Damien Symonds

Well, I figure the first step is to either sketch a truck shape (literally sketch it, pencil on paper) or find a truck photo you like that you can trace. Do you have one in mind?

Well, it requires the Pen Tool, have you used it before?

Is that ok?

I reckon a Levels layer, and move the black sliders on the green and blue channels to 50 and 30 respectively.

Sorry, can you clarify, which side of the bow do you like?

Maybe increase the blur just a tiny bit?

In my version (CS5) Distort wasn't available to me in the Edit>Transform> menu. Yours might be the same, I don't know. But it didn't matter, I alternated between Skew, Rotate and Scale, and achieved the same thing.

No, you have to have the group selected.

That's odd. May I see a screenshot?

Oh gee @SarahWyche, you have a MUCH bigger problem. Please follow this all the way to its end: https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html Once you've fixed that, we'll talk about moire.

@Falon, what do you think?

I'd start by copying a chunk of the photo with the triangular sign on it, then with Grids to help me, distort it back to a fairly even shape. Then put the text on it: Then fiddle with the text colour so it's more plausible. Black ain't right, of course. Here, I used darkish grey, on Multiply mode: Then group those two layers, move them back into place, lower the opacity of the group, and distort it again so it fits neatly over the real triangle: Then turn off the spare triangle layer (or delete it entirely). Then rasterize the type layer, make it a smart object layer instead, and apply a little blur so it's plausible:

But the Bridge Class would probably be a wiser investment of your learning time.

Well, ok.

I'm so sorry, I don't know. Other people have asked me this too. I haven't found any information telling me specifically how well the Channel Mixer part of it works.

Sorry about the delay. Had to pick up the kids from school. I've never found, or heard of, a thorough way to do this with Bridge. Funnily, good ol' FastStone does it in a snap. If you don't have it installed, it's worth doing for this purpose. It's small, and fast to install. Once you install it, you just navigate to your folder of jpegs that you're ready to upload, select them all, then go to Tools>Remove JPEG Metadata. The only problem is that it even removes your copyright info. But since you've watermarked the images, I don't see that that's a problem.

Hi Stacey, are they full-res files, or just web-sized proofs?

Can you please answer this one? What are the pixel dimensions of a panoramic shot? May I see two 100% crops from the best-focused part of the shot? One from the raw file, and one from the resized-for-print file.

Also, could you do this for us?

I had a memory of somebody else reporting a similar problem, and it turned out that they had too many folders on their desktop. Once they cleaned up, it came back. However, I just went searching and found the discussion, and that person was on a PC, not a Mac. So it probably doesn't apply.

You're not giving it enough time. You need to turn that on, then walk away. Wait until the bottom left corner tells you everything is loaded.

Right, so aren't we back to this?

If you hit Delete it will literally remove it from your hard drive. You don't want that. Reject.

First, have you seen this? https://www.damiensymonds.net/client-photoshop It's for 11:15, but could be adapted for 5x7s.

When you say "open" do you mean into ACR? Or do you just mean click on them to view them in the Preview panel of Bridge?