Custom Photoshop Preferences (one)
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Photoshop is an important tool for prepress image design and processing. Faster and better use of Photoshop is important for designers and even for ordinary computer users who often perform image processing.
Browse Photoshop preferences
Photoshop's various preset options are all concentrated in a tabbed display dialog, which is very helpful for users to set up. Just press Ctrl+K to activate and display the preset dialog. For beginners or intermediate-level readers, it may be a bad news, in the paging preset dialog, there are still some useful options with strong "logical opacity" (ie difficult to understand) . Therefore, it is advisable to follow the instructions to select presets.
Now enter Photoshop, press Ctrl+K to display the “General Presets” dialog box and start the following sections.
An important reason for using Photoshop presets is that it provides you with maximum optimization: how to display, hide, or display what you need on the interface, and maximize the performance of Photoshop. .
First, the regular preset
1.1 Color Picker
When you click on the foreground/background color selection box in the toolbox, the color picker is displayed. The Color Picker dialog allows you to choose between three options. It is recommended to select the "Adobe" color picker here.
The Adobe color picker is chosen because there are several ways to set it up, and at least one of them is the way you work. In the options, you can see the default Windows Color Picker and Macintosh Color Picker. The Macintosh mode has a more powerful color mode selection when selecting colors. But there is a flaw in the design of the Macintosh color picker: it specifies color components from 0 to 100% in RGB color mode, while Photoshop and most other software and Windows use 0 to 255 colors, or 256 colors. That is, if you use the Macintosh Color Picker, you must convert your color values to use the same color specification as Photoshop users who use the Adobe Color Picker.
Windows Macintosh
·Increment from 0 to 255
·Incremental from 0 to 100% (different from Photoshop's color picker)
· Only HSV and RGB color modes · All three important color modes are available
· No color matching mode · No color matching mode
Conversely, Photoshop's color picker supports gamut mapping in four color modes (RGB, LAB, CMYK, and HSB). For example, you can click on the S in the HSB area, at which point the color gamut changes its configuration. The Macintosh Color Picker also supports more than a dozen color matching specifications, including the famous PANTONE. So, when the customer asks to set a certain color of the print to "PANTONE Cool Gray 1C", you can directly click the custom button in the Color Picker dialog box, and then enter PANTONE Cool Gray 1C in the new dialog box. This will access the PANTONE swatch, and finally click the OK button to use the color in the image window.
Many of your potential customers insist on an exact match of colors. At this point, Photoshop does a good job.
1.2 interpolation method
The meaning of the interpolation method setting can be interpreted as "translation". When you order Photoshop to stretch or shrink an image, it has to calculate (like to translate) the pixels that will increase when the image becomes larger, or which pixels will be removed when the image is reduced.
Whether you shrink or stretch an image, you lose some detail. Because Photoshop has to estimate the number of pixels that will be added or deleted. Photoshop uses two cubic "guess" methods to remove or add pixels. This is the mathematical method that determines where the pixel is most accurate and beautiful. The "two-cube" sampling method searches for the target pixels that will be deleted or added by the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal modes. When you are compressing a file, the process uses a weighted average of the pixel colors to color a new color gamut. Or, when a pixel needs to be added to a new image, it will produce a new pixel with a weighted average.
In addition to the two-cube sampling mode, you can choose twice linear (Photoshop has only two directions for adjacent pixel colors) and proximity, which is not equivalent to the interpolation method. When the image is enlarged, the proximity mode simply adds the color adjacent to the pixel to the original pixel, thereby increasing the image. For the two-cube interpolation method, on the surface, the adjacent interpolation method is a very inaccurate operation. However, if you need to increase the size of the screen capture of a panel, proximity is a good choice. It only achieves the purpose of expanding the original image four times by expanding the horizontal and vertical coordinates twice - neither smoothing nor uniform measures nor ambiguous text.
A computer with 256 MB of RAM and a Pentium III CPU can complete the calculation in a short amount of time. It can be seen that the effect of the two cubes is the best, so it is recommended to use the cubic interpolation method twice.
1.3 redo key
You can choose to use Y or Z plus Ctrl to redo or restore the edit operation. It is recommended to use the Ctrl+Z key combination, because many readers are used to using Ctrl+Z to restore the removal operation when using Windows and other software. Also, you may find that the Ctrl+Z key does not work when you want to perform a multi-step restore operation. The command to perform a multi-step restore in an image is Alt+Ctrl+Z (Macintosh: Opt++Z).
1.4 Historical record status
The history state to the right of the redo key option is the number of backsteps (that is, the number of restore operations) that you can type in a file. Each historical state record requires a large amount of memory space to store the restored data. Therefore, we should consider the actual needs of the computer and the memory capacity of the computer in order to set an appropriate number of historical records. The default value for the number of historical records is 20, which means that you can restore 20 previously used commands or tools. After using the 21st command or tool, the original restore status of the first command or tool is removed from memory to record the status of the latest command or tool usage.
Don't even do this even if you want to set the history quantity option to 1000. If you have 96 MB of RAM on your computer (the minimum memory requirement for Photoshop 7 to run), then the reasonable number of historical records is set to 10. If you have 128 MB of memory, the 20-step history is a Good setting value.
If you have a larger amount of memory, you can also increase the number of historical records. However, no matter how large the number of restores you set, once you feel that the system is operating very slowly, or Photoshop warns you that there is not enough memory, you need to reduce the setting of the historical record. By the way, if you really make more than 20 mistakes in a row, then you are not suitable for Photoshop, but it is suitable for the work of the government department.
1.5 Print Health
There is no doubt that when you create your own work, you definitely want to see the effect of the printed work. Wouldn't it be more convenient to print directly using the shortcut keys without using the print command under the File menu? You can set print shortcuts in the Print Keys dialog box. The default setting for the print button is as follows:
• Press Ctrl+P to print
• Press Ctrl+Alt(Opt)+P to print preview (if your computer has Adobe Acrobat virtual printer installed, it is also a very good choice)
1.6 options
Ok, now let's take a look at the selection options in the Preferences dialog.
Back in the days when people saw Macintosh or i386 as high-speed computers, some command options existed in the panel.
• Output clipboard: Please select it. It means that when you paste content from Photoshop into other applications, you must also empty the clipboard. Because anything saved in the clipboard will consume system resources. To clear the clipboard, select Edit Edit >> Cleaner >> Clip Art from the main menu.
• Show tooltips: When you hover your cursor over the toolbox icon, the pop-up prompt box is not a real prompt. That is to say, after selecting a tool, the content displayed in these so-called prompts is similar to the content displayed in the status bar (it is recommended to check the status bar option under the window menu in Photoshop). The tooltip is to tell you the tool. Name, provide shortcuts, and occasionally prompt you for the buttons in the options bar. It is recommended to use tooltips in the first few months of learning to use Photoshop. After remembering and getting familiar with them, these hints will distract you, and you can uncheck the tooltip options in the General Preferences dialog.
Tip: Really restore? By the way, the Ctrl+Z restore/redo switch has nothing to do with the forward and backward commands. The latter two are both part of the history panel and two commands under Photoshop's edit menu. We need to remember the Alt(Opt)+Ctrl+Z combination to restore the previous steps.
• Keyboard Zoom Adjusts the window size: In fact, there are many ways to reduce or enlarge the image window. Many experienced Photoshop users usually prefer the shortcut method to zoom the window by holding down the Ctrl key and then pressing the "+" or "-" key in the numeric keypad area. Either Alt(Opt)+Ctrl+“+” or “-”. It is recommended to select this option because it is not meaningful to scale an image first and then adjust the window size again. This option is the first step in image navigation.
• Automatically update open documents: If you are working in the office or even participating in a collaborative project remotely via the Internet, you should check this option. Because Photoshop's workgroup feature allows multiple users to process the same image. This is very convenient for desktop publishing staff. If you don't automatically update your files, you won't be able to keep up with the work of the entire workgroup. This should be checked unless you are working on a separate computer.
• Show Asian text options: Needless to say, of course!
• Prompt after completion: Checking this option means that when the task is completed, the system will beep, which is another reserved feature of Photoshop. When you apply Gaussian Blur to a 100MB image, you can use your free time to go out for lunch and haircut while you work on your computer. The chirping after the tedious task is completed is certainly popular because it reminds you to continue working. But now the G5 and Intel Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading Series are called digital swallowers. So please turn off this option. If you really like screams, then you can go out and throw money, then you will find a large group of people screaming behind you.
• Dynamic Color Slider: Check this option. Because if you don't observe how one color component affects another color component in the color gamut, then you can't clearly understand how the color effect produced by blending colors on the color panel. This option does not slow down your work, but it also makes you fun by observing the color slider to change colors.
• Storage palette location: This option should be checked unless there are others who also use Photoshop on your computer. Sometimes in order to be able to easily handle large images (even small images), you need to adjust the position of the palette, but if you don't check this option, you have to rearrange the position of the palette when you start working again. Very troublesome!
• Display English font name: The Chinese characters we use are double-byte fonts. If this option is selected (including all double-byte text), all the font names in the options bar will be displayed in English. It is very troublesome and not recommended. Check it.
• Tool switch using the Shift key: If you don't select this option and you are a person who is used to working with the keyboard, then you may be mistaken when choosing a tool. For example, pressing the G button will turn your originally selected Bucket tool into a Gradient tool. Check this option if you don't want something like this. This way, only when you press Shift and G at the same time will you switch to the tool assigned to the key, the Gradient tool.
• Use smart references: If checked, the text generated in Photoshop will look more professional and you don't have to look at the scan code (for example, on Windows systems you are required to remember and lose while holding down the Alt key. The number is 0147), which shows that this setting does save us a lot of energy, so this option should be selected. The only exception is that you want to use inches. At this point, you need to turn off the smart reference and the key symbol.
• Reset all warning dialogs: This option is quite self-explanatory.
Photoshop has a number of dialogs, most of which are related to the color management diagram. By selecting the option to no longer display in the information, the dialog can no longer be displayed. If you change your mind and want to accept the warnings from the dialog box, then you will want to go back to the original dialog and deselect the "Do not show again" option, but these dialogs will not appear again. What should I do? What? The answer is simple: press Ctrl+K to open the General Preferences dialog and click the Reset All Warnings dialog button at the bottom of the dialog.
Click Next and we will be taken to the second page of the Preferences dialog. Don't worry, because "preset" is the longest setting work, it provides multiple options pages for users to set. The more you set it, the easier it will be when you use it.