With the recent release of Lucis Pro 6, a program that I highly recommend, I thought I would share a tip on how to save presets.  Of course, most of you know that a preset is the settings previously used on an image saved for future use such as batch processing or sharing with friends.  As of now, in this latest version, there is no option to save your settings.  However, I understand that this feature is being considered for future releases.   In the meantime I’ve created a little video showing how I save my presets using actions in Photoshop.

I also would like to mention that if you decide to purchase Lucis Pro 6 or Lucis Art 3, if you use Trimoon in the coupon section, you will receive a discount.  Lucis pro 6 Tip

Sometimes Photoshop can exhibit odd/erratic behaviour. This behaviour can sometimes be overcome by removing the Photoshop Preference file. The procedures outlined below is the most common methods of removing the preferences file. This works for Photoshop 6x and newer! Hold down Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keys (Mac: Command, Option, Shift) while starting Photoshop. A dialog box will appear asking if you wish to delete the preferences file. No need to search through your system folders to find it.

Firefox is by far the best web browser available. Here are two of the five features that I’ll probably use now that I know about them:

1. “Ctrl+F” is so last year. All the cool kids are using “/”.
If you hold “Ctrl” and press “F” you’ll bring up the standard find bar in Firefox. Boring. This is fairly common knowledge. What most people don’t know is that if you press “/” (slash) you’ll bring up the quick find bar. The difference with the quick find bar is that it clears and closes itself once you click anywhere or stop typing for a few seconds, leaving you to continue on your merry browsing way.

4. Copy&Paste into Google no more!
Highlight any text on a website and then right-click on it. What do you know, there’s an option to “Search Google for…” the text you have highlighted. Well I’ll be a copy and pasting monkey’s uncle!

Here’s tha article with all five features

I’m always concerned about how to clean and do it safely. Here are some tips:

By Treehugger.com

Updated: 10/16/2007 9:36:38 AM

What’s the Big Deal? Cleaning products are everywhere in our homes and offices: on dishes, countertops, furniture, clothes, floors, windows, and floating through the air. In our war on dirt and germs we may often actually be making things worse. Most of the conventional cleaning products we all grew up with are petroleum-based and have dubious health and environmental implications. Instead of opting for cleaning products that annihilate everything in their path, there are plenty of natural products and methods that keep a house clean and fresh-smelling without the toxic side effects.

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Using the eyedropper tool in Photoshop outside of Photoshop: Here’s how it works. Choose the eyedropper tool and click inside your image and hold the mouse button then drag anywhere on your screen to select a color on your screen.

If you use Firefox, there is an extension for Firefox called ColorZilla that you can install that will give you an eyedropper in Firefox which will give you the hex RGB values of any color on a web page.

Bootzilla is a very useful tool for removing malware, trojans and possible virus issues on a Boot level. What I mean by that is the as the computer boots, Bootzilla can diagnose and remove some computer problems before Windows loads. Bootzilla

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Step-By-Step: Changing Photoshop’s Canvas Color.

1. Set the foreground color you want to use for the canvas.

2. Select the Paint Bucket tool.

The Paint Bucket is hidden under Photoshop’s Gradient Tool, in case you’ve never had reason to use it.

3. Shift-Click on your canvas area to change the color.

Done!

Every now and then I’ll come across a tip that makes me slap my forehead and ask “How did I miss that one?”Photoshop CS3 and CS2 both let you easily extract images that are embedded in PDF documents. Next time you open a PDF file in Photoshop CS3, look at the top of the import window that normally displays a preview of all the available pages in your PDF. Click on the Images radio button and you’ll be presented with a list of all the images embedded in that PDF.

Tip: In Photoshop CS2, the Images option is hidden under a pop-up menu.

Choose the image you want and click the OK button to open it. You can then save it in any file format you like.

If you feel that your computer is running sluggish try cleaning out your Prefetch. It’s a place on your operating system that stores all kinds of temporary files. The theory is that these temporary files would help you to load programs quicker because Windows would “Prefetch” files that would assist in launching this software.

You can find the Prefetch file in C:\Windows\Prefetch

You can highlight everything in that folder and delete it. I promise, you won’t hurt anything.

DO NOT DELETE THE FOLDER ITSELF THOUGH, JUST THE FILES INSIDE THE PREFETCH FOLDER!

From MrPC