Photoshop thread

so i've got these two images that show quite a fun event .... i think
i just need to bring out the event a bit more to make it clear , i need to bring out the white on these images while contrasting it to the background, the white is on the glass almost like a very faint chalk dust type substance

can someone assist or advise how i might do it in ms paint or in flickr

once the contrast is highlighted it should become clear what has happened

Not sure ms paint will have the options
Try Paint.net

https://www.getpaint.net/

or try
https://www.photopea.com/

works straight in your browser, you can just duplicate your layer and change the merge mode to overlay to bring out the contrast.

cheers both

i haven't so far been able to bring out the image of bird with wings extended that collided with the glass but will keep trying

Best I could do in a few mins.

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I've been asked to replicate something. The blue overlay on the left should look the same as on the right. How do I go about it accurately? Obviously just using the colour selector will be biased because of the image under the original.

I've made the new image under the left black and white but could revert to colour.

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in PS under "corrections" (sorry, just the german version here) must be something like "color temperature"...

add more cyan to the image on the left?

I've tried adding more cyan but can't get the sweet spot. Also juggling between changing opacity of the overlay. Changing hue/sat (which I think is the colour temp deerheart is referring to?) Changing contrast of the image beneath the overlay etc. I take it there's no magic tool I'm missing which will just do it.

As an infrequent PS user I would…
Eyedrop high spot and low spot on existing image; gradient map adjustment layer between the two on new image. Greyscale and adjust levels of new image to taste if it's not 100% match.

it wouldd take me longer to write out how to do than actually do it.
send it to me and i’ll have a look and leave the adjustment layers on it so you cans how it’s done

2 adjustment layers i can send you the psd

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https://app.box.com/s/ayv97b5z4vpwlcjws2hl6wnmtvbb9zs5

just take the settings and apply to your master file, may be slightly off due to dragging it from a web page and sometimes that will shift colours but open the adjustment layers and see what i have done and do some tweaks.

Couldn't you just pick the colour and overlay a solid fill in colour/hue blending mode (I forget which)?

No. as that’s not going to allow you to tweak the contrast by working in the colour or white’s/black’s/mids. a colour fill is likely to be flat and then if you curve it you have to remember to use luminosity mode as normal shifts the saturation and colour. selective colour allows finer control and HSB allows global colour shifts and brightness/saturation if needed. (could have got there without this layer)

there are plenty of ways to crack a nut though, i’m sure there are other ways than what i did that have the same or similar control.

Got ya, yeah I was assuming the two photos have similar levels I suppose, but that's probably not true.

Is it possible to embed a video from URL in InDesign? My document currently just has a hyperlink to a youtube page but I'm thinking it would be preferable to play directly in the PDF without embedding within the PDF it and making the document file size huge (not sure if this is actually possible, it is with powerpoint)

Presumably I'll need a direct URL to the mp4 rather than a URL to youtube

Yes and no, mostly no.

PDFs theoretically support viewing a video on the page. This requires embedded video (massive file size), viewing in Acrobat (which nobody does, preferring OS defaults or mobile), and Flash (which is dead).

So you're left with clunky answers only. Hyperlink to YouTube is fine if you're pro-google; I normally place a screen cap/title frame with a play icon over it as a web users would expect, and then link to wherever the video is hosted – in my case clients usually have specific pages set up for the media.

Also this has nothing to do with Photoshop.

The image in the hyperlink was done in part with photoshop if that helps

Anyway, I think you answered my question, thanks.

Anyone know a way to batch convert a load of layers in to channels? They'll not always be a the same, or the same number of them, so don't think it's possible with an action.

I use a cryptomatte pass in my renders interpreted by EXR-io plugin, but it puts all the resulting selection channels in the layers for some reason.

There's often enough that selecting and creating new channels manually is a ball-ache.

Me again? Anyone got a method to create a contact sheet type layout but without any borders or gaps in between the images at all?

I do a bit of retouch for a global bath/body/hand/face care brand and often do relabelling of product in existing images which come from many different places as the account is huge and different countries and agencies deal with creative and production.

just been give a soap bar and box to relabel and the smart object for the front label is the usual open it up > add label > close and it appears in the main file. but the reflection of the label auto updates and uses the same top label but flipped??? how does that work? i expected to have to do this myself and was a bit mindblown. I don’t like smart objects and never use them for my own jobs but this is the devils work and i want to know how this is done.

anyone smart enough to tell me?..

I'm guessing it's a duplicate of the smart objects on screen/add/overlay mode and mirrored. Basically unless you say otherwise (by doing 'New Smart Object Via Copy') embedded smart objects will be instances of each other, i.e all duplicates of the same embedded file. So change one, change them all.

A bit like having more than one linked smart objects linked to the same external file.

ah i see so if the object was copied, flipped and faded off then the change would propagate through all copies. I hadn't thought of that.
thought it might be some fancy scripting/droplet ju-ju.

Exactly. I couldn't live without them now, massive time saver.