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    split channel command

    When you look at RGB channels, or CMYK ones, you get the same thing. This is done because it is very difficult to see what's going on in yellow or some pantone orange. You can change this in the preferences. What you also can do is first set the ex-channel-now-image to RGB (you need to see...
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    Colour Swatches

    I haven't tried this out myself, but I guess that if you, with snapping to the grid as help, create a series of squares and fill in the sequence you fancy, and then resave, it might be achievable.
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    Merge Layers + Retain visual Look

    Overlay is the opposite of Hard Light. Both ignore medium grey, but overlay uses the data of the underlying layer to nfluence the brightness of the top layer. So I tried placing two layers filled with medium grey (128,128,128) each one below one of your overlay layers. And setting the one...
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    Map scans

    Indeed, when necessary, tifs now also can carry several layers. Th problem is that only a few applications can open them as, if I'm not mistaken, it is an Adobe patent/invention. So not everyone will be able to pen them. Yet, as they need layer info, they probably use photoshop themselves which...
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    Map scans

    1/ I'm scanning maps to keep on file at 300dpi, so an A4 size is 2482x3508 pixels. This gives a 20mb file as a zipped TIF. I "clean them up" of marks etc. Tifs wont degrade with saves I then sharpen by Lab mode-usm on the lightness channel, 100-1.0-0 settings, then back to rgb, and save it as...
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    How to turn some pic into this ?

    I would do it with duotone: If your image is in rgb: 1/ copy it on a new layer 2/ use save as to save it as another nmae (protects your original) 3/ ChannelMixer adjustment layer, and check Monochrome. Tweak your channels settings. 4/ image>duplicate this creates a copy of your...
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    How to remove jagged lines?

    Excuses for the delay, but urgent matters kept me away for a few days... OK, back to business. The jaggies are most visible on the edges, or, in other words: there where there is a rather harsh transition in tone. So what we can do is blur the edges. That way the effect will be less...
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    How to remove jagged lines?

    OK. Give me twelve hours and I'll explain it to you in a way that you know the how and the why. I don't have PS here at my disposal, so I cannot make any screenshots now. About masking: Part one: -First thing to know is that a computer has no eyes and cannot interprete. It only can...
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    How to remove jagged lines?

    It depends on what exactly you want to achieve (perfection of simply acceptable). The technique is rather complicated as you have to create an edge mask. This means that with a mask you tell photoshop which pixels it may affect, say, blur, and which ot, and in what degree if you have greys/...
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    Problems AdobeFnt.lst and supplied fonts

    This may be an InDesign issue. Or an Acrobat one. Chances are these files are not "real" fonts but specific files that only the application in which they were used/imbedded can recognise. If the font(s) is/are for example from Adobe's FontFolio, they may not be freely distributed. And this...
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    Don't care for the new PS CS Filter Gallery Gizmo?

    And I thought that this new filter "gismo" was one of its major improvements? I still haven't upgraded. Still using 7. And for the upgrade price, I sidegraded and got me Painter.
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    Channels

    As sometimes ou need a channel for something else, I usually work like this: 1/ In case the channel is needed for a mask, you can easily load it as a selection, press D, then Alt-Del to fill the selction, then evt. invert 2/ In case the channels are wanted for layers, I first duplicate...
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    Channels

    If you want a specific channel, just click on that small triangle/arrow at the top of th channels palette and choose "split". Afterwards you can Shift-drag images on one of them (creating layers), set back to RGB (if you want) and start using blend modes. You can then also start playing...
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    Which OS

    Which is why I uncheck several of the "services" on the tab of the same name in msconfig. Things like that "shall I warn microsof about that naughty app that you had to close by force?", Messenger, netmeeting etc etc... You also get more options to uninstall Microsoft components by editing a...
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    "Undesired" Extensis Menu listing

    *its* own menu (it's is an abbrev. for "it is") sorry, you asked for it [:I I guess you're talking about that plug-in to create selections (MaskPro or something like that). To get rid of that menu I'm afraid you will have to uninstall the plug-in.
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    Which OS

    When I assembled my PC, the shop owner gave me XPPro as an extra (I'd been assembling several puters and all parts came from his shop). I installed it, and I like it. I find it shocking that in a "pro" version you still get that set of silly games, messenger, gaming zone and other kind of...
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    Photograph to Comic Book...Quick!

    I remember us having a thread on this latest topic. Bbrowsers spreading your e-mail adress (from your linked e-mail client), files, including images, containing private info in their headers, just to satisfy companies' paranoia. Yes, they have the right to get paid for their products, but...
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    JPEG woes

    That's also because jpeg cuts the problem in two. The designers/inventors of this compression method took for granted the average case that human eyes are less sensitive to a change in hue than in brightness. In some (real world) cases, this proves to be what it is: a mean value, and average, a...
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    Is there a pic viewer like XP's for 98?

    Irfanview beats them all. I even use it for batch jaypegging thumbnails. And for movies. Even to open Photoshop files. Simply assign PS as your chosen pixel magician and off you go. I use XPPro, but I uninstalled that thing. Just like I got rid of Messenger, NetMeeting, Painter, games...
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    Quality Printing

    First question is: did you calibrate your monitor? If so, when in RGB mode, create a greyscale ramp with four hues: draw a rectangular selection, and fill it with black (0,0,0) the next one with dark grey (64,64,64), another one with medium grey (128,128,128) and a last one with light grey...
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