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crop circles?
Just had to stop what I was doing to tell you of my last 3 days of Photoshop hell.
Part of my current brief for a client revolves around scanning his brochure and artwork into my machine before cleaning it up for reformatting. During the process I needed to make some alterations using the crop tool, dragging my selection to size I set my computer to work. This is where my problems started, after 10 mins of straining it would decide that it was too much and lock up. This was not as much as a surprise as it may have been as I had only just gotten over a bout of not enough scratch disk space after accidently (unwittingly) filling my hd to capacity
Thinking that I had crippled my computer and its weedy 128mb ram, I feverishly set about uninstalling with vigour, I have since recovered about 6gb from my computer. Feeling smug with my housekeeping (and promising myself I would defrag NEXT time
) I booted up Photoshop expecting my old lightening fast computer back. I began the scanning process again, used the ruler tool to straighten it then began the cropping process. Dragged selection as normal and waited for it to complete it in a jiffy - it froze again!!
It was at this point that I noticed the fixed size box was filled in with a size of 210in - I had obviously been working to a set pixel size previously and then reset the preferences back to default resulting in the units changing from pixels to inches
doh!
Is it just me that was beaten with the stupid stick at birth or has anyone else got mind numbing acts of stupidity to console me with?
Part of my current brief for a client revolves around scanning his brochure and artwork into my machine before cleaning it up for reformatting. During the process I needed to make some alterations using the crop tool, dragging my selection to size I set my computer to work. This is where my problems started, after 10 mins of straining it would decide that it was too much and lock up. This was not as much as a surprise as it may have been as I had only just gotten over a bout of not enough scratch disk space after accidently (unwittingly) filling my hd to capacity
Thinking that I had crippled my computer and its weedy 128mb ram, I feverishly set about uninstalling with vigour, I have since recovered about 6gb from my computer. Feeling smug with my housekeeping (and promising myself I would defrag NEXT time
) I booted up Photoshop expecting my old lightening fast computer back. I began the scanning process again, used the ruler tool to straighten it then began the cropping process. Dragged selection as normal and waited for it to complete it in a jiffy - it froze again!!It was at this point that I noticed the fixed size box was filled in with a size of 210in - I had obviously been working to a set pixel size previously and then reset the preferences back to default resulting in the units changing from pixels to inches
doh!Is it just me that was beaten with the stupid stick at birth or has anyone else got mind numbing acts of stupidity to console me with?
ooooh thats gotta hurt..
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