Photoshop Questions

[.Matt]

I am brand new to photoshop and i was wondering if any f l337 image guys could give me some help or answer some of these questions... :+)

1. How do i turn "snap" off? Whenever i try to put text in and put it in a corner it like snaps to the very corner and doesnt let me manually place it...

2. Diagonal TV Lines.. Yes, i've seen these done all over the place and im not quite sure how to get them.. Its pretty easy to do in Paintshop but i cant find it in photoshop.. need some help there definently :thumb:

3. Palette Colors, Are there any basic color sets i can have? Im colorblind and all and i have to go down the hundreds of color lists and try to find just a basic red or blue.. Does anybody know any basic palette's they could lend me or show me where to download? :-/

4. Layer overview: Is there a toolbar that like shows the overall layers and lets me convert to raster or anything?

5. What is image ready? haha this is probably the worst question here but i didnt know what it was so i dint put any file types to be opened by it.. what exactly is it? :!:

I would be like super happy and put you in my footer if you answered these questions :D (and any other ones sometime in the future) :pope:

[mlk]

1) turn snapping off in (i think) window>snap to... options
2) use a 1x2 pixel image, make one pixel transparent an the other black, then make it a pattern using (i think) image>define pattern.. (maybe it's edit>define new pattern)
then fill a layer with your newly created pattern... Another option is to use PS's pattern edito under the filter menu
3) well if you're color blind as in you just switch colors, it shouldn't really be a problem since you just switch them (your blue is actually red and your red actually blue or something like that) otherwise if you double click the color picker you can select your colro using HSB, RGB, CMYK values (like 255,0,0 in RGB would be pure red etc...)
4) If you're talking about the layer palette (which just shows all the layers in your composition) just go to window>layers palette(i think)
5) imageready is use to make short graphic animations (most often gifs for web). In my opinion, it's crappy side-software !

Which I could've been more precise, but unfortunately I don't have PS on this machine =) !

[=guinness=]

i use imageready more for slicing to make html sites. (GUI)

when you slice it you essentially make it all one layer and cut it into small sections that can be loaded into a table or in CSS and it reduces overall download time because you can choose the format for each slice.

(but yes it is also used for gif animations.)

[Vexir]

Since i DO have PS on this machine, here are some detailed ones:

1) It's actually View -> Snap (or press "Shift + Ctrl + ;" to toggle it.)

2) Alright so what you wnat to do (I'll try to explain this without making it a full blown tutorial) is create a new document 3 pixels by 3 pixels with a transparent background. Make the top left pixel black, and the two adjacent to the bottom right pixel.

Select all (CTRL + A) and then go to Edit -> Define Pattern. Name it whatever you want. Open up the image you wnat scan-lined. Create a new layer, and go to Edit -> Fill -> In the drop down box select pattern and then select the scan line pattern you made earlier. Now just adjust the opacity till it looks good. :cool:

3) Mmm being colorblind is a problem... I don't know the specific kind of colorblind-ness you have so its sort of hard to help you there.

4) Yeah like MLK said, open up your layers palette (Window->Layers, or press F7. Mabye drag the edges and make it bigger if you want. To rasterize layers, just right click on the text/shape/masked layer and select Rasterize Layer.

5) Image ready is the sister program to Photoshop with the primary purpose of getting images ready to be displayed on the web :) You can also do simple animations with it.

[Casiel]

Ad. 2 The easy way to get TV lines - Use filters. For example: one made by Richard Rosenman - Scanlines. Its free (here: http://www.pluginz.com/product/11361)