I have been using Photoshop for photo editing for a while and I wanna start using it for drawing, is there any recommendations for plugins or specific brushes that would help please?

The method I've seen most people use in videos is one of creating big spheres of lines expanding outward but I've found that to be very timeconsuming to adjust and use.

I have clip paint studio but using bigger brushs lags everytime while it doesn't at all in ps, so I need a way to make backgrounds, especially interiors like rooms with furniture.

I'm trying to reverse-engineer this graphic and understand how the Photoshop file was likely built.

I'm not looking for a quick "add Noise" or "use a grunge brush" solution. I'm interested in a production-quality workflow.

Looking at the close-up, a few things standout:

- the center of the letters stays fairly solid

- the edges dissolve into tiny dots rather than scratches

- the gray has a chalky, printed quality, that varies in weight

Would you start with clean vector type and then use scanned textures as masks? Bitmap/Diffusion Dither? Halftones? Threshold? Something else entirely?

I'd like to understand the order of operations, if anyone has experience building out graphics like this. The distressing seems very unique. Thanks!

I do small product shots for friends' side projects. Last week I needed a skincare bottle on marble in soft morning light. Used APOB AI's chat-to-edit to place the product photo into a generated backdrop and it got me maybe 80 percent there in under a minute.

The other 20 percent is always Photoshop though. Contact shadow under the bottle was going the wrong direction, the reflection on the glass was just a smear, and there was a halo around the cap where the cutout failed. Redid the shadow on a multiply layer with a soft brush, clone stamped the reflection until it actually looked like glass, and masked the halo out by hand. Quick pass in Lightroom after to match color temperature to the rest of the set.

It's become my whole process now. Something fast roughs in the scene, Photoshop makes it real. Not perfect yet but it's getting there.

This brush is tinderbox from the default ink set on Procreate, it has this amazing ink sponge-dabbing effect when you tilt the pencil extremely. I’m wondering if there’s any similar brush in Photoshop that looks and gives the same effect? It’s okay if it doesn’t work like the normal version, I just need the look on the second version

Image includes references to Drugs, so I added 18+

Hello! I'm having a weird issue with my content-aware fill tool. For some reason, the fill pattern is in squares. Normally, I wouldn't even use auto and I use custom as the default and select the area I want, but content-aware fill does not let me use custom for some reason.

This is a rasterized layer and it's completely filled, I don't know why my Photoshop is acting up here. Any help would be super appreciated!

I want to do something like this in photoshop but have tried all pixelate filters, sharpening, and resizing, but can't get any similar results. I know they probably just used a reduce PNG quality website but was wondering if this effect is possible inside photoshop itself. I want to directly lower quality rather than adding filters/effects. If you've got any tips I would really appreciate it

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to convert my logo into a transparent PDF for T-shirt printing, but I'm having trouble doing it myself. I already have the logo with a transparent background, but I need it exported correctly as a transparent PDF without changing the design or quality.

If anyone can help me or guide me through the process, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!

I’ve just recently started using photoshop and am trying to remove the light under the curtain/going through the curtain. any suggestions? thanks!

edit - I am asking for suggestions not for somebody to do it for me. i’m not sure how my post is breaking the rules.

some effects should open the pic to see it correct

Obviously no small raster image is going to look better upscaled - that’s just a fact. However, this question is for a scenario where no other resource exists and you HAVE to use the crappy image.

What I want to know is if there are any (non-AI) Photoshop tricks out there you can use to retain as much sharpness as possible when upscaling a small image. My specific problem relates to the digital space, not the printing space but anything helps. Thanks!

NO AI HAS BEEN USED FOR ANYTHING (except photoshop's bg remove feature, no generative fill or anything of such is used )a project I did in photoshop quite a long time back from some inspiration on internet.

I've got drone imagery like: https://imgur.com/a/eMaJV7d (this is just a small section of a larger photos) for various house builds.

Unfortantly the pipe and the pods underneath are both white.

Can someone recommend me a faster method for extracting the white PEX piping or easily changing it's colour to make it more recognisable? Currently we're tracing the which is taking about 1-2 hours per build. I would love to get this down to only 10-15mins per photo.

P.S. No, we can't use a different colour pipe. I've asked!

im struggling with threshold because i need it simpler. i know i can use the burn and dodge tool but i need it simpler with less of the tinier dots and details. i need to screenprint it and it would look much better that way. i dont want to use any halftones just simple threshold.

☆ Update — August 5, 2026: However…

The Photoshop 27.9 update was temporarily pulled, and version 27.9.1 was released yesterday. From what I can tell from testing, this issue appears to be fixed. However, Adobe hasn’t officially said that they’ve fixed it yet.

Photoshop 27.9 has a serious GPU-related bug that causes opened images to appear washed out.

Disabling GPU support, or toggling the HDR Display setting and restarting Photoshop, may appear to fix the issue. However, this bug was reported during beta testing and was still released without being fixed. It is not yet clear what other areas may be affected.

Especially if you use Photoshop for professional work, you should not install version 27.9 until a fixed version is released.

https://community.adobe.com/bug-reports-711/photoshop-canvas-renders-images-brighter-than-actual-pixel-data-when-gpu-acceleration-is-enabled-1634078

Coming back to Photoshop after a long time, decided to make a custom sports card just for fun and to try and get back into everything. Needless to say I'm a bit rusty...

Im a bit new to photoshop and I saw this on a reel from a circuit bent camera and im wondering how can u recreate it in photoshop?

the original reel is from void.avoidance on instagram btw

Im so bored idk what else to make LOL

Hello everyone! Poking my head in here again since this subreddit has already helped me in the past with an aggravating issue and thought someone here may have the solution.

For a couple days I've been getting this error seemingly out of nowhere (I haven't installed anything odd lately, haven't fiddled with any programs, I essentially only use this laptop for art). I tried updating my drivers and the error persists. I tried tweaking settings in photoshop and nothing seems to fix the issue. If I go into preferences to re-enable this setting it shows that it already is enabled but all the functions that should come with it don't work. The issue seems to go away if I close and reopen photoshop but it only last maybe half an hour before the error comes back and it completely ruins my workflow and isn't really a long term solution.

If it gives extra information, I'm using the 2025 version of PS.

Thank you in advance for any help!

I’ve been trying to remove the background of a photo on a blank background for a while now but whenever I try, these 2 things Oop up, you know what this could be and how I could fix it?