Download PDF Hacking Photoshop® CS2 by Shangara Singh

Sinopsis

Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. The problem is that you may or may not need many of the plug-ins during the course of a session, but they eat into the memory allocation regardless. So, how do you alleviate this problem? Well, if you find there are some plug-ins that you use rarely, if ever, during your Photoshop sessions, you can disable them temporarily and enable them on the rare occasions when you do need them. The tradeoff in faster loading and more free memory may be worth the odd occasion when you may need to quit Photoshop, enable the plug-in, and relaunch Photoshop.

To disable a plug-in, navigate to the Plug-Ins folder inside the Photoshop install folder and then insert a ~ (tilde) in front of the plug-in name, folder, or directory. For example, a good candidate to start with is the Digimarc plug-in, used to read and write watermarks. If your workflow never makes use of watermarking, loading it into memory each time you launch Photoshop is pointless.

Content

1. Chapter 1: Optimizing Performance
2. Chapter 2: Hacking the Work Area
3. Chapter 3: The Fine Art of Using Palettes
4. Chapter 4: Browsing with Bridge
5. Chapter 5: Hacking Preferences and Documents
6. Chapter 6:Working with Layers
7. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Layer Styles
8. Chapter 8: Hacking Layer Mask
9. Chapter 9: Hacking Selection Masks
10. Chapter 10: Drawing and Painting
11. Chapter 11: Editing,Transforming, and Retouching Images
12. Chapter 12: Adjusting and Correcting Colors
13. Chapter 13: Creating and Editing Type
14. Chapter 14: Hacking Camera Raw
15. Chapter 15: Automating Tasks
16. Chapter 16: Outputting to Print
17. Chapter 17: Outputting to the Web
18. Chapter 18: Exploiting Filters and Photoshop Flexibility

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