Newbie PS CS questions

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Guy Scharf
Sep 6, 2004
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I have just installed PS CS trial version to evaluate Photoshop for editing photos. In the past, I have used PaintShop Pro, most recently beta testing PSP 9. So I am confused about how to do some things in PS CS.

I have a few questions about the user interface.

1) The fonts in the menus, tools, and palettes seem exceptionally small–I find them hard to read–while the fonts in the dialogs seem large and ugly. Are the font sizes adjustable?

2) When I use the browser on Nikon NEF files, photos taken in portrait orientation are originally shown correctly in portrait orientation. Then, later, they flip over to landscape orientation. I guess PS is using the embedded JPEG for the first viewing and then rendering the NEF later, ignoring the orientation flag? Is there any way either to stop it from reprocessing the file or force it to honor the orientation flag?

3) In PSP, I could customize the toolbar with desired tools, and each tool has a pull down menu of presets. Does the Actions palette provide the equivalent function in PS?

4) At least with the tryout version, the help consists of HTML files rather than a Windows help system. Is the same true of the full version?

Thanks.

Guy
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bagal
Sep 6, 2004
I don’t know if this helps at all. I fear it may not.

I used the 30-day trial and discovered how little I know and how much I have to learn.

Then I bought the full CS bundle and realise that any expertise I gained in those 30 days evaporated in an instance – Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign, Image Ready and Acrobat Pro.

What a woinderful challenge getting to grips with an awesome image processing package

I luv it!

See – I told you I may not be able to help

FWIW – I have to discipline myself to a couple of hours everyday. Either using the PSCS or looking at online tutorials, help files and of course the wonderful PDFs on the Adobe disks

ahh – contentment 🙂

Articus

"Guy Scharf" wrote in message
I have just installed PS CS trial version to evaluate Photoshop for editing photos. In the past, I have used PaintShop Pro, most recently beta testing PSP 9. So I am confused about how to do some things in PS CS.

I have a few questions about the user interface.

1) The fonts in the menus, tools, and palettes seem exceptionally small–I find them hard to read–while the fonts in the dialogs seem large and ugly. Are the font sizes adjustable?

2) When I use the browser on Nikon NEF files, photos taken in portrait orientation are originally shown correctly in portrait orientation. Then, later, they flip over to landscape orientation. I guess PS is using the embedded JPEG for the first viewing and then rendering the NEF later, ignoring the orientation flag? Is there any way either to stop it from reprocessing the file or force it to honor the orientation flag?

3) In PSP, I could customize the toolbar with desired tools, and each tool has a pull down menu of presets. Does the Actions palette provide the equivalent function in PS?

4) At least with the tryout version, the help consists of HTML files rather than a Windows help system. Is the same true of the full version?

Thanks.

Guy

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