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September 14, 2009
(rt) Useful utilities: PS preset syncing, shortcuts, & more
- In response to a reader's request for FTP to be built into more CS apps: To save straight from Photoshop to a Web server via FTP, try http://www.expandrive.com/
- Bittbox shows off How to Sync Photoshop Presets on Multiple Computers. [Via]
- Haven't gotten to try it (I don't use WordPress), but Divine promises PSD->WordPress site conversion.
- Shortcuts:
- The Adobe Shortcut App lists keyboard commands from across CS4. Being a real nerd for this stuff, I'd like to see it made totally comprehensive. (Would we need 64 bit for the RAM required by that listing? ;-)) [Via Adam Pratt]
- Handy shortcuts for changing font size in Photoshop: (I had no idea, and I'm usually all over these things.)
[For more utilities, see previous.]
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An also great option for saving to FTP servers is MacFuse http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
Actually expanDrive is based on MacFuse, but the latter being free
Also, see my post at Go Media regarding keyboard shortcuts for "commiting" your active/highlighted text throughout CS4, as well as temporarily accessing the Hand tool while the text is selected/highlighted: http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/text-tool-tips/
Somehow i've always known that keystroke for changing type size... if i'm not mistaken, it comes from Quark? Or was it Illustrator?
You say of the shortcut app that "[you]'d like to see this made totally comprehensive."
For After Effects, it is. The app seems to use the Help documents as its source, and the keyboard shortcuts section in Help for After Effects is utterly comprehensive.
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/08/keyboard-shortcuts-air-applica.html
Thanks for the two shortcut links. Priceless! (I'm a keyboard shortcut junkie and I didn't know the font size trick either.) The Air app will be useful eye candy for my high school kids. (I've just started them on the basics... with keyboard shortcuts, of course.)
On the subject of syncing presets: Why do the Windows 32 and 64 bit presets files have to be different, even on the same computer? It is frustrating to find presets completely different when having to revert to the 32 bit Photoshop to run a plug-in that hasn't been updated to 64 bits.