Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery

Hey Deke,

Been following your stuff for awhile and want to say that you are the best PS teacher I have come across. You make even the most complicated topics simple.

I'm in the middle of the Bristle brushes chapter and I came across the problem where PS would not recognize my stylus' tilt. You recommend shutting down PS, but I found that just minimizing to the task bar and then bringing PS back up works as well (at least on the Windows side). Tried it multiple times and it has never failed. Might want to give it a go and see if it works on your system too, and maybe include it in the CS6 video series.

Also, not sure if this is an area you would be interested in or not, but I would love to see a video series on comic book/graphic novel coloring. There are a few good books on the subject, but not much in the way of high quality recent video training on the subject. Just an idea, maybe pass it along to someone else at Lynda if it's not something for you?

Anyway, thanks again for the excellent training! Look forward to seeing what you do in the future.

Hi Deke

As the title says, do you know how to install the keyboard shortcuts for OS Lion 10.7? Searching secretagentx doesn't appear – I guess it's a hidden file.

Thanks
Lennie.

EDIT: Turning on hidden files in OS 10.7 makes no difference. Still can't find the file.

I am also having problems with the dekekeys download. I keep getting an error message and can't even get into the O'rieley site. I'd already downloaded it on my old computer but that one crashed. Can you help me.

I bought Deke's Photoshop CS5 one-on-one Advanced and Mastery DVDs. While the DVD contents are of course different, the printed Table of Contents in the Mastery DVD case, is identical to the one in the Advanced DVD case with the same Chapter numbers, though on the outside of the printed Table of Contents, one mentions 'Mastery' and the other mentions 'Advanced'.

JoelPeres

I found your seams tecnique in the photomerge section to be over complicated.

if instead of making 4 px outside strokes. Make 2 px inside strokes on all layers.
Then its as simple, as reducing the fill opacity to 0% -->
Then Cmd+Opt+Shift+E -->
Then clear layerstyle for all layers
and you are done. the fill opacity even resets to 100%.

The downside to the tecnique is that you can't go lower than 2px strokes or the seams will not be filled out completely. But it is WAY faster than yours.

Just a thought

Jacob

Hi Deke

I really wondering why in the world you're neglecting such important topics/projects like "web design", "logo design", "twitter background design" and or "stationary design" in your precious adobe series? Hope you'll soon release something on that particular topic especially on "web design" stuff.

Thankyou

born2DIE