PSIG News: January 2004 e-News
January 13, 2004

January Meeting Information

The January Photoshop SIG meeting will be held on Thursday, January 15th, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Voorhees High School in room 245. January’s program will focus on using Photoshop CS. We will explore some of the new features and work methods of this recently-released version. Members who wish to bring images for discussion or troubleshooting during the meeting are encouraged to do so.

Anti-Counterfeiting CS

According to MacCentral, Photoshop CS now sports anti-counterfeiting code developed to prevent users of Photoshop and other applications from printing out or working with images of currency. The technology originated from a multinational consortium known as the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group (CBCDG), associated with national banks in Europe, Japan and North America. The CBCDG’s code is also used in other software and color printers. Read the full story: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/12/photoshop/

Tips and Tricks

Paragraph Text Boxes of a specific size

If you click-and-drag with the Type tool you will create a text box that will cause your text to automatically wrap to the next line. To create a text box of a specific size, hold down Option, click once with the Type tool, and a dialog box will prompt you to enter the exact size of the Paragraph Text box.

Reset Preferences as you launch

One of the best ways to fix many common problems in Photoshop is to delete the preferences. Rather than struggling to find the Preferences file and delete it, quit Photoshop instead, and then re-launch it, holding down Command-Option-Shift. You will be asked if you want to delete the Preferences. Click OK and all your settings will revert back to the original, out-of-the-box defaults.