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    Photo to manga help

    The skin tone is a little... odd... and there is a weird highlight on the pants leg that makes it look like it's shiny. I don't know if that was your intent. Otherwise, looks like you've definitely got a cartoon look going for you there. Don't know if it's "manga", but it's certainly cartoon...
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    Professional Portrait

    *rolls eyes* I wasn't saying the highlights are fine... they are blown on the dress area, but the face area doesn't have the highlights blown and it doesn't look that bad. It's also in the realm where, if needed, the image could be edited still since there is picture data there to work with...
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    how can i do this w/gradient tool?

    Sure you can. :)
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    Photo to manga help

    If you want it to be GOOD... you'll have to redraw it. If you want it to be sorta kinda passable you could try a combination of the "cutout" filter and making a grayscale version on a layer and doing something like "find edges" filter on it then use blending modes to combine them. There isn't a...
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    Professional Portrait

    If you zoom in and sample the pixels say on the bridge of the girl's nose or her forehead, not only do they sample as disparate but below white. That's actually the definition of "not blown". ;) hehe. They don't look great, but they don't look great in the original file either... there is...
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    my shot at the Ibanez

    What I noticed is the lighting discrepancies. The lighting on the image overall is coming from the upper leftish. But the lighting on the screws for the tuning pegs is coming from... uh.. everywhere? Overall it's looking good, and with some tweaking could be really good.
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    how can i do this w/gradient tool?

    Good, ask specific questions if you run into problems along the way. What... tall? Then you have lots of fun stuff ahead of you to learn! Photoshop can be daunting, but once you get over the initial learning curve, there's lots of fun things to do and lots of fun ways to do them. Then you...
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    Professional Portrait

    The highlights aren't blown... they're just disproportionate. I'm betting you're using an LCD monitor? I've noticed this a lot recently, been meaning to look into a solution. Modern consumer LCDs have boosted the brightness way past where it should be and it's making well exposed images appear...
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    Professional Portrait

    The glow on the first and third ones is a bit much and doesn't add anything to the image, it looks faked... the second image is blended nicely though and it brings up the object focus.
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    issues with smoothing and contracting an image

    That's how I often do these things... or even more often, I'll just draw on the layer while I'm actually watching the numbers on the info palette. In this case though, if he knows he wants, say a 200x200 rounded rectangle... just pick the rounded rectangle tool, type 200 into height and width...
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    Stumped on Merging Images

    I'll show you how to fix both steps in one quick motion. Open both documents in Photoshop and make sure you can see both of them at once. Using the move tool, click and drag the one you want on top onto the other document while holding the shift key.
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    issues with smoothing and contracting an image

    Why can't you? Just click on the little drop down arrow in the shapes area of the info bar when you have the rounded rectangle selected. Type in the size that you want and you're all set. Or just click and drag while watching the size on your info palette. Or create guides at the exact size you...
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    how can i do this w/gradient tool?

    Yes you can do that, I don't know why it's not working for you, but I'm guessing that it's a problem with how it's being blended. What I would do is probably use a curves or levels adjustment layer and then apply a layer mask to that layer to hide it where you don't want to see the adjustment...
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    issues with smoothing and contracting an image

    When you select any tool the info bar at the top of the screen changes to display the tool options for that particular tool. With marquee you can type the specific size you want (including units) into the width and height boxes at the left of that bar. This will allow you to create a marquee of...
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    New to Photoshop; help sharpening

    Glad things worked out for you Sam, hopefully we'll see you around posting some more. :)
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    New to Photoshop; help sharpening

    Well... sorta... http://web.mac.com/gapodaca/iWeb/Photoshopmechanics/Podcast/52C2367A-1C3E-40AA-8B2C-252C13816442.html More info than most people will ever need: http://www.photoshoptechniques.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12451
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    New to Photoshop; help sharpening

    Make sure that the layer isn't locked. At the top of the layers palette are four types of locking methods. Make sure none of them are checked. Background layers are automatically locked against movement... sometimes when you duplicate them, other locking methods carry along with it. As I said...
  18. M

    setting up new computer

    Guassian beat me to it while I was typing heh. Here's the link http://www.adobe.com/ap/support/programs/adobe/?tab:contact=1
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    Circular text in 7.0

    It wasn'' brusque, it was jovial. So, you're welcome. :P Unfortunately the functionality you're looking for was a long time in coming to Photoshop. It has been available in Illustrator for a long time. Ironically, there was a plugin that would work in PS5 that won't work in PS7 that would do...
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    Photoshop cs2 9.0.2 wont run

    You could try resetting your preferences at boot by holding (I believe) ctrl+alt+shift while the app boots. Other than that you should probably contact Adobe's tech support since this is kind of an Adobe tech support issue. Have you had this problem with other apps (adobe or otherwise)? OS...
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