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Photoshop CS5: Fix crashes in Mac OS X 10.6.4

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Mac OS X, tagged , , , , , , , on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Photoshop CS5 crashes caused by Mac OS X 10.6.4 are now fixed in Apple Snow Leopard Graphics Update 1.0…

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Adobe Creative Suite 5 launch event on April 12, 2010

Posted in Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, tagged , , on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Adobe has announced that there will be a web launch event introducing Adobe Creative Suite 5 on April 12, 2010…

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Color Management without the Jargon video: now available!

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Color management, Digital Photography, Printing, Training videos, tagged , , , , , , on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Are you a photographer or designer and still not quite sure how color management works? Confused about how to use color profiles? Have you tried to read books and articles about color management, but are overwhelmed by the terminology? Learn the basics of color management in my new training video.

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Photoshop CS4/CS5: Restoring pre-CS4 channel shortcuts and curves

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, tagged on April 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Restore the channel viewing shortcuts and Curves adjustment layer dialog box that were used before Adobe Photoshop CS4…

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Epson inkjet printers: Printer preset forgets settings

Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography, Epson Stylus Pro 3800, Mac OS X, tagged , , , , , on February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you use an Epson Stylus Photo/Epson Stylus Pro printer in Mac OS X and you save printer settings as printer presets (a recommended practice), there may be times when you choose a preset and realize that some of the settings mysteriously deviate from the way you saved them. For example, you might swear that you saved [...]

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Camera Raw: Detailed image inspection with one key

Posted in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Digital Photography, tagged , on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Camera Raw 4.1 and later add a very useful feature that appeared first in Lightroom. If you want to inspect an image closely for dust or other defects that need retouching, the Page Down key takes you through the entire image, from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. Here’s how it works: [...]

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Open Raw files in Adobe Camera Raw by default

Posted in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography, tagged , , , on January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »

If you use Adobe Camera Raw as your raw converter for digital camera raw files, you might want to be able to open your raw files in Camera Raw when you double-click them. For most files, you would do this in your operating system by changing which application opens the camera raw file type. But [...]

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Apple keyboards are now safe for calibrated Apple LCD monitors

Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Apple hardware, Color management, Digital Photography on August 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

If you’ve carefully calibrated your monitor and you use the white Apple keyboard that came with the iMacs and Mac Pros, you may have encountered that nasty surprise when accidentally pressing the F14 and F15 keys: They change the monitor brightness. Changing the monitor brightness is obviously a big no-no if you’re maintaining a color-managed [...]

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Photoshop: Preview checkbox shortcut in dialog boxes

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

One of my favorite new features in Adobe Photoshop CS3 is the new keyboard shortcut for clicking the Preview checkbox in dialog boxes. Just press the P key! Adobe wisely brought in this shortcut from Adobe Camera Raw, and it saves a lot of repetitive mousing when you’re doing before/after comparisons. It’s one of those [...]

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Back up important preferences files

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Mac OS X on November 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

When an application isn’t quite working right, sometimes the cause is a preferences file that’s gotten corrupted, so a common troubleshooting step is to delete an application’s preferences file. That’s easy to do, but with many of today’s more complex software programs, preferences are key to your workflow, and when you lose your preferences, the [...]

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