Thanks everybody for your patience and professionalism (sometimes forum post derail really quickly - this one went longer than I had expected). When I tried a different SGI format plugin from:  http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/SGIFormat  it came in like I expected (the alpha channel from the .rgba went directly into a seperate transparency alpha channel as opposed to directly (or "Alpha makes layer transparent") on the R-G-B channels). ...but I learned alot (and hopefully others benefitted as well) how the alpha/transparency works in Photoshop - and when I need to work with PNGs in the future (which I do on occasion) - the SuperPNG plugin is a great tool to make that choice. As a side note, I wonder if it would be possible to have an advanced load option on all formats that support transparency to make this choice (not sure where in the chain, and how Photoshop works under the covers, if this is even possible or worth it). ie. something like PNG (as all other formats that support transparency) would use this proposed native Photoshop capability rather than needing to get SuperPNG - and obviously all other formats would benefit/work this way. Thanks again for everyone getting me through my issue! -cheers, Steve ... View more

Eccchhhhh. Even more wasted space. I think I'm gone, not that it matters. ... View more

Clearly!    But I am a decent engineer. I can put my name on things proudly and I don't have to put effort into remembering what story I told whom and that's priceless! Underpromise and overdeliver.  Build a better mousetrap...  Yada yada. -Noel ... View more

My point is that even if you use shapes, at 500%+ zoom level it will still >look< jagged. If the jaggedness of the OP simply comes from the zoom level then there's nothing to be done about this because it's not a problem, if you stop looking at the image through a microscope then the "problem" will go away. ... View more

Adobe-admin, Thanks for that clarification, and also for the sticky. The closure had been my guess, as there was a recent upgrade released, so requests, etc., might well be moot. We had such a sub-forum for about EncoreDVD 2.0. Years later, people were still posting feature requests, though about 4 new versions of the program had been released. I think it was finally taken down. Appreciated, Hunt ... View more

Is it that bad? Would like to try it. Can I enable it on my Phone ? Does it run on Android or is it (was it) iPhone only? The desktop version is almost unusably slow on my aging ARMv6 phone. ... View more

I happened to have a web view still open in Safari on my retired iPhone 3G and it refreshed into the Jive Mobile view upon establishing a connection to wifi... The Photoshop Windows forum took a loooong time to come up, and interacting with the thing remained very slow.  Unusably slow.  It even takes a large fraction of a second to scroll the screen, or to turn if one turns the iPhone sideways, and at least 10 seconds to display a thread one clicks on.  Jive surely does make some inefficient software! Other than that threads seem readable enough, but I agree - it sure would be nice to force it to a normal desktop view.  At least that's interactive! -Noel ... View more

Noel, Those are my sentiments too. During beta, there were things that we could not (or perhaps, I did not) explore, but in general, I am pleased. For most of the rest, I am sure that someone here will teach me how to do it properly. Heck, up to the last few months of the old Jive, I was sitll learning things from some of the folk here, and I had used that software almost every day from roll-out. Hunt ... View more

John C, That has been my finding too, but then could have missed a "magic switch?" Hunt ... View more

> 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

Semaphoric, Along with the lack of extra linfeeds, you may enjoy the improved search, the reinstated format options, the ability to easily return to the actual Discussion page, and higher speeds. ... View more

OK, here's the solution: The lawrence Hudetz version I signed in with just hudechrome, the hudechrome version I signed in with the full e-mail address, hudechrome@....... Same PW in both cases. Interesting! ... View more

Assuming you're using Tabbed view (the default), and you have several images open in Photoshop, they show up as tabs. To get them side by side to work on them, you can click the Arrange Documents button and choose the side by side arrangement. -Noel ... View more

Howdy. You don't have to be a mechanic to drive a car, but it can't hurt to look under the hood and see what's going on. Below is a graphic showing the mathematical nuts and bolts of a simple Bezier Curve and how it all relates to Ps and Illy paths. The Pen Tool creates the path like this: Click down positions the first anchor point and sets the value of P0. Drag and release positions the handle and sets the value of P1. Click down again positions the other anchor and sets the value of P3. Drag and release positions the handle and sets the value of P2. Then Ps or Illy calculates B(t) and renders the path. Complex paths are accumulations of simple paths like the one above. The P0 of one path segment will be the P3 of the adjacent path segment. When you modify this path by using the Direct Selection Tool (white arrow) to drag handle P1, B(t) is recalculated using the new value and the path is rendered. Same thing happens when you move an anchor point. When you modify the path by dragging the path itself with the white arrow, you are changing the value of B(t). The new value is used to recalculate P1 and P2, the handles, and they move to their new positions. And that's the mathematical basis of vector graphics in a nutshell. Don't get me started on meshes. Peace, Lee ... 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

Okay, found the drivers.  Turns out they weren't nVidia; I had to look somewhere else.  But I reinstalled them and it works fine now.  Thanks so much! ... View more

thanks for the suggestion, i'll try it out and see if it works ... View more

What you need to do is go to the Action Palette, make sure it is not in button mode. Select your actionset then from the flyout menu select "Save Actions" these can be saved anywhere you like. Hope this helps. ... View more

align didnt work but i just had another idea u can try linear halftone ... View more

i like to eat the France snail..delicious...ha ha .. ... View more

I really can't stand little know-it-alls. Control-S. Control-S. Tee-hee. Nya. Hee-hee. Aren't you smart like me? This does not work if you have to SCAN A BUNCH of IMAGES. I have lost hours upon hours of work trying to scan booklets only to have Photoshop die a horrible death. YOU CANNOT SAVE INBETWEEN SCANS. thank you photoshop. THANK YOU for torture. and an impregnable scratch disk database which serves no purpose. I refuse to re-scan these ******* images. Computers have ruined our lives. ... View more

Dec9, Going back some years (about CS2), someone here did a nice mockup of the "CSI" Edition box. At first, I thought that your link might have that image. It was very well done, and text on the box was very, very humorous. I'd like to see that artwork again. Hunt ... View more

Like you said, Photoshop is likely not the problem, here. Even my Matrox Parhelia 128 AGP, which is ancient, now had a Gigacolor (10-bit per channel color) plugin for Photoshop.  But then the Parhelia series couldn't do 10-bit over LCD's, IIRC.  However, they could output 10-bit (*3=30-bit) all day on analog CRT's, which are easy to come by in 20"-21" fashion--all those old, heavy Sun, SGI, Hitachi displays with the 13W3 connectors you threw away, all with Trinitron CRT's if memory serves, are great candidates for 10-bit display. I'm currently putting a system back together with that Parhelia 128 AGP and a huge Sun monitor.  I'll have to post back about the results. ... View more

Yep. I usually only have to login once a day. But today I've had to login 4 times today. Interesting. At 5:30AM (AZT/PDT) I was logged-in, when I first went to Adobe. Was logged-out about 9:30AM, but I am used to that. At about 11:30AM, I was logged-out again, and there was a major slowdown, including some 404's. Finally got in and logged-on, only to be immediately logged-out. OK, logged-in again, and have been here since about 12:30PM (AZT/PDT). Since about 12:30, speed has been about "normal," and no log-outs. Life is good, and I've declared wine-thirty. Hunt ... 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