I've been exporting my images to PS to add text, arrows and circles because of the generally assumed information that LR did not have graphic or text on image capability except for watermarking and print titles that can be JPEGed. Using an old technique with the local adjustment brush I found an easy way to do all of the above that might be of use to some of you. A while ago I saw a post where someone pointed out that you could blacken or white-out parts of your image with the local adjustment brush by just moving the Exposure and Brightness controls to the extremes (left for black, right for white). Today I needed a black arrow to point to a white blob (Snowy Owl) about a mile and a half from my 600mm lens and realized if I set my local area adjustment brust as follows it would do what I wanted. I increased my flow to 100%, my feathering to 0, adjusted the size to small, set my Exposure to -4.00 and Brightness to -200 and started writing a nice black line. With a little practice it came out ok. If I moved the Exposure and Brightness all the way to the right, I got a nice white line. If I reduced exposure and brightness by half and chose a color, I could write or draw in color. After using LR for 6 years or so, it's nice to find this capability.
I have installed the autocad ObjectARX 2011 and .Net wizzard to start writing a .Net application for adding custom drawing parameters to all our acad drawings. I have found two issues detailed below. This is my first attempt at using c# with autocad so any pointers on what I am doing wrong will be well received.
1. If add the AcDbMgd.dll and AcMgd.dll references and set copy local to false as the documentation advises then I get a FileNotFoundException, could not load file or assembly 'acdbmgd'. If I set the copy local to true then the error goes away.
2. I tried using the code below to add a paramater but I get an exception on the first line System.TypeLoadException: Method 'CopyTo'.
I created a Multi Sheet drawing file.(.idw)While the file to DWF format with WriteDataToFile, the Title Block shows wrong Sheet number.For a 5 Sheet drawing, the output DWF files contain following Titles:
1 of 2 2 of 3 3 of 4 4 of 5 5 of 5
Whereas expected titles should be:
1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5
Interestingly, if I create a multisheet Drawing and Activate all sheets one by one before saving it.The DWF files outputted show correct Titles.Hence in the first case, I used Activate() on all sheets before writing them with WriteDataToFile. But could not get correct Titles.
I have just purchased this upgrade software having used XARA Xtreme4.0 for many years.How can I change the black background screen with white writing to grey with black writing?
I have a problem writing metadata to some of my jpegs and can't figure out why.
I "save metadata to file" with Command-S on Mac, go away and come back to find the 3 horizontal lines and Down Arrow are back. Saving individually or as a group of pictures, makes no difference, and its always the same photos that Fail. tired of looking at this...=⬇ (except there are 3 horiz. lines)
I have been wondering why my backups (differential) weregetting larger than they should, and I noticed that some of the files (.psd and .jpg, and mayde few .tiff) were modified. Interestingly, I do not see this happening to cr2-files, that I mostly use. After trying to figure out what's going on I noticed that corresponding xmp-files were modified also. This is not the issue due to their small size, but still I had not edited images that were changed for quite a while.
Change that I see in xmp-files is rather large, and presumably related to Adobe's change in xmp-data structure. Eg.
In addition to the sample above, whole xmp structure is changed. So I presume that maybe LR is writing metadata chages to xmp in the background?
What I find disturbing is that when checking changed jpg files, I saw the similar data written into the jpg files also (files were created with oldish Canon 20D, and not edited for quite a while). These are examples from changed jpg-files (not the same from which the abone xmp-data change was taken, but similar change is visible in the corresponding XMP):
Also jpg-file from offset 0x04 was changed from "50 60" to "51 18". Also offset 0x10 was changed (16 bits). I have Lightroom configuration option "Include develope settings in Metadata Inside JPEG, TIFF and PSD Files" not selected. The option "Automatically write changes to XMP" is selected. To my understanding neither of these should not have impact to the issue. Is there something else I should check?
Change is made most likely by Lightroom 3.5 version, and has not occurred with previous versions. I have not notices this happening with 3.6, but I have been using it only few weeks. Is this known issue with previous version 3.5, or am I missing something obvious? System running is Windows 7 pro 64bit. I have not have any issues with LR lately, except crashes that I white about a week ago.
Is it possible to bring in a block from another drawing so that it overwrites the block of the same name in the current drawing? The only way I know how to do this is to explode the block, bring it into the current drawing and then make a block so that it overwrites the one in the current drawing. This is a long method of doing it.
I am designing a tattoo for my friend using photoshop. She wants a star with writing but the original I did is too big. So i thought about doing just the writing in a star shape. I am wondering is it possible, like with the warp font tool, to make text follow a shape? I know I can do this by cutting and pasting and free transforming bits of text, but it is going to be a lengthy process to get it to fit.
how to write a message in the sand. I found something on line with photoshop buddy but when I try to copy the text to a new layer the text disappears which is the second step out of 10 or so..
basically designing a CD on photoshop and want to have writing around the edges of the CD...how would I do this? can't seem warp it into a perfect circle...
I want to take this photo of my son and create writing in the sand making it look realistic. The results I have with simple embossing doenst have the real feel.
I have been writing a description for a set of logos down the left side of a page, in a column. However I want to write the text at 45 degrees within the column. I have fiddled with the pen tool and text direction settings, but to no avail.
My evaluation copy of VideoStudio X4 crashes whenever it tries to write an mpeg4 file. I get a message to e-mail the DMP file but thee is no e-mail address given or found on this site.
ive got paintshop pro x5 ultimate i want to write in flames but need a flame pic tube its not in the verion ive got can you get it from any where else and can i have a link if youve got it
I'm trying to write some code that adds values to attributes of a specified block. I'm able to search for the block, but I'm having trouble editing it.
Dim acDoc AsDocument = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument Dim acCurDb AsDatabase = acDoc.Database Dim acTransMgr As Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.TransactionManager= acCurDb.TransactionManager
Using acTrans1 AsTransaction= acTransMgr.StartTransaction Dim acBlkTbl AsBlockTable = acTrans1.GetObject(acCurDb.BlockTableId, OpenMode.ForRead) If acBlkTbl.Has("blockname") Then
*** here I need to get the object found in the active block table and edit it's attributes by attribute name **** End If End Using
I would like writing on the photo on the mirror, to look like it was written in lipstick or something of the sort. The words I'm yours or I am yours or something like that..
I want to put a writing on a waving flag and it should look at if it is printed on the flag. I had a tutorial for photoshop but i can't find a tutorial for gimp.
I want to write my text inside two circles in GIMP. For this purpose, I have drawn two circles in GIMP with a gap between these two. Now I need to write my name in between these two..just like a round Rubber Stamp and I need to write something in the mid space of the two circles. Background should be white.
I have drawn the circle but I am not finding a way to write text in between the circumference of these two circles.
I have my background on the screen; click text tool, specify font, size, color - then i click on my background expecting the text-writing box to appear, but instead a mini-copy of the text tool options box appears, of no use or function. How can i get the text-writing box to work?
PS An empty box appears on the background, supposedly to write in, but it doesn't work. I type and nothing happens. And, there is a huge cursor bar (?) that extends down the screen.
I am trying to blend the wording above on the photo into the photo, so it doesnt interfere with the pic, and you can see the pic as well, without losing the quality of the font and writing too.IS this possible?
While using a word, is there a way to write text using different colors within the same word ? When I attempt to change the color, it changes the color of the whole text.
