2 Tool Questions

1- The Shift key doesn't cycle hidden tools even tho the preference to select with the shift key is selected. Does anyone know how to make this work?
2- Can the tool palettes be detached to use separately as I was able to in Photoshop CS2?
I'm using Photoshop CS3- Leopard 10.5.2 MacPro 8 core- 4GB Ram

>It's Illustrator where I can pull the tool palettes off the main tool bar. Sorry; wish that action was available in Photoshop. I guess I've been using Illustrator a bit more than I thought and took it for granted PS did same.
Do you mean the individual palettes (as listed in the Window menu)?
Just grab them by the bar at the top of each palette and pull them onto your main working area so that they "float".

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I have a very simple crop tool question. I'm a photoshop girl usually... so Illustrator is new to me. When I select the crop section I want... how do I save it?... if I select another tool in the tool panel, the crop section disappears and I can't get it back when I re-select Crop tool. If I select Save as... it saves the whole document...and not just my crop section.
Like I said, simple question...but I just don't know the secret to the Illustrator crop tool.
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Either press the Tab key or F key.

Capture with new MBP, plus Pen Tool Question...

Good Day everyone, I've searched the forums but have not been able to find my answer so I thought I'd post.
Question 1...
I've just received my new 17"MBP a few weeks ago. With my old PB, I would connect my camera via FW400 and capture the footage to an external LaCie drive via FW800 out of the computer.
Now with only one FW port on the MBP, it looks as though I need to capture via FW800 (4pin to 9pin) and go out to the LaCie via USB? Is this correct? How are any of you doing this. It bums me out that I can't go out FW800 to the drive. I suppose there is always the option of getting an Express Card 34 with FW800 connections?
Question 2...
Why can I not get my pen tool to work in the timeline? I want to adjust opacity and audio levels but am unable to do this. My old version of FCP (v5) seemed to let me do this. Overlays are 'on'? Any suggestions? I find it easier and faster to be able to do these functions from the timeline, there must be a way?
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To be honest, nobody but Apple knows what Apple is thinking but usb is not a good alternative. I also don't know of too many professional post houses or broadcast studios that have anything to do with firewire infrastructure at all. You can get firewire 800 to firewire 400 adapter cables for cheap, search the internet. You can then daisy chain your camera/capture device in line with your storage device.
The better alternative is to get a express firewire card for your MacBook pro as you mentioned which would create two firewire buses; one for capturing, one for storage. Again, you can search the internet and here's a place to get you started http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/FW800E34/
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The Pen Tool is my favorite / go to selection tool. But can it do the following...
I've made a path and converted it to a selection, then filled the area with a color or texture (on it's own layer).
Now I find that I need to adjust (fine tune) the shape I've created / filled with color or texture to better fit how / where it's being used. Is is possible to invoke the path handles and get it to adjust the filled area as you move / adjust the path. (This is not a shape, not using the shape tool.)
I can select the filled path / layer and free transform but that does not give me a fine enough adjustment.
Puppet Warp doesn't really fit the bill either.
A good example of what I want to achieve is similar to when you put type on a path. When you adjust the path the type moves to conform to the changes in the path. I want to do the same thing with the area I filled using the path.
Possible??
If not, this would be a great feature request!!!
thanks folks for any input
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c.pfaffenbichler
Just to follow up on your answer....
Yes this works very well for what I'm trying to accomplish.
Thanks again.
Just an fyi, I'm also a NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) member.
I posted my same question on the NAPP forum. I still haven't gotten a response for anyone over there.
I'm not knocking NAPP, it's a great organization and I've been a member since 2006.
But I'm pleased with how much faster answers to questions come from this Adobe Photoshop forum.
Keep up the good work!!
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Iweb SEO Tool Question Revised

Sorry I thought I should make this question simpler ...
Something has gone wrong with my iweb SEO tool
and it is messing up all the pages (published to a folder)
that I update with it.
Everything looks fine in the tool - but it does exactly the
same bad thing to every page when I try and use it.
Is there some kind of reset or something that won't lose
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t does exactly the same bad thing to every page when I try and use it.
Which is?
Try creating a new domain file with a test site and see if SEO messes that site up the same way. If it doesn't then there's something awry with your original domain file and website.
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Hi Folks
I am using SQL Developer tool. I have a procedure with compilation errors so i can see that procedure with red X mark in SQL Developer tool.
When am clicking on the procedure it is going to the editor there i can see "code"."grants","dependencies","references","details","profiles".
But i can't able to see "Errors" tab in the editor. And main thing is i didnt see any red lines in the editor for the invalid procedure
And when i recompiled that procedure it got recompiled successfully and that red x mark is vanished.
Here my question is the "Errors" tab is only appears when the procedure/function/package has errors and surprisingly i didnt see any red lines in the editor for invalid procedure (may be my proc has no errors).
Thanks

Hello,
maybe your procedure has been invalidated by some DDL, e.g. a new column has been added to a table that is referenced in your procedure. The status will be INVALID until you recompile it or until you call the procedure, then it will be recompiled automatically.
(may be my proc has no errors).Very likely.
Regards
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Basic Quick Selection Tool Question

Is this just a newer way to do the same thing the other selections tools have been doing for years OR is there a benefit to this tool over the other selection tools?

The Quick Selection Tool does indeed operate differently from the Magic Wand Tool.
But it’s been introduced at least with CS3, so why the question now?

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Hello:
I've been suing the magnetic lasso tool to make a selection of a group of people; there is a lot of going between legs and over heads, etc. But invariably when I get about half way through the selection the magnetic lasson tool acts as if I've completed the selection, i.e. I tap the image and the point of the last tap suddenly is connected with my point of origin. I have done this several times, making sure that I didn't tap too hard or anything like that, but that seems not to be the problem (I'm using CS6/Mac 10.6.8, for what it's worth).
So, my question is: is there a way to erase part of the selection? I know about the add to/subtract from the selection; but that's not getting me back to where I need. For example, the line that cuts through my group, the line going from my end point to point of origin, well, if I can delete that line and continue on from the end point that might resolve this problem.
Any assistance/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

You could simply reach the limit of allowed points in a path. You will have to use multiple passes/ segemnts. I don't see why this should be a problem. Selections are selections. The path is merely a temporary representation of the selection border, the actual selection is pixel based, no matter what. Maybe look up a tutorial on how to work with saved selections/ channels? Just saying... Seems to me like you're trying to outsmart the program and doing everything in one go, which arely ever works...
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Data Utilization Tool Question

Does any one know what is the 'Technology' sub-category in the Web & Apps category of the new Data Utilization Tool?
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Selection tools question

I'm fairly new to Photoshop Elements, so hope fully this is a simple question.
I've used the selction tools, magic wand, lassos, etc, to trace out areas of a photo that I want to eliminate and fill with another layer. I only have my background layer, a color fill layer, and a gradient layer. Problem is, when I go back to my background layer, my selections that I traced out are no longer accessible, and it seems like I have to redo all my selctions again. There's got to be a way to keep and access my selections, but I'm unsure how to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Nate

nateu,
Have a look at this print screen of a selection of the swan and the layer structure:
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1usGtChF3D8cfv7mPcaCKt7Lw9IsG1
I duplicated the background layer, then shut off the visibility of the background layer by clicking on its eye icon, worked on the background copy layer. I do this routinely, since the background layer is a locked layer, and also if I wish to start over again, I just delete the newly generated layers and am back to square one. The academic purists may not agree with this work-flow, but so be it.
Next, I selected the swan - used the magnetic lasso tool here, but any of the selection tools will work. You should see "marching ants" around the selection, indicating that it is active.
Then, I went to Layer>new>layer via copy. This put the swan on its own layer. Note the checkerboard pattern around the swan selection - indicating transparency
You can put a blank layer between the swan layer (Layer 1) and the background copy layer, fill it with color, or a gradient, or texture, etc. for a new background
If you want to save the selection as per Ken's post, Press CTRL+left click the swan thumbnail on Layer 1 to make it active, then go to Select>save selection

Photoshop CS3 & Mac Leapard Problem.. Type Tool question mark

I am having a problem that I cannot figure out. I just bought this software and was able to use it a couple of times before it started doing this.
The problem is when I use the Type Tool and choose a color it will show a question mark (?). When I type you cannot see anything. Its like it can use any color.
The Masked Type Tool works fine, but whenever I use the regular type tool I cannot change the color or even see what i'm typing!

On my old iMac G5, with Leopard and CS3, sometimes the color picker would freeze my whole machine.
When I bumped the RAM up to 2Gb, that went away.
Unfortunately, the G5 processor cooked about two weeks later, but PS ran fine for those two weeks.

Tools Question

Is there any difference between using the 'default',
'classic', or 'flashcomponent' settings in the tool bar? Are there
any major advantages/disadvantages to using one setting over the
others for specific types of programs?

Hi Mitch,
Yes, please leave your tools to classic. About 25% of
questions from beginners reach 20 or more replies only because they
use flash components and forget to mention that in the initial
question. Almost all answers you get will assume you use classic
components, and they
do work differently.
Udo

Replace Color Tool Question

How to use the Replace Color tool? (CS5)
[Title was edited to reflect the question more accurately - Hunt]

Try this link or do another search for it. Lots of tutorials out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7sXLMV5IhI

Retouching tool question

Question about retouching from an ACR greenhorn:
When viewing an image at 100% in the retouching window, how do I scroll around the image to inspect it for blemishes? The retouching window doesn't have scroll bars, and there don't appear to be hotkeys for reaching the hand tool from the retouching window.
I can of course click on the hand tool, move the image, then click back on the retouching tool, but this has two disadvantages. One, it is very clumsy. Two, when ACR reactivates the retouching tool the toolbar obscures the top edge of the image, making it impossible to correct blemishes hidden by the toolbar.
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
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P.S. I am using ACR 4.4.1 with PS CS3 on Windows XP.

Brilliant. I am impressed that you follow these forums yourself. Many thanks. --Andrew

Conversion tool question

Again, I have a question regarding the conversion tool, BIPBatchConversion and it's output.
In the original report there is a line like this
Report Year : 2008
where 'Report Year :' is boilerplate text and 2008 is the selected parameter when the report was run.
In the converted .rtf file this has been implemented as a two column table like this :
Column 1 in the table:
Report Year : &F_year ( all boilerplate, no form fields )
Column 2 in the table contains a form field with syntax <?P_YEAR?>
The strange thing is that this form field has the default text, F_year ,which is the same that is used in the boilerplate text in column 1 !
Will this work ?
What is the meaning of the boilerplate text &F_year ?
My expected behaviour would be :
'Report Year :' as boilerplate text, directly followed by the form field containing the parameter P_Year
Customer has several hundreds of Oracle Reports which we would like to autoconvert with minimum hands-on.
If simple things like this is failing, we will not be able to use the conversion tool.....
I have no access yet to customers database, so I can not verify if the converted report is working.
Edited by: user792912 on Oct 23, 2009 4:35 AM

Nonsense. You can use the conversion tool to get the converted rtf files. Touch up work is usually required no matter what.
To answer your question, you will need to fix the substitution variables that are used as boiler plate text.
Example - Reports6i bad practice: Personally, it's a sloppy practice to do that since a frame could be used and should be used
Report Year: &P_YEAR <-Will not convert
Fix in BIP:
Report Year: <?.//P_YEAR?> I believe I answered your question, don't forget to give me the points.

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