Well, just to get this section started I have posted some pictures I took in New Mexico while driving to Colorado. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for February, 2008
Photoshop only gives you bold and italics options when the typeface includes these styles. If you want to simulate bold and italic formatting styles when these options are not available, you still can, but the option is somewhat hidden. If your character palette is not showing, click the button on the type tool options bar to show it. With the text selected, click the arrow in the upper right hand corner of the palette menu. There you’ll find Faux Bold and Faux Italics.
Warning: You cannot warp type when Faux Bold formatting has been applied.
I often cannot see the cursor whenever I am in a grayish area of the image.
Solution: press down on the spacebar and the hand icon becomes visible where the cursor is located. Some other keys also work, depending on what tool you’re using, but the spacebar always works.
By default, Photoshop retains several things in memory–undos, items you’ve copied to the Clipboard, a documents action history, and defined patterns. These items can be an enormous drain of memory and are usually the source of low memory errors. Therefore, purge these items from memory as often as possible. To do so, choose Edit, Purge, All.