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

The JPEG format does not support transparency. ... View more

You ARE seeing the grey checkerboard pattern indicating transparency outside your rectangle when saving, right? ... View more

If you're going to be using your image in a Page Layout app like InDesign or Quark xPress, you could use a Clipping Path. In Photoshop's Paths palette, select 'Clipping Path' from the palette menu. The path has to be "saved" (named) for this to be available. You can then save the doc as a TIFF or JPEG. Other than Page Layout apps, though, I don't think there's a lot of support for clipping paths. ... View more

Another tool to try would be Image > Apply image. Also try the Trace Contour filter. ... View more

Can these Jive-assed forums get any worse? Yes! Every single day! Attn Adobe: Web Crossing worked fine. Jive Clearview does not. ... View more

The Layer Styles method has a distinct advantage in that it remains "live": if you edit the path, the stroke will follow along. Stroking the path with the Brush (or any painting tool) is a one-shot deal. If you edit your path, you have to re-stroke. The advantage is that you can use any brush you want, or even something like the Eraser or Clone Stamp (good for removing power lines from a sky). You can either access this from the Paths palette menu, or select a painting tool, and press Enter to stroke the path with the selected tool. ... View more

This depends on how you are using the Rectangle tool. You can set this in the Option Bar. If you're making a Shape, you need to change the size in the 'Stroke' field of the Layer Style. If you are just making a Path, choose a desired brush size, and then Stroke the Path. ... View more

Here's another way: Make sure your desired colors are in your swatch palette/panel. Use Select > Color Range to select those colors adjusting the fuzziness as desired. Save each selection in an alppha channel, naming them appropriately. Tweak them if needed with curves or levels, and then run Threshold on them. Load each saved selection in turn, and fill the selection on a blank layer, using the corresponding color. ... View more

Posterize would not work, since it acts on each color channel independantly. You wouldn't have to save as a GIF, though. Just change the mode to Indexed Color. Use the "Custom" palette, with Colors set to 6 (your four inks plus black and white), and "Forced" set to "Black and White". You can edit your palette as desired, and save it for later use. It can be tricky to get the image to look natural doing this, though; you may be better off starting with something like "Local Perceptual", and then switching to Custom to tweak it. Once you have the image looking the way you want, you can use the Magic Wand to select each of the colors, create new channels, and fill the selected area in them with black. You can then use these alpha channels to make your screens. ... View more

Add some noise. ... View more

Use the Pen tool to crate a path, then select the Eraser tool, and press Enter to stroke the path with the Eraser. ... View more

You can keep it more square than rounded by building your feather with Box Blur, rather than Gaussian. You can also improve the appearance of the methoud I suggested by using Curves rather than Levels, and flattening out the 'toe' of the curve. Also, it should be noted that, since you're 'throwing out' half of the feather, you have to make it twice as wide in the first place for it to be the correct final size. ... View more

You can easily get the feather to go only 'into' the selection. Go to Quick Mask mode, and make sure the Quick Mask is active in the Channels Palette, er, Panel. Run Levels (Ctrl+L), and set the leftmost slider to 127. Exit Quick Mask, and you're done. ... View more