Greebo

Thank you Lee for your help/messages and time in looking at the file I sent and for providing a solution. For others viewing this question the problem is created by a bug that has been alerted to the developers already but in my case I could go into the Gaussian Blur live filter layer I had applied and click on the 'preserve alpha' box and that solved the problem - I was able to export the photo with no grid lines visible. Thank you for helping me to create the photo I wanted Lee D, you're the best! :D

Hi all, Wondering if anyone knows why grid lines appeared on my photo - I created a ghost like image of my daughter for a project about pioneer days in our local area and when creating the layer and reducing the opacity grey grid lines appeared and they are present in the exported photo. I had created a duplicate of the photo, painted her image out in the 'background' photo then selected just her image from the duplicate to place back in as a layer over the background and added some affects in blur and lighting and then reduced the opacity to mimic a ghost like quality, but the lines appear on that layer (just on her 'ghost' self) and are clearly visible in the photo when exported. Is there a way I can correct this? Thank you for your help Greebo.

Thank you both for your replies. I used the youtube tutorial Allan linked in, and that, plus some fiddling around with the brush size/strength in different areas in and around the face and I eventually got something that looks passable enough (was a little harder working with my current images as they weren't nice and crisp like the studio shot in the tutorial). I had to manoeuvre around hair that was across the face in one shot and not in another and the shadow of it, bit of a pain but I got there :) Thanks for your help. I'll likely use the same approach in future when the need presents (I'll just cross my fingers for photos that are easier to manipulate lol - I'm not so naive as to hope for the unicorn rarity of everyone smiling and facing the camera in one shot...#NotInMyFamily).

Hi Sometimes I need to take a face and swap it to another photo (eg when taking group photos one person may be blinking/looking away and in the next shot someone else is, and I want to create one photo with everyone happy with how they look) but I'm new to this program and I've found even though I can alter things like the exposure etc to match the face (selected from photo 1) to the background (photo 2) I'm adding it to, I'm not sure how to properly blend the edges so there is no noticeable line. Hoping someone is familiar with the process and can offer some ideas. And if you can explain them as if you're talking to a 5yr old, even better ;) Cheers