Every now and then, Photoshop will not allow me to use any hotkeys, and instead, when pressing a key on the keyboard, will bring up this weird text box. I had to use my cameraphone to take a snapshot of it as the Windows printscreen keypresses are consumed by the box when it is displaying:
View 1 RepliesI've been adding English text to an Italian comic. This involves whiting out the original text and then inserting new (translated) text.
I keep encountering the same problem every time I alter a few pages. Namely, the font changes slightly. It does this without my making any changes to the character settings whatsoever. The only way I can correct the problem is to close the program and reopen it. Or, if that fails, which it often does, restart my pc. My OS is Windows XP Pro, by the way.
To illustrate what's happening, I've posted two comic pages. The first shows the font as it should be, the second as it shouldn't. Note the difference in the letter I.
Does anybody know how to stop this occurring?
CDR X6 leading.PNG
There are years since I worked in CorelDraw. However, recently I got a project from a client. I have to implement 14 languages translations into a document. The work is, so far, Copy/Paste from MS Word, paragraph by paragraph. I didn't find a better way, yet.
At a point I run into a problem. Inside a Paragraph Text frame the text has a strange leading, or something (See attachment).
Whenever I edit text in the pop-up dialog, there is usually an extra line inserted at the top of the text (a blank first line). I can't get rid of this extra line through the pop-up edit window, I can only delete it using the text tool directly on the page. This only started with the latest update.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIf I go full screen with an image and come back to windowed view the top menu bar that contains the hand, view,rotate, arrange documents and screen mode items is lost and replaced with that part of the full screen image that was in that location. There is no way of recovering the menu bar, which is still invisibly active, unless CS4 is restarted.
Otherwise CS4 is not working too bad except for the trailing images following window movements, jerky rotate and the fact that Topaz adjust throws out of memory messages unless Photoshop memory is reduced to 700Mb.
WinXPproSP3
4Gb RAM
seperate scratch disk
Cache at 8 levels
Wacom Intuos 3 with latest driver
nVidia 8600GT with latest drivers
I've been playing around with PS for over 18 months and I've never had this happen. My cursor changed to cross hairs and will not change back. Even when I pick a brush that should be round like the Clone Stamp Tool, Eraser, Healing brush etc. I thought maybe my Preferences got corrupted and checked there but nada.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf I change my workspace a sign comes up asking if I want to save changes in shortcut file.
If I say no, I seem to lose all the new shortcuts from last few months.
In Bridge, I have a portrait orientation shot that I want marked, and I hit "8" for the green label and it changes the orientation to landscape, every time! Huh? CS2 never did that...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've never had this before, but when it happens it refreshes everything every time i interact with photoshop, which makes it very annoying. I made a new canvas, and the suddenly with every brush stroke or click of a button or whatever, the "new document" window pops up with most of its controls missing for a split second, and any drop down menus i recently used quickly appear.
Then the screen all refereshes and it goes away. This happens quickly. I managed to grab a screen shot when it did it though, showing a distorted menu appear quickly. I'm guessing its my video drivers, right?
I mean, its not a huge problem because a simple restart of photoshop sorted it out, and ive never had it happen before, but io thought it best to tell just as a notice if Adobe know anything about what could be causing it. I have the newest video drivers installed which has enabled photoshop to work on dual moniotors with open gl and also had a refresh prefomance increase in certian other areas.
I was working in a drawing doing some copying/pasting from marquee selections. Somehow I now have a light blue line stretching horizontally from one side of the screen to the other. It runs out past the canvas of the drawing to the edges of the PS window.
I think it occured while I was switching tools with hotkeys and my computer lagged a little bit. It's like a gridline, but I can't find anyway to delete/turn off/move it. When I make a marquee it seems to snap to it as a boundary.
This line doesn't appear in other drawings, so it's just something that I've done in this particular file.
Have Eizo CE210W Monitor calibrated using Eizo software and a SpyderPro2. In CS3, Bridge, and Camera Raw, the shadow areas in pure grayscale black and white pictures are dark olive green rather than pure black.
This is true for both jpg and RAW. However, the same photo open at the same time in Microsoft Photo Viewer is pure black, no green. Workspace in Photoshop is set to Adobe RGB. Any ideas?
Recently downloaded some images from our ftp server. When I open the files in photoshop - the resolution appears as 299.99 dpi. When a co-worker opens it - the resoltion appears as 72 dpi. Both have the same file size and pixel dimensions.
Any ideas? Just trying to find the "true" resolution. Only difference that we can see is that I am using CS3 - my co-worker is using Photoshop 6.
I recently built a new computer. In getting all my old favorite programs reinstalled I have found that when I am trying to export using the PNG format with alpha well the alpha is quite strange. If I view it in Irfanview it gives this weird effect like there is a background in certain areas, more directly in back of the main image.
Maybe it's Irfanview but no I just checked it out in XNView as well and the same thing.
what's causing this strange exprort bug?? Is there an specific update I need.
The image in jpg is a direct save to that format in Irfanview so you can see what I'm talking about.
Normally I search for my issues in forums, but this one is so specifically strange that I am having trouble finding a solution.
I have an image with 8 visible layers. I am unable to erase or draw on any of them. Erasing does nothing, and drawing comes out pink in various shades no matter what color I choose.
If I create a duplicate layer of ANY of these layers, I can then erase and draw in them. I can hide the original layer. However, if I DELETE the original layer, "Quick Mask" becomes invisible under Channels. If I make "Quick Mask" visible again, I am back to square one on the new duplicate layer, pink colors and no erasing.
When I hover over the menu commands in Photoshop or Illustrator (both CS2), white rectangles appear behind the Menu Commands and so cluttering the otherwise nice GUI. As I experienced this before on another computer but still have no clue what is going wrong could someone give me a clue what's going on here? I am using Windows XP Service Pack 2.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIf I open preferences, I get a 'ghosted' version of the close, minimize, and
maximize buttons in the top right corner. The 'ghosted' version is on top
and takes focus, the 'real' version doen't work.
how to describe this. Everything turns hot pink color.
This time I have even reinstalled and it still is the same.
I have created a screenshot.
PS crashed yesterday and now I have blue boxes all over the shop!
View 6 Replies View RelatedThere are a bunch of fonts on my font list inside PS and yet they're not on my system when I look in Windows|Fonts folder.
How do I clear these off the program list?
Where does PS get it's font list from:
PS CS4. Everything seemed to go fine, but now all of a sudden his images are displayed with a strong yellow tint. I don't mean a slight color cast, I mean a STRONG yellow tint. The images appear the same in Photoshop, the Bridge, and even ACR. I re-calibrated the monitor (Gretag McBeth) and generated a new profile just be sure, but that wasn't it. The same images viewed in other applications (Picassa, opened in a browser, etc.) on the same computer display normally. This appears to be only Photoshop related. What's also interesting is that CS3 now exhibits the same problem after the CS4 install. I reviewed all the color settings and workflow, and nothing is out of the ordinary. The Nikon raw images were imported via ACR, and opened in Photoshop with ACR workflow options set for 16 bit/Adobe RGB. Photoshop working space is Adobe RGB. I also installed the 11.0.1 update. But here are what may be a couple of clues. First, it's not just the image files that look bad. The colors are awful in the color picker in the toolbox. The entire color picker slider is almost all yellow and orange. And here's another good one. We tried importing some new raw images via the photo downloader in Bridge. With the downloader in Advanced mode, the image previews before download show the same yellow cast. But after I click the Get Photos button, the image colors appear correct as they flash on for a couple of seconds while being downloaded. This has got to be a big clue for someone. What's different about how the image is displayed during that two second preview during the actual download? The PC hardware is a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 Dell tower (2G ram) running XP Pro w/SP3, with a nVidia GeForce 7800 graphics card, and the screen resolution is 1024x768. I'm thinking maybe a graphics card issue or corrupted system profiles, but I'm a Mac and he's a PC so my PC troubleshooting skills are limited.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am working on a file. I have a background layer. I draw a shape layer, in this case a box, and when I do this layer has what almost looks like a drop shadow on two sides, ie the two edges have darker pixels than the shape color. I see the same sort of behavior on an image layer, in this case a photo, where the pixels on two edges, not the same edges, have different looking pixels. There are no effects on these layers.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI am using CS3 under Vista and am using a Wacom Intuos tablet.
For no reason I can think of, the crop tool has started only extending itself into a rectangular shape covering about a third of any image I use it on. In other words, it is impossible to extend its area to the extent I want within, or co-terminous with, the image boundary - it will only go so far across and so far down. This applies to any image, whatever its shape and size.
I can't think of what might be causing this and would like to avoid a reinstall if I can.
odd behavior when using the magic wand tool for cropping a scan down to the actual image. My process is as follows:
1. Generally to scan the image with no cropped selection so the imported image is the entire scanner bed, with the image located accordingly.
2. Using the magic wand, select the image
3. Select inverse(ctrl-shift-i) yielding just the image as the selection
4. Ctrl-c to copy selection to clipboard
5. Ctrl-n to create a new image with the selection dimensions
6. Ctrl-v to paste the selection into the image
7. Crop accordingly
Today however, it seems as if the clipboard isn't responding like I would expect. What I'm getting from step 5 is a new image with the same dimensions as the entire scan with a white background, not the actual selection as indicated by the dotted border.
It's as if the magic wand tool is completely ignoring either the selection or the copy selection to clipboard process.
If I perform the same steps on a manually opened image, i.e. paste an image into a larger, white background image, selection tool to select, inverse, copy, new, paste, then it works fine.
I have used Photoshop for years. I finally got Photoshop CS.
I can't do many things that I used to. One in particular is frustrating me beyond.....well anyway.
I just want to to a simple thing...Black background...and a polygon shape with another color. What happens everytime is the edges are antialised or look like a gradient. I want crisp edges and I can't seem to do it.
There are a bunch of fonts on my font list inside PS and yet they're not on my system when I look in Windows|Fonts folder.
How do I clear these off the program list?
Where does PS get it's font list from: the Windows font list or somewhere else?
I tryed first time this feature and disappointed allready.The result of three layers to assets given 3 darken colorcasted images.
This last one is exported with Save for web feature and got correct colors.Original document is on srgb color so it should be right in first place?
First Photo is viewed in Adobe Bridge (Print Screen Image).
Second Photo is viewed in Photoshop (Print Screen Image)
Third Photo is saved as JPEG in Photoshop (Print Screen Image) - Notice no strange black pixels
There's no consistency in crop but why am I seeing these strange black pixels and why do they disappear when saved as jpeg or same photo viewed in different viewing software?
Since installing CS4, there is a new item in the dropdown list when I
right-click on my desktop
The new item is "Adobe Drive CS4". It has two items showing under it. They
are "Connect to", and "New Project". The "New Project" is greyed out, even
when Photoshop CS4 is running.
When working qith wacom tablet on a 32bit mode photoshop document and setting brush>transfer>flow jitter>pen pressure I get a very strange line: Filled with pulses/dots/spots/ in even distances, is if the brush was pulsing as it progressed. It does not happen if I work on a 16 bit document, but I cant work on 16 bit because in 16 bit the screen shows color banding in my gradients (I work with delicate gradients a lot, and I believe 16 bits doesn't handle them quite well)
My specs core i7 2.6ghz + 18GB RAM + ATI HD4800 1024MB running win7 64bit on 120GB SSD read/write speed ~500Mb/s/ planty of pagefile and photoshop is set with ample scratch disk and to utilize 100% resources.
I just noticed of some of images that Refine Edge creating a strange color around the selection, see my screen attached.
View 12 Replies View Relateda while back i had this problem where pictures wher looking funny when blurred but never realy had an answer this is what i am talking about [URL}...
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Now i took this with my phone because when i take a screenshot people say the picture looks fine ,I have tried alot of things but i can't fix it here is a picture of it as a ascreenshot [URL]...want a fix for this as most of my pictures become crap when i try to make something nice in photoshop !