Show Me Everything

I’ve been using Photoshop CS3 for awhile now but there’s been one thing bothering me. This little menu option:

 

By default Photoshop hides a vast number of menu options. So each time you want to select a menu option that is hidden you have to select the menu, click “Show All Menu Items” then navigate to the menu item you wanted in the first place.

Now there is a solution. You can visit the Menus option under the Edit Menu and modify what is hidden by default.

From here you can select the different menus and their respective menu items.

 

It’s rather time consuming but you can select every item to be visible by default. After making your changes you can save it as a menu customization file.

I’ve taken the liberty of creating a custom file that has every menu item on by default. Download and extract this file and place in in the following directory.

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Presets/Menu Customization/

Now you can select the “Everything On” Set from the Menu options and have instant access to all the previously hidden menu items.

CS3 FTW

Tonight I grabed my cell phone and snapped about 12 random shots of my living room. I plopped them into Photoshop CS3 and came out with this:

whoa.jpg

This is with just the default ‘auto’ settings. Pretty nifty.

I remember during my undergrad we were using CS2 at the time.  For one of our assignments we had to manually stitch together a series of photos into a panorama.  Manually stitch them together?  That was so early 90’s!  Why not just use the photomerge tool in Photoshop?  With minor tweeking to match up the seams my results weren’t too bad.  I had even used a nice digital camera and a tripod.  But this just blew me away.  Kudos to the Math Guys over at Adobe.

HALO

A friend wanted me to throw together a quick edit for a poster. Being the nice guy I am I said sure and went to work on the image she sent me.

This is the result:

Halo poster

I wasn’t aware of the photo’s origins until after I sent her the completed work. I feel bad and would like to give the orginal artist credit. The original image belongs to harbaugh79.

How did I find the original artist? Images from Flickr have a distinct filename. They look something like this:

258080280_187bf237ed_o.jpg

If you take the first section of that file name and add it to www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id= you get a complete URL pointing to the page where the image originated. (e.g. www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=258080280) Pretty neat huh?