by Damien Symonds | Dec 27, 2015 | Troubleshooting
I’m surprised at the number of times I see people shrink their photos down to web size, then post them on a forum and ask for opinions about the focus or the noise. And I’m even more surprised – appalled, in fact – by how many other people are...
by Damien Symonds | Sep 4, 2015 | Troubleshooting
Since Photoshop CS6 was launched, and subsequently Photoshop CC, we’ve seen many complaints of weird visual behaviour of the interface. Here are two scenarios, and possible fixes: PROBLEM 1: BLACK BOXES ETC Black boxes that appear and disappear randomly on your...
by Damien Symonds | Sep 2, 2013 | Troubleshooting
This tutorial explains how to take a 100% crop of your image at the exact size of 700×700 pixels. The illustrations here were taken in Photoshop CS5, but this method applies to all recent versions of Photoshop and Elements. Often I’ll ask you for a...
by Damien Symonds | Sep 29, 2012 | Troubleshooting
Sometimes, just occasionally, one of your tools will start misbehaving in Photoshop. It might be the Text Tool which is putting enormous spacing between letters and you don’t know why; or it might be the Crop Tool which keeps cropping to a fixed shape even...
by Damien Symonds | Jun 16, 2010 | Troubleshooting
Sometimes, when timid Jpeg shooters take the leap and shoot in Raw format, they find that they can’t open their Raw files, or even view them. And other times, experienced Raw shooters upgrade their camera, then are startled to find they can’t edit their...
by Damien Symonds | May 12, 2010 | Troubleshooting
Yesterday, on a forum, I saw a common lament. The member had a photo with a broad blue sky, and was complaining about the banding evident in it. Banding is such a tricky beast, mainly because it’s darn hard to tell whether it’s genuinely in the image, or...
