how do you embed a logo into the Photoshop interface?

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Darren McNeill
Jul 21, 2003
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Hi,

I often see a Companies logo embedded into the grey background of the Photoshop interface.

Anyone know how this is done?
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dave milbut
Jul 21, 2003
Anyone know how this is done?

yes. but if we told you we’d have to kill you.

dave the programmer
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Darren McNeill
Jul 21, 2003
So does this mean I’m not allowed to do it then?
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primitivedogs
Jul 21, 2003
It is against the laws of man, but I believe that God says you can do it. You may want to consider the consequences though. God won’t do anything, but the DMCA will.
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dave milbut
Jul 21, 2003
So does this mean I’m not allowed to do it then?

if you’re a programmer, sure. go ahead, write a program and place your logo where ever you want. maybe I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying though. do you mean placing a logo on your IMAGE or actially on the controls like the adobe eye in the toolbar. that’s coded into the program and somthing that’s set up at design time. no way to change that for the end user…

hth, dave
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Phosphor
Jul 21, 2003
Darren, are you sure you’re not seeing Photoshop demonstrated on a Mac? Because IIRC the Mac version can have a see through background so that you can see the desktop- so that’s where the logo would be. Can any lurking Mac users confirm/deny this? 🙂
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Don McCahill
Jul 21, 2003
Helen

I have been forced to work on a Mac for the past two weeks in a course I am taking. (That should start a flame war.)

On the Mac there is Window containing the program, so you are correct in assuming that the desktop shows through when there is no file window open (or it is not maximized.)

(And to quell the war, I used a Mac a lot 10 years ago, but have gotten used to PCisms since then. No offense to Macaholics.)
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Phosphor
Jul 21, 2003
"No offense to Macaholics."

You’re only a Macaholic if you go to those dang meetings.

Otherwise you’re just a Maccer, or more simply, a munk.

;o)
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dave milbut
Jul 21, 2003
or a mackie!
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Darren McNeill
Jul 24, 2003
Hi folks,

I use both Macs and PC’s, So I must be bisexual???

Anyway, to clarify the question, when you open Photoshop and no new file is open, you have the dull grey background.

Embedded into it, like a watermark is the Companies logo. I have seen on several tutorial Machines for Photoshop in courses I have attended over the years. Also on Video tutorials on both Macs and PC’s.
Might be an OEM version.

And no, the Logo was not superimposed into the video.

I just think it looks professional…
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dave milbut
Jul 24, 2003
yes darren… that’s the mac desktop showing through. Can’t do that on a windows machine.

Sorry for the confusion on my part. I thought you were talking about the eye icon (logo) in the tool bar.

dave
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dave milbut
Jul 24, 2003
I would think it superfluous, annoying and unnecessarily cocky.

on a personal machine maybe, but it might look pretty slick if you were giving a demo to the bosses to have the company logo show through the background…
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viol8ion
Jul 24, 2003
But that’s just me. I have a plain gray desktop.

My desktop is presently a solid blue. Sometimes it is green. Anything else would be a waste of resources!
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Gustavo Sanchez
Jul 24, 2003
Some people use a top-black bottom-grey gradient as a desktop background. That’s supposed to be good when making digital imaging. It’s quite pleasant to the eye as well.

However in Windows it is almost useless as the applications work usually in full screen mode.
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dave milbut
Jul 24, 2003
Careful there Darren. Thoughts are dangerous things. They can lead to "ideas", and then all heck can break loose! 🙂
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Phosphor
Jul 24, 2003
Darren…

Is my desktop Pictured here <http://home.comcast.net/~phoz/ScreenCap.jpg>, something similar to what you’re talking about?

That picture of Escher’s "Drawing Hands" could be anything, of course. My main desktop color is the gray you see; the "Drawing Hands" portions are just a PICT file with a trnasparent BG, so that the gray shows through. If I change the main desktop color, it just looks like the drawing is on a different colored BG.

Just like on a PC, I could’ve also used a full, screen-size image of the "Drawing Hands" already embedded on it’s own colored BG. I like being able o change the color if I want to….though I don’t very often.

With Photoshop open, and all the palettes visible, this desktop background will appear behind the palletes and around any document window I might have open. I think, because you’re used to the Windows GUI, which, by default, opens windows at full screen size, you wouldn’t normally see the desktop. That "embedded company logo" you’ve seen is probably just a Mac desktop image.
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dave milbut
Jul 24, 2003
Can you change it so it does?

nope. nada. nunca. never. zilch. zero. no. 🙂

and windows apps don’t have a "resource fork".
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Phosphor
Jul 24, 2003
"and windows apps don’t have a "resource fork". "

Yoo tink I dunno dat!?

Hooduhya take meaz, a doofus?

;o)
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dave milbut
Jul 24, 2003
yoozadoofustooza? 🙂

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