Dekade

Interesting. I'll use it all. Your help means a lot to me. Thanks for your time. Dekade

Your video is exactly what I want. However, I'm not sure of your question meaning on the purpose of the fill tool. Fill in the background?

This will be hard to explain but I'll try. I also want to be able to move around an elliptical or radial gradient as a whole and the background stays the outer most color of the gradient Do I first make a layer with the gradient Then do I make another layer as the background with the background layer color being the same as the outer most portion of the gradient? Example: the elliptical or radial gradient could be a series of blues transitioning out to all black But - I want to be able move/reposition the [blues to black] gradient all around without exposing any white canvas.

Thanks Hens, I think this will get me where I want to go.

For purposes of video backgrounds / editing I want to create different elliptical and radiant gradients to fill a 1920 x 1080 video size. I have no problem making the gradients. I do have the problem of making the elliptical and redial gradients fill out the entire rectangular canvas. How do I do that without the gradient being linear Is there anything in particular that I need to do to the canvas to make it representative of a 1920 x 1080 size. Or - am I over thinking that particular aspect. Thanks for any help, Dekade

I am trying to make an illusion on a photo and would like to have some suggestions on how to achieve the effect. I want to simulate a slice/knife cut on a photograph. Then I want to be able to place a separate image or an object in the slice to look like it's emerging out of the slice. The slice can be uniform or un-uniform and can appear as jagged, curved, or straight, etc. One way to describe what I am trying to achieve is to use the example of: a letter pulled halfway out of an envelope.

Thanks. Will do.

I can't figure out how to increase/decrease the border line size of Artistic Text.

I'm not sure why I merged visible. I was posting to see if I had done things correctly - or - necessary. Ultimately what I was doing was attempting to complete what I worked on and then simply export it as a PNG. Maybe some of the steps I did were not necessary. That's what I'm trying to find out so that I do not make the same unnecessary steps with future documents.

Have I proceeded correctly below? For some reason I feel I did not - EVEN THOUGH - I still achieved my goal of a usable PNG file. Started with document.afphoto Added pixel layer through which I did some clone work Then right clicked the pixel clone layer and left clicked Merge Visible File > Export > PNG > Bilinear > Selection Without Background > Export Was that the correct procedure in step 3 and 4? If I have done wrong, what should I have done and why?

My 'some times' are a bit too regular though.

Thanks. I searched and found various threads. Will study. By the way - how does one accomplish the @Dekade in your reply?

Thanks Walt. I really do apologize to the forum. This is the 3rd or 4th time that something has been right in front of me before I posted a new topic. Dang. I can't tell you how many times I clicked on View and then clicked on the expand arrow. I was always expecting to see something to the right expand and then after your reply noticed it expanding to the left. Unbelievable. I have got to learn to slow down! Additionally, I've been using the "Dark" UI Style. I love the way the screen looks. Maybe it's screwing me up. I think I'll try the "Light" UI Style for awhile. Anyway, thanks again. And also . . . for the 64bit clarity.

Is there a keyboard shortcut in Windows (v10 64bit) to recenter the document in the open window?

That's the direction I want to go for sure. Now I'll watch the video and see if I can duplicate the process onto the object chosen for the texture.