Photoshop – Drawing box’s
KB ID 0000203 Problem For the site I do a lot of screen shots / screen dumps for illustration purposes its good to be able to highlight thinks by being able to draw a box around them. Usually I do this with mspaint, but I finally got tired of doing half the tasks in mspaint and the rest in Photoshop, so I worked out how to do it properly. Solution 1. Assuming you have you graphic already open, create a new Layer. 2. Click the...
Photoshop – Drawing Arrows
KB ID 0000204 Problem I wrote a walkthough on drawing box’s earlier, the second thing I tend to do, is put arrows on my diagrams to point things out. Solution 1. OK, so I’ve got my graphic, and I know something about it thats not obvious at first glance. 2. So I’ll open it with Photoshop and put an arrow on it. Firstly Select the “Line tool”. 3. On the toolbar at the top select the drop down arrow next to...
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...
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...