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New to Photopea. When I select to remove something, it seems to stay there and paint it white and black boxes, how do I get it to remove? Also how do I aak a question there? The search bar doesn't respond. Thank you.

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u/Able-Plant-6894 — 12 hours ago

so i took a few images off the internet, booted up photopea and these were the result.

u/mrgreenperson — 2 days ago

Do you have problems with texts too?

So I was working on something and I needed to put there text but it just didnt show up. I closed photopea, tried restarting pc, waiting a while but it didnt change anything. I cant see what I am writing and when I "submit" the text its invisible. Its not problem of the color or size neither the font. Anyone having same issue or know how to fix it? thanks!

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u/Available_Spot_7118 — 3 days ago

Comic Panel Photopea Text Size Advice

So I've been trying to create my own Comic Panel on Photopea but The Text Size is always what's giving Me issues, Yesterday I Tried to do a Comic Panel but The Text Size was my Main Issue.

as you See, I Have 2 Examples, Both are from the 2024 Witchblade Reboot made by Top Cow,

The First Example is with Aphrodite IX (Green-Hair Girl) and I Wrote "Spider-Man" but you can barely see it

The 2nd Example is with The Darkness, and I also wrote Spider-Man but it's more visually seeable.

I'm really only looking for Advice from People who make Comic Panels on Photoshop/Photopea as well as tips & Tricks.

u/AlexanderBlotsky — 4 days ago

Can't export anything?

I updated my photopea this morning, and it works normally. But when I finish with my work and go to export it, nothing happens. The download process begins but it stops mid download. Anyone know how can I fix this?

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u/d3c0mp0sing — 5 days ago

Most Photopea tutorial makers quit Photopea some reason?

  • PIXSMITH & TodaysTuts hasn't posted a video in over a year
  • CAMBIT Creates turned into a vlog (?) channel (and transformed into Cameron McSwain)
  • Photopea Pro turned into an AI channel (and transformed into pixel platter)

I could go on further but these are the main channel I USED to watch and where I learned a lot of things about Photopea, but since they all left Photopea I felt that they all betrayed me. Why did they all have to do this to me? Can you guys suggest good replacements?

u/SilverTeacher3808 — 5 days ago

Gold Leaf Text

I design emergency vehicle graphics for different types of games, and I've been doing it for about 2 years now. Today I was working on a fire engine and, like most fire apparatuses, it has this Gold Leaf text on it. Usually I would just do a pattern overlay with the little flower looking shapes and make it really small, that works great but I've decided that I want to start doing it the right way to make my designs better. Does anyone know how to this Gold Leaf text effect?

u/WorldlinessInside902 — 5 days ago

Is there a way to split a single image into multiple layers

https://preview.redd.it/o6zofjudqfah1.png?width=1965&format=png&auto=webp&s=59c6815a639bdf04abcccb5b9a635f04a7bf064d

So I have this image but I want to save each hexagon as a separate image. The hexagons are all cut, so the image is cut into separate hexagons, but is there any way to save each hexagon as a different image? Sure, I could mark each hexagon one-by-one but that'd take a long time, especially if I want to do this with a larger image and more hexagons in the future.

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u/Zackiboi7 — 6 days ago

Zoom won't do 100%?

I set the preferences for measurement to MM, and it shows MM, but when I use the zoom it is showing "Zoom pixel to pixel 100%" instead of just doing 100% like normal. I am using the same computer and monitor I always use and nothing has changed. I can usually zoom to 100% for an item I own and hold it up to the screen and it will match. I properly adjusted the picture to the exact size but it's not working. Even when zoomed out so it says 100% in the bottom left, if I hold up a ruler to the ruler guides in photopea, it's off by about 20mm. My browser and OS are not zoomed in. What is causing this?

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u/Lomp84 — 6 days ago

How do I make the background of this pure white? It's an off white color but I need it white while all the text and icons remain the same

I've read stuff online and watched tutorials but can't figure it out. I created a new layer, made it using the bucket, and merged the layers but that didn't work.

u/Evanesco-igzistens — 6 days ago

Create Permanent Portable Tiff File

I've tried with GIMP and now Photpea and haven't figured out how to do this.

I have an image of an old map, it is a picture of an old black and white drawing. I want to change the linesis and lettering to one color and the background to black so it is just black and white then change the white to a color and the black to transparent. I can do this with either app.

I can use this to create a georeferenced tiff with qgis, and then export it as a geoferenced tiff. I do have to fiddle with the RGB band settings though to do this.

If I load the exported geofiff into a different gis app it too isn't visible without adjustments and I haven't been able to adjust it as I want it either.

It seems like there may be a different way of saving or exporting this from photopea (or GIMP) so that the image colors, etc and the settings are saved permanently so they will behave the same anywhere they are opened.

If anyone can shed some light on how to do this, the correct terminology for what I am trying to do, etc. I'd appreciate it.

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u/Available_Budget_559 — 6 days ago

I translated 150 PSD files with Photopea, ag-psd and Claude Code

I had a project over the weekend: some designers sent me 150 PSD files representing playing cards that I needed to translate to french and export in various formats. The text layers in the PSD were all manually edited, sometimes with proper shape constraints and auto-layouting, but also lots of hacks as designers aren't tidy. Translating to french would make 20% of text layers overflow, english is more terse than french.
The designers' own export script, based of Photoshop, took 3h to export those 600DPI cards, to finally downsample to 300DPI.

I didn't want to spend 2 weeks on that job. I could feel I would need to revise the render several times, seeing some typos in the cards.
I discovered Photopea's Live Messaging API was the answer.

The Contenders

I was planning on automatically extracting the text, machine translating it, manually proofreading it, and then reinjecting the text with exact template driven text layers. Going from 2 weeks down to a weekend. I evaluated different approaches to do so:

  • ag-psd: Parses and edits PSD data fast, but its text rasterization is inaccurate and doesn't handle effects, text within a shape etc. Not faithful to Photoshop.
  • Skia: A bit more mature than ag-psd on text rasterization, but still not very accurate and no understanding of the PSD document structure.
  • Headless Photoshop: Expensive. Licensing headaches. Slow. Not an option.

I needed actual Photoshop rendering, headless, scriptable, fast.

How Photopea's Live API Works

I used 10 playwright-cli to openphotopea.com/#<config>. Then:

  1. Send it a PSD as ArrayBuffer
  2. Send JavaScript snippets (real Photoshop scripting engine) to perform a variety of tasks
  3. Receive rendered PNGs/PSDs back as ArrayBuffers

You get Photoshop rendering without Adobe. Everything stays client-side.

The Reality Check

✅ Client-side (no data leaves)
✅ Full Photoshop scripting API
✅ Headless-friendly (Playwright integration)
✅ Fast (~2-3s per card to open 3MB files, transfer the text, fit it within the box and reexport)
❌ Can't copy/paste layers between documents (forked ag-psd to do this)
❌ Scripting API undocumented (reverse-engineered it)
❌ Font caching doesn't survive reboots—massive time sink
❌ No API to detect text overflow in shapes
❌ No easy way to push styled textRuns from an API
❌ Injected text rasters don't refresh (had to hack: resize layer 100→100 to force re-render)

What I Actually Did

  • Resample all documents to 300DPI with a headless Photopea
  • Extracted text via ag-psd
  • Applied translations on extracted text
  • Deleted all translated text layers to replace with accurate template driven contrained to shape layers via a forked custom version of ag-psd.
  • With injected scripts in Photopea, measured actual rendered text and reduced the text size until it fitted within the template shape without overflows. For this, I checked text bounds against the path to check if it overflows.
  • Exported faithful PNGs for print

Worth It?

For 150 cards: absolutely. Because 150 cards turned out to be 200 with the different revisions. There could be 1,000 for all I care, it's fast now. The pipeline can be adapted to any other project of mass PSD localization.

If you're doing PSD batch automation (localization, design tooling), the API is serviceable—just budget time for workarounds and font management.

Anyone else automating Photoshop? What did you wish you'd known?

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u/batmansmk — 7 days ago

I am trying to use Eurostile Bold Extended font. Sometimes, I can't select the damned font, and when I do, the letters vanish. What do I do to get it working?

u/MintyBarrettM95 — 8 days ago

Pride sonic help!

how can i turn this guy into an outline so just the white part turns colors? That and how can i make images outlines? Im newer sorry

u/aplll1212 — 8 days ago

Subscription Not Removing adBlocker Message

Hello,

This is the second time this issue has happened. I am not using any ad blocker in Microsoft Edge, and I have an active Photopea subscription. However, I still receive the message at the top, and the right panel stays open, reducing my workspace and affecting my freelance work.

Could you please help me fix this issue?

u/Maleficent_Olive_910 — 10 days ago

Still dont know how to get rid of this (Photopea App/Browser not working)

i've gotten past this by using the incognito method, but it feels really inconvenient to do that everytime i want to use photopea so i really wish to fix this sometime soon

u/RewardTraditional445 — 9 days ago

How can I have a vector invisible mask?

In this file: www.photopea.com/#i03Wxxw2P

The small black layer is using an inner glow to demonstrate a clear 3d volume, like a glass, but I need it to be around 3 sides, without the bottom part having this glow/shadow, as it is out of frame.

The regular mask is not vector and feels not precise enough, but maybe it is negligible. I want the shadow to miss the out of frame part and the red layer to be invisible to copy this part to wide.video site, to create an animated logo.

But if the layer is invisible, the glow disappears too. How can I achieve it?

If I don't use a mask, then the black glow is visible outside of the red circle, and I wish it not

A video to demonstrate:

https://reddit.com/link/1uddqag/video/4agsqk1li09h1/player

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u/eNon-theVid-thatOk — 13 days ago

Ad Blocking But Not Really??

Just last week, I was able to use features by watching premium ads. Now it keeps saying I'm blocking ads when I don't even use an ad blocker. At this point, I'll just use Photoshop. What's the deal??

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u/Maleficent_Pair_5646 — 14 days ago

Scale/Rotate a selection on multiple layers at the same time

Possible? I can't see to find an answer to this.

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u/Nuvolore — 14 days ago