You should get a Proportion Wheel. ... View more

Perception is important. How will people perceive your business if you misspell the word "perceive" in your advertising? ... View more

Christoph, When I attempted to go to the third party website that was mentioned, I got the message that the page was no longer active, so I was unable to read anything, much less see who the contributors were. I didn't know that Chris Cox was active on that 3rd party website discussion. If I had known this, my reaction would have be different. As a long time forum user  I completely respect Mr. Cox. I know he has been involved in many long discussions on numerous issues including Linux among other things. These Linux discussions crop up on a regular basis and on the longer ones it becomes exhausting to slog through the whole discussion since they repeat the same claims/counterclaims, attacks and defenses over and over again. I recalled that Chris had valid answers in the Adobe forums, but I simply wasn't up to researching all the old postings. Thank you for doing the research that I just didn't want to get sucked into. For others still wanting more information. Christoph and others have posted links to some of the other discussions. P.S. I started writing my first reply before your first reply came in. You obviously can type faster than I can. ... View more

You mentioned that this question was from 2012. Well, what you say is the correct answer was the very first reply only 5 hours after the original question was posted back in 2012. Any answer from 2012 may not necessarily be correct in 2017 - 5 years later. As TestScreenName posted, this thread is ongoing with the latest reply on May 30 2017. As of this time there are 488 replies on 13 pages, which makes it probably one of the longest threads on the Photoshop forum. Long story short, there is no definitive answer. To quote TestScreenName: Adobe will not reply, their future plans are kept secret, but the responses gave many reasons why some people feel it won't happen and why other people feel it should. ... View more

i assume you have a new MacBook Pro rather than a Mac Pro. It seems since you have the latest macOS Sierra 10.12.5 that there may be a problem with running Photoshop CS5 in this setting. Many people have reported problems with even installing CS5  and other people saying that have installed it and it works ok. Others have said it work great, but some say it worked great until one day it suddenly didn't. CS5 is 7 versions out of date and this may be the issue. You can get the Photographers Plan and get the latest versions of Photoshop and Lightroom for only $10/month. There is a 7 day trial period. Maybe this will solve your problem. P.S How did you install CS5? Time Machine migration is not recommended and in many cases simply will not work. Did you install from the original download? Some people have say you need to install an older version of JAVA for this to install correctly. Use Google to find the details. Good Luck! ... View more

Both the photos have watermarks of the respective photographers. The 1st is VIJAYEESAM and the 2nd is AJU Photography (Ajay Krishnan) These photographers hold the copyright to these photos. You would need to get permission to use their photos. ... View more

Are you saying the "Show Import Options" button (above the Replace Selected Item) is not sticky? Have you tried to reset your preferences? The quickest way to get the options in the Place dialog is to just hold down the Shift key while clicking the Open button at the lower right. ... View more

You mentioned: . . . and got used to creating simple pamphlets in Photoshop . . . Unless you are saving your PDFs with live text layers, you are producing a lower quality final project. Your sentence: . . .then downgrading the image quality to a respectable file size, makes it appear that you are flattening (rasterizing) your text layers and just created an image that you save as a PDF so that you can use Acrobat Pro (whatever version) to save as a multipage document. If this is what you are doing, you are destroying your vector text and giving it the same resolution as your image file,  when you down- sample the image again in Acrobat, you are again lowering the quality. The real issue is that you should not be using Photoshop to create your pamphlets. You now have the complete CC which also offers InDesign. InDesign is for creating print documents, especially multi-page documents. An InDesign document can contain live (vector) text along with image files at any resolution. You could have high resolution photos (300 ppi) on top of a low resolution background image (72 ppi) and live vector text. When you export this document as a PDF/X-4, the text will always print sharp as a tack regardless of the resolutions of the images you use. When exporting as PDF/x-4 you can also down-sample the higher resolution images (if you so choose) while still keeping the text as live (vector ) text that will always print sharp. Rasterizing text layers in Photoshop will always produce an inferior final project. You need to get out of your comfort zone and use the proper tools for creating print projects like pamphlets. You should use InDesign for creating print projects and leave Photoshop for creating/editing pixel images. You are already jumping through hoops by creating separate Photoshop documents and then needing Acrobat Pro to combine your files. Getting a book like InDesign Visual QuickStart Guide by Sandee Cohen will teach you how to create InDesign documents and take away the anxiety of learning something new. ... View more

I did a quick Google search and it doesn't appear that Neutraface supports Hmong. Do you have any information that says it does support Hmong characters? You can't assume that any font you like will support foreign characters (especially Hmong) You would need a font that has Hmong characters. Try doing a Google search for Hmong fonts. ... View more

Ah, the German Village. Years ago we always liked to go to the Old Mohawk restaurant. ... View more

In your initial screenshot you only have the top photo selected, (highlighted in gray) Directly above this is a button "Select All". What happens when you click this button? Does it highlight in gray all 4 photos? ... View more

Normally i would say that you should ask FotoZoomer for the logo or even a basic ad layout. After a quick glance it seems that they want you to buy all your supplies directly from them. With that in mind, advertising material for franchise owners should be a no-brainer. Their system seems to promise more than they can deliver. In the ad you provided in your original post, they show a variety of sizes from the same image, but the ratios of the images are not the same. Notice the white space at the top of the 11x14, the hat almost touches the top edge. Compare this to the 24x36 where there is a lot of white space between the hat and the top edge. They purposely used a photo that has a white background. Trust me, not one of your customers is going to have a photo like that unless it was shot by a professional photographer. The photographer/studio retains the copyright to all the photos they shoot. This is because they want you to buy any copies/enlargements from them. This may violate their copyright.  Saying that this is a self-serve kiosk and any liability is the customer's issue doesn't get you off the hook. Since you mention having to use the kiosk you will very likely have to do most of the work for them since the average customer won't be able to figure it out by themselves. This work you provide likely shifts the copyright liability from the customer to your shop. Of course, this is just one example of what customers will want to produce. You will get photos of all different sizes. Low resolution images for cellphones, etc, photos that the customer scanned at home on their all-in- one with a low resolution will also be the norm. Try explaining to them that their images cannot be enlarged to a specific size because of the height to width ration would require it to be either cropped or distorted to fill the size they want and that it will likely be very pixelated. You will get a lot a blank looks when you try to explain the limitations.  And people will bring in images that they downloaded from the internet that are only 2 x 2 inches @ 72 ppi. Disregarding for the moment the issue of copyrighted images on the internet. The image will never work for any enlargements. They will bring in rectangular images and want them printed as a square image (or vice-versa) Good luck with all of that. As for your ad for the local swap sheet, if you aren't used to working in InDesign (or Illustrator or Photoshop) this will likely be more trouble than it is worth. The swap sheet will be glad to create the ad (for a fee) This will save a lot of time and heartache on your part. Again, Good Luck! ... View more

Unless something has changed with newer versions of DNG converter, you need to select the FOLDER that contains your raw files. Don't try to open the folder to select individual photos, they will grayed out.  DNG converter is a separate application that needs to be run to convert FOLDERs of raw files. It is not a plugin and just downloading it won't do anything. Open the DNG converter to convert your files ... View more

Found this on Wikipedia. You will need to click on the photo in the forum to get a larger view (original 1600x480) Look at the wall detail of the diagonal building in the original on the left and compare with all the other formats. This may be pixel peeping and it still doesn't solve your issue regarding batching converting files while ignoring layered files. As Trevor pointing out.  Buying an external drive for archival storage would probably be the best bet. External storage is very affordable these days. ... View more

I know this is off topic, but Gener's enlargements really show the Chromatic Aberration in the files. ... View more

Since all the elements on the original card are the same color i suspect that this was printed on a press using a spot color. The fact that the original card was red makes this highly likely. Depending on the company that printed this, orange may have required an additional charge so they went with red which is one of the standard color choices for companies that do spot color printing. If this is the case, then the Harley logo needed to be changed to a single color logo rather than 2 colors since a 2 spot color card is more expensive than a 1 spot color card. Everything that is orange in the eps logo needs to be changed to white and everything that is black needs to be changed to orange. You will need to change the logo using Illustrator. You can then create your business card entirely in Illustrator using only an orange spot color for everything on the card. If and only if this card will be printed digitally on a copier/printer should you even try to use Photoshop and since you admit to being new to Photoshop this may be more trouble that it is worth. Be aware that the small size of the logos will have registration issues and that any black element needs to be C0, M0, Y0, K100. I would suggest you have the original printer recreate this card with the changes you want and pay the extra charge for Orange. ... View more

I agree with Derek Cross, the wide variety of spot colors for both coated and uncoated (not to mention the Hexachrome) leads me to believe that in the past people were just choosing colors from swatch books based on how they looked without understanding what was required to correctly print these colors. Anyone who has worked in prepress for more that 5 minutes has come across a ton of files that were created with spot colors even thought they would only be printed in process colors (CMYK). This is a recipe for disaster since not all spot colors can even be printed using CMYK. Add in Coated & Uncoated spot colors printed on the press with a different paper, and there will be a lot of disappointment and finger pointing. ... View more

The 4 swatches that have brackets in their names [Carta] etc are special colors. The [Paper]/[Carta] swatch is for on-screen viewing only. It will NOT print. You need to create a new swatch with the light blue, create a box that covers the whole page (and bleed areas) and color the box with the new swatch ... View more

In the link that Dave posted it explained that you don't need an Alpha channel for transparency. In this link Chris Cox (one the main engineers on Adobe's Photoshop team) talks about how transparency and Alpha channels are not necessarily the same. How can I see the alpha channel in the channels palette? Some quotes: Are you confusing transparency(a strict subset tied to the color of each layer) with alpha channels (general use, the superset). It still seems like you are confusing alpha channels with transparency. And transparency is not going to show up in the channels palette, because transparency is closely connected to the pixel data for each layer One of the forum regulars posted the ball2.png years ago. As you can see, it has transparency especially in the drop shadow ( I added photo in a layer below the ball to better show this) Is there a reason why you need an Alpha channel? As long as you choose a file format that supports transparency it will be fine without the need for an Alpha channel. Here is the original Ball2.png with transparency. ... View more

Terri, I hope you come back sooner rather than later. And bring back the cowgirl . . . With the impending kakistocracy, we need all the smart competent people we can find. Even if its only on an Adobe forum . . . Good Luck! ... View more

If the logo is as bad as the "NATION" you posted, Live Trace won't work. Try looking for a larger version of the logo first. You will likely need to redraw the logo from scratch, but you can try Live Trace if you can get a larger, sharper logo to begin with. Probably won't work, but you have nothing to loose.  The NATION is a lost cause. As Mylenium suggested, just recreate with a similar font. It will be faster and save you a lot of aggravation. In Illustrator you can place the logo on a layer and change the layer options to template. This will lower the opacity to 40% and lock the layer. Make sure this layer is at the bottom of the stack. Create new layers above this to redraw the logo. When redrawing, just use a thin stroke and NO fill. You can go back later and add the fill and  change or eliminate the stroke. If you use a fill from the start, you will quickly realize your mistake when you have overlapping elements. You also can temporarily turn off layers to make editing easier. ... View more

JJMack may have gotten to the crux of the issue. Often "photo contest" require you to give up all rights to the image. This is simply a way to gather a vast selection of photos that they can they use for commercial purposes. They will have the copyright and you won't see a dime of whatever money that earn from "your" photo. They don't even give you credit because you freely surrendered all rights. But this all brings us back to your initial posting because you mistook the @ symbol for the © copyright symbol. The very first answer by Per Berntsen corrected you misunderstanding of the symbols. ... View more

They just want the image name info to be concise to made it easier to classify your photo for filing purposes. Again, this is how Photoshop shows your image title bar. No way to avoid it. ... View more

I think we have trouble understanding your concerns. Exactly how is this preventing you from entering photo contests? Photoshop automatically shows your file name, the viewing percentage, the current layer you have selected, color mode (RGB) and bit depth (8). Other photo editors may or may not show this info in the title bar of the image. If the judges of the contest use Photoshop, then they will see this for every photo that was submitted by every single contestant. How does this information disqualify your photos? The average photo contest doesn't care if you have "Photoshopped" the heck out of the image. The end result is what they are judging.  Also most contest only accepted flattened images. The only contests/organizations that worry about whether or not you "Photoshopped" your image are news organizations, because any edits may alter the content of the scene. The are concerned with the actual reality of what the camera saw. Editing can change the impact of the photo and doesn't truly show what actually happened at the moment the shutter was clicked. Unless you can tell us why the information in the tile bar of the image is important. You have nothing to worry about. ... View more