- Miss the Old Default Actions?
- Rearranging your Brushes
- Find the Center of Any Document
- No More Jaggy Lasso Tool Selections
- Open Up Some Screen Real Estate
- Let Photoshop Do the Work in Curves
- Want a Finer Grid? You Got It!
- You Don't Need the Brushes Palette to Change Brush Size
- Rotate to Any Angle the Fast Way
- Get Rid of Unwanted Brushes
- Brushes Right Where You Want 'em
- Navigating the Brush Picker Like a Pro
- Get More Control Over Your Paint Strokes
- Speed Tip to Rotate Through Open Images
- Instantly Find the Center of Any Object
- Making Your Guide Flip
- Creating Temporary Brushes
- Reusing Your Last Curve Setting
- Bringing Back Those Cropped-Away Areas
- Fix Those Stray Pixels Fast!
- Getting More Control over the Magic Wand
- Making the Color Palette Work Twice as Hard
- Use Your Last Settings and Save Time
- Hit Those Channels Fast
- How to Get an Undo After You've Closed the Document
- Using the Pen? Stay Away from the Toolbox
- Put Your Gradient Picker at Your Fingertips
- Don't Click in That Field!
- Out of Memory? Try This First
- How to Unerase
- Let Photoshop Straighten Your Crooked Scans
- Copy One Layer, or Copy 'em All
- Stuck in a Field? Here's How to Escape
- Don't Cancel; Reset and Save Time
- See Every Tweak with Bigger Filter Gallery Previews
- Showing One Effect in the Filter Gallery
- Use the Move Tool Anytime
- Filter Gallery Zoom Quick Tip
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
OUT OF MEMORY? TRY THIS FIRST
Here's a tip for avoiding those nasty out-of-memory warning dialogs. One of the reasons Photo-shop needs so much memory is that by default it keeps a snapshot of the last 20 things you did to your document, thus allowing you to undo your previous 20 steps. (You can see the running list of your last 20 steps in the History palette.) As you might expect, storing 20 steps takes a mighty chunk of memory, and if you're running a little low (or getting those evil out-of-memory warnings), one thing you might try is lowering the amount of steps Photoshop stores. In Mac OS X, go under the Photoshop menu, under Preferences, under General, and you'll find a field for History States. (In Windows you'll find Preferences under the Edit menu.) You can lower this number (try 8 States for starters), and you may avoid the dreaded memory warnings. Just remember, by lowering the States, you don't have 20 undos anymore.
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