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    teeshirt design

    How will the tshirt be printed? Are the images you're working from at a high enough quality to print? This generally means working at LEAST at 300DPI, could be more or less depending on the output type. What color mode are you working in? Does it match the color mode of the output? If you're...
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    Text Tool Acting Up

    Make sure that it isn't the same color as the background. Make sure that the opacity or blending mode of the type layer is set to 100% and "normal" respectively. Make sure that you don't have this as part of a clipping group. Make sure that it's not part of a layerset that's invisible. If all...
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    Can someone help me fix this image for me?

    You will have to redraw that using something like the pen tool, there is no way you are going to make something like that smooth and retain any details. I would set that as a background image, then working on layers above it draw in the shapes using the pen tool and when you're done simply turn...
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    Missing windows shortcuts on a Mac?

    Shift + and shift - will cycle blending modes on any tool. With the move tool activated, it cycles blending modes on the selected layer (with brushes and the like it cycles blending modes for the tool. Not 100% sure if this works on CS3, but that is how it used to work, and it shouldn't have...
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    Need help with images

    I agree 100% with ronmatt. I understand the reasoning behind embedding vs. linking. But it's too prohibitive. And in this case he linked and embedded the documents to try to make a useful tutorial which the restrictions of the board wouldn't allow. So the whole reasoning behind not allowing...
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    Need help with creating logo

    Yeah. Don't. Photoshop is not a good place to design a logo. A logo should be able to be printed in any size, used for any application and recognizable in 1-bit color. The program most suited to doing that would be Illustrator. As for that particular shape, I would draw the outline with the...
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    Transparent or Opaque Logos

    Can you explain step by step how you go about prepping the file and performing that action? There is very likely something in the process that you're using that is going awry for you.
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    Clipping Mask Issues

    Ah, forgot about that. Good call.
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    Crisp Images

    Do you have specific examples of what you're talking about? It's kind of hard to infer from an entire website. If you could post a specific photo or two and point out where the problem lies, it would help us to help you. Also, what process and software are you using to resize your images...
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    Clipping Mask Issues

    It's because of the layer effects that you're using. Just us a mask instead. Place "layer 1" above "middle". Cmd+click on the thumbnail for "middle" to make a selection. Then with that as a marquee but "layer 1" selected as the active layer, click the "add layer mask" button at the bottom of the...
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    issues with smoothing and contracting an image

    Glad you got your issue resolved and learned something new. I've been using Photoshop for a decade and a half... I still learn new things. It's a fun field to be in! :)
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    High quality transparent GIF

    Depends entirely on the actual image. Since GIF uses a color table to generate the file, settings are specific to each image. What are you trying to support? There are work arounds for some problems such as IE6. Not surprising... GIF is a very limited file structure. You're limited to a...
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    can't open file, please advise

    I just explained how to convert it back...
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    hard drive heat

    I can't find any hard data on this right off, but what I remember (this is just me trying to remember here) is that you want desktops to day at about 40?C and laptops between 40?50?C. Above that is starting to become troublesome... around 60?C is where it becomes a danger of failure. These...
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    Photo to manga help

    D'oh!
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    need help from a color pro

    Well... the proof is in the pudding as they say... If you have calibrated equipment, and you use a standardized color profile for your documents, and that profile is passed through and read when the image is output... it should print reasonably predictably between devices. There are always...
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    can't open file, please advise

    Modern OS's hide the actual extension of the file... so when you try to rename the file, you're just adding to the beginning of the file and not actually changing the extension. ie... you save a file called myFile.exe by accident. Then go to the OS and try to rename it... click.. name...
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    need help from a color pro

    Because Photoshop doesn't turn off it's color management and Illustrator does. You can tell Photoshop "do not color manage"... but that doesn't turn OFF color management... it just (basically) randomly picks how it wants to display the color. The entire point of color management is to fix...
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    pen tool problem...

    A shape layer is simply a solid color fill layer with a path as a vector mask. So it's easier to create a shape layer often, but you haven't wasted your work if you already have a complex path built, it can be converted into a shape as I mentioned earlier. Paths are a daunting thing to start...
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    pen tool problem...

    Depends on the way the path was built, it could simply be an error with the shape itself... in lieu of that give one of these a try and see if it helps: - Create a new color adjustment layer and use the shape as a vector mask. - Use the path selection tool to copy and paste the path itself into...
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