Photoshop is a POS program!
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
At the top go to "Window" and click, make sure there is a check mark in front of "layers".
If there is a check then look for a window frame top, it should be below the "history/actions/tool preset" window if it is colapsed, hit the minus sign and it will expand.
If thats not there then I'll have to try and remember what option brings it there.
BTW Kobi, you may already know, but if you'll go to "window" and put a check on options, there will be a tool at the top of your window that will let you change the text color with out changing your forground color, and it retains memory even if you change the forground color then hit text again later. Saves a lot of time, essentially get 3 colors to work with at once. Plus lots of fun/handy options for the other tools too.
If there is a check then look for a window frame top, it should be below the "history/actions/tool preset" window if it is colapsed, hit the minus sign and it will expand.
If thats not there then I'll have to try and remember what option brings it there.
BTW Kobi, you may already know, but if you'll go to "window" and put a check on options, there will be a tool at the top of your window that will let you change the text color with out changing your forground color, and it retains memory even if you change the forground color then hit text again later. Saves a lot of time, essentially get 3 colors to work with at once. Plus lots of fun/handy options for the other tools too.
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Here is how I do it....
My text
of course highlight the text that you want to change by selecting on that layer and using the "T"ext tool
Once Highlighted I click on this tool
This pops up...
Select color of choice hit ok
WALA
My text
of course highlight the text that you want to change by selecting on that layer and using the "T"ext tool
Once Highlighted I click on this tool
This pops up...
Select color of choice hit ok
WALA
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From: Somewhere in the EU
Originally Posted by PSS-Mag
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BTW Kobi, you may already know, but if you'll go to "window" and put a check on options, . . .
BTW Kobi, you may already know, but if you'll go to "window" and put a check on options, . . .
And didn't want to point out the other ways as it would just confuse him.
The best way is to just use the program and learn as you go.
It's all good.
K-
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
I kind of figured you did, but PS is big, so you never know, I learn new stuff about it all the time. I've talked to a handful of Photoshops programers from back in the 4.0 days, they introduced me and got me started using it. They said they didn't know what all it would do, or was capable of they learned new settings and techniques all the time too. It's came aloooong way since then as well, now it's several times bigger and stronger.
Honestly I didn't know that you could change the text using the forground color. That seems like a harder way to me. You did do agreat job and that fancy little pad of yours came in handy on that. I've gots to get me one of those things!!!
Honestly I didn't know that you could change the text using the forground color. That seems like a harder way to me. You did do agreat job and that fancy little pad of yours came in handy on that. I've gots to get me one of those things!!!
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Yes....
Probably a cheaper version than yours because I'm a poor and I'm cheap. But I'm not easy!
ohh wait, I am that too.....
Is there a Wac Tab?
1/2 the name should be 1/2 the price right?
Besides the fact that it'd be funnier to say that I had a Wac Tab!
Probably a cheaper version than yours because I'm a poor and I'm cheap. But I'm not easy!
ohh wait, I am that too.....
Is there a Wac Tab?
1/2 the name should be 1/2 the price right?
Besides the fact that it'd be funnier to say that I had a Wac Tab!
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From: Somewhere in the EU
I have the Intuos 2 9x12. When I got it, it was the best size for widescreen (you can map the tablet to match the screen)
They now make the Intuos 3. They still make the 9x12 (about 415 dollars) but they now also make a 6 x 11 (about 375 bucks)
Once you use one you'll wonder how you ever used PS without one, and if you use Painter, you can't use it without a tablet. The pressure sensitive pen is awesome. Just the thing for airbrushing.
They are not cheap to be sure, but if you make a living doing graphics, they are just the thing.
They now make the Intuos 3. They still make the 9x12 (about 415 dollars) but they now also make a 6 x 11 (about 375 bucks)
Once you use one you'll wonder how you ever used PS without one, and if you use Painter, you can't use it without a tablet. The pressure sensitive pen is awesome. Just the thing for airbrushing.
They are not cheap to be sure, but if you make a living doing graphics, they are just the thing.
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From: Your moms house
Originally Posted by kobiashi
OK dude, a very, very quick bit of playing around so you can feel like you accomplished something, which will then build confidence, which will lead to you becoming a Photoshop™ Master is about a week, which will then allow me to call you at all hours of the night to ask your advice on how to do stuff I can't figure out.
FIrst, go to the "File" menu and Choose "New" and you'll see a window like this open up:
make the width 1000 pixels
the height 200 pixels
the resolution 72 pixels/inch
and the background contents "white"
click "OK"
You're gonna see something like this:
In the tool window (on the left) select the "T"ype tool (see number one in the diagram above)
Put your cursor in the white window area and type something. The colour of the text will be the same as the colour in the foreground colour chooser (see that little black box in front of the blue box in the tool window on the left? The black is the foreground colour. If you change that before you type it will be whatever colour you choose for the foreground. In our example I typed "KOBIASHI"
Look where it sez "3". The little cirlce is around the tab that sez "Layers" click on that tab. Make sure the layer that is the text layer is the highlighted layer.
Instruction 3.5 . . . in the tools palette on the left, click on the little arrowhead in the upper right
Look at "4" It is showing you the "CHARACTER" palette. If you donet see this then choose the menu "Window" and click on "Character" in this window you can adjust font size and width and spacing and COLOUR!!!!. In our example it is black. Click on the little black color (or whatever color yous happens to be) (it is circled in the above example, and a color palette will open. choose a colour, click OK and the text you tped will change to that colour.
FIrst, go to the "File" menu and Choose "New" and you'll see a window like this open up:
make the width 1000 pixels
the height 200 pixels
the resolution 72 pixels/inch
and the background contents "white"
click "OK"
You're gonna see something like this:
In the tool window (on the left) select the "T"ype tool (see number one in the diagram above)
Put your cursor in the white window area and type something. The colour of the text will be the same as the colour in the foreground colour chooser (see that little black box in front of the blue box in the tool window on the left? The black is the foreground colour. If you change that before you type it will be whatever colour you choose for the foreground. In our example I typed "KOBIASHI"
Look where it sez "3". The little cirlce is around the tab that sez "Layers" click on that tab. Make sure the layer that is the text layer is the highlighted layer.
Instruction 3.5 . . . in the tools palette on the left, click on the little arrowhead in the upper right
Look at "4" It is showing you the "CHARACTER" palette. If you donet see this then choose the menu "Window" and click on "Character" in this window you can adjust font size and width and spacing and COLOUR!!!!. In our example it is black. Click on the little black color (or whatever color yous happens to be) (it is circled in the above example, and a color palette will open. choose a colour, click OK and the text you tped will change to that colour.
FRANKO,
If all else fails get Paint Shop Pro (by Corel) Very user friendly. It's a great starter program.
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From: Your moms house
Originally Posted by dzervit
MAC SHMACK... you gotta learn to use your PC... 
Bleh, I know how to use Winders. Have ya seen the MAC and PC commercials? That "PC dude" is my box. It runs and does what it wants to, until I "fix" it. I dont want to work on my puter all the time, I want to play with it.
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From: Motor City
Originally Posted by jamzwayne
Bleh, I know how to use Winders. Have ya seen the MAC and PC commercials? That "PC dude" is my box. It runs and does what it wants to, until I "fix" it. I dont want to work on my puter all the time, I want to play with it.
Uhg... i gotta learn something now. Peace out.
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From: TEXAS
Photoshop is VERY context sensitive.
In other words you have to have the right layer selected or the right text selected or what ever to get the tool you want to use to work.
Its the leading product in the industry so to say that it sucks means that you havent spent enough time to learn it ... Google is your friend if you refuse to use the manual. Amazing that people are willing to spend $700 on a program and then not spend a few minutes or hours or days to learn to use it ...
In other words you have to have the right layer selected or the right text selected or what ever to get the tool you want to use to work.
Its the leading product in the industry so to say that it sucks means that you havent spent enough time to learn it ... Google is your friend if you refuse to use the manual. Amazing that people are willing to spend $700 on a program and then not spend a few minutes or hours or days to learn to use it ...