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TOPIC: Pulling Green Screen.
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/212d9966474baefd?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 8:20 am
From: Neil_Keller@adobeforums.com

PD,

What happens when you expand the range of "green" colors selected?

Also, there are several standalone and plug-in software programs that can do hair well. OnOne Software's Mask Pro 4.1 and Tiffen Dfx v2 software come to mind.

Neil

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:40 am
From: pfigen

Under Layer>Matting, there are options for defringing. These will often help your situation. In fact Corel Knockout relies on these to finish their operations. Sometimes it's too much and needs to be backed off a bit or painted in, but that's easy enough to do on a duplicate layer.

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:58 am
From: "Phos±four dots"

Understand also that TRUE chromakey is an integrated hardware/software system, and has some strict calibration requirements.

With what you want to do, you can succeed in ditching 99.99999% of the background, and get nice smooth edges, but then you have to worry about objects reflecting the color of the backdrop their shot against.

That's where it can get tricky.

I wish I could offer a one-size-fits-all solution, but there isn't one.

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 11:28 am
From: Allen_Wicks@adobeforums.com

Google for tutorials on "extract image."

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TOPIC: Pen Tool Precision Problem.
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/4a6d980aa694c9d2?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 8:39 am
From: Peripheral_Design@adobeforums.com

This is the info I found about my Graphic Card:

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT:

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 2600
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9588
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B1480A-252
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.252

I'm not too concerned. It's my work computer that's doing it. I don't have any problems with my iMac at home. And if switching viewing modes fixes it, I'll live.

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TOPIC: What #color Looks in Gamma 2.2, the Way This #color Looks in Gamma 1.8?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/f488cbb967c3a241?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 8:52 am
From: Vik_R@adobeforums.com

Thanks, Ann. I've got an Apple Cinema Display, and i've run the Mac OSX color calibrator to set it to gamma 2.2 and white point D65. I've also run the advanced color calibration options on it. I'm using #FFE7B5 as the background color on a web site; on this Apple Cinema Display that appears to be a peach color. My wife has a brand-new Windows Vista laptop from Toshiba, and on her monitor, #FFE7B5 is noticeably redder and less buttery. A link to a .gif showing this color is here:

<http://www.flavorzoom.com/anomalies/FFE7B5/FFE7B5.gif>

Is there a method I can use to find out whether my Apple Cinema Display is showing this color correctly?

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:27 am
From: Buko

Or is the chance of them being incorrectly rendered too great for it to
be considered acceptable?

If that were the case nothing would be acceptable.

Think about it, Most of the monitors viewing anything on the web are not calibrated. Most of the people with computers don't even know its possible to calibrate their monitor. So its safe to say that whatever you create and however good it looks on your computer it will not look the same on the the majority of the computers hooked up to the interweb thingy.

My wife has a brand-new Windows Vista laptop from Toshiba, and on her
monitor, #FFE7B5 is noticeably redder and less buttery.

You just made my point. All you can do is calibrate your monitor with a hardware calibrator and not worry about what other people see on their computers.

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:56 am
From: g_ballard@adobeforums.com

> Windows Vista

VISTA (for all practical purposes) is ASSIGNING sRGB profile to your background color

Your Mac OS (for all practical purposes) is ASSIGNING your custom monitor profile to your background color

That would explain a fundamental difference, but

Who know where your eyeball 'calibration' process ended up

Who knows where your VISTA laptop is

The point is (if color is this important to you) get a hardware profiling package and get your monitor profiles in order — save your images correctly — forget about other people's monitors

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TOPIC: CS3 How to find out the color in a duotone
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/d86c4c48570754f7?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:22 am
From: Tom_Tomasko@adobeforums.com

Cindy,
I tried that but Duotone is grayed out.

The problem is that the duotone is a .tif with CMYK colors.

Tom

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:29 am
From: "Ed Hannigan"

Best you can do is probably try to match it visually in a Pantone reference book.

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 11:17 am
From: Tom_Tomasko@adobeforums.com

Ed,

I tried that. But because a duotone does not have any solid color it is pretty hard to get an accurate color ratio.

Tom

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 11:39 am
From: Buko

The problem is that the duotone is a .tif with CMYK colors.

So its really not a duotone. Best you can do is guesstimate as ed mentioned. the only other avenue is to ask the person who made it.

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TOPIC: iMac runs slowly in Photoshop
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/78f84c21f1212ce5?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:48 am
From: Nathan_Eanes@adobeforums.com

Interestingly enough, after deleting my 15 fatally-corrupted fonts and uninstalling that stupid HP LaunchDaemon, my computer's quite zippy-- even when working for extended periods with large PS docs. I've gotten past the point where it usually slows down.

BTW, does anyone know why/how corrupted fonts slow PS (and the Mac) down so much?

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:53 am
From: "Phos±four dots"

I'd like to know how fonts get corrupted in the first place.

I have thousands and thousands installed (thought not all active all at once) and I can barely remember having many problems with any of them, from sources as far ranging as Adobe to little homemade fonts from a guy who has only ever made that single character set.

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TOPIC: CS4 better than CS3 for Leopard?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/ecccd5018a097da1?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:53 am
From: Nathan_Eanes@adobeforums.com

I have an Intel iMac (mid-2008 Aluminum model) with an ATI Radeon 2600 graphics card with 256MB video RAM. I also have a 2.4ghz CPU and 4GB of system RAM.

I had noticed problems with Leopard's spaces-- sometimes window show up in the wrong space, or an Adobe program tries to force you to a space in which it's not open... etc. Or PS's toolbars disappear when moving back into its space. Strange stuff.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 11:30 am
From: Allen_Wicks@adobeforums.com

Spaces has frequently been reported as problematic.

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TOPIC: CS4 is shutting down computer
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/7a6155d19d66587b?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 9:58 am
From: Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com

Enjoy yourself Howard!

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TOPIC: New 1.5 Tb startup drive gives "program error"
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/57606080f298872a?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 10:29 am
From: wh_bonney@adobeforums.com

I installed a much larger startup drive on my Mac G5 (1.5 Tb). I did a fresh install of Photoshop CS but whenever I try to start a new file or open an old one I get the dreaded "could not create new document because of a program error" message.

Tried dumping the preferences. Still doesn't work. But using the same copy of Photoshop after starting with a different (smaller) startup drive works. It also works if I start the Mac in safe mode.

So I suspect the 1.5 Tb drive as a startup device but don't know how to fix it.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 11:34 am
From: Buko

What OS are you using?

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TOPIC: downsize a logo
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/8a360a61c6d4a43f?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 10:32 am
From: M-323@adobeforums.com

I'm trying to make bumper stickers, business cards, letterhead and envelopes all with the same logo.

I started with the sticker (12 inches wide) and emailed the file to the sign maker

then I made started a new canvas, and dragged the logo elements onto the new canvas to make the business card, but when I downsized the logo to business card size, the resolution became grainy.

I tried removing some of the attributes, like shadows, glows etc but that didn't help much.

how do you downsize the 12 inch logo to fit on a business card, letterhead etc?

Im afraid starting from scratch will not look the same.

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 10:37 am
From: J_Maloney@adobeforums.com

I'm afraid starting from scratch will not look the same.

Then you're DOA. That's the nature of your problem. You need to create a vector logo, "from scratch".

You could post some screen shots to pixentral.com and we might be able to give you pointers if you insist on resizing a rasterized logo. But as a rule, create your logo in vector and then you won't have this problem.

And if the above quoted sentiment is the client's, well...

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 10:42 am
From: M-323@adobeforums.com

ok wait a second, I grouped everything into a smart object, then dragged the smart object over to the new 3.5 x 2 bus card canvas and it worked ;~) thank goodness.

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 11:03 am
From: J_Maloney@adobeforums.com

Sounds like it might have been layer effects not scaling properly. Or maybe you scaled down some, then some more, then back up a little (smart objects do "nudge" scaling non-destructively). Glad you're sorted. :)

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TOPIC: PS CS3: How to load all ______ (Styles, Brushes, Custom Shapes, etc.)
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/2d7a90391f76ba9c?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 11:06 am
From: Kevin_Brock@adobeforums.com

Is there something I'm missing regarding the loading of Styles, Brushes, Gradients, whatever... - en masse?

In CS2 you could load all Styles at once, or brushes, or any other "Preset". Now in CS3, when I'm in (for example) the Styles palette and click on "Load Styles", a panel flies open to show that you are in fact looking into the directory where the Styles "live" - but there is nothing actually there to select.

Do I really have to click on one, load it, append it, repeat, repeat, repeat? I'd love to know that I'm missing something. But I've tried every means I can think of to load Presets in bulk, to no avail.

Thanks for any tips!

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TOPIC: FOUND A BUG and WHY your cursor selection is off 10 pixels.
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/cf0fb24bed0cad49?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 11:42 am
From: Thomas_Fletcher@adobeforums.com

Problem: I sometimes have the selection from my cursor off 10 pixels.

I found out why this is happening and anyone can recreate this in the latest installment of Photoshop CS4 (I'm using extended)(mac)

Step 1: Make a new document. (any size)
Step 2: Turn ruler ON (CMD or CTRL + R)
Step 3: View document in full screen mode with menu bar (F once to fill the screen)
Step 4: Create a new document from that view (CMD or CTRL + N)
Step 5: Using the marquee tool, drag on the stage to see your selection off pixels.
Step 6: Look at the top of the document. You'll notice a white buffer the size of the ruler. It's because of the rulers, in fullscreen, creates a ghost of itself when creating a new document.

Please Adobe... FIX this!! =)

Also Flash CS4 bug. The Action panel on a mac cannot be re-sized from the TOP....... Adobe... seriously. HIRE ME to find these bugs out.

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