[BNM] few photoshop questions

[paul perrin]

I am not a photoshop person really - I have the adobe course in a book, but
haven't had time to read it!

But I did find (having searched for 'paste as new image' which is what I was
used to), that if you do 'new' while you have an image on the clipboard, it
defaults to size of the image on the clip board.

I also do the crop - optimise - step/back.. thing -- a bit of a pain,
particularly as ^z isn't good enough to do the 'undo' - I end up with loads
of stuff open and when it all gets too slow just close them all (making
absolutely sure I have saved as I go, so I can click "don't save" all the
way throught and don't have to work out what does and doesn't need saving).

Paul /)/+)


On 01/02/2008, John Cooper <john at atomicshed.com> wrote:
>
> cs3 has a bug (i think it's a bug) that means you can't copy, create
> new and use the copied dimensions for the clipboard - you used to be
> able to do this i've even tried using an action from photoshop cs
> this is a bugger as you could just run an action to copy the selection
> and save out as whatever file you wanted.
>
> presuming you have a couple of layers from lots that you want to
> export (or even just 1 from several)
> you could look at using layer comps to save how your layers are
> (switched on or off) before exporting
> switch off the ones you don't need
> export
> press the layer comp to return the layers to their previous state.
>
> (layer comps are much under used - Windows > Layer Comps
>
>
> john c
>
> On 31 Jan 2008, at 11:34, Shaun Morrison wrote:
>
> > Hi Matt
> >
> > On 31 Jan 2008, at 31/01/2008 | 11:29, Matt Keogh wrote:
> >> 1 - Is there a way to select something with the marquee tool, then
> >> save just
> >> the selection for web rather than copying it into a new document
> >> first?
> >
> >
> > Why not crop it after selection then Save for Web?
> >
> > [make selection] > Image > Crop > Save for Web
> >
> > You can undo and repeat process as necessary.
> >
> > Shaun
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