Specifications
5
Tips (from pg. 1)
ter’s Blending Options by
clicking the tiny icon to
the right of the Lens Cor-
rection layer and then low-
er the Opacity setting. An
advantage to this approach
is that the vignette resizes
itself if you crop the image!
Lesa Snider’s Photoshop:
The Missing Manual
Circumvent Gatekeeper
in Mountain Lion
Because of Apple’s new
Gatekeeper security fea-
ture, you may not be al-
lowed to open programs
that you download from
the Web if you’re running
Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).
You can change those app
settings in
System Pref-
erences> Security & Priva-
cy> General
, but if you just
need to let one program
through, you can right-
click or Control-click on
its icon and choose
Open
from the contextual menu.
Doing so will let you tem-
porarily bypass the securi-
ty setting without adjust-
ing your preferences.
For more information,
check out Melissa Holt’s
article at e Mac Observ-
er:
www.tinyurl.com/974v6xx
Restore Windows—
or Don’t
If you’re running OS X
Lion or Mountain Lion
and you’re getting tired
of programs reopening
old documents when you
launch them, you can turn
off this feature. e setting
is found in
System Prefer-
ences> General
. In 10.7, the
checkbox is labeled “Re-
store windows when quit-
ting and re-opening apps”;
in 10.8, it’s “Close win-
dows when quitting an ap-
plication.”
Set those boxes appropri-
ately, and your apps will
start fresh every time.
Instantly
Black Out Your Display
If you’re working on an
important confidential
document and someone
walks into the room who
shouldn’t see your screen,
you can instantly darken
you Mac’s screen by press-
ing
Ctrl-Shift-Eject. To turn
the brightness back to
where it was, press any key
or move the mouse.
Keep Commenting
Tools Selected
In Acrobat, to keep a com-
ment or markup tool se-
lected once you’ve used
it, open the Properties bar
(
Command-E [PC: Ctrl-E]),
click on one of the tools
in the Comment & Mark-
up bar, and then check the
Keep Tool Selected option in
the Properties bar. You’ll
need to repeat this for each
comment or markup tool
that you want to remain
selected aer you use it.
Larger Comments
in Acrobat
If the comments in Acro-
bat are too small for your
liking, you can increase
their size in Preferences
(
Acrobat> Preferences). Click
on
Commenting (the first
Category in the list), and
you’ll see the first drop-
down menu:
Font Size. e
choices include Small, Me-
dium, and Large.
Link Directly to Page
in Online PDFs
When you create a hyper-
link to a PDF on a web-
site, the URL looks some-
thing like this:
http://www.
site.com/pdfname.pdf.
If you want to link direct-
ly to a page inside the PDF,
just add “
#page=page num-
ber
” at the end of the URL.
For example,
http://www.
site.com/pdfname.pdf#page=7
displays page seven in the
PDF.
Magnifying Shortcuts
for iPhoto
When you’re editing a pic-
ture in iPhoto, place your
cursor on the part of the
image you’d like to zoom
in on, then press 1 to mag-
nify by 100 percent or 2 to
magnify by 200 percent.
If your cursor isn’t any-
where on the image when
you use these shortcuts,
iPhoto will zoom in on the
exact center of your pic-
ture. To zoom out again,
press 0 or Z.
Note that you can also use
these shortcuts to change
the magnification of your
thumbnails when you’re in
Events or Photos view!
Melissa Holt, The Mac Observer
Larger Text
in Lightroom
You can increase the font
size of the interface items
in Photoshop Lightroom
by choosing
Lightroom>
Preferences> Interface
. In
the Font Panel Size pop-up
menu, choose Large, then
relaunch Lightroom.
Post-Crop Border
Effect in Lightroom
It’s easy to create a black
border effect around your
image in Lightroom. Just
activate the
Develop mod-
ule and set all of the Post-
Crop sliders in the Vi-
gnettes panel to the far le.
at way, the border will
update automatically as
you crop your image.
Clip Adjustment
Layers Automatically
In Photoshop, you can
“clip” adjustment layers so
they target a single lay-
er instead of all the layers
below, and you can tog-
gle this behavior on as a
default. Just click the lit-
tle multi-circle icon in the
lower-right corner of the
Adjustments panel to set
new adjustment layers to
be clipped automatically.
Easier Curves
Using Curves in Photo-
shop is a lot easier if you
use the on-image adjust-
ment tool. You can use it to
add and move adjustment
points by clicking and
dragging on your image.
Activate it by clicking the
button that looks like a
pointing hand at the top
of the Adjustments panel
(also new), and then hover
your cursor over the area
you want to change (your
cursor will look like an
eyedropper). A white pre-
view circle appears on the
curve, corresponding to
the tonal value of the pix-
els you’re hovering above.
When you’re ready to add
a point to the curve, just
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