> I feel fortunate to participate in forums, where the MOD's use great restraint, but still do a wonderful job - usually totally thankless. Totally agree. I've been to some discussion boards with trigger-happy mods, and it does seem to stifle things. I'm a mod on another board (which is sadly dying), and there's usually a lot of discussion on the private staff-only area before the hammer comes down. Except for spammers, of course. ... View more

Hadn't noticed the http thing, but two thumbs up. I'd like make the displayed text be different from the aref tag without having to switch to the html editor, though. ... View more

I see there's an "unmark as helpful" button. Maybe there could be an "unmark as correct" button. ... View more

Is there ever a truly correct answer for most questions here? Does anybody really know what time its is? Does anybody really care? As I was walking down the street one day . . . Sorry. What I want is those little red flags back! ... View more

I've been wanting one of the NEC Mutltisync 30 inchers for a long time: http://www.necdisplay.com/category/desktop-monitors. The Spectraview models come with an X-Rite Eye1 that plugs into the monitor itself, not your computer. If you already have an Eye1, NEC sells the software by itself as well. When, oh when, will my budget allow it? You can save a bit of money by ordering a refurished one form NEC's site, though. ... View more

In the Photoshop menu, Window > Arrange > Tile. Note that the pictures will still be in two individual windows. If you want them side by side in the same doc, you need to expand the canvas of one, and drag the other one into it. ... View more

One feature of Illy I sure wish Photoshop had (anongst several . . . ), is the "Transform Each" command. And, when you see what some people can do with a Gradient Mesh, you wonder, "Who needs pixels?" ... View more

You culd also just use the Pen tool in Photoshop, and then stroke the paths. Illustrator has the advantage that the stroke is updated if the path is edited, whereas with Photoshop, you have to erase your existing stroke, and then stroke again with the edited path. ... View more

Uh, nuthin' to read here. . . move along, folks . . . ... View more

But this produces the feather that the OP is trying to avoid. ... View more

Here's the reason (from Photoshop.com 😞 Russell Williams 11 days ago The reason that some people like the way it works now (which is the way it worked in every version except CS3), and objected when we changed it in CS3, is this: They are making a selection of something within the image that touches one or more edges -- a sky or building, for instance. They then expand, contract, smooth, and / or feather the edge, in preparation for using the selection as a mask on an adjustment layer to darken the sky or blend another image over the building, for instance. If the selection is also modified along the edge of the image, an unwanted border is created along the image edge (a light line along the top of a darkened sky, for instance). So the reason that those commands are disabled is that since selection edges along the image edges aren't affected by those commands, those commands wouldn't do anything at all in the "select all" case, since *all* the selection edges correspond to image edges. With the CS3 behavior, where feathering or shrinking modified all edges of a selection, even if they were at the edges of the image, correcting the resulting selection along the edge of the image requires hand-painting or hand-selecting those pieces that touch the edge to get rid of the unwanted shrinkage, smooth-age, or feather-age. Avoiding the problem in the first place requires making the selection, then switching to quick mask mode, and using Filter->Other->Minimum... or Filter->Other->Maximum... or Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur instead of Contract, Expand, or Feather selection. (I actually don't even know off the top of my head how to do smooth). Any actions that modified a selection no longer worked properly if the selection touched the edge of the image. So this is another one of those cases in Photoshop where the "right" way for something to work depends on which way you look at it. Are you trying to make borders with selection commands, or are you trying to modify selections of objects in your image that happen to touch the image edges? ... View more

This is how I do it: Select all. Enter Quick Mask mode; use "Color indicates selected area". Select all. Edit > Stroke (Width = amount to contract, Location =  Inside; Color = white (255, 255, 255). Exit Quick Mask mode. The selection is now contracted with a sharp edge. ... View more

If you know what the native resolution of your display is, you can enter that in Edit > Preferences > Units and Rulers > New Document Preset Resolutions > Screen resolution. If you view the image on another display, though (say, connecting your computer to your large-screen HDTV, or on another computer), you'll be back to square one. ... View more

You can buy the Middle Eastern version of Photoshop from Winsoft. You can also get special "Mirror Image" Arabic fonts, whoch you can then type into Photoshop left-to-right, and then use Transform to flip it so it's right-reading. It will still be editable, too. ... View more

Non-Roman fonts are found by scrolling down towards the end of the font list. ... View more

shunithD wrote: Thanks for that suggestion... but self-defeating, if you refer to my original post Well, you only have to write it once. Save and compile it, and you have an .8bf filter you can then invoke via an Action with a hot key. ... View more

Anothrert way (32-bit only): Install the Adobe Photoshop Filter Factory, and map the A value to one of the sliders. ... View more

I had TOTALLY forgotten about that! I was going to suggest partially filling a Quick Mask and then Clearing, but this is one step, as the OP wanted. For you keyboardists, it's Shift + Backspace. It retains your last settings, so if you have a bunch to do, you only need to set the Mode to Clear the first time. Now I have to go and refresh my memory on how "Behind" works . . . ... View more

In the text size field in the Option Bar, explicitly enter something like "100 px", and see if anything happens. ... View more

You find the image's resolution in the Photoshop menu item Image > Image Size. You find your video drivers via the Windows Control Panel > Device Manager. I would check the resolution first. ... View more

Since the text shows up in the Layers panel, it is there, just not visible. Check the resolution of your document. If it's very low, like 10 ppi,, the trext will be too small to be visible. Alternatively, try setting the size of the text in terms of Pixels, rather than Points. ... View more

Hide the background layer. ... View more

The default location (for CS4 on VIsta) is in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop CS4\Presets\Actions\  in your User directory. I would suppose CS5 in Win7 is similar. If you saved that, you should be good to go. Note that this directory is Hidden, so your system need to be set to "Show hidden fiules and folders". ... View more

This sort of thing is so much easier in Illustrator: slap a few guides up there, select them like any other object, and click on Distribute. ... View more

Note that the tutorial does not use Select All - just a selection in the middle of the image. Withe CS4, Adobe inexplicably changed the behavior of selections that touch the document bounds.There is a work-around for this: With your selection active, enter Quick Mask mode, and Select > Load Selection, using the Quick Mask channel. If the selection is from Select All, you can just Select All again. Edit > Stroke, using 'Inside' and the amount you wish to contract by for the width. The color needed for the stroke depends on if you have Quick Mask set for "Indicates masked area" or "Indicates selection". Deselect, and return to Standard Mode. The selection will now be contracted. Noel: It was probably the same person who thought the tabbed workspace was a good idea. ... View more

I thought this thread died last Summer, but it's turned into a brain-eating zombie thread. ... View more