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Announcement from Adobe on Photoshop CS3, due this Spring

This e-mailed to us from Adobe:

Dear Adobe Photoshop user:

We are pleased to let you know that the Photoshop family is growing!

Photoshop software has always been at the forefront of digital imaging innovation and we’ve given you a taste of things to come with the Photoshop CS3 beta. Today, we want to share the news that Spring 2007 will bring not just one, but two versions of Adobe Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Opening Pagemaker files in Adobe InDesign

We have a caller tonight that is having problems opening Pagemaker files, from OS 9, in InDesign.

InDesign CS 2 should open Pagemaker files from 6.x -7.x. If you have InDesign CS (not version 2), and you have a version of Pagemaker between 6.0 and 6.5, you may have to update to InDesign CS 2 to open those files.

Other things you might try include standard operating procedures:

Open a document as a copy:

A. Start InDesign & choose File > Open.
B. Select Copy & find your file.
C. Select your file & click Open.

Yer Blues

Photoshop’s Photo Filter command acts just like a colored lens filter. The built-in Warming filters makes images warmer by adding more yellow. The Cooling filters makes images cooler by adding more blue.

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V for Selection

I was working on a calendar in InDesign recently. I pasted my text into a text frame and wanted to fill the frame with a swatch color. To do that, I needed to switch from the Type tool to the Selection tool. But there’s a problem using the keyboard shortcuts.

Since I had been using the Type tool, pressing V (the keyboard shortcut for the Selection tool) added an extra letter to my text. The trick: press the command key and click on the frame. Now press V to switch to the Selection tool.

Megapixel Math

You have a digital image that measures 2202 pixels x 1704 pixels. You want your final print to have a resolution of 300 dots per inch (dpi). What’s the largest print you can make? Use Photoshop’s Image Size controls to find out.

Open your image in Photoshop. Choose Image > Image Size and deselect the Resample Image option. Now type 300 in the Resolution field and Photoshop shows you the size of your image in inches.

Now if a train going 60 miles an hour leaves Chicago at 11:30…

Clearing the Clutter

Sometimes all those palettes in Photoshop take up too much screen space, especially if you’re working on a larger image.

Temporarily hide all those pesky palettes by pressing Shift Tab. Press the same combination of keys to show the palettes.

Photoshop Screen Shot With Palettes

Too many palettes!

Photoshop screenshot with no palettes

And the palettes are gone.