Sebastiaan de With: ‘While I was doing some research for one of my upcoming projects today, I found the very first Photoshop icon.’ (Via Daring Fireball.)
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Happy birthday, Photoshop and Lightroom! “Is today, February 19th, ‘The Most Important Date In Digital Imaging History (Via John Nack on Adobe.)
It’s funny on Photoshop’s birthday, I find myself struggling to get mine to run. You see I just swapped out my original MacBook for a MacBook Pro. Since then, I first couldn’t get Save for Web to come up in Photoshop. I finally figured out it was a possibly corrupted preference file. Then in debugging this, I reinstalled Photoshop and a few other apps in the suite. They worked fine until I decided to run the updater. Now when I try to open a document in any app, it crashes spectacularly. Now I’m deleting, reinstalling everything, and now trying to reinstall again to see if I can get everything working for me. Ugh.
Update: So it turned out to be a comedy of errors (but not really funny). I swapped out my original MacBook for an extra MacBook Pro someone traded out at work. So I did a Time Machine brain transplant to the new (old) MacBook Pro.
The migration seemed to go okay until I tried to do some work over the weekend and realized the Save for Web window wouldn’t open up. The UI would dim like it was going to work but then nothing. I tried to reinstall Photoshop but that didn’t help. Continue reading ‘Happy birthday, Photoshop and Lightroom!’
Sphere: Related ContentBack to the Future with Illustrator 88. This really takes me back. Man, I feel old. (Via John Nack on Adobe.)
Remember clipping paths and EPS files? Clipping paths have been available in Photoshop since its earliest versions. Back then it was the only way to get your images into another application and for it to know how you wanted your image cut out or clipped. InDesign has since revolutionized and virtually ended the need for clipping paths. Not only does InDesign import native Photoshop documents (.psd), it will honor all the layer transparency information. If you’re new to print publishing this may not seem like big deal to you, but if you’ve ever had to contend with creating and managing clipping paths in the past, you know how huge this is.
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Sphere: Related ContentMarching Ants, Hamm’s Beer, & Photoshop. A great story of how Bill Atkinson was inspired to create “marching ants” marquee selection we all know today. (Via John Nack on Adobe.)
Sphere: Related ContentThe Evolution of the Photoshop Toolbar. Check out how the Photoshop toolbar has changed through the years. (Via Nate via IM.)
Believe it or not, I’ve somehow managed to get by never working on two displays at once though all these years. Lately, I’ve had friends tell me they’ve made the switch to dual screens and said they would never go back. I never could quite grasp the appeal for working with two screens at once. I’ve always thought it would be more trouble than it’s worth. Well, today I had my first true experience working with dual screens. And although the jury is still out on this way of working for me, I’ve found it cumbersome at times and promising at other times. But ultimately it just made me think more about the whole working setup.
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The Casualties of CS3: ImageReady
I know some of you don’t like the idea of moving to Fireworks. Until recently I never really gave Fireworks the time of day. Mainly because I never was fond of Macromedia’s UIs. Although there’s a few things I really don’t like in Fireworks CS3, I have to tell you it’s a much more capable application for Web graphics design and optimization than ImageReady ever was. Not only can you save multiple pages out, but you can save multiple slice sets out. Something I always wanted ImageReady to do. It may have had this capability but it wasn’t evident at all if it did.
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