On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:16:30 -0400, PeterN
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On 7/21/2012 8:49 PM, tony cooper wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:15:53 -0400, PeterN
wrote:
I am looking for a new monitor, which will probably be an NEC 27" which has fairly high resolution. (2560 x 1440) At that resolution I will not be able to read the menu items and I anticipate that other programs will have fonts too small to see. My tentative solution os to use two monitors and keep only the images on the high resolution screen. The sales clerks have told me this is easy. But, I am wondering whether anyone here has gone that route.
I’m not sure what the question is. I have been using two monitors for quite some time. Easys-peasy. Handy, for example, when commenting on SI images…the PBase page on one screen, and the newsgroup on the other.
In editing, I’ll sometimes have the same image up on both screens with one highly enlarged using a Layer Mask, and the other screen showing the image at normal size so I have a better sense of the entire image.
Maybe I should have been more clear. I would like to use PhotoShop so that the image is full size on one screen and the control & menu for the same program is on the other screen. The Adobe forums list thius as an issue which has not been resolved, with Win7.
<http://forums.adobe.com/message/4086815>
Dunno what that person’s problem is, but using CS4 and XP I can have the image on my main screen and all the tools and palettes on the other screen. I just drag them over there.
I can’t imagine why it would be any different in CS5 or Windows 7. If the tools bar and palettes are draggable to a different position on one monitor, they can be moved over to a second monitor.
BTW, my secondary monitor is to my left, not to my right as someone in the forum recommends. It’s to my left because that’s only way it’s possible in the set-up in the room where I use it. I can’t see why this makes any difference to anyone.
I don’t often split tools/palettes and image, though. My images are not in the same ratio as my primary monitor. My monitor is wider than the image when the image fills the screen top-to-bottom, so I have room at one side. When I do do it, it’s because I have a number of palettes open and a lot of layers.
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Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida