red that looks like pimples on the subject's face.  There's no other red like this anywhere in the photo.  Is there a way to sample this...

I am doing some work with a map. I have a map of the entire city in .ai format, as provided by city hall. However, I am only working on a very small portion of the larger map, (just one neighborhood). Is there a way that I can "crop" this...

I have a png logo that I want to have printed on my business cards. The business card company suggested using a vector based pdf for the best quality.

How do I convert the png to vector based pdf. Is this a option when saving the image?...

Hi,
I have been sent an animated GIF which is 3mb and have been asked to reduce its size.

Does anyone know an easy way to do this?

I have been using Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium for a few years now.  A month ago, I purchased CS5.5 Design Premium.  I am ready to install it but I would like to keep the CS3 on my desktop too.  Can I have 2 different versions (CS3 and...

Hi EE,

I am creating a website for my church , the website is :

site.ministeriosrayosdeluz.com


I am not really a designer, but a programmer, but I am trying to know how can I create a nice looking texture on the background to make it...

When using Adobe InDesign, when I select a picture object and hit “Edit with”, sometimes the correct programs are not listed as an option to open with and sometimes they are, and this is when I am selecting the same exact object. Also if...

Good evening Experts,

How can I crop an image out of a picture like the one below:



I can crop the picture in PowerPoint ,but only by moving in the sides like so:



As you can see some of the picture of the state is cropped out...

PS CS5 current updates.

I edit a small number of photos every week.
I take my camera RAW images and save them as PSD.
The final image is usually saved as jpg.

When I'm working with my PSD I save the modified [working] copy with an...

Probably a noobie question.  

I have a friend who provided me a website designed out in photoshop with each element on a layer.

I'd like to quickly save each element as an image to use in my CSS styles.

I have all the layers turned off...

Hi, where can i purchase photos/backgrounds to use on my mobile applications.

Best Regards.

Hi Experts,

I need to print a banner around 18 X 3 feet. I am going to use Adobe Photoshop.

What is the size of the image that I need to start with? By size, I mean the width, height, resolution, color mode, that I need to use so that...

Hi All,

I'm very new to using photoshop.  I have CS5.

How do I change the colour of this

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/6541/ribbonk.png

to match this

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/1706/menuoq.png

I am purchasing a new computer for a user that users a couple of the adobe suites and will be doing heavy video rendering soon. We read that with large file media editing, it is best to have two drives. One for the OS and one for data. I can see...

Hi EE,


I need a designer opinion on the website I am building, in my opinion I need a prettier text and background, but I dont know much on photoshop and design,

Can you suggest how to create a better background, and a font stronger for...

When i attempted to download my digital pictures, I found JPG files and also huge SRF files.  I'm assuming that SRF files are more detailed than JPG files.  Am I correct here?  Where can I edit SRF files?  My photoshop 7 doesn't open them.  
...

Hi experts,

I'm used to using Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS5.

So now I'm stuck with a computer that only has Adobe Photoshop elements 9.

I'm trying to make an ellipse with a stroke and no fill.

So i select the ellipse tool and create my...

I'm trying to create a photoshop template with several photos of different sizes. I want to use the same layout but occasionally swap out different photos.
Is there any way to create these templates so that each photo might be it's own layer,...

Hi Expersts,

I am looking for an educated answer on this subject. I would like to know what I need to look for to get the best printing quality on a transparency. The art will be done in photoshop , so I will probably need to know what...

Hi EE,


Can you guys recommend a good website to download psd graphics to create image links (for example a psd file of a mail with a cool background) that I can type in words on photoshop and add a message to it.

I am looking for a tablet so that I can draw in photoshop. I've never used them before and don't know what to look for. I was looking at this one and liked what I saw so far:


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823100087
...

How can I increase an image quality without change the size in pixels?

for example

I have an 403 x 403 pixels with 72(dpi) if I change to 150(dpi) the size of the image in pixels is the double

Hi,

  I need some help in creating a logo and caption for my website.

      Here         Fortune Two Wheeler
       F logo           Auto Accessories
  Experience Quality, Value and Reliability

  Any help how to create such logos and...

I been working on a website for my church, and I need a second opinion on terms of colors and design for my background image , menu , and footer color scheme,

Could you please visit my site at [removed]

And suggest how to improve the style...

I am trying to find out how to grab the body background for a wordpress theme that I am using for one of my websites: www.customerservicejobsfromhome.org

My end goal is to take the 'body' part of the existing theme into Photoshop and add a...

Hey experts,

Easy photoshop question (I hope).

I'm following this tutorial: http://www.devwebpro.com/grungy-metal-texture/2/

Page 2 where it says "Then add in some intense grunge brushing in the layer mask."

I am lost there. I have...

has many images that requires the specifications to be 20mm wide by 25mm high. ppi to be at least 250.. is there a free software that can easily check if the images meet the specifications?

Hi experts,

  Accidentally i deleted some jpeg files. I managed to recover them using Recuva software, but unfortunately the files are corrupted. I tried to open them with Photoshop, windows photo viewer, windows paint, Serif Photo Plus...

I'm trying to add a check box to the image I'm working with.  Do I have to pull an image in from somewhere else or does CS5 have an inventory of images I can pull from?

If CS5 has an inventory, how do I access it?

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i have a photoshop tif file i need to fill whit color blank a house

someone couold hel pe me please

thnaks

Hi there;

I need to find out the H&M font.

http://ilginchersey.blogcu.com/h-m-nin-tarihcesi/8565882

Can you help me?

I tried http://www.identifont.com/identify.html , but no avail.

Regards.

When trying to open PDF files in PhotoShop CS5 I get the following error. Generic PDF Parser - There was an error processing the document. The file may be damaged or corrupt

Hello
I have Purchsed a 30" DELL LCD Monitor and now my Graphics card is struggling to keep up with the 2560 x 1600 Resolution.
I will be mostly be using Photoshop CS5 editing 20MB Images.
I would like a card that is "Tuned/Optimised"  for CS5...

I've created several photos that I've converted to black and white, and saved as 300 dpi, 8x10" TIFs in Photoshop.  Several have a much larger file size than the others, like 55 MB instead of, say 25-30 MB.  It turns out that the big ones are...

Hey Experts,

Here are some easy points:

In this tutorial, step 5: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/interface-tutorials/photoshop-paper-texture-from-scratch-then-create-a-grungy-web-design-with-it/

It says to multiply the layer by 30%....

Hello.

I have a JPG image, that has some text on;  I need to change the colour of the text.

Now, letters like L, k, S I'm ok with - just use the Lasso tool, then go fill> colour - but when I get to the letter B, it obviously fills the...

Trying to print several documents in Photoshop.  Will print fine for first document, then receive error message for second document.  Have to close PhotoShop after printing 1st document, then reopen and print 2nd document and so on.
 

I'm using Photoshop CS5 with a PSD file that is a button image. The background layer is the button background with other layers being text layers.  When I export the layers to files, it's only creating a transparent text only image for each. The...

Well, just had a virus.  Middle of factory install with Alienware.

Question:
Do I have to keep the SAME computer name?  

In other words, how does Adobe "count" the two computer activations?  Do they use the PC name?

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I chatted with...

I am just about to buy a new computer from OriginPC.com and am wondering which hard drive set up would be optimal for Photoshop CS.

I will NEVER use my computer for gaming but I use Photoshop CS to edit RAW photos and those scanned at 600 dpi...

Hey Experts!!

I have a PSD I was slicing up and I have a Facebook logo that sits on top of different color backgrounds. In the PSD the logo takes on the color of the background.  The layer itself has a Luminosity attribute tied to it.  

I...

I want to make a better background image for a site I been working  for my church, I need help on the colors and design for my background image , and footer, I know there is a few techniques and trends on design out there, but I just dont know...

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I wonder whether somebody could help me improve the digital photograph of this guy. Actually it was scanned and therefore the slightly grainy appearance.

The photograph is also way to bright. If I adjust the brightness and /...

Hello there.

I have an issue with Photoshop CS2 - the colours do not correlate. For example, I'll set a pantone colour when using photoshop - then save the image, open the image up and it looks a totally different colour than the one in...

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A Photoshop project I'm looking to take on involves taking a picture of a friend's face and putting it in place under Darth Vader's helmet.  I've done this before with some success but I would like to know if there are more advanced...

Hey Experts,

You know how on some of those expensive mice you buy, there is a button by your thumb that makes your web browser go back? Well my multi-paragraph version of this question went away because of that button, so here is the short...

Attached is a pdf that I plan on sectioning out as an image map. As I was pondering the tedious work that lay before me, I determined to run this past the experts-exchange ninjas to make sure that I wasn't giving myself more work to do that what...

Hi,

I have a yellow sticky-note icon. But it's too yellow for me.
How can I make this lighter?

I have put the icon as attachment.

Greetings,

Peter Kiers

Hi,

I have a PDF file that contains multiple sections related to supermarkets, basically it's a report that contains information about stocks etc. What I would like to do is, when this file is printed, it splits the pages on our Xerox printer...

Hello Experts,

I'm using the 960 Grid System 12 Column Photoshop Template. When I open the .psd template I see 12 columns (horizontal) which is correct along with the 10 and 20 pixel gutters. But my question is why is there NO vertical lines...

I'm doing a photo slide show and want to add some basic movement to the pictures...zoom in/out, rotate, pan.  I can add the movement to each picture individually, but does anyone know of a plugin or something that will add some random motion...

hi,

i have a website www.railwayunionfc.ie and the logo up the top left hand corner stands out, i thought i had changed the colour so it would be more or less transparent, the image is

http://railwayunionfc.ie/images/logo3.jpg

Hi there;

I am trying to put a fire effect around a letter in photoshop CS4.

My problem is that I couldn't reproduce the path in the given link:

http://www.designscollage.com/2009/12/how-to-creat-fire-lines-in-photoshop-cs3-tutorial/
...

Hi,

We are developing a web site using java script  and php , we are embedding flash in the home page.The drop-down menu is showing fine for on mouse hover of menu item  for default flash ( 0th position of flash pattern) but after it is ...

Hi,
I am looking for a professional image converter that can be used on windows and that is scriptable.
I would like to use it for a DAM system.
Photoshop: not allowed to be used as a server
Imagemagick: extremely slow on large files above...

I purchase a template for my church website, but I am tryng to modify the background that it comes with, basically I want to add my own graphics and meabe a solid color, but I am not quite sure how a png works, I do open it in fireworks and shows...

Im creating "Icon" to asoftware & i want to convert image that i have to icon with "ico" extention

One of my faculty members got a 380 page long PDF that contains 379 pages that were scanned.  I am trying to figure out how to print these pages out as images, since a PDF displays them about half of readable size.  I have gotten Photoshop CS2 to...

I am looking to learn how to edit files in gimp. I have a layered file that is supposed to be editable in Gimp. It comes up in gimp without an error and all the layers but does not allow me to edit the text in the layer selected.  The only...

When adobe photoshop version 10 tried to update the organizer updates to 100%. Never finishes totally. Stays at 100% . Have to end the process to close it. It's the only way it will close.
Looked up updates this am. Tried updating the program...

I'm using a Windows 7 HP desktop with Dell's U2410 monitor. I plan to print photos at Costco, and have downloaded the 2 profiles used for their printer (each profile uses different paper).

I'm relatively new to this whole soft proofing concept...

How can I move layers in Photoshop into the animation timeline as individual frames? I have a big stack of layers I want to use as an animated GIF.

I'm trying to figure out how this web site created their paint background:

http://www.sietedefebrero.com/

As well as the paint strokes behind their logo. Do you guys think this was painted then scanned in, or was it created using Photoshop...

hi, do you guys know of a free program one can use to edit pdf documents

Hi, i am trying to draw a simple tennis racket. I have been learning about combining shapes and have used circles to create the shape, but im not sure how to combine them, i have included a pic of where i am

Please can someone let me know how...

I am migrating from Photoshop CS3 to CS5 and have been looking online for 2 hours to find a way to save all the action sets I have in one fell swoop. All I can see is a way to save each set, one at a time. Is this right?

How do I change the acion used in a droplet file. I have recived some droplet files, but what do change some action used in that droplet file. Can that be done?

I like the effect that I was able to do with this picture, but the eyes look kind of dark and I'm wondering if I can lighten them up a little bit while simultaneously preserving the overall effect of the picture.

Thoughts?

Looking into getting a membership to either Shutter Stock or Think Stock. Does anyone have a preferences?

This should be easy but have been trying for over an hour, i have managed a red fill rectangle, or a hollow rectangle with red border but curved edges and i give up!

Could someone please let me know what to do, i have tried creating a new...

Greetings,

Attached is a png file of a shopping cart area.  Inside the black rectangle, you'll notice on the left is a small graphic of a shopping cart with a red circle (where the # of items in cart will appear e.g. 2) and on the right is a...

I've got a vector image in Illustrator that I export to a PNG bitmap file.
The document contains some symbols and some texts.

However, when exporting to a bitmap, the text fonts are of course scaled to proper size -- which may be, let's say,...

Hey Experts,

Please talk about various methods to create rays that are similar to the ones in the pictures attached.

I can figure out how to texturize them, but I don't know how to actually make the original solid color rays from the...

Hey Experts,

In my Photoshop CS5 program, the white color isn't exactly white. It's more of a tan. I'm in RGB mode and I have the whitest of whites selected as the color but it still looks tan. Even when I export the picture as a jpeg it is...

I currently have the CS 3 Suite loaded on my desktop (Windows 7 operating system) and there are minor problems with Photoshop (which is the predominant application I use out of the suite). I have a copy of the CS 5 suite and before loading it, I...

Hello, all.

Could someone, please, tell me how to get nice, clean text (no blur or jagged edges) for video on televison?

An example that comes to mind is the Infiniti car commercial, where it is nice, glossy, text at the end - with a little...

Hi, i am looking for some software (mac) that will take a full* screenshot of webpage.

* when i mean full... i mean an image of the entire length the page, not just the section of the page that is visible on the screen... if the page requires...

After upgrading from Adobe CS2.2 to Adobe CS5.5,

the behavior of my scanner has changed.

 - I am unable to access my Epson Photo 4490 Scanner using the import menu of Photoshop CS 5.5
 - can use the WIA wizard but that has a number of...