Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop
KB ID 0000597 Problem I have to do this quite a lot, I take a lot of screen-shots for the site, and have to resize them down, (usually to 550 pixels) so that, they fit with the layout. In addition I scale the larger screenshots down to 900 pixels for the images I Hyperlink to. This means I spend a long time in Photoshop messing about with image sizes. The smaller of the two images you see on the site nearly always has the same name,...
Adobe Photoshop CS6 – Change the Dark ‘Theme’
KB ID 0000648 Problem Either I’m half blind or the default colours in Photoshop CS6 are a bit to dark for me to work with. Solution It’s easy to fix, there are four settings. Windows: Press SHIFT+F2 to ‘lighten’, and SHIFT+F1 to ‘darken’. MAC: Press SHIFT+FUNCTION+F2 to ‘lighten’, and SHIFT_FUNCTION+F1 to ‘darken’. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links...
Dreamweaver CS6 – Backup and Restore Site Settings
KB ID 0000672 Problem If you are like me and struggle to remember settings, passwords etc. Then being able to back up all your website settings in Dreamweaver so you can restore them back again, (after a rebuild on a new PC) can save you some heartache. Solution 1. On the SOURCE machine, Launch Dreamweaver > Site > Manage Sites > Select the site in question > Select the ‘Export Site’ Icon. 2. Choose whether to...
Photoshop CS6 Flickers and Images Go Black When Cropping
KB ID 0000747 Problem I am in the process of moving all my stuff to a new laptop, I installed CS6 and was doing some work when every time I used the cropping tool my images simply went black. Also, for no reason images I was working on would flicker black as well? Solution Turns out it’s just a problem with the graphics drivers on this particular machine and the way Photoshop interacts with the graphics processor. The first...
Dreamweaver CS6 – Migrate or Edit the Private Dictionary
KB ID 0000748 Problem If you want to migrate your dictionary to a new machine, or you have mistakenly added a word to the dictionary and need to delete that word, then you need to locate and edit the private dictionary. With older versions of Dreamweaver the private/personal dictionary was a file with a .tlx extension, and it was in a completely different location! I spent a LONG TIME searching the net for the correct location for...