MAC OSX – Setting File Associations
KB ID 0001046 Problem This started out as an article on simply ‘how to set file associations’ but when I tried to associate .jpg files with Photoshop it refused to work, (they stayed associated with the MAC Preview application). Solution 1. Right click a file of the type you want to associate, (or cmd click if you don’t have right click enabled). 2. With the right click menu still on the screen press and hold the...
Photoshop All the Toolbars Have Disappeared?
KB ID 0000192 Problem When using Photoshop you have no toolbars or palettes etc. No Toolbars – not good Solution Annoyingly simple! – Press TAB As if by magic! Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop
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...
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,...