Photoshop Questions.

[Raglan]

Okay i'm finding photoshop rather frustrating to get used to. I thought i'd make this thread for questions on how to do things. heres the questions i have so far.

1- in gimp you can alpha to selection, which selected whats been drawn on the layer. ie if you had a render, it would only select the render as the selection shape. How do i do this in photoshop

2- enlarge/shrink selection. if i have done the above, how would i then enlarge or shrink the size of it?

3- in gimp if i have the pencil i can make a dot somewhere, then use ctrl and click somewhere else and it'll draw a straight line, how do i do this in photoshop?

[Maяcel]

1 - Ctrl click the layers tumbnail.
2 - Select > Modify
3 - Hold shift when drawing or same as gimp but with the shift key

[Raglan]

thanks

4- in gimp i can press and hold down the mouse wheel and then free move the image around the screen, its much easier than using the dang scroll bars, is that possible in photoshop?

[Maяcel]

hold down the space bar

[Raglan]

5- in gimp if you want a layer to just be a solid colour you can click on the square that selects teh colour and just drag it into the picture. Any way of doing this in photoshop, without having to use the paint bucket?

(you can tell teh shortcuts that i like using can't you lol.)

[Maяcel]

no easier way then the paint bucket. i think. Press G for the paint bucket, and B for the brush. you can change these in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Shortcuts for tools

[Raglan]

ing photoshop, its really beginning to me off.

I just spent twenty minutes making a render, then when i save it and i click confirm and it appears to have worked. having already been ed around by photoshop with this i click open to check its saved, and wo behold it hasn't so i try again and again, and on the fifth ing attempt it seems to work. So close the file and open the one i jsut save only to get told some about the ing programme can't parse the ing file!

(sorry for the heavy swearing, i'm just irritated)

EDIT; Oh just tried opening it in GIMP, that works fine, but the supposedly superior programme can't open its own ing save!

[Maяcel]

Don't blame the messenger, when its corrupt its corrupt. Are you still getting corrupt files when you save?

There are a couple of things that can cause this:
- Bad RAM
- interference from another app (virus, anti-virus, disk utility, etc.)
- bad hard disk system
- a seriously malfunctioning third party plugin

i suggest moving the said file to the desktop, and open it from there, to make sure it isn't in a bad directory. Often its just a problem with your computer and or security software, i've had the same problem on my schools computers.

[Raglan]

with photoshop, who do i get the text to follow a line? ie if i had someones head and wanted it to follow the curve of the head

[lolgast]

Not sure how to follow a line but I believe that on right on the upper bar of your text tool you got an option to warp the text witch allows you to give it a certain shape.

[Raglan]

yep thats got it, thanks.

[Maяcel]

Iirc you can draw a path, and click on that with the type tool as well