Kim Howells

Hi Damo. I have placed a few images, and rotated them using the "handles". I now want to select a portion of an image, to "trim" the top and bottom of the photo. I would usually use the marquee tool, and apply a layer mask. But as the image has been rotated, I can no longer do this. Is there a way around it somehow?

Aha, thank you, that first step enabled me to drag select again! Thanks! Sounds like it might get rid of those annoying circles too. I googled myself silly trying to fix the drag select! Thank you Mr expert.

I used to be able to touch the pen to the tablet and drag to select text. This no longer works, any ideas? I have the tip set to click, the upper side switch set to right click (hover), the lower side switch to pan/scroll. I have updated the driver, and restarted the computer. Windows 8. Thanks!

NVM, closed file and reopened, and it's working.

Hi Damo. I have an edit where all of my levels layers have the RGB drop-down greyed out. Any idea why it's greyed out?

BOOM there's the issue, thanks!

Very weird. The black eyedropper just isn't working. The white one does exactly what it should.

Yes black is what I want, it wasn't doing that. I'll try luminosity when I am back home, thanks.

Yes, that's fab. What did you do? Shouldn't the black eyedropper turn that area black rather than just changing the colour?

Hi Damo. I thought to make the bricks black, I could use the black eyedropper in levels, but all that does is change the colour of the image. How can I make it black, and preserve the colour and brightness of the hair? 100% crop

Do you mean that some of the colour photos that you're exporting will also be edited in B&W? Or different ones that you're not providing in colour?

Thanks. I just tried it, and realised it is impossible haha!

Hi Damo, I am guessing there is no magic answer for this one, but is there a way other than painstakingly masking to change the background from grey to white? Thankfully the client has these photos and wanted the grey, I am just having a play with an ad where a white BG would be handy. Thanks Kim 100% crop

No worries Damo, it's just a random thing that happens sometimes. They are on my internal drive.

When I have been working for a while in Bridge, I often get the error message show below. It appears to happen if I insert photos into an external program (eg into emails, uploading to web etc). Is there any way around this, that you know of, instead of having to shut down Bridge and PS, and restart? Thanks Kim I have a PC desktop running Windows 10 and Photoshop CS5. It is over 2 years old, and has 32GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 759GB free out of 2720GB. The last time I shut down was last night. I rarely run a cleanup program.

Came out OK I reckon. Thanks heaps for your help, I learned a bit from that, and learned what I need to learn lol.

Sorry Damo, doing ten things at once and school hols, will post it here soon.

I really need to spend some time learning about channel mixer, I think, it still baffles me somewhat. Thanks, will have a go myself shortly, and post the finished pic.

Awesome, thanks so much, I appreciate the time and expertise you put into helping us!

That's great, much better than what I came up with!

Ahh, I see. I just opened the file without the profile embedded, and see the #. Here are the 100% crops (1200px instead of 700)

EEK! Thank you, I didn't know that was unchecked, I hate to think how many images I may have uploaded without it checked. How did you know?

Hi Damo. Another one where I am playing with a background. I have tried a few methods but am finding it hard to get an acceptable result. Any ideas? (100% crop attached, background as shot is grey, new one is varying shades of brown).

Thanks Damo, you have a really good knack for doing that. I post, then I figure it out. Sorted, haha!