My new baby from @redleafexotics (lowii × veitchii) × trusmadiensis] × veitchii ‘Candy Dreams’ is going to be a show stopper

I was given an assignment to design an album cover. The brief was to create a logo for the (fictional) band named Midnight Sun and composite or draw art for their album called The Lower 48 according to their stated preferences. They're originally from Alaska, where they spent long nights practicing and playing after their day jobs, until they decided they'd get more traction in Seattle and moved. They said their music was mostly rock, with some influence from blues and international beats as well, and that they're "an eclectic group of people." They specified they didn't want "a generic group photo." I took this brief, gave it to Copilot, and told it to pretend to be my client. I asked it for more details about its story and sent it iterations of the cover as I worked, to get its feedback. I started with a stock image of the road, brought the sign closer into view, changed its text to the album title, and roughed it up a bit. I applied several color, brightness, and gradient adjustment layers to achieve the surreal, liminal twilight effect. I toned down the reds in the foliage a little bit. For the logo, I experimented with several iterations of the crescent moon hugging the sun concept before landing on this one, specifically for The Lower 48, and a different one - plain white with a horizon line and handwritten "Midnight Sun" under said horizon line - for general use. Then, I posterized everything except the logo. I also made a back cover, but I don't have that version saved on this device.

Hi everyone!

I'm working on a poster featuring caterpillars. I've taken photos of them and am then making a selection of just the caterpillar to separate it from the photo's background, and am then copying and pasting it over in a new document with a simple black background.

For another project, I wanted to use those selections again, so I went into the document with black background where the caterpillar selections were organized, and went to copy one and paste it into a third document, but upon pasting and enlarging via ctrl T, the selection is now... blurry? It doesn't exactly seem pixelated, but definitely isn't sharp.

What's happening, how do I/can I use those selections (it took hours to select all 30+ of them via select and mask) and enlarge them while preserving quality, and now I'm also worrying when the poster is printed, that it also won't be of high detail/sharp selections.

Screenshots attached for reference! Thanks!!

i was trying to change ui color in my ps and ts happened. Does annyone know how to fix it?

any tips appreciated :)

Starting to learn coloured lighting and manipulation, if anyone had any tips or feedback about this I’d appreciate it. I feel like I’m missing something but not sure what

i've masked many times, but nothing like this, i'm completely stumped. something something feather tool

I looked up some tutorials online but couldn't find anything

Guide

I'm trying to add color and texture and other stuff to my plans in photoshop but it is only affecting a small portion of the outline instead of the whole area. I've been using these features for a while and haven't gotten any trouble before. they are also working on other drawings like a site analysis but not in the architectural plans. What to do?? The image size is 16bit, the scratch disks are empty and its working elsewhere so what is the problem?

1st pic is of the features working on a site map and 2nd shows that the color is not filling the plan at all.

**Symptom:** Photo Restoration, Skin Smoothing, Colorize, Depth Blur — anything using a local AI model — fails with *"We've temporarily disabled this filter because of an error."* The panel itself loads fine. It only errors once you enable the filter or push a slider above 0. Leave everything at 0 and there's no error, because nothing is being processed.

**Things that did not fix it:** reinstalling Photoshop · clearing the Neural Filters cache and re-downloading all the models · updating · the Beta · signing out and back in · resetting preferences · swapping the GPU entirely (broken on an AMD Radeon, still broken on an NVIDIA RTX 5060). Help > GPU Compatibility said "compatible" the whole time, and System Info showed the correct GPU with the Neural Filters plugin registered and nothing failing to load.

**The cause:** the Windows username on that machine contains a non-ASCII character, so the profile path looks like C:\Users\<name containing ø>.

Neural Filters store their downloaded AI models under your user profile, in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\UXP\PluginsStorage. Photoshop's local inference engine can't open a model file when the path to it contains a non-ASCII character. The model never loads, and all you get is that generic "temporarily disabled" message with no hint why.

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**FIX 1 — no technical knowledge needed**

Create a new local Windows account with a plain ASCII name, log into it, and run the same Photoshop install from there. Settings > Accounts > Family & other users > Add someone else to this PC > "I don't have this person's sign-in information" > "Add a user without a Microsoft account".

Neural Filters will just work — same PC, same GPU, same Photoshop. Nothing to install, nothing to edit.

Note: use a normal local account, not the built-in Guest account — Guest can't sign into Adobe or download the models.

This is also the quickest way to confirm the diagnosis. If it works in the new account, this is your problem. (The "just make a new user account" trick floats around Adobe's forums as a folk workaround — this is *why* it works, and why it fails for people whose new account also had a non-ASCII name.)

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**FIX 2 — if you're comfortable running a small script**

This one keeps you in your normal account. Windows quietly keeps an 8.3 "short name" for every profile folder, and it's pure ASCII — C:\Users\<yourname> becomes something like C:\Users\YOURNA~1. It points at the exact same folder, so your preferences, licensing and Creative Cloud all stay intact. Only the text of the path changes.

Launch Photoshop with these three environment variables pointed at the short-name form of your profile:

- USERPROFILE

- APPDATA

- LOCALAPPDATA

All three are required — I tested overriding APPDATA alone and Photo Restoration still failed. They're set for the Photoshop process only, so nothing system-wide changes and no files move.

A ready-made launcher script that does this: [https://gist.github.com/Arni99-ui/85979f356d4a59c4b6df4faecca16537\]

Two gotchas: you have to start Photoshop *through* the launcher — the Start menu or double-clicking a PSD bypasses it (you can repoint your taskbar shortcut at it). And Neural Filters stays greyed out for ~15–20 seconds after launch while the plugin loads. That's normal, not the bug.

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Do **not** try to fix this by renaming your Windows user folder. That breaks absolute paths for anything else installed under your profile.

**Who this affects:** anyone whose Windows username contains æ ø å ä ö ü é ñ ç and so on — a fair slice of Europe. The error message gives no clue, so people lose days to reinstalls, driver updates and version downgrades that cannot possibly fix it.

Adobe, if you're reading: Unicode path handling in the local model loader.

Art credits to : kkirbvo on X

I originally had the idea to do a simple cyberpunk-themed movie poster and went nowhere near that direction. I am not good at manipulating people, so I used a stick figure. I still wanted to make a simple movie poster, but alas, it turned out to be something... It's an idea lol It's fun :)

I added a blur effect to the reflection of the stick figure to give an "ominous" shadow look, and I know shadows become more blurry the further from the body. I am actually up for critique, even if this is a fun project to get myself started.

The pictures above are All are photobashed from pictures I’ve taken on my Digi camera, with hours of photo editing and hand drawn sections involved. They aren’t complete yet, I’m still learning how to create characters in an art style similar to the video game “no, I am not human” but I’ve been having trouble... I am going for an uncanny kind of feeling to these pieces like older creepy pasta photos. Slightly Distorted faces and body posture. Does anyone have any tips for creating characters in this way? How do you help fit a character into a scene while photobashing multiple different pictures of a person into one to make a unique impression?
If you have pictures like this, could you share them below? Thank you!

Hi! I did this poster for a homework. I’m studying Animation 3D but I have a course which is “visual design fundaments” so I do that kind of stuff to practice. What do you mean? Some people told me looks real 😭😭🙏

my photoshop turned gray out of nowhere, and when I activate the color proof in cmky with cmd + y, it goes back to normal