PhotoShop CS4 Feather Effect

Windows Ultimate
PhotoShop CS4
Dear friends I have a picture , which is cut from one side and I wanna smoothen the cut side by adding a "feather Effect" to make it look more natural
I did this many times befor , but for some reason I can't remember how to do it again
Basically I wanna smoothen the edges of a picture, so that cut is not visible
Thanks.

Yep, like Noel stated. I would use a Layer mask and the Gradient tool or a selection.
I appoligize for using images from Elements instead of CS4 but the idea will be the same.
I added a Layer Mask to the image and a white fill layer below for this example.
Then select the gradient tool to add the soft edge you were asking about.
I like to use Black to Transparent so I can continue to feather with a little more control.
Hold the Shift key to constrain the fill if needed as you drag the Gradient tool. I also like to start a ways outside of the image (hit the F key to expand the window view if needed) and continue to make passes with the Gradient Tool to feather more gently till I have the result I want.
Here is a quick example I think you were talking about.
You can adjust as you like with the mask and add back parts you want to leave by using the brush tool and painting with white to reveal.
Hope this helps.

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I bought Web Creative Premium CS4 on Nov. 2007, with the hope and dreams that Photoshop CS4 could help me bring in a second income and help me with old family pictures. I wanted to install the product on another hard drive I had bought for my workstation computer. The hard drive is a western digital 150 gigabyte hard drive and I made a 40 gigabyte partition of free space for Photoshop CS4 to play on. At the time there were no advanced tutorials on advance installation of the product on another partition on the internet. CS4 was new on the market. I sent an email in to the forum and explained my disposition. I wrote an essay form question. Something to this affect. I would like to be able to install Adobe Photoshop CS4 to another partition, where CS4 can build out the configuration folder, the brush folder, the template folder, etc.. on another hard drive other than C:\ and the registry configuration can build out the proper configuration commands in the registry to point CS4 to those location on startup. After that long question I got a one sentence answer. “ Yes you can install Adobe Photoshop CS4 custom to any hard drive”. I assumed from the answer I was not dealing with an intelligent community, so I decide to just suffer the best I could. With over several updates and several re-installs of the product I have concluded that Photoshop CS4 is not user friendly. I go through a daily step of procedures, which gives me an outcome of a final product. Though Photoshop CS4 does not work in a perfect world, even though you pay your life’s dreams into it. I have to change my procedure steps every time after a new update is installed. Since I cannot get any help with this problem, or an advanced computer technician with a B.A. in Computer Science to help me. I see no other recourse in keeping this product, and would like to know how I can get a full re-fund. I have only made one digital print with Photoshop CS4. That took me one year to get the general ideas without any tutorials. I happened on some basic trail and errors to get an awesome outcome with layering and lighting effects. Just some general FYI on something’s I have noticed over the years, which changed. At one time I was able to create a new layer and the background would fill in automatically white. Now I have to do it manually and sometimes when I use the magic wand to copy an object to paste it to another layer, when I go to that layer and click on the object to move it. I move the whole layer. You have to laugh, because if you don’t you would probably want to run your fist through your 22’ wide LCD screen. Thanks for listening.

Best practice is to install PS CS4 on C drive. PS Expects certain files and folders to be on C drive. Since this is a user to user forum and we (I) don't work for Adobe you will have to call Customer service for a refund.

Photoshop CS4 - How to install both 64 and 32 bit versions on XP 64

Hello-
When I installed Photoshop CS4 along with the other apps on CS4 Web Premium I thought that both versions of PShop would be installed by default, but that was not the case with my installation; only the 64 bit version was installed.
Now I would like to install the 32 bit version but when I try to do it through setup I am unable to check the box. There is a list of "Installed Products" and then "Available Products"; the only thing under "Available Products" is Photoshop CS4, but I am unable to check the box.
Any ideas on how I can install the 32-bit version? I want it for the GPU acceleration and to use certain plugins.
Thanks,
Paul

a)re: built for XP64 - note that I said "gave the [erroneous] impression," meaning that someone could plausibly infer that PSCS4 64 will not run reliably on XP 64, which is categorically untrue. I am NOT saying that there are not people who have had problems and will continue having problems with PS CS4 on XP 64.* However, I am personally attesting - having worked with PS CS on my XP 64 system a lot since buying it this week, including continuously since I reinstalled last night ( I tend to work at night) - that PS CS4 runs gloriously on XP 64, INCLUDING the OpenGL stuff once you patch the reg via the link I posted (which, by the way, would have been a valid answer to my question).
On that note, telling me stuff that I already know is NOT a valid answer. Further, as we have seen, my running this on XP 64, as opposed to Vista, was irrelevant, if only (but not really only) because that is not the system to which my question referred. How did telling me about Vista help? If you don't know what to do with XP 64, then you don't know....I didn't know either, at least when I posed my question. Your reference to Vista was POINTLESS.
b) re: installing to non-default directory. I have been doing this for so long that I can't remember not doing it, and I have never, ever had a problem like this, and I do have other dual-bit depth apps. This should be a non-issue. If I thought it was relevant I would have mentioned it, but in light of what I just said, it did not seem to be a factor. Crikey- CS3 is in that same directory! Why would Adobe's installer get confused? They are the same structures, i.e. %disk%:\Program Files, %disk%:\Program Files (x86). If you knew things that might cause my problem - you didn't-you might have asked about my install.... Instead, you told me what anyone who had read my question would already know that I knew, namely that there would be two different locations for the two different versions. Incidentally, and here's good intel here, when you do get them both installed, you get BOTH versions listed in your Adobe CS4 whatever edition programs folder. Right there! So, if you had known what you were on about, you would have realized that there was NO WAY that PS 32 was mysteriously hiding somewhere. This is another clue that you knew nothing about the subject you were purportedly answering!
So why, why, why am I picking on you? Because there was a time when you could post a simple question on the internets and some helpful soul would take the time to actually read and consider the question before giving an answer that, even if not ultimately fruitful, was at least in the freaking ballpark. But those days are gone** and even though I know that and I expect nothing, I posted anyway, and along came you, with two heaping helpings of SQUAT in terms of useful advice. What the hey? Are you that bored that you just dole out crappy advice? Watch more TV or something!
Jeez!
Thanks,
Paul
*My relevant system specs are as follows, for those who may want to give XP 64 a shot: and/or are having problems:
XP 64 SP2 ( there is no SP3 for 64 and parenthetically I will note that CS4 on XP 32 SP2 runs fine even though you get a warning on install that it is supposed to have SP3 installed)
8 GB RAM
AMD 64X2 5600 on AMD/ATI 780G Chipset with dual integrated ATI 3200 Graphic plus an extra ATI 3400 card running three different monitors (2 on the 3200 and one on the 3400). On my setup PS likes to enable and actually work with the OpenGL stuff when I launch either/or the 64 or 32 bit version on the monitor that is attached to the 3400 card. After that I can drag the app anywhere I want and it works.
** in July, as myself and my girlfriend were getting ready for our vacation, we posted on a location-specific travel group to ask if people knew if the hotel we were staying at had a safe for our laptop. We got like thirteen responses, all more or less to the effect that we should leave the laptop at home when we go on vacation. Not ONE answer about the hotel! WTF???

Photoshop CS4 will not Start

Hi, i'm usually quite responsible when it comes to making sure my system can coap with what i am asking of it, but i've ran into a problem that my computer just can't seem to get around, and means that photoshop cs4 will not start up.
I've been making .PAT files from a few pattern sourcebooks i've recently brought. The first two went fine, but a japanese sourcebook contained 250 reasonably hi-res pattern images which i put through an automated action which set them all as patterns for me for the Pattern Overlay option in beldning options. When i did this i noticed my computer started to slow down near the end of the process, so i saved out the .PAT file from them, and quit photoshop to free up over 2.10GB worth of data. I have 4GB on a 32bit XP, but only 2 and a half-ish is seen by windows due to the hardware installed aswell. Of course i plan to chnage this to 64bit soon, but anyway, when photoshop now is told to start up, it reads everything normally, then gets to "Reading Preferences", and crashes with an error report, which watching my task manager, i belive to be linked to memory shortage from having to load the patterns up.
I reset my preferences to see if it would set them all back to default and not read the added pattern files, but that made no difference. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!!

I'd look into doing a couple of tests:
1.) Move those PAT files elsewhere
2.) Eliminate all programs and Processes, that are unnecessary. Task Manager>Processes will give you a list of all that load, and you can probably stop half of them with no ill effects. I'd use MSCONFIG, so you can go back and easily activate them later.
3.) Reboot and see what happens.
Note: John's suggestion on the Presets folder might address #1, but I'd also physically Move them. It sounds like you're running totally out of resources to run PS, so Textures, and such, might be an issue too.
A question: how are your Scratch Disks setup and please tell us about your I/O sub-system, i.e. the internal HDD's, their size, free space, speed, controller type and how these internal HDD's are allocated. Especially tell us if you have any physical HDD's partitioned.
Good luck,
Hunt

Photoshop CS4 - new report, old problems

Hi there,
although i have posted many of the following problems in another thread, i will recall them here, because the other thread has gone slightly off-topic.
I have been "using" Photoshop CS4 that came as part of my Production Suite Premium Package for as long as it is out now and i have to say, that for me it is the worst release ever.
I work with Photoshop since Version 3 and every new release has had it's flaws that were fixed after a while. So i really hope this might also be the case with CS4.
So here are my System Specs again:
Intel Dualcore E8600
NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GX2 (Driver: 180.48)
MSI P35 Neo-2 Motherboard (Bios: 1.90)
3 GB RAM
Wacom Intuos 3 A4 (Driver: pro610-5)
Windows XP (Service Pack 3)
The System is brandnew, the Windows-Installation is fresh, before the CS4 Suite there has not been another Adobe-Program on the machine.
While I am quiet happy with the other programs (Illustrator, Flash, After Effects..even Bridge is starting to become useful), Photoshop CS4 shows several glitches and problems on my system. These are:
- If activated, the GPU-OpenGL setting deactivates randomly. There's no obvious reason for this, just in the middle of work, the rotate canvas-tool is no longer available, zooming is no longer smooth. While the box in the preferences is still checked for OpenGL and my graphics-card is recognized correctly, OpenGL features just stop working. After I close and restart Photoshop everything is normal again, until the next time settings are deactivated.
I am so far not able to trace the reason for this behavior, seems to happen quiet random.
- No "marching ants". In the same matter, the "marching ants" of selections sometimes disappear. While this is not a big problem I think i should note it here for reasons of being accurate.
- Brush tool stops working. I have this quiet a lot. While I paint, the Brush suddenly stops working completely. It produces neither strokes nor blotches anymore. In some cases hefty drawing can result in some strange straight lines but the brush tool can only be revived by restarting Photoshop.
- Crashes. I truly honestly haven't had a crash with CS2 and CS3 ONCE. With CS4 crashes seem to be quiet normal at this point. The application simply freezes, mostly while using the transformation tool. Killing it via the windows task manager is the only option.
- Slow redraw. All the above mentioned problems did occur with OpenGL enabled AND disabled. It really makes no difference. So deactivating this new thing doesn't convert Photoshop back into something useful, but into a slower version of CS3. Redraw of images is considerably slower on CS4 without OpenGL, than it was on CS3, although it gets better after some time working with it. Moving a maximized Image around feels very strange, because the build up of the tiles is somehow slow and sluggish.
- Features I used are no longer there or no longer functional. I use Layer-Comps a lot. With activated OpenGL the Script "Layer Comps to Files" does not work. It produces an error-message that reads:
Error 1: Unable to create Window - OS error (1400) Line: 234 -> dlgMain = new Window("dialog", strTitle);
With OpenGL deactivated it suddenly works... no idea why.
In addition some features like the automatic web gallery creation have been removed from Photoshop, but i figured out how to get them back.
While these are the really bad things about the new version (on my system that is, I heard from Mac-Users who are quiet happy with PS CS4 and keep telling me how fast it is on a Mac.....) there are other things, that i don't understand. I reckon, Photoshop cs4 is first of all a Mac-product and the PC-Version is somehow adapted or converted.
Proof of this for me is the new window behavior. Windows steeling focus and blocking sight on palettes is new for a long time PC-User like me. I also don't understand, why maximizing an image does fill the complete screen thus exterminatin

While I can not help remedy your problems, Pickman, I can tell you I have mostly the same problems as you. I am not the only one either. I hear this from my students. Marching ants disappearing is normal now, palettes hiding behind windows seems common nowadays. Photoshop losing focus, a document suddenly refusing to be the front one and having to minimize the other document(s) to have it back, lasso tool suddenly not showing it's tracing mark, it's all horrible. The error 'unable to create window' is very common.
I didn't even mention the fact that it's no longer possible to downsize the Photoshop window by it's top edge, which is utterly annoying when you have multiple windows open as I often have or the fact that when I scale the main Photoshop window, the documents stay in place and that the tooltips often don't work which is confusing for the novices that I train. I thought they had remedied that in CS3, but it's back in CS4. I have been using Photoshop since version 3 (briefly) then 4, 5 et cetera. This is one of the worst releases ever.

Photoshop CS4 extended freezes on startup for up to 10 mins

Hi,
When I select Photoshop to start, it has suddenly started taking an inordinate amount of time to start. This has been timed at 10 minutes!
The blue loading screen appears and it stops at the point where it is reading preferences.
No other design suite programs are affected.
If I open an image in Bridge I can access Camera Raw and open Photoshop from the "Open Image" and this tends to be quicker.
I have tried resetting the preferences. I have tried reinstalling Photoshop, and made sure it is updated fully.
The only changes that were made were the manual installation of a Plug in (NAPP Watermark Creator 1.0.5). This would not install correctly via the Extension Manager, I copied a folder to the Program Files (x86) / Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Plug-ins / Panels / (Watermark folder goes here) and the file WatermarkService.jsx to the C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Common Files \ Adobe \ Startup Scripts CS4\ AdobePhotoshop / (WatermarkServices.jsx file goes here) both in accordance with the instructions from the creator. Both the file and folder were removed from these locations when this issue began.
Additionally, I had changed the Scratch Disks settings in the Performance Preferences as suggested to not include the boot drive (C: drive)
and assigned another disk with more than 60GB of free space to this.
Resetting the Scratch disk setting to the original C: selection and restarting Photoshop makes no difference.
Once Photoshop does load there are no problems with its usage.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Andy Wallace

Well just to point out something.
By noting that it is effecting both the 32 bit and 64 bit version you pretty much verified that its more then just a application plug-in issue.
See while both are named Photoshop. they are completly seperate applications using completly different dlls, configurations and even plugins. The 64 bit version does not care what you installed into the 32 bit version's plug in folders and by your description you only added the plug in manually to the 32 bit. it does not use them and they likely would not work and would be ignored even if you put them in the 64 bit plug in folder.
Is there anything you changed that would have effected both 32 bit and 64 bit photoshop?

Photoshop CS4 Crashing

Adobe Photoshop CS4 keeps crashing every time I open a picture and I get the Error message: The specified module could not be found. C;\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Version Cue CS4\Client\4.0.1\VersionCue.DLL appearing.
It is also effecting the right click function of the mouse on the desktop I can not create a New Folder or use any of the right click functions, I can however open folders and perform all the left mouse click functions. If I uninstall CS4 everything works perfectly on the desktop.
I can not do a clean uninstall of CS4 the message says that some components have failed to uninstall. I have tried system restore and that had no effect. Every time I reinstall CS4 it just starts crashing, the computer works perfectly without CS4. Please help.

Thanks. I finally figured out how to update the video card driver. According to the control panel->display->drivers, I was running the most updated driver; but after I searched the web, I found a newer one, and I installed it. I also uninstalled CS4, ran the Clean Script for CS3 and CS4, and then reinstalled. It seems to be working correctly now. Thanks for the help!
re: updating third party software. I only have the plugins that came with the CS4 production premium bundle. Do these get updated automatically with Adobe Updater, or do I need to update these manually? I'm not even sure if I know which are third party and which are part of CS4. lol

Photoshop CS4 setup does not run. Help plz.

hi!
Am having problem with installing the Adobe Photoshop CS4 ( and the same problem with other Adobe CS4 softwares flash, soundbooth, after effects etc...)
the setup does not start when i run it. the setup appears in task manager processes but not on the desktop.
i install it before on the same OS (Win XP SP3), but after formating it, i cant.
If ever i run the setup from CD, it "Inspect my system" but it does not complete (remain 3/4).
As AV, i have Zone Alarm Internet security, but i configure it to allow Adobe but still nothing.
Can anyone help me plz because i badly need these softwares for my work.
Any software that i can use to force the setup installation to run????

hi! thx for ur advice.
for the zone alarm problem, its that, i try to install the software in safe mode but still the same problem.
For other details:
its that i just format my pc..
am using the same windows i used before i format, n photoshop cs4 did install on it and i used the same setup before n it install before i format.
so i dnt really knw where the problem is.
am just installing the photoshop cs4 after a post format.
any further suggestions please.?
i really need those software for my work. & the problem is that its the same problem with flash, after effects, soundbooth cs4.

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