A 24 bit .png file with transparency, as those that can be generated with Photoshop, has really 24 bits distributed across each color plus the alpha ? or the 24 bit refer only to the colors and ignores the alpha (RGBA 8888). Is there any tool to examine a PNG file and verify this kind of information? Does Photoshop have any options to ...
So I endeavor to spend most of time on the app server side of things but time to time I need to get my hands dirty and generate markup/css/js from a wireframe or mockup. As far as tools go, Ive found browsershots and Litmus app helpful and of course, vm's as well for checking things out live in ie-{6,7,8}. Otherwise I do the heavy liftin...
I'm looking for a book to teach vector drawing for Flash/Photoshop/Illustrator. Would prefer if the book is up-to-date with the latest versions CS4. I found this useful tutorial here: Graphics Soft, Vector drawing, but I'm looking for a full book, or a learning DVD. ...
Primary question: I want to make a library of small re-usable objects (eg. passport stamp, specific kind of text etc.) in Adobe Photoshop CS3. What would be best approach to do it? Secondary question: Is it possible to change these objects via scripts or c#? If yes, how can I do that? Thanks. ...
I have been doing wep application development for some time now. One thing I overlooked was learning Photoshop. For basic web sites or for frontend development, the lack of this skill has slowed me down. Little things matter, and look and feel can be greatly enhanced with some graphics work. How important is for a web developer to ha...
Is there a way in Adobe Photoshop (I'm using CS4) to copy the current view of a document, including many different layers, to another application, such as InDesign, without having to flatten the image? ...
I saved a file from Photoshop (Mac) as a PDF, and everything was going fine. Unfortunately, when I opened the PDF file on a Windows machine the text was very jaggy (not just typical Windows text) and everything looked wrong, some text was a different color, etc. What's going on here? I thought PDFs were supposed to look the same for eve...
I'm having a hell of a time trying to get a custom mask to work on a project I'm creating. The mask I'm trying to use is applied as a pixel mask on a layer in the photoshop doc I'm working off, but I can't seem to figure out the proper way to get that layer mask imported into flash, to then compile into my .swc and be called from action...
Some PNG images although just 150px x 160px wide have 60KB filesize. I've already run them though optimizers (ImageOptim for Mac) but that didn't help much. Is there any way to compress it further, either manually or using some other tool? 60KB for a normal 150x160 image is really unacceptable and I can't use JPG or GIF there because I...
Hi All, For a database app I'm trying to determine the average shade of a section of photo, against a colour scale. Being a novice I'm finding this very difficult to explain so I've created a simple diagram showing exactly what I'm trying to achieve. http://www.knockyoursocksoff.com/shade/ If anybody has the time to give me some ...
I have an image that has alpha channel transparency, something like the image below. http://yfrog.com/86tagsp I want to recreate the same background color with rgba values in CSS but I can not find the real color of the background pixels and their alpha channel value. if I use any sort of color picker it will give me the absolute value...
Is that possible to upload an image from Photoshop (for example, an open image exported to jpeg) to some web place - REST service, FTP etc by using scripting features of Photoshop? For example - I have an image open in Photoshop and then execute some special script that sends an exported version of it to some place over the web. I saw s...
The Adobe Photoshop CS3/4 SDk has a lot of examples for Filter, Import, Export etc plugins but I havent found anything that illustrates how to write a 8BX plugin. Reason I need to write one is to add a new drop down menu to the Photoshop root toolbar (where it displays File, Edit, Image .. Window. Help drop down menus). I have seen prod...
I want to do something similar to Photoshops inner shadow effect in Core Graphics. If I draw/fill a path with this effect, I want get something similar to the following: ...
Hello! How do I load photoshop's action using its javascript scripting language? Mostly curious in this action steps: Add Noise Distribution: gaussian Percent: 2% With Monochromatic Texturizer Texture Type: Canvas Scaling: 100 Relief: 3 Without Invert T...
I often have to extract a pattern from a PSD to make an image to be used with XHTML and CSS. I have often just made a guess in Photoshop, and then had to correct my guesses a few time after. It seems cumbersome. Is there... Techniques for extracting a pattern from a Photoshop file with the selector tool? A Photoshop plugin perhaps th...
I was wondering if anyone know of some good tutorials on how to design and code side decorations(or whatever right term there is) like the ones on these website: http://www.buckle.com/ I'm referring to the spring yellow and red flowers/butterflies Thanks ...
I have a 92 page catalogue (one image per page, multiple products per image) and no product codes on the image for each product. Does anyone know of a photoshop action to allow entry of a stock code (<15chars text), that will create a filled, outline box with the text inside? It will be awful to have to do them by hand - there are hund...
Hello, I have just implemented these ToggleButtons using ControlTemplates that set the Image content according to IsChecked stated. The images are made in Photoshop, but I want them as WPF vectors. The buttons look like these when IsChecked=False: And when IsChecked=True I just replace the Image with another PNG: I've designed th...
I have an image of the political map of the USA. I want to write separate click events for each of the 50 states in Visual Studio. How would I do that? ...