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* Arrange Documents Menu problem - 2 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/d1cf7d5d3cdf39a6?hl=en
* PS-CS4 How do I make type that reverses as it travels over background? - 9
messages, 2 authors
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* create multi-page PDF with photoshop CS3 - 9 messages, 6 authors
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* Few questions about Photoshop CS4 Student Edition - 3 messages, 2 authors
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* Photomerge confusion. - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/891b9d55c3bbaee5?hl=en
* Photoshop CS3 stopped responding - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/ba2c9489d4178c39?hl=en
* Adjustments made in CS2 not saved. - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Arrange Documents Menu problem
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/d1cf7d5d3cdf39a6?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 8:52 am
From: Rob_Keijzer@adobeforums.com
I just isolated Imagenomic's Portraiture 2 to also give that problem.
Rob
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 11:07 am
From: Rob_Keijzer@adobeforums.com
I just isolated Imagenomic's Portraiture 2 to also give that problem.
I wrote to Imagenomic about this and 12 minutes later their reply said they're working on it.
In the meantime there is a workaround: Open and close Imagenomic Plug-in Console from File > Automate > Imagenomic plug-ijn Console.
This is only sticky within a PS session (so not between them).
Rob
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TOPIC: PS-CS4 How do I make type that reverses as it travels over background?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/b7410544b35a338e?hl=en
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== 1 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 8:58 am
From: Evelyn_Cooper@adobeforums.com
On the way. Meanwhile I'll keep messing with it. Thx.
== 2 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:11 am
From: "Phos±four dots"
Got it. Fixed it. Sent it back.
For the benefit of others following along here:
<http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1aECkTbZDleponyNvpHyL6iJXg1m0>The main problem Evelyn was having was that the silhouette I told her to CTRL + Click, in order to make a selection, was on a solid layer. The black silhouette was good, but the rest of that layer was white.
I made a copy of her "Layer 1" with the silhouette.
I ran the free "Peel Off White" filter by BergDesign (For Mac) to clear out all the white in the rest of the layer. Then, the CTRL + Click operation on that layer selected the black silhouette only, making it ready to use as a mask in the "Invert" Adjustment Layer.
Then I created a layer below the now-transparent silhouette and filled it with white.
Read more about "Peel Off White" and a similar free filter for Windows at the following link:
<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc34571>
== 3 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:21 am
From: Evelyn_Cooper@adobeforums.com
So my black silhouette needed to be on a transparent layer?
== 4 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:29 am
From: "Phos±four dots"
Your silhouette doesn't have to be on a separate layer, but making it so made it easy to create the CTRL + Click selection of it. There are other ways you could have done that, but for my workflow, I really like to have elements of a design segregated onto their own layers for easiest and most versatile manipulation.
Layer Properties--->Color...
Just for fun, drop that menu and make a choice--any choice. Then look at your Layers Palette.
Ain't that cool!?
:)
== 5 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:50 am
From: Evelyn_Cooper@adobeforums.com
What does it mean that when I went to "layers properties," it said "none," but the background was still white? How would I get my silhouette on a transparent background without having to remove the white background? IOW why was the background white even though the layers properties said the background was none.
I'm guessing that the problem I was having was due to the fact that when I thought I was selecting only the silhouette, I was in fact selecting the silhouette PLUS its background.
This brings me to another source of confusion, i.e., the fact that you can select the whole layer OR objects on the layer, and it's not obvious (at least not to me) when you're doing which. You can have something selected but no marching ants are showing.
I changed the layers properties as you suggested above to a color, but there was no change in the document window. In the layers palette/panel, the color showed up in the tiny window where the eyeball is. Where is the cool part?
Still coming down from my extremely high frustration level of yesterday and earlier today. Not ready to be friends with Photoshop yet. <Ev pouts>
You, however, have been extremely helpful!! :-)
== 6 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:55 am
From: "Phos±four dots"
That drop down menu you see in the Layers Properties dialogue has nothing to do with the contents of the document's layer.
Again...choose something other than "None" from that menu. Look at your Layers Palette.
The riddle for the day (and you'll smile when you figure it out) is: What changes when you choose something other than "None?"
== 7 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 11:08 am
From: "Phos±four dots"
"This brings me to another source of confusion, i.e., the fact that you
can select the whole layer OR objects on the layer, and it's not obvious
(at least not to me) when you're doing which. You can have something selected
but no marching ants are showing."
When you CTRL + Click on a layer's icon, you're making a selection of all the pixels on that layer that are 51-100% opaque. Any pixels that are less than 50% opaque will appear OUTSIDE of the "marching ants" selection line.
You can also make selections via masks, and this is one of Photoshop's most powerful tools/functions. When you think about it, the most important part of doing edits and adjustments on selected areas of an image is being able to make as accurate a selection as possible.
There are dozens of ways to make selections, and the method or combination of methods you use depends on the nature of the object you want to isolate from its surroundings. The more techniques you know how to apply, the better able you'll be to just look at an image and assess what techniques will most efficiently isolate an object.
Got a little treasure trove that covers that huge subject as well. Strap in tight and put your helmet on...you're about to get hammered with a monster sledge of info:
<http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bb80e5d>
:)
== 8 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 11:08 am
From: Evelyn_Cooper@adobeforums.com
"That drop down menu you see in the Layers Properties dialogue has nothing to do with the contents of the document's layer."
<sigh> Now why would I think that drop down menu that is labeled " layer properties" would have anything to do with "layer properties"? Rhetorical question.
As I said, when I selected the silhouette layer, then opened the "layers property" drop down menu, and chose "green," a green highlight appears around the eyeball. Should something else be happening?
Also, how would I have created my silhouette on a transparent background? As you can see from the file I sent you, I had a photo, and I traced the figure and then filled it with black. At what point in the process did I have the option to create a transparent background?
== 9 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 11:18 am
From: "Phos±four dots"
"As I said, when I selected the silhouette layer, then opened the "layers
property" drop down menu, and chose "green," a green highlight appears
around the eyeball. Should something else be happening?"
<Reiteration>That color change is a visual tool for us to use as a way of organizing and differentiating layers and layer groups. </Reiteration>
"...I had a photo, and I traced the figure and then filled it with black.
At what point in the process did I have the option to create a transparent
background?"
I have to assume you knew to trace the figure on a new layer (which will be transparent), right?. Once you've made your shape (either by Pen Tool or by Lasso, or whatever), and you fill it on that new layer, everything you don't fill will remain transparent. Somewhere along the line, you had to have merged your silhouette layer with either a white-filled layer (like the one I created in your PSD) or you flattened it to the Background and then copied that into another document.
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TOPIC: create multi-page PDF with photoshop CS3
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/2870c68b5a840c94?hl=en
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== 1 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 9:10 am
From: stuart_smitheringale@adobeforums.com
Hi,
I have created 8 A4-sized PSD documents in Photoshop CS3 and I would like to create a single PDF document with 8 pages.
Is there an easy way to do this?
I would really appreciate any help that people can offer, as I am stumped!
Thank you in advance,
== 2 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 9:43 am
From: stuart_smitheringale@adobeforums.com
hi, sorry to press this one,
does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you! :)
== 3 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 9:52 am
From: "John Joslin"
As far as I know it can't be done. What other applications do you have?
== 4 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:04 am
From: Bob Levine
Isn't there a PDF presentation script in CS3?
Bob
== 5 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:30 am
From: stuart_smitheringale@adobeforums.com
thanks John and Robert,
I don't have any other PDF-creation applications, however, on the help tool for CS3 Photoshop, there is mention of being able to create multi-page PDFs in photoshop. Unfortunately, it doesn't elaborate much on this.
I'll have a look around in PS some more and see what can be done.
In the meantime, if anyone can shed any light on this, I would appreciate it greatly : )
== 6 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:33 am
From: Paul_R@adobeforums.com
As Robert pointed out, File - Automate - PDF Presentation
== 7 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:39 am
From: KatWoman@adobeforums.com
FILE> Automate PDF presentation
add open files or point it to your folder of files
after you hit save will be a dialog box to choose options
make sure to make the proper selections for quality, based on your purpose
a PDF made for commercial printing will be large
If you want to put it on internet or email you need to select the setttings
for web based doc
OR you could open acrobat and create a multipage document
I think the default is 8.5x11
(not sure) but if you have unusual size paper
make sure to change the page layout to that
== 8 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:40 am
From: stuart_smitheringale@adobeforums.com
Paul, Robert et al
You're all geniuses/geniuii (??)
If I had the power to make it official, I would hold a ceremony of some sort!
Cheers,
== 9 of 9 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 11:12 am
From: Geoff_K_Jackson@adobeforums.com
Has FILE> Automate PDF presentation been taken out of PS CS4? I've just noticed it's not there!
Geoff.
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TOPIC: Few questions about Photoshop CS4 Student Edition
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/9f03a24a1ad2fdbe?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 9:22 am
From: David_A._Russell@adobeforums.com
the Macrovision stuff that installs a background service (called something
like 'Adobe LM monitor') on your computer?
that's the one.
Aaah. Well in that case I'll pass. I'll make do with Gimp, Paint.net, and CorelDraw X4 (the latter I also got from Amazon Vine). To be honest it would take a great deal to convince me to install spyware-like DRM on my system, and Photoshop just doesn't offer enough over Lightroom + other software to overcome that.
I'm not sure about UK rules but in the US the student edition is highly
restricted...no commercial use and I don't even know if it can be upgraded.
The UK version is the same. However as there's no prospect of me ever using it for commercial purposes it wouldn't have been a big deal
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 9:44 am
From: dave_milbut@adobeforums.com
, and Photoshop just doesn't offer enough over Lightroom + other software
to overcome that.
then you just don't know enough about photoshop.
To be honest it would take a great deal to convince me to install spyware-like
DRM on my system,
hmmm how about A PAYING JOB! :) i think that's what the clincher is for most folks. ;)
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 10:17 am
From: David_A._Russell@adobeforums.com
then you just don't know enough about photoshop.
Actually, if you had read the initial post you'd realise that I'm fully aware that Photoshop is hugely powerful. However it doesn't offer enough benefit for my usage (ie retouching of amateur photos) to make it worth the money + computer infection. My above post wasn't an attempt to say that Photoshop is bad, or that Gimp or any of these other freeware programs are even in the same league, I was just stating that my own need for Photoshop's power isn't great enough to make me want to install spyware.
hmmm how about A PAYING JOB! i think that's what the clincher is for most
folks.
True, but (again, as I explained above) I'm not a professional photographer/graphic artist/etc. and therefore there is no 'need it for work' motivation.
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TOPIC: Photomerge confusion.
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/891b9d55c3bbaee5?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 9:49 am
From: Marc_Stokes@adobeforums.com
Hi, i did search but failed to find any real answers.
When i run a Photomerge (using jpegs) i have even tried using the sample jpegs that come with the software of the SF skyline.
I select my images, and it runs the usual sequence of starting the layers and merging then when it ends its just dissappears looking like the software has just opend with nothing happening.
Ive tried every combination to make them work and nothing.
I am using CS4 btw, and ive also tried in CS3 again which is still installed on my partition. and its not working in that either. it used to work with no problems bit not now.
any ideas?
vista32 - 2gig ram - core2duo processor.
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TOPIC: Photoshop CS3 stopped responding
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 11:10 am
From: Malcolm_Gibbon@adobeforums.com
Unfortunately there isn't one for Windows Vista
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TOPIC: Adjustments made in CS2 not saved.
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Feb 1 2009 11:18 am
From: Califlefty@adobeforums.com
Anyone able to help?
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