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Combine Images IV 2007-12-09 10:03:00 With the flower’s selection active, I chose the move tool in the toolbox, and, pressing the Alt key, dragged it to the fern image. You don’t have to press the Alt key when moving an image from one window to another. Photoshop will automatically make it a copy, not a cut. However, I have butterfingers, and feel better if I press Alt in case I drop the image before I get clear of the original window. Silly, I know. Below, is the moved image. It doesn’t look too bad, but would benefit from a softer merge with the ferns. If you drop your image onto the wrong spot after you’ve moved it, just select the move tool, and reposition it. Use the arrow keys for one pixel movements when the move tool is selected. Images
dragged onto another window like this are placed on a new layer in the Layers palette, so the moved image is all alone on its own layer. This means you don’t ha
Combine Images V 2007-12-09 10:01:00 The flower is shown below with a three pixel feather applied after the move, as described. As you can see, there is no dark fringe, and the image edges are more natural looking.Last, I selected the flower’s layer in the Layers palette, and then clicked the Layer styles button at the bottom of the palette. I chose Drop Shadow from the menu. You can also choose Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow. Either way, you will open the drop shadow’s dialog box. To add a very soft shadow, I used settings of : Blend Mode - Multiply Opacity - 39 % Distance - 21 % Spread - 21 % Size - 65 px You should use the Preview option in the dialog box to find the best settings for your image. Each shadow/object combination is different, depending on the lighting, surface angles, and shapes involved. The finished image is shown below. To find out how to have y Read more:Images
Combine Images III 2007-12-09 10:00:00 Suppose you added a feather to your selection in hopes of avoiding harsh edges when you moved the image onto its new background. If the image you are moving is on a background which is very similar to the destination image’s background, then it’s okay to apply a feather to the selection. However, if the backgrounds are different, you’ll have problems. For example, I’ve added a three pixel feather to the flower, and moved it onto the ferns, below. If you look closely at the lower left quarter of the picture, you’ll see a dark rim around the flower which came from its original background.Below is a magnified image of the edge on the left side of the flower. Had the original background been a different color, the problem would have been even more pronounced. However, even with very similar backgrounds, the shading can be different, or a line or texture can be carried over on Read more:Images
Combine Images II 2007-12-09 09:59:00 Quick mask fills the nonselected area of the image with red semitransparent color that can be edited with the painting tools. Use black to add to the mask, and white to remove it. To set your background and foreground colors to black and white, click on the default colors icon in the toolbox. It’s the two little overlapping squares in the lower left corner of the illustration below. Click the switch colors icon, which is the little double headed arrow in the upper right corner to switch your background, and foreground colors from black to white. I magnified the image as much as was necessary to get a really good look at every part of the flowers edge when painting on the mask. Use the zoom tool, or the Navigator palette and try a 300 or 400 % magnification. Make sure the paintbrush, or whichever tool you use has its Opacity set to 100 %, in its options bar. Choo Read more:Images
Combine Images I 2007-12-09 09:46:00 There are several ways to go about combining images in Photoshop. I’ll show you the way that is easiest to understand. I am going to put the peony, shown below, on top of the maidenhair ferns, shown at the bottom of the page. Both images are at the same resolution. Be sure this is the case whenever you move parts of one image onto another. If you don’t know your image’s resolution, click on its title bar to make it the active window, and then choose Image > Image Size. The resolution is shown in the Document Size part of that dialog box. Without making any changes, click OK, or Cancel to close the box.The first step is to make a good, precise selection all around the image you want to move. I made a rough selection of the flower with the magnetic lasso. You can use the regular lasso if you prefer. To choose either of these tools, click on the lasso icon in the toolbox, Read more:Images
Organizing Textures 2007-12-09 09:34:00 With Photoshop, you can simulate almost any organic texture that you can imagine. The hard part is choosing from the many possible routes for generating textural variations in tone and color. It has been hard for me to think of a way to teach you all of the possible texturing methods in an orderly fashion. As you will see in a moment, there are multiple choices at every step in the process. What I’ve ended up doing is generating one rather overdone texture that uses all of the major methods. As I am demonstrating the steps, I will point out the many, many other possible choices that you will have when making your own textures. This abundance of possibilities is both the best and worst thing about making textures in Photoshop. You are swamped with options. Even worse, most of the available choices generate equally terrific (though different) results—which means you will shortly be d Read more:Textures
Increase Modem Timeout 2007-12-09 08:12:00 If your modem it is timing out during file transfers or loading Web Pages, you might try increasing the timeout period. To change the Time Out: 1.Open RegEdit2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSet Services Class Modem
XXXX Settings Where XXXX is the number of your modem3. In the right panel and double click on Inactivity Timeout4.The number of minutes for a timeout should be entered between the brackets.5.For example, a setting could have S19= to set it to 10 minutes.
Change Modem Initialization String 2007-12-09 08:10:00 To Changing your Modem
's Initialization String
follow this step : 1.Open RegEdit2.Go toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSet Services Class Modem 000 Init3.Change
the settings to the new values
Disable Right-Click in the Start Button 2007-12-09 08:06:00 Normally, when you right button click on the Start
button, it allows you to open your programs folder, the Explorer and run Find. In situations where you don't want to allow users to be able to do this in order to secure your computer.1.Open RegEdit2.Search for Desktop3.This should bring you to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectory4.Expand this section5.Under Shell is Find6.Delete Find7.Move down a little in the Registry to Folder8.Expand this section and remove Explore and OpenNow when you right click on the Start button, nothing should happen.You can delete only those items that you need.Note: - On Microsoft keyboards, this also disables the Window-E (for Explorer) and Window-F(for Find) keys.See the section on Installation in the RESKIT to see how to do this automatically during an install. Read more:Click
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Remove Items from NEW Context Menu 2007-12-09 08:04:00 When you right-click on the desktop and select New, or use the File Menu item in the Explore and select New a list of default templates you can open up are listed. To remove items from that list:1. Open RegEdit2. Do a Search for the string ShellNew in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Hive3. Delete the ShellNew command key for the items you want to remove. Read more:Context
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Faster Downloads with Change MaxMTU 2007-12-09 08:02:00 There are four Internet settings that can be configured, you can get greater throughput (faster Internet downloads) by modifying a few settings. They are the MaxMTU, MaxMSS and DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL1.Open RegEdit2.Go toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlset Services Class net 000x(where x is your particular network adapter binding.)3.Right click on the right panel4.Select NewString Value and create the value name IPMTU5.Double click on it and enter then the number you want. The usual change is to 5766.Similarly, you can add IPMSS and give it a value of 536(Windows 9X)You can set DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL by adding these string values to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlset Services VXD MSTCPSet the DefaultRcvWindow to"5840"and the DefaultTTL to "128"Note: These settings will slow down your network access speed slightly, but you will probably not even see the difference if you are using a network card. If you are using Direct Cable you should see Read more:Change
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Screen Refresh Automatic 2007-12-09 07:57:00 When you make changes to your file system and use Explorer, the changes are not usually displayed until you press the F5 key To refresh automatically:1. Open RegEdit2. Go toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlUpdate3. Set the value name "UpdateMode" to 1 Read more:Refresh
Create Default File Opener 2007-12-09 07:54:00 If you have a un-registered file type and want to view it instead of having to select Open With. Use Explorer's Right-click and add your program to the right-click options by: 1. Open RegEdit2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTUnknownShell3. Right click on "Shell" and create a New Key and name it "Open "4. Create a New Key under the "Open" key you just created and name it "Command"5. Set the (Default
) value to the path and filename of the program you want to use to open the file type6. For example: C:WindowsNOTEPAD.EXE %1You must use the "%1" for this to work.and a space between the exe and the %1 Read more:Opener
Protect Your System Files 2007-12-09 07:49:00 To enable protection on system files such as the KnownDLLs list, add the following value; 1. Open RegEdit2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystem
CurrentControlSet Control SessionManager3. Create the a Dword value and name it "Protect
ionMode "4. Set the Value to1
Remove Shortcut Arrows from Icon 2007-12-09 07:39:00 To Removing the Shortcut Icon Arrows
follow this step : 1.Open RegEdit2.Open the Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT3.Open the Key LNKFILE4.Delete the value IsShortcut5.Open the next Key PIFFILE6.Delete the value IsShortcut7.Restart the Windows
Open DOS Window to either the Drive or Directory in Explorer 2007-12-09 07:37:00 Add the following Registry Keys for a Directory
: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellopennew@="Dos Prompt in that Directory"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellopennewcommand@="command.com /k cd %1"Add or Edit the following Registry Keys for a Drive:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDriveshellopennew@="Dos Prompt in that Drive"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDriveshellopennewcommand@="command.com /k cd %1"These will allow you to right click on either
the drive or the directory and the option of starting the dos prompt will pop up. Read more:Explorer
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How to Turn Off Window Animation 2007-12-09 07:34:00 You can shut off the animation displayed when you minimize and maximize Window
s. 1. Open RegEdit2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl panel Desktop WindowMetrics3. Create a new string value "MinAnimate".4. Set the value data of 0 for Off or 1 for On Read more:Animation
Open Explorer from My Computer 2007-12-09 07:31:00 By default, when you click on the My Computer
icon, you get a display of all your drives, the Control Panel etc. If you would like to have this open the Explorer
: 1. Open RegEdit2. Go toHKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} Shell3 . Add a new Key named "Open" if it does not exists by right clicking "Shell" and selecting new.4. . Add a new Key named "Command" by right clicking "Open" and selecting new5. Set the (Default) value for the Command Key to "Explorer.exe" or "C:WindowsExplorer.exe"
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