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Monday 14 September 2009
- I strongly recommend that you keep a copy of your Photoshop file with layers intact in case you need to edit the image at a later date.
- When saving a Photoshop file for printing at high resolution, use the tiff, dcs or eps file format options.
- If the image is going to be color separated, make sure you convert the image to the cmyk color model in Photoshop before saving the file.
- To temporarily activate the move tool while using another tool press Control/Command. If you hold down the (pcAlt and macoption) while dragging with the magnetic lasso tool that tool will temporarily become the standard lasso tool.
- When saving Photoshop images for the Web, use either the gif or jpeg file format options. These file formats are not good for printing.
- Increase Photoshop’s performance by adding more RAM.
- If you have multiple hard drives, use the fastest drive for your Photoshop primary scratch disk. Remember to defragment that drive often.
- Do not set either the Windows swap file or the Adobe Photoshop scratch disk to a compressed drive.
- To obtain context—sensitive menu choices with Windows, right—click. For Mac users Control+click.
- The default color settings for Adobe Photoshop 6 and 7 when it is installed is for web color.You can change these settings under Edit > Color Settings
- To paint a straight line with even pressure, don’t click and drag. Hold down the Shift key and click once at your starting point and once at your ending point.
- Press the Shift key as you drag to the destination image to place it in the same position it had in the source image.
- Images scanned as line art or bitmap do not require a clipping path. Their backgrounds are transparent by default. Line art or bitmap images may also have a color applied to them in a layout program.
- Terrible looking jpegs? Sometimes your jpeg images can really become degraded when you go from a highresolution image (300 ppi) to low resolution (72 ppi). One good way to avoid bad jpeg images is to resample down in graduated steps: go from 300 to 216 ppi, then Save; then 216 to 144, then Save; then 144 to 72. Picky Web designers swear by this method.
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