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Posted on 27/01/04 6:38:06 PM |
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trinityofone
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Another PS quirk?
I'm having a spot of bother with actions! Here's the scenario; I needed to create a wall, with a marbled texture. Having searched stock sites for far too long, I decided to use EC4000's marble filter. This works well but I needed it to be multi-coloured. No problem, I thought, I'll overlay several different versions in different colours, this worked perfectly but was time consuming. Actions, I thought. I set up individual actions and called them Pink Marble, Black Marble, etc., fine, until I tried to be cleverer still and created a single action called 'Marble' from which I called the other procedures, seperated by fade commands. It works fine apart from one problem. I created the 'grout' outline and went to select the bricks, one by one with magic wand, then ran the action. It works OK on the first one but when you move to the next, it 'sucks' the texture from the preceding brick and leaves plain black in its wake. Any ideas? _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 27/01/04 6:42:48 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Another PS quirk?
Hmm. I think you're trying to be too damn clever for your own good. Wait until Photoshop CS Pro 9.5 comes out in 2012 and computing power may have caught up with you. ...incidentally, there are three of you hiding behind that name, right? I get pretty confused sometimes. |
Posted on 28/01/04 00:00:32 AM |
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trinityofone
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Re: Another PS quirk?
I think it may be the way PS is interacting with EC4K, for some reason, the fade command seems to act on the previous brick as well as the one that is currently selected. *shrug*, I suppose I'll have to do it manually. No, there is only one of me, the confusion may lie with the fact I had to use 3 different names before I sussed out why I couldn't log on properly!  _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 29/01/04 00:22:31 AM |
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trinityofone
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Re: Another PS quirk?
OK, maybe I did overtax it, I loaded it this evening to find it had lost half its settings, including colour and scratch disk and for some reason, Adobe Gamma manager had disappeared from the Control Panel :/ _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 29/01/04 08:57:04 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Another PS quirk?
Sounds nasty. Your prefs file is corrupted - you need to dump it so PS builds a new one. This isn't unusual. To save the hassle this involves each time, I always save my swatches, brushes, styles and actions each time I modify them. And if you make a backup of your prefs file as soon as you've reloaded the swatches etc after a rebuild, you can just replace the corrputed file with that one each time something goes wrong. ...at least, that's what I always intend to do... |