On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:28:49 -0500, Frances Del Rio
wrote:
shift-key to draw a straight line is working now.. (after I deleted all my prefs again… primitive………) but only for square brushes.. I’ve used it before for round brushes, was wondering why it isn’t working for round brushes.. this entire thing is insane, to have to delete all yr prefs (and can’t recover actions..) every few days in order for program to work properly.. at other times all prefs disappear spontaneously… (also has happened to me and other PS users..) for the amount of money they charge for this program this truly sucks.. I hope someone from Adobe is reading this…
1. You were told how to save your actions once before. SO, here it is again:
Saving and loading actions
Actions are automatically saved to the Actions Palette folder in the Adobe Photoshop or Adobe ImageReady CS Settings folder. If this file is lost or removed, the actions you created are lost. You can save your actions to a separate actions file so that you can recover them if necessary. You can also load a variety of action sets that are shipped with Photoshop (Photoshop).
Note: The default location of the Adobe Photoshop CS Settings folder varies by operating system. Use your operating system’s Find command to locate this folder.
To save a set of actions:
1. Select a set.
2. Choose Save Actions from the Actions palette menu.
3. Type a name for the set, choose a location, and click Save.
You can save the set anywhere. However, if you place the file in the Presets/Photoshop Actions folder inside the Photoshop program folder, the set will appear at the bottom of the Actions palette menu after you restart the application.
Tip Press Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Command+Option (Mac OS) when you choose the Save Actions command to save the actions in a text file. You can use this file to review or print the contents of an action. However, you can’t reload the text file back into Photoshop.
To load a set of actions:
Do one of the following:
* Choose Load Actions from the Actions palette menu. Locate and select the action set file, and then click Load. (In Windows, Photoshop action set files have the extension .atn.)
* Select an action set from the bottom of the Actions
palette menu.
To restore actions to the default set:
1. Choose Reset Actions from the Actions palette menu.
2. Click OK to replace the current actions in the Actions palette with the default set, or click Append to add the set of default actions to the current actions in the Actions palette.
That was taken directly for the help file in Photoshop.
2. If you are having major problems like you state then there is something wrong with your system. I suggest, firstly, you check for viruses, spyware and malware. Secondly, test your memory modules, that’s often a source of problems – a fault which doesn’t appear with other software appears with Photoshop because it hits memory hard.
That should give you some things to do.
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