Photoshop provides plenty of safety nets for the wary user. They usually materialize as helpful dialog boxes that say things like "Are you sure you want to do this?" and "Is that what you're wearing" After awhile, they can become annoying, so if you're like most people, you start selecting the Do Not Show this Dialog Box Again Please, I Get it Already option. Thank goodness they're gone.
Then one day you begin to wonder about that warning dialog. What exactly did it say? Was it really important? Did you ever read it? Never fear, you can always retreat.
Choose Edit > Preferences > General
and click the Reset All Warning Dialogs button located at the bottom of the box. All warnings will now appear at the appropriate times. Every last one of them.
Everyone checks their lens to make sure it's clean and dust-free. Have you ever looked at the inside of your lens cap? All those small, semi-enclosed spaces are the perfect place to harbor a digital camera's worst enemy, dust. Get a can of compressed air and clean that thing out.
Don't get carried away with the compressed air. A powerful blast of air can damage a digital camera's delicate inner workings. Read the instructions.
Tina writes,
Because I did desktop publishing I work on a Mac and have all the requisite DTP software: PS, QuarkXpress, Illustrator etc. I've been away for a few years so I haven't upgraded my system to OS X. My new digicam requires OS X to download my CD that came with it. The question is, if I load OSX will it either 1. make my software obsolete to the point that I have to spend hundreds un upgrades and/or 2. will I be able to access my files and docs from OS 9.2?
No, you won't have to pay hundreds, it's probably more like thousands. Don't panic. You can do it slowly if you must. Heres why. In the early releases of OSX, Apple built-in a Classic mode that would run 9.2 apps within OSX. OSX would recognize a 9.2 program and launch an emulator (Classic mode)to run the program. It worked well, although it was slow to launch, and possessed a general sluggishness in operation. The problem is that the latest releases of OSX DO NOT support Classic products. It has been quite some time now since the switch. If you have an early version of the OS (10.2 or earlier I think) you're OK. Here's how I solved the problem: I partitioned space for both Operating Systems and, depending on what I was working on, would start up in that OS. Not very elegant, but it worked, until I finally moved everything up. You can access and share files between the different Operating Systems, although the file hierarchy will be a lot different than what you're used to. I hope I haven't scared you.
Dave writes,
I hope you can help me. Everytime I open a new file the foreground color is gray. What's wrong?
Check the color mode. My guess is your image is in Grayscale mode.
Choose Image > Mode > RGB
Now you can take advantage of all 24 million colors.
Radhika writes,
I came across your site using Google - thanks for answering all the questions I've picked up a lot of good tips, now I have a question regarding the default Grid Size
Choose View > Show > Grid (Ctrl+')
When the grid appears it always seems to be too big for my needs.
Is there any way to change the grid size? Thanks a lot
Grid Size is controlled in the Preferences.
Choose Edit > Preferences > Guides, Grids & Slices The Guides, Grids & Slices dialog box appears. In the Grid section choose a Color:, Style:, and Gridline Every: for grid spacing. You can even create Subdivisions for increased accuracy.
When you're satisfied, click OK.