Keys to Photoshop CS3: Preferences
Knowing how limited my own time and brainpower are, I’ve been thinking of ways to you learn or advance with Photoshop with whatever limited time you have available. With that in mind I decided to produce a series of short screencasts covering various topics in Photoshop. With the imminent release of Photoshop CS3 I’ve decided to focus on CS3 and to start with some basics for those who may be upgrading or getting started with this version. Keep in mind that you can download the CS3 beta right now from Adobe’s site if you can’t wait for the release of the official version later this spring.
In this first screencast, I cover important preference settings. I know it’s not the most exciting topic, but it helped me learn screencasting and hey, you might learn something. This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive account of Photoshop’s preferences. As I said before these are meant to be quick, over-a-coffee-break sessions that will help you get more familiar with Photoshop and with the more advanced episodes, speed up your workflow. As always, I’d love to hear from you about what you might like to see in these tutorials. Enjoy!
[update: despite what the veoh player below says, this is the full video (it runs less than 5 mins.) I'm not really happy about the supposed 5 minute limitation, and though their quality is better than Utube, I'm going to have to see what can be done about it.]
In this video well cover: How to allocate more RAM to Photoshop to help it run smoother, what a scratch disk is, how to add scratch disk space, and why you should care.