Photoshop

Amazon leaks Adobe CS3 pricing, availability dates, code split

Ivan | Mon, 2007-03-26 08:26

AppleInsider reports, one of the largest online retailers has let slip the entire launch strategy for Adobe's Creative Suite 3 and its various individual apps -- and revealed that PowerPC-based Macs may soon become second-class citizens in the program designer's eyes.

Crop and resize in one go

Ivan | Mon, 2007-02-12 09:33

Photoshop

Intermediate

crop and resize

If you have to create a series of cropped and consistently sized images you can save time by using the crop tool's measurements option to save many steps in your production process.

Zoom in and out with your scroll wheel in Photoshop

Ivan | Fri, 2007-01-12 10:56

Photoshop

Intermediate

zoom icon Most people use the Apple (Cmd) key with "+" and "-" to zoom in and out within a Photoshop document.

If you don't want to let go of your mouse, alternatively you can simply press the Alt (Option) key and scroll up and down with the scroll wheel on your mouse.

To make sure that you get even zoom ratios, such as 25%, 50%, 100%, 200%, etc you should keep the Shift pressed as well.

8 core Mac Pro

Ivan | Tue, 2006-12-19 15:10

Photoshop

Photoshop on Mac Pro with 8 cores

Let me just show you one graph from a hungarian Apple oriented blogger Handras. He replaced the two chips in his Apple Mac Pro to a newer version that has twice as many cores, eight in total. Good to see that Photoshop takes full advantage of the processing power. This baby flies! Hopefully Apple will release the 8 core Mac Pros shortly.