Column 9 – Part 2

So you want to be a CAD Monkey? continued……
Menu bar
Secondly, you can access the Menu bar. Just as with any basic program (word processing comes to mind) that lists “File, Edit, View…” across the top of a window, CAD can also be used in similar fashion.

Say you want to draw that line again, only this time using the Menu Bar method. No sweat. Follow the proper sequence through the contextual menus (I believe it’s Draw>Line) and your cross-hairs again have lost that square appearance. Pull down menus generally provide you …

Column 9 – Part 1

Building up to the good stuff!!
Carl Sepura is this month’s guest columnist. Read more about him in his bio on the sidebar.

Carl and I have been friends since high school when we played baseball for four years together. In fact we go back as far as when I was still throwing my smokin fastball from 45 feet. That’s right, little league, and on a whole team of right fielders, he would consistently his my meatballs off the fence.
What’s up with all the guest columnists?
I have had people ask me this, …

Photoshop Shortcuts – The shortest way to Photoshop World Domination (Part 2)

Temporary Functions
There is also a set of shortcuts that perform temporary functions. That is, you can be using any tool, hit a temporary shortcut, perform the function, let go of the keys and you’re back to using your original tool. (These won’t work if you are typing text using the type tool. You’ll have to get out of the tool first and then use them.)

Space Bar –
Holding this down gives you the hand tool temporarily.

Command-Space –
This lets you use the zoom tool. It’s really useful when you’re doing some heavy-duty …

Photoshop Shortcuts – The shortest way to Photoshop World Domination (Part 1)

Guest Columnist!!
I enticed another one of my good friends to speak his piece. This is really old, but to let everyone know if you don’t already, Chip and I met in orientation and this is how it went.

He said, “Hey, I ran cross country” and then our tag along friend Brian Wilson said, “Hey, it’s not cheating if it’s your dog”. We looked at each other and laughed, as we ostracized Brian like an annoying ex-girlfriend and realized that it was the best of times.
On to the article already you …

Automated Adobe Photoshop Functions & Actions Part 2

Once that is done, you can kick back, and click the “OK” button and sip some coffee while Photoshop creates page after page of little image thumbnails.

While you are consuming caffeine, Photoshop is actually opening each image within the designated folder, re-sizing it according to your wishes, and placing on a sheet. This can take some time, but is always far easier than doing it yourself. You can always hit the “escape” key to exit the function at any time.

Each contact sheet becomes its own document, and Photoshop

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Automated Adobe Photoshop Functions & Actions Part 1

Guest Columnist!!Please, give a warm welcome to our guest columnist for the month, Jen Beyer. We don’t go as far back as we should, be we act like we go further back than some of my friends, so with that said, she is going to teach you all about contact sheets and automated processes in Photoshop.
How to Look Like a Computer-Nerd
Allow me to introduce myself…
For those of you who don’t know me, I just took my first “real” job, leaving college life behind and joining the steady-earning world. A vast …

Column 8 – Part 2

Dear Barney Continued…
You guys were the only people I knew growing up that had a computer. I didn’t find that particularly strange when I was younger, but thinking about it now, I do. Your son Mark was really into them, and he had a ton of games loaded onto your system. So many times I would come over and play the games on a rainy day, riding over on my bike. I would get to wrap up in a towel and drink hot chocolate. Sometimes we would even fix French …