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cs5 trouble

Submitted by steve rago on 12 October 2011 - 5:45pm.

Try as i may i cannot get dekekeys into ps cs5. missing parser or some such. any help? --steve

Go to the dekeKeys CS5 page

Submitted by deke on 14 October 2011 - 12:15am.

Click here to get there.

It contains an updated file and more up-to-date instructions.

Help

Submitted by galway59 on 27 May 2011 - 6:06am.

Deke,

I have just got your Illustrator and Photoshop CS5 1on1 books and was going through the recommended preparation in the Illustrator book ... but stalled at reassigning the Mac OS X Shortcuts. I can get to where I need to be under System Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts and highlight per Figure 11 but when double clicked, the F12 shortcut does not accept the Control F12 input - I just get the volume up effect and the shortcut stays as F12.

My Control key works. I have tried removing my keyboard USB connection and reinserting it, tried Restore Defaults in the Keyboard Shortcut pane and starting again, tried resetting other shortcuts... all without success.

I can move on without resetting the OS X shortcuts but this is annoying.

Any ideas?

Dohhh

Submitted by galway59 on 27 May 2011 - 6:13am.

Never mind. Took what should have been the obvious trip into Keyboard and clicked the box "Use all F1 F2 etc keys as Std function keys" and all works as intended.

Move on everyone, nothing to see here. Operator error again!

Hilarious

Submitted by deke on 27 May 2011 - 1:22pm.

Thx for the comment and conclusion.

The smallest things can hang you up.

Fixing Pet Eye

Submitted by symbadawg on 29 April 2011 - 12:34am.

Is there any chance you will do a video on fixing pet eye? Most of the fixes I've found were simply painting over the glow with black and then using white to put the glint back which is not a very good technique. I've had some passable results using multiple layers with differing opacities and colors but it is time consuming and still doesn't give me the result I would like.

Your expertise would be greatly appreciated.

Deke Keys CS5, windows 7 file location

Submitted by gmwnkcmo on 25 April 2011 - 3:33pm.

I cannot located the disk that came with my CS4 One On One book, and I'm trying to get back to where I was before I had to completely re-up the machine this last weekend.
I have downloaded the file and extracted it, but now cannot find any of the suggested locations in which to place the file so I can get it from PS..

?

thanks... I have come to depend on Deke for darn near everything!!

...if you keep publishing the marginal shots, you'll never stop taking them.

DekeKeys Installation Error

Submitted by anoky on 22 April 2011 - 10:50pm.

I am having trouble setting up my shortcuts fold in CS3. Everytime I double click on the"dekeKeys PhCS3 1on1 Mac.kys" file, I get an error that reads "Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document." Can anyone please help with this?

Try dragging it onto the Ps icon

Submitted by deke on 25 April 2011 - 7:16pm.

So that your system knows you want to open the file in Photoshop. You can also right-click on the file and choose Properties (Get Info on the Mac) and select to open the file with Photoshop.

Anyway, my guess it that a .kys file is somehow linked to the wrong application on your system.

Where Do I Copy Best Workflow CS4.csf on Windows 7???

Submitted by Scott1431966 on 20 October 2010 - 11:30am.

can you pleas advise me of the location to install on windows 7 pc

dekeKeyesPS51on1?

Submitted by willdoak on 31 May 2010 - 3:55pm.

Are these downloadable (for the poor-man Lynda subscriber)?

Cheers,

Will

dekeKeys question

Submitted by Bryan Conner on 19 May 2010 - 7:44am.

If I load these keyboard shortcuts will I lose all of the shortcuts I have already created? For example, I use CTRL F12 to run an action to add a vignette using lens correction.

thanks

Bryan Conner

Ravensburg, Germany

dekekeys_one_on_one

Submitted by chazmann on 12 May 2010 - 11:50am.

Deke-

Do you give seminars/classes in Nevada or California?

CS4 Indesign Deke Preferences

Submitted by Virginia Schnauer on 8 March 2010 - 9:51pm.

I have CS4 InDesign also window 7 - 64bit and looking for your shortcuts.
When I upgraded my computer from CS3 my preferences were not transferred across and the Preserences from your Adobe InDesign CS One on One book disk will not open for CS4.
Where can I download your preferences for CS4?

Adobe TV - exercise file folder

Submitted by ireeve on 6 March 2010 - 6:12pm.

Your video for Indesign is very good, thanks.

But you refer to an exercise file folder, where can I get that?

Thanks
Ian

You really know your

Submitted by reddy.hkcs on 18 April 2010 - 12:20am.

You really know your stuff... Keep up the good work!

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Saving the Keyboard Shortcuts and other files

Submitted by AprilReign on 16 February 2010 - 5:25pm.

I have a question... I am using CS4 - Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign.
I am on a Mac w/ Snow Leopard
I have a Wacom Intuos 3

I went to save the dekeKeys - and it occured to me that I am confused on a certain point. In the past, I used to save all Presets and Plugins - (i think) in the specific folder for that Application.

Now, I am seeing where the instructed location is in LIbrary > Application Support

Can anyone tell me if there is a problem with using the Presets folder in the Applications folder
or the necessity of using the App Support folder in the main Library folder

I am even confused how I started doing this, was that how it was done before there was an App Support folder in Library? I have way too many dupliated files, etc on my computer that I hope to streamline things, like where is best to put things, etc. I imagine this started when I bought my newest Mac and was transferring things from previous versions of Creative Suite, and from the previous Mac O.S. versions.

Hope someone has an understanding of where they go best
i realize one can just go dump them in the proper folder of App Support, but leave it to me to want to understand the history of it, or even why. So if you have some background on this, I'd love to understand it. t.i.a.

Adobe has changed where it squirrels away its files

Submitted by deke on 17 February 2010 - 1:22pm.

More than once. It changed to the Application Support path with CS3 and looks likely to remain there. This despite the fact that there are many duplicate subfolders in the Applications > Presets folder.

I understand your desire to streamline. But where prefs are concerned, it's better to let Photoshop determine the location of the file.

Folder in Windows 7 for Dekekeys

Submitted by JackVincent on 14 February 2010 - 10:20pm.

Where do I install the DekeKeys in Windows 7? The instructions only cover XP and Vista.
Thanks,
Jack

or if you have CS4

Submitted by aztech on 16 February 2010 - 9:32am.

I have not saved up for that yet... try this location

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Locales\en_US\Support Files\Shortcuts\Win

Then again

Submitted by aztech on 17 February 2010 - 12:02am.

After trying it in person on my brothers computer today; use Deke's method below... strange but it works; go figure!

Windows 7 for dekekeys

Submitted by aztech on 15 February 2010 - 6:11pm.

I got mine to work by extracting the dekekeys and saving into the keyboard shortcuts folder in this location

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Keyboard Shortcuts.

Then in PS, change the keyboard shortcuts as usual, it will appear in the dropdown selection. (resatart of PS may be needed).

Hope that helps.

Deke Keys for photoshop cs4 for Windows 7 users

Submitted by Sarodh on 30 January 2010 - 7:01pm.

I tried installing the DekeKeys for Photoshop CS4 on my Windows 7 PC, but it didnt work. I was wondering if a windows 7 compatible dekeKeys is available.

Thanks,
Sarodh

dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts

Submitted by blady02 on 24 January 2010 - 5:21pm.

I give up because I have a headache now from trying to figure out how come I don't have the option to change my keyboard shortcuts to dekeKeys IDcs4 1on1 in the Keyboard Shortcut menu at the Set pop-up menu. I use to have it when I had Adobe InDesign CS4 which was a standalone program. I uninstalled that program and loaded Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium and no longer have the option. I have Windows Vista and checked to make sure I still have C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/InDesign/Version 6.0/en_us/InDesign Shortcut Sets and I do. Might I need to use a different path since now my InDesign was a package with Creative Suite 4 Design Premium. Please help. I don't know what else to do.

Another way to install dekeKeys

Submitted by deke on 30 January 2010 - 11:10am.

I just recently figured out an easier method on the PC:

Locate my original dekeKeys file. Right-click on it and choose Copy.

Go into InDesign. (This works with Photoshop, too.) Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.

Click on the little Save As floppy disk icon. (Cuz we're always saving to floppies these days :-)

In the ensuing dialog box, right-click and choose Paste. Now the file is in the proper location! At that point, I believe you cancel out. Then you should see dekeKeys in the Set menu.

Let me know if that works.

Wacom Boards

Submitted by mmickells on 9 January 2010 - 12:41am.

Not sure where to post it, so I'll try here. First of all I love the lynda videos. I'm new so I'm starting with the 1 on 1 series. You mentioned the wacom boards. Due to my budget I can't afford the nice one you mentioned you used. Instead I bought one of the bamboo ones, much cheaper, just not as nice I guess. Do you, or do you plan to have videos on properly using them? That may be a hard topic to cover, but figured if anyone could it would be you. Any feed back would be great. Thanks,

mmickells

Wacom Tablets - how to totorial !

Submitted by tobajer on 30 January 2010 - 8:49am.

I own Wacom Bamboo, and I am interested what are Your (I am talking to You Deke) preferences when u use one. I understand that You more pro Wacom Tablet (I will get one too sooner or later), but a proper tutorial what express keys U use and how to "do it right" will be great !!!

Wacom's Bamboo Tablet Issue

Submitted by jude on 10 January 2010 - 1:37pm.

A brief interjection: Last Thursday, I bought a Bamboo Pen & Touch. I got it to carry with my Macbook Pro. After installing the driver, I looked forward to putting it through its paces. I was very disappointed to see the terrible response from the time I drew a line to the time it appeared onscreen.

This problem did not occur every time I tried drawing, but it occurred more than half the time. It happened with very short strokes as well as long. With a lot of pressure applied and with little. I'd draw 4 or five lines and some seconds later, they would appear in the order I drew them. I don't know what the issue is, but it's going back for a refund tomorrow. I use both an old Wacom Graphire and Intuos3. I have never had a similar issue with either of these, (4GB of RAM in the Macbook Pro) Just an FYI.

jude

"Thanks again, for another day full of something that I
just can't put my finger on." -- Kim Knoche

Are you drawing in Photoshop?

Submitted by deke on 30 January 2010 - 11:02am.
More often than not, the "lag" issue has more to do with Photoshop trying to catch up than the tablet or driver supplying tardy information. When this happens, try painting a fast line with your mouse. If you notice a similar delay (or Photoshop stalls and then draws a straight line), quit Photoshop and start it up again. If the problem persists, restart your computer. And if that still doesn't solve the problem, restart Photoshop while pressing the Cmd, Shift, and Option keys, which will reset the program's preferences. I ran into a spate of painting delays while working on my videos for lynda.com. The IT team ultimately wiped the computer and all was well again. I'm just saying, it's not necessarily the tablet's fault.

Trying to find the Best Workflow Settings for CS4 download here

Submitted by kokopele on 6 January 2010 - 1:31am.

All I seem to get is "Dekeskeyes for CS3" when I do a search. I'm following along on the Lynda paid site and want to synchronize all the color settings etc. in Adobe Production Premium through Bridge.

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