Since OS X is built on BSD you can run Unix programs on it. For example you can run the text based web browser Links. You can run Links in text only mode, so that browsing becomes extremely fast even ...
When you click the Trash button on the layers palette PS will ask for a confirmation. If you want to skip the confirmation window, just press Option (Alt) when clicking the Trash to delete the selected ...
I don’t need to emphasize how important is to select the right color scheme for your designs. There are dozens of theories how to create a palette of colors that match, but there is no ultimate ...
If you ever need to take a screenshot in OS X, use the following commands:
To save a .pdf on your desktop:
Apple-Shift-3: Full screen shot;
Apple-Shift-4: Select the area you want to capture;
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I get inspiration from number of things, but I can easily identify one area that clearly gives me a lot of inspiration. Nature. But not the romantic kind with sunsets and beaches. I’m very ...
A reader pointed out that after enlarging the image, sharpening done directly on the RGB image is not the best one can do.
Here is what he says:
‘I would think that performing the sharpening ...
Has it ever happened to you that you couldn’t see the real color of the type while selected because the selection inverted the colors? Just press Apple-H to reveal the real colors. Pressing it ...
Tons of free photography is available on the net. Some of it is surprisingly good quality. My favorite is the nice and useful stock.xchng with some 85K ...
If you ever need to pick up a the hexadecimal color value from your image select the Eyedropper tool (or just press I) and Ctrl-Click the image. The contextual menu will have an option to the Copy Color ...
PostScript® Type 1 (or simply called Type 1) font was the first standard released by Adobe. Apple built in the Adobe technology into the Macintosh in 1985. This combined with the release of PageMaker®, ...
The history panel can get full really fast when you use the brushes. To make sure you can still jump back to an important stage of your work use the History palette’s Snapshot function. In the ...