Photoshop :: Transforming/Feathering
May 14, 2006
I have PS CS2. I tried to make a fireball I ran into a problem. I had to expand it by 5 pixels after selecting it (it was on its own layer). The selection box was the only thing affected by the transformation. I tried the other transformations and only free transform seems to do anything to it. Feather also does nothing to the selection and I have tried doing these steps on different images but I still get the same results . I know it must be a small setting somewhere or something I might have overlooked, I am even thinking of reinstalling
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Feb 27, 2007
I am trying to vignette a posterised photo so that the edge of the pic gradually bleeds off into white. Ive made a new layer and used 100 pixel feathering. The only problem is that the feathered edge shows distinct banding lines particulasrly in smooth areas such as sky.
I considered trying gradient but as I see it , gradients cannot be applied to an oval vignette . I also tried applying gausian blur to the new layer (ie vinette) but that didnt help.
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Dec 2, 2004
Feather does just that. It expand and contracts the selection by the amount of pixels you indicate then applies a gradient to that area to create a soft edge (similar to glows).If you do not want this soft are, don't feather selections. Use Select > Modify > Expand or Select > Modify > Contract to keep a hard edge and alter the size of your selection.
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Jun 11, 2004
I am simply trying to select a backpack from an image and feather the edges. I make my selection try to feather and the selection moves but the image does not feather.
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Apr 26, 2009
I'm trying to go from one picture to an another picture in the same one.
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Aug 19, 2008
I am using CS2 (windows) and still in the learning process. I have the standard suite and do pretty well with InDesign ... not so with Photoshop and Illustrator. I know how to feather all sides of an image. Can someone please tell me how to feather just one side or 2 sides?
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Jul 30, 2008
I've been using Photoshop for several years now and have never had this come up before.. I'm using Photoshop CS... and I used the Feather feature on my last project... closed Photoshop... then I opened Photoshop today and am trying to crop photos.. but the marquee still thinks i'm in Feather mode.. and wont' give me a sharp selection for cropping - it keeps reverting back to rounded corners (like with Feathering).. and won't crop properly... no matter how many times i select the rectangle/square marquee tool...it seems to think Feathering is still "turned on"... how do i get it to "turn off"?
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Oct 16, 2008
feathering not being smooth. When applying a vignette to a portrait the feathered result looks more like a topographical map than nice smooth transitions. I have tried every possible combination in "Refine Edge", and this seems to have started the same time that Bridge started locking up on me. I have been seeing this on my finished portraits when they come back from the lab - so it isn't my display .
I am using PS CS3 on an XP lap top.
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Nov 1, 2006
every time i use the selections tool in Photoshop it keeps feathering edges - the edges are slightly faded and not crisp.
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Apr 9, 2008
1. When does feathering take place? That is, when i make a NEW selection, there is already a number (from a previous feather on another image) in the Select-->Modify-->Feather command. Does it take effect on the new image when I click on OK in the Select-->Modify-->Feather command or as soon as I make the selection (without going to the modify command)?
2. Not only is there a feather number in the Select-->Modify-->Feather command, there is also another Feather number in the Select-->REFINE EDGE-->Feather command. How can there be two feather numbers at the same time? Which one takes precedence?
3. In some of the selection tools (eg. lasso tool), there is a Feather box in the options bar. That makes the 3rd place (option bar along with Modify and Refine Edge) where a feather number can be introduced. Which has precedence and when?
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Jul 10, 2008
I have Photoshop CS3 and am having trouble with selections.
Let's say I just created a new blank document at 1024x768 pixels. I create a new layer and make a new randomly sized selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool. I fill that selection with black and now have a simple black box on a simple white background.
I press Ctrl-T for the Transform tool and in the Width box on the toolbar I type 800px and press enter. Now I expect my black box to be 800px wide. But when I select it and click the Info tool I see that my box is in fact 799px wide. Sometimes I try to change it to 800px again and when I look at the info tool the box is now 801px! Why is this?
Second question.. when I fill a selection using alt-backspace I notice that the edges are feathered even though I have feathering set to 0. If I alt-backspace several more times I get a solid fill, but I'd like to only have to do it once. Where is this setting?
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Mar 22, 2007
what would i have to do in photoshop to make my images do this?
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Apr 2, 2009
I've been following a couple of books on how to transform a selection. I've gotten as far as placing the bounding box and then resizing the selection but when I hit 'enter', the original object is just as it was, and the 'new object' is a resized marching ant shaped object (that you can see right through). I've followed the instructions in two different books (several times!) and the exact same thing happens. Any idea why this is happening? Can anyone tell me how to successfully resize a selection?
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May 12, 2009
I have hundreds of ship's names to enter into a fixed size box. Font is FIXED at Times Roman Regular 40 pt. After entering the text I tried recording an Action - Transform / Scale, where I set it to the required length, the beginning and end of which is shown by two guide lines. When I used the action for the next name, instead of Transform / Scaling to the guide lines, it scaled by the same percentage (horizontally) as when recorded. This gave an incorrect result because all the names varying in number of characters. I know the x co-ordinates for the ends of the bounding box, how can I do an action that uses those co-ordinates or scales to the fixed guide lines?
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Apr 27, 2006
i know that you select the stuff you want feathered, right click and go to feather, but i've never really seen any effect. maybe i'm missing a step somewhere but i just dont really get what feathering does
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Sep 30, 2006
I want the edges of a picture to fade into the background. I know I can use the erase tool to obtain this effect. A friend of mine showed me a few years back a different and somewhat easier/quicker way. She showed me to use the rectangle/elliptical tool and select the area you want to show. Then select inverse. After that use the feather option to round the edges/amount of feathering. My question is what would be the next step? I know there is something else that needs to be done to actually fade the border, but I can't for the life of me remember.
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Jan 5, 2003
I am trying to separate the foreground and background of an image as i want to blur the background.
I have tried a couple of methods of selection and then layer by cut command.
I have tried with feathering and without but i get a line around what i have cut out.
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Mar 15, 2013
I'm working on a video for a teacher at school. It involves him teaching for a bit, his whiteboard needs to have the slides on.
We filmed from two cameras simultaneously - neither straight on to the board. Is there any way to rotate the slides so as to make them fit the board?
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Jun 18, 2013
Cut out and realistically transfer this spider (if a zoomed in version is preferred) on to to this wall. If any editing could be done to the actual spider, to make it look slightly different.
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Aug 22, 2004
how can i transform or scale the contents of a selection without transforming the selection too
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Oct 8, 2006
im making a character for a computer fighting game, but ive hit a stumbling block.
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I want to rotate something thats already fairly pixelated (but its fine because the character is in constant motion, and fairly small) but rotating something 45 degrees makes it all blurry and whatnot. In this particualr frame of the characters animation, i am going to have him be still, so it will be very noticeable if i left him this way.
I know i cant expect perfect transformation because of the shape of pixels, but what is the best way to go about this so that the image comes out fairly crisp.
If its not too much to ask you to explain it to me in detail because i dont know my way around photoshop too well.
The character itself is done, im simply adding sprites that make the character have unique introductions when he faces other characters. Anyways, if anyone is interested, heres what my guy looks like in action. As you can see, his pixels arent too noticeable, only in that frame that i posted earlier.
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Jan 8, 2006
Ive lost the top toolbar with all the feathering etc details in it. I cant find it in the window toolbar area, how can i turn it back on?
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Jan 27, 2008
I've activated a feature without meaning to and don't know how to undo it. With the Rectangular Marquee Tool, the border shifts from a rectangle to a round-edged shape when I release the mouse after selecting an area. Then, when I cut that area, it lifts only a transparent portion of the selected area instead of the entire layer. How do I turn this off?
Also, I was once shown how to make use of the history brush to restore deleted / erased information along the edge of a shape that were overtaken by the magic wand. I've not been able to do that again on my own.
this is for Adobe PS 8.0.
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Jul 3, 2012
problem finding the "Create a duplicate while transforming again" shortcut in the Keyboard Shortcuts menu.I would like to change that default shortcut.
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May 6, 2013
Since I have upgraded to CS6 I've noticed that when transforming an object it does not maintain the aspect ratio even when I am holding shift while transforming. I have to each time check the link button (maintain aspect ratio)
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Apr 23, 2012
For many years, I've been able to stretch bitmaps with a simple, repeating style (eg. a single block of colour, some lines etc, nothing complex) whenever needed, with no problem. This I do by first selecting the part of the simple bitmap I wish to stretch with the marquee, then using scale (apple + t) to stretch it either horizontally and vertically. End result, the bitmap is extended, looks solid,sharp, all is good.
Lately, and consistently, i've discovered a fresh hell in that this no longer works. When I repeat the process above, all looks good, marquee, stretch... then the second I commit the transform, part of the bitmap beginning where I stretched from gains a feathered/opacity effect. For years, solid, now it's gaining a feathered section highlighting where I made the transform.
Something must have changed (it's not the version of PS) in my settings, which i've hit or shortcut-ed by accident.
The only way I can "fix" the process is by ensuring I only marquee the last 1 pixel strip (either horizontally or vertically) and stretching just that. This works fine, like it used to, but is time consuming and driving me insane. I cannot fathom why it's creating this weird feathered effect when I'm stretching a solid bitmap, when I know it didn't used to.
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Dec 13, 2012
Is there a way to change the color of the anchor point while transforming? We use very elaborate and colorful images in our work, and sometimes have a hard time finding the anchor point in order to change its location.
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Sep 16, 2013
Just upgraded from CS5 to CC and I find some thing very very very annoying. Any transform operation on a layer group seems to be applied on the individual layers instead of the group as a whole. How can I turn this extremely useless behavior off?
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Jan 17, 2013
I've used photoshop for a long time, and dragging/transforming something to it could be snapped either to document bounds or guides has been simple and straightforward.
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Then photoshop got all newfangled and complicated, trying to be too clever, and ever since trying to e.g. drag some text layer so it would be centered around a guide, resizing a shape so its bounds would snap to guides, has become almost impossible to accomplish. It's almost it's trying to snap my layer to some invisible guides that aren't there. What the heck is going on?
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I'm having to spend a lot of effort actually trying to make it pixel perfect, accurate, center aligned, zoom in so I can see the pixels, and resize. It's almost as if the guides have no effect on the "snappiness" of the layer when transforming it.
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Jul 30, 2012
Basically I am trying to warp a pattern about it's centre point, in a radial manor (the pattern file is obviously square in photoshop). If you imagine the pattern on a planar surface, the warp that I am trying to achieve is as if one were to grab the central point of the surface and pull it directly away from the face - see image below for visual aid...
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I'm trying to achieve a pattern that is a flat file, but looks like you are looking directly at the end of a pointy end of a cone that used to be a flat surface with the pattern on it.
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Sep 20, 2012
I have created a new layer mask of an image, but when I use the free transform tool to resize it so it is smaller, there is a faint grey outline left around the image. Why does this happen and how do I get rid of it?
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