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Photoshop – Drawing box’s

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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 Rectangle Marquee Tool > Then click and drag where you want the box to be.

3. Click Edit > Stroke.

4. You can select the width in pixels of the line and the colour > OK.

 

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Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop

 

Photoshop – Drawing Arrows

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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 the free form tool > And tick the Arrowheads “End” box. Note: for a larger line/arrow width, change the weight from 1px (pixel).

Note: This mas moved in Photoshop CS6.

 

4. Click and drag on the graphic where you want the arrow to start and stop.

Yes that’s correct this girls nose and mouth are on upside down, did you spot that originally?

 

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Also See: Drawing Box’s

 

Adobe Photoshop CS6 – Change the Dark ‘Theme’

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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’.

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Dreamweaver CS6 – Backup and Restore Site Settings

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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 export the site login details and passwords > OK.

3. Select where you want to save the settings.

4. From the Same Menu on the TARGET Machine > Import Site.

5. Browse to the .ste file you saved earlier > Open.

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Dreamweaver CS6 – Migrate or Edit the Private Dictionary

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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 CS6. In the end I had to add a nonsense word into the “Add to Personal” dictionary, then use Agent Ransack to search the entire drive for the file that contained that word!

Solution

1. First fire up Dreamweaver and see what language you have the dictionary set to (this will matter in a minute). Edit > Preferences > General > Spelling Dictionary > Take note of what it is set to.

2. Notice mine is set to UK (that’s en_GB, if you are American yours will be en_US etc.). To locate your personal dictionary navigate to;

[box] C:UsersUsernameAppDataLocalLowAdobeLinguisticsUserDictionariesAdobe Custom Dictionaryen_GBadded.txt [/box]

Note: You will notice the language of the parent dictionary dictates the path to the custom dictionary.

3. You can now open the file with your favourite text editor and remove any incorrect entries, or migrate it to a new machine.

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