Dominic Deacon
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Easy to do. Create a square shape. then place your image in the layer above the square. Next in the layers panel right click on the image layer and select “create Clipping mask” (I think that’s the name anyway… certainly something with “clipping mask” in it). And you’re done.
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It’s not something I’ve tried myself but I’m not surprised the text is losing it’s formating. I wouldn’t really expect the two formats to be compatible. Maybe get them to send you a pdf.
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Or edit>toolbars>restore defaults?
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Does Window>workspace>reset get it back?
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Should the new machine actually be faster? The rendering would all be put through the CPU no? Genuine question as I don’t know but I assume this is the case. The CPU on your wifes old PC was plenty fast. Per core it was probably pretty much a match for the i9 if not a touch quicker in actual use. The i9 has more cores but in my experience Adobe programs are lightly threaded. Photoshop for instance only really ever uses 4 cores. I haven’t used Premier in a while but it is possibly the same deal. If Premiere only makes use of 4 cores/8 threads I can’t definitely see that the old PC could be faster.
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I’ve been looking for a control panel for photoshop for a while but I haven’t come across anything that looks good yet.
In the end I settled on a Razer gamepad which looks like something that should be sitting on a teenage boys desk but has sped up my workflow a good deal. All the functions he uses on the video I have mapped to their own key on the gamepad and a bunch more options beside. The gamepad is a much preferable option to that control surface because it’s designed to cradle you hand and have your fingers resting on the keys which are logically placed. With a control surface like that I can imagine you would have to be looking down from your work to find the buttons you need whereas on the gamepad my fingers know where everything is. The whole reason I moved away from keyboard shortcuts to the gamepad was because I don’t want to have to look down to, for example, find ctrl+). I often find it quite difficult to re orientate myself if I have to look away from the screen so that was the key thing for me.
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There’s nothing there that you couldn’t do in photoshop but it’s pretty safe to say that logo wasn’t created in photoshop. It would be a bit laborious. If it was me and I was trying to replicate it in PS then after creating the shapes I would apply gradients to them that get you close to the swirls of colours. Probably them some judicious dodging and burning would start to get you something that looked like real highlights and shadows. For the individual highlights, speckles and things that you see on the edge of the shapes I would search for a brush on google that would give that look and then paint them in. There’s tons of cool brushes to replicate highlights and reflections etc.
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When a computer hard crashes while you’re doing something intensive like that I’m inclined to think you’ve picked up a stick of bad RAM. You probably want to test your memory. Good thing with that is it’s an easy fix.
EDIT sorry just saw you’d already addressed this above.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “How many of you are regular beta testers?”
It’s rare that I’m not beta testing something or other but usually it’s for really mundane things that I just I want now rather than waiting for them to released officially. Like controlling Sonos from Spotify. Beta testing actual productivity software is rarer but I do do it, say, yearly.
[Simon Ubsdell] “Do you feel the process is more of an imposition than a privilege?”
Generally the only reason I take on beta testing is because it’s the only way to access something that I need/want. So it’s definitely never an imposition for me.
At the moment I’m testing Project Felix for Adobe which technically isn’t even being called a beta yet. For those who don’t know it’s an app to texture, light and render 3D models for people who are not 3D modellers. Basically a game changer for me and the most exciting thing I’ve seen in years. It’s interesting to watch Adobes process on this because they appear to be all ears at this point. Really asking the testers what they want conceptually. At the moment, for instance, there are no modelling tools in the program which suits me but people keep asking for them so you can see Adobe really trying to measure the interest levels on certain functions such as this. Personally I think the programs perfect and am rooting for them not to change anything and just make it function better. Others are definitly pushing in other directions though.
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Do some companies make you feel more valued for your feedback than others?”Well I’m booking a 30 minute questionaire with one of Adobes engineers for which they are paying the princely sum of $50 (in amazon credit). Which seems pretty good to me. In any other beta I’m not even sure if my feedback was read so this is a rare instance. I’m never bothered by the other companies way of doing things though. Like I said I only do it when it’s something I want so I figure we’re both getting something out of it even if I don’t know whether I’m being listened to.
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[Kristoffer Jeberg] ” I understand you use sRGB s color profile when editing and sRGB when exporting, right?”
Yes, as I understand it is best to use sRGB from start to finish unless there’s a requirement to do otherwise.
[Kristoffer Jeberg] “What I fear is “gamut clipping” so that some edges of things I want to remove (artifacts, skin blemishes etc.) will be invisible for me in the lower gamut. Is that posssible?”
No I don’t think so. Basically when someone is viewing your image on an AdobeRGB monitor then the colours will shift to being overly lurid and vivid. One of my monitors is set to AdobeRGB and it’s quite a strikingly different effect. But no new information is revealed. It’s just misrepresenting the colours (unless the source is AdobeRGB in which case it gives accurate colours). I’ve never found additional artifacts or anything because of this. Not many people use an adobeRGB monitor and those that do will be used to images looking wierd so it’s not your problem.
[Kristoffer Jeberg] “BTW I plugged in my old CRT next to my computer because I heard that it would be good for editing images (a slightly larger gamut than LCD).”
There’s a lot of reasonably priced LCD monitors out there that will give 100% sRGB coverage. For a bit more you can get ones that will cover 100% (or near enough) AdobeRGB. I’d definitely go that way rather than fiddling too much. I never had colour space issues till I started fiddling. Having dealt with those issues I’m very wary of going that way again. Ken Rockwell wrote an article about this where the quote that stuck with me was: “Adobe RGB should never be used unless you really know what you’re doing and do all your printing yourself. If you really know what you’re doing and working in publishing, go right ahead and use it. If you have to ask, don’t even try it.”
Plenty more useful tips in this article: https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm The