FWIW, I just read two extremely favorable reviews of Elements in Shutterbug and eDigital Photo magazines. Judging from the reviews, the hand-holding features are only there if you …

I thought I would resurrect this thread but the original was getting a bit long. To start us off again, here is/are a curves tip or three. Adjust Contrast with Curves Adjust Brig…

I get my PS tips in the mail, almost daily. Don't know if they're usefull for anybody here, but I can post some. 1 Create high contrast grayscale imagery in Photoshop Open an RGB …

Preview the color of your text Because you have to highlight your text in order to change its color, it's difficult to view your results until after the fact. To get around this, …

I just signed up at www.actionxchange.com ( has over 1000 PS actions to download). Does anybody know it, is it any good? Looks kinda interesting.

Hi I really need a cartoonish looking spider web graphic and I really suck at drawing so does anyone know where I can get one from, seen one anywhere??

Try http://www.artville.com/ and search for "spider web." Robert

Thanks, checked it out and there wasn't really anything good, anybody else know??

Well, a lot of stock photo companies (like PhotoDisc) sell stock illustrations, too ... so they're probably a good place to start. Good luck! Robert

moved to graphics/illustration. click thru to find it.

I think there is a spider symbol in the Webdings font.

I'm trying to import some small images to Illustrator to use, but the problem is it places this huge selection box or something around the pasted-in image and it won't let me raste…

Sorry, not familiar with your problem.Meaning never encountered it. How big are the files you want to place? And what exactly do you want to rasterize, a combination of pics and ve…

Quote: Originally posted by l'ignorante: <STRONG>Sorry, not familiar with your problem.Meaning never encountered it. How big are the files you want to place? And w…

Hi; The box around the image is Illustrator showing you the entire image size of the pict file, not just the colored part. For example, if you drew a "smiley face" like the smil…

Quote: Originally posted by mollicat: <STRONG>Hi; The box around the image is Illustrator showing you the entire image size of the pict file, not just the color…

The other option is to run your files you want to place through Streamline (a very handy and pretty cheap program), and turn them in to vector art, then just copy and paste that in…

Obviously you could just convert the modes and accept whatever discrepancies that show up, then adjust the cmyk afterwards. Or you could choose select/color range/out of gamut and …

That's a really subjective question. What I tend to do is convert to CMYK, then save that as a copy, and open the original & compare them side by side. If photoshop has dulled…

Thanks a lot Chris, I'd never thought to compare them side by side as such. As regards the ink prefs - I've never touched it. There has always been a large element of chance in my …

Here's a couple-- I've got a better more color mgmt.-specific tutorial bookmarked at home. I'll post it later. I think these folks are mainly trying to sell books and seminars by …

Here's a curious site which I only discovered recently, sounds a bit too good to be true, I haven't tried them out yet but.. http://www.allexperts.com/getExpert.asp?Category=1028 …

This is the the best tutorial on color management I've seen. The guy's website goes on for days. This one tutorial is ten pages long, and he's got several more on other subjects.…

Wow! that's really comprehensive, thanks.

Download the PS5.0 Monitor set-up file at ftp://ftp.artistat.com/Downloadable/. Unstuff it and in Photoshop->File->Preferences->ColorSettings->RGB choo…