Arrows in Photoshop CS6

How do I draw and size arrows in CS6?

ISTR having problems when CS6 first came out. You have to click on the little Cog icon in the Options bar. I guess we all know what the cog means now, but I am not entirely sure how intuitive it was when you first encountered it.

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How to draw an arrow in Photoshop CS6?

The Line Tool in Photoshop CS6 is radically different from that in PSCS5. I have used Photoshop almost daily for years, yet I haven't been able to figure this out. Any help out there?

It just looks different. but the functionality is still there. Look here:
-Noel

Where can i find a dutch manual for photoshop cs6

Hi,
I'm trying to find the dutch manual for Photoshop CS6.
There is a hyperlink available on this page Help bij Photoshop | Archief called Help bij Adobe Photoshop CS5 (PDF), but if I follow this I end up on an "error page" in English telling me that the requested page isn't available.
Can someone provide me with this PDF-file please?
I can download this PDF in English, but it would be so much easier for me to read and understand the subject matter in Dutch.
So, is there anybody out there who can send it to me?
Thanks!
Michael

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When I close Photoshop CS6, the following message appears: "Could not save Preferences because the file is locked, you do not have necessary access permissions, or another program is using the file.

When I quit Photoshop CS6, the following message appears:
" Could not save Preferences because the file is locked, you do not have necessary access permissions, or another program is using the file. Use the ‘Get Info’ command in the Finder to ensure the file is unlocked and you have permission to access the file. If the problem persists, save the document to a different file or duplicate it in the Finder."
If I try to change the Workspace in PS6 from Essentials to any other Workspace, the following messsage appears:
"Could not apply the workspace because the file is locked, you do not have necessary access permissions, or another program is using the file. Use the ‘Get Info’ command in the Finder to ensure the file is unlocked and you have permission to access the file. If the problem persists, save the document to a different file or duplicate it in the Finder."
I have checked the Sharing and Permissions section of the "Get Info" panel accessed from the Finder and I have set Read and Write Privileges for my user account for Photoshop CS6. System and Admin are also set to Read and Write.
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X Version 10.9.5 and have all available updates for Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 5 and Bridge CS6.
I tried uninstalling the program and downloading it again and reinstalling, but nothing changed.
Can you help?
Thanks,
cjpnm

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How can I set CameraRAWOpenOptions using Javascripts in Photoshop CS6?

I have been unable to set CameraRAWOpenOptions in scripts that worked fine for me in Photoshop CS5 but now do not work in Photoshop CS6. There are no error messages when I run the scripts, and they appear to finish okay, but the images come out unadjusted. Below is the essence of how I'm trying to do it. When I run these scripts in Extendscript (CS5 or CS6 does not make a difference), Photoshop CS6 simply uses its own default (saved) settings, but CS5 would allow the overrides. I did change the default settings in CameraRAW in CS6 to use the default lens correction profiles available from the EXIF data, and I'm wondering if that rendered the script unable to change any of the rest of the settings.
Here's how I have the code:
var RawOptions = new CameraRAWOpenOptions;
RawOptions.settings=CameraRAWSettingsType.CUSTOM;
RawOptions.exposure=+2.00;
RawOptions.vignettingAmount = 0;
RawOptions.vignettingMidpoint = 0;
RawOptions.contrast = 50;
RawOptions.saturation = 0;
RawOptions.shadows = 0;
RawOptions.luminanceSmoothing = 0;
var JPGopts = new JPEGSaveOptions;
JPGopts.quality = JPEGquality;
//Perform the loop through the files
app.open(testListing[0], RawOptions, false);
app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
for (var nfile = nstart; nfile < nstop; nfile++)
    app.open(testListing[nfile], RawOptions, false);
    FnameSave = new File(SavePath+"/"+testListing[nfile].name);
    app.activeDocument.saveAs(FnameSave, JPGopts, false, Extension.UPPERCASE);
    app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

I would collapse and expand the toolbar windows by using the double arrow icon?
Doing this will almost give you your full screen?
Or you can hit 'Tab' and it hides your tools when you don't need them?

Where can I find an instructional DVD for Photoshop CS6 that is Mac-compatible. My textbook came with a DVD that's not Mac-compatible. Thanks! Michael

I'm new to Photoshop, and my textbook came with an instructional DVD (for Photoshop CS6) that is not Mac-compatible. Does anyone know where I can find one? Thanks! Michael R.

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Photoshop CS6 Video - how to Apply Many Transitions Efficiently ?

Hello, i edit lots of software video tutorials inside Photoshop CS6 and overlay the videos with lots of red circles and keyboard keys. All these overlays need a short fade-in and fade-out. How can i apply these fade-ins and fade-outs more efficiently?
So far i only can do like this:
- If have to drag every single fade-in and every single fade-out to every single object, these are two actions per object. I believe there is no keyboard command for this and also i cannot create my own keyboard command here.
- Often i *copy* an object with Ctrl-J which already *has* the fade-in and fade-out. But the newly *copied object* does *not* sport the fade-in and fade-out; so i have to apply those manually again.
Is there any way to speed up the procedure of applying transitions? (Bulk-apply transitions? Keyboard ways?)
I already tried to activate the special time-frame keyboard commands. But i believe it doesn't help with the task i described (applying transitions). What's more, with special time-frame keyboard commands active, the arrow keys get new tasks then; but i need the arrow keys for *regular* keyboard commands in connection with the move tool (to precisely move the overlay objects to their desired position).
Any hints would be great!
More generally:
If you know any *advanced* tutorials on video in Photoshop CS6 (written or video), i would be interested. I am very familiar with general Photoshop including general video there. I don't need any introduction.
I have also tried to do my tasks in Premiere Pro CS6, but found it a bit overwhelming and went back to edit the video tuts in Photoshop. Even though after some getting-used-to-it, Premiere might be better for me. I *do* have to import lots of smart-objects and vector-objects with transparency from Photoshop all the time, and Photoshop is my natural habitat.
Thanks for all suggestions!

The long and short answer is that you are using the wrong tool, but since you already tried Premiere and were "overwhelmed", well, I guess that settles that. Seems to me you have locked yourself into a corner by habitually using PS for everything, no matter how awkward. It would really be easy to export all your graphics to separate files, import them in Premiere, build a prototype project and then save everything as presets. The same would be true for After Effects. In fact you could probably create a lot of stuff even natively in both programs using the titler tool or effects... Also what you describe is exactly what tools like Camtasia Studio also do automatically based on the mouse and keyboard data recorded during the session. I know it's not what you wanna hear, but it seems to me you are really using the wrong set of tools... As for solutions in PS - perhaps there's a way to get the edit points with scripting and then apply transitions automatically, but that's most likely as good as it gets...
Mylenium

Photoshop CS6-many problems. Slow.

I'm hoping someone at Adobe can address the numberous bugs and general slowness in Photoshop CS6.
Before installing (MacBok Pro 2010 Intel i7, 8GB Ram) I whiped my drive and installed OS Lion. So CS6 went on clean.
What I'm finding:
1. General slugishness all around.
Layered PSD files I was using just fine in CS5 are now extremely slow. An examle is a small (20mb) web design file. So it has many layers (maybe 200, not 2,000) mostly comprised of typographic elements—not many layered effects to speak of. Not many image layers, either. Layer folders are slow to move, folders can't be moved using the shift + arrow key consecutive times, making it difficult to move a range of folders xxx pixels to the left, for example.
Things that were pretty snappy before, are now slow. This is very similar to the problems I and many others saw with the initial relase of CS5—in the next version (12.0.1 I think?) Adobe fixed the issue.
2. Problems with type, example keybaord arrow keys stop working many times when toye is selected. Frustrating.
More of a general rant here, but insted of (at least in addition to) a lot of other 'features' like video in PS extended (why not use Premiere?), 3d, etc., it would be really smart for Adobe to make core elements work better: A big complaint among interactive desigers is that type renders so poorly compared to CSS html. Maybe this could be addressed, as photoshop is used for the design of most all websites.

Scorwolf wrote:
Think twice before putting all the load on customers' side
Some things need to be stated, I think.
1. You're not dealing with some smooth talking marketing department here. Chris Cox and the other engineers who help here are substantially the ones that arrange the 1s and 0s in the code itself. They speak plainly, and while most folks who know them realize they get directly to the point, folks who don't realize the special level of communication we have here might think the Adobe folks are abrupt or evasive. Let me assure you they're neither. It is uncommon to have this level of access to engineers at a big corporation, and encouraging them to be here is one of the things Adobe does right. Very right.
2. Adobe's software uses and stresses your computer like no other software - not even the previous version of Adobe's software. They have provided you with cutting-edge graphics technology in the latest release, and the state of the art is that your computer system is both extremely complex and the operating system and driver software on it does not all work perfectly (not even a Mac). We see again and again, for example, that display drivers are hard put to work perfectly... There are certain "golden" releases of drivers that work well - and others that just plain suck.
What you may not realize is that there are already multiple levels of fallback inside the Adobe software. Some of them are automatic, and some you have to choose via preferences. Adobe really can do no more to try to ensure their software works around the glitches on your particular system.
-Noel

Photoshop CS6 Font problems

I am experiencing an intermittent problem in Photoshop CS6. I have over 500 fonts loaded on my IMac. I'll be working on a project file and when I go to add text, the drop down menu will only show about a third of my fonts instead of showing the complete list. The only way to correct this problem is to shut down Photoshop and reboot my computer. Most of the time this will give me a menu showing all of the fonts. I have had this Mac for over two yeas and have not had such a problem while using CS5. Is this a bug in Photoshop or do I have other issues ? I have downloaded the latest Photoshop updates.
Equipment: IMac 27 with 3.06 dual core processor and 12 gig of ram. I am running Os 10.6.8.
As this is happening more frequently and has become very frustrating, any help would be appreciated.

Since you already said that you have downloaded the latest Photoshop upgrades (http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates ), Then I will forward you to the next possible solution.
This would be to turn font preview off in Photoshop's preferences:
In Photoshop CS6:
Choose Type > Font Preview Size.
Select None.
Another solution is to turn off the following fonts:
The following fonts are known to cause problems when used in Photoshop:
Bustle (Mac OS only)
21kannmbn_ttf
GURAKH_S.TTF
JH_TITLES.TTF
SCREEN__.TTF
SEVESBRG.TTF
SF Tattle Tales Condensed.ttF
ZEROGEBI.TTF
Zippy.ttf
Haettenschweiler (Photoshop CS4 when run as a 64-bit application on Windows only)
Finally, another option is to Validate all the fonts through the Font Book Mac Os Application:
If you have a third-party font management program, such as Suitcase Fusion 2, there is sometimes a tool in your application that validates fonts. (For example, Font Doctor ships as a part of Suitcase Fusion 2.) Use this type of application as your first choice.
If you use a tool to validate your fonts, but the problem recurs, it's possible that the tool did not successfully validate your fonts. In this case, follow the steps in Solution 4 below to check for damaged fonts and to reset your font caches.
To validate your fonts through Font Book:
Choose Applications > Font Book.
Choose All Fonts in the Collection column.
Select the top most font in the Font column.
Use the Down Arrow on the keyboard to select the first font, then hold the key down to scroll through all your fonts.
If Font Book crashes, restart Font Book, and scroll through the fonts one by one to determine which font caused the crash.
If you are using Mac OS X (10.5.x), Ctrl-click on any fonts that are problematic, and choose to Disable that font family.
If you are using Mac OS X (10.6.x), Ctrl-click on any fonts that are problematic, and choose to Remove that font family.
I grabbed all these from Adobe Help, which offer a few other options you might want to explore if these don't help you.
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-fonts-photoshop-cs5.html
Please Respond if you cant find the resolution above or in the Adobe Help page that I posted above.
-janelle

Tool Menu Stopped working in Photoshop CS6 Mac?

Today when I opened my Photoshop CS6 on my Mac in OS 10.9, the tool menu stopped allowing me to select a different tool by clicking on the lower right arrow in the tool boxes. Before, I could click on , say the brush tool, and hold the mouse down to select a different kind of paint brush. Now nothing happens when I click?
I tried trashing preferences, checking my mouse preferences, etc. Nothing seems to be different, and yet this maddening behavior has taken over.
Right click does open up the menu, but I much prefer the old way.
Anyone encounter this problem?

The popup list seems to have a time delay built in that at times I have seen not work. A right click the will usually pop up the list. Resetting tools and preferences and reboot is wort a try to fix the behavior

Tools not showing in Photoshop CS6

Some of the alternative tools in the tool box are not showing, I already restar the program and try to clean the catche and is still not showing. DO not what to do

Hi TSDF,
What operating system are you using?
Does that mean when you click and hold on the icons in the toolbox, the the pop up menus don't appear?
Some of the tools in the toolbox don't have any hidden tools (zoom and move tools) and you can tell which tool box icons have
hidden tools by the small black or white kinda side ways arrow next to the toolbox icons.
Is there a particular tool you can't find in photoshop cs6?

Combining 2 shapes in Photoshop CS6

I have a shape, it has no fill, so it's just an outline, let's say it's an outline of a leg.
Now what I want to do is draw another outline inside that leg outline, but I don't want 2 end up with 2 separate shapes (2 layers), I want to draw the 2nd outline directly into the first one, so it's all one big vector shape.
For some reason this seems impossible to do in Photoshop CS6. If I select combine shapes, from the menu, free form pen tool and then draw the 2nd outline into the 1st outline, when I stop drawing I don't end up with one outline combined (on top of) the first, instead it just seems to do some weird clipping and I end up with the first outline shrinking, and the outline I just drew appearing not as an outline but as a path.
This is something that works perfectly in Flash pro, you draw a shape, you draw another one on top and you then have both perfectly combined, no fuss no bother. You can even vary the stroke strength at any point along the line in Flash, I'm not sure this is even possible in Photoshop.
Any ideas what's going wrong in photoshop or how to do that in photoshop?
Thanks for any advice.

GameViewPoint wrote:
......but can only get that if the 2nd outline is on a 2nd layer, i'e doesn't seem to be a way to combine that with the first outline.
You can almost get what you want by working slightly differently.
When you use the pen tool choose from the options bar the Path instead of the Shape option. Draw each of your paths as you normally do. When all the paths you want on a single layer are drawn click on the paths panel. Then choose the brush tool and select the color and width of the outline stroke. Then select one of the paths by clicking on it with the "black arrow" tool. At the bottom of the path's panel click on the icon for "stroke path with brush" . You can then repeat this process to stroke the other paths. If all the paths on a layer will have the same stroke then select them all and one click on the stroke icon will stroke them all.
Note that for the kind of work you seem to be doing this approach has the benefit of using ANY brush (see bottom path in example), which can produce quite interesting effects. The vector paths in the paths panel should be named if you want them saved in the document. Also, if you want all the paths on a layer to be merged then alt click on the thumbnail of the relevant path and then from the Path Operations dropdown menu choose merge shape components.
Hope this helps.
Paulo

Bug: Photoshop CS6 crashes when changing font family of a locked text layer (Windows 7)

How to:
          1. Open an 8-bit, RGB image by selecting File>Open...
          2. Click anywhere on the canvas, with the Type Tool to make a new Text Layer
          3. Select the Move Tool
          4. Lock the text layer
          5. Click on the font family drop-down list to highlight the current font family
          6. Press an up or down arrow key
Result: Photoshop Crashes
Expected Result: Nothing should happen. Perhaps an error message about modifying a locked layer

Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 13.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f551de1
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17651, time stamp: 0x4e21213c
Exception code: 0xe06d7363
Fault offset: 0x000000000000cacd
Faulting process id: 0xe48
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd1909963e5493
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: e1a8bc4c-84fc-11e1-bae0-4487fc9d568c
This is all I can offer, from event viewer

Anomalies Photoshop CS6 - Liquify Keyboard Brush resizing shortcuts & Selection Alt

Using Photoshop CS6 (13.0.1) Extended with Windows 7 Pro Service Pack1 O.S.
New Box HP Z420 Workstation
Intel Xeon CPU E5-1603 @ 2.80 GHz
16.0 Ram
Issues:
1. Intermittently on any selection - Keyboard Alt key on right of spacebar gives me the double arrow
alt key on left of the spacebar gives me Plus with the submenus.
2. More importantly in the Liquify (Shift+Ctrl+X) intermittently when using the brushes shortcut resize keyboard key they May on May not work ( { or } ) with the
tools on the left side
3 For efficiency shortcut keys are necessary - I use the allot - Fashion Industry
4 Suggestion ?? - I had our Tech Div. check out the keyboard - no issues there

Contact Sheet is a welcome return. So many features can be adapted. I made this a few years ago by sizing up 40 images, and turning off titles, and ‘Flatten Layers’ when making the contact sheet. It was then fairly simple to FT each layer to give some overlap, and use Layer masks for creative affect.
It was eventually incorperated into a poster for the organisation running the event.
Some interesting JDIs (thanks so much for the typed list!).
The Eye dropper changes appeal to me, and Ctrl J now working on Groups is very welcome. Lots more there, but what worries me is that there are apparently twice as many new JDIs in CS6 as there were in CS5, which makes me think I must be missing a lot of the CS5 JDIs. is there a list somewhere?

Photoshop CS6: Problem - paint bucket

Hello,
I am used to work with Photoshop. Unfortunately there is a bug in the paint bucket tool of Photoshop CS6. I made all updates up to 13.0.1 (x64).
Description: The paint bucket tool is very tricky to use now. If you want to fill a certain empty area of a picture with a simple color, it often does not do that. My clicks are totally correct, also the position ... but it does not take it. Somtimes I have to zoom insome 100% untill my clicks are successful and the desired areas are filled with color.
I hope that Adobe can release an update to fix that problem.
Kind regards
Ameeon

hmmm ... but now it works.
maybe I am not used to the black arrow symbol ...
Has someone experienced the same problem?

Arrows in Photoshop CS6

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