Ever since I updated to Photoshop 2017 I’ve been having trouble finding various tools. Where did Dodge go? And that healing brush?
This video explains how to get them back.
This has made my use of Photoshop much easier.
General Computer Stuff
Adobe tempzxpsign…… Temporary Files
You may not have noticed your drive filling up with empty folders. They are out of the way in AppData. Adobe products are creating folders as a place to save temporary files, which get deleted. The programs just forget to delete the folders. It is a bug and it has been around for a few months.
See: tempzxpsign…… temporary files filling up TEMP drive
The more you use Adobe the more folders you have.
The basic story is once all the Adobe programs have been closed you can delete all the folders. You’ll find them in: C:\Users\[Windows_Login_ID]\AppData\Local\
Hardware: Dynamic Super Resolution
Talking with Ormand Lionheart about the images in a video I made, he mentioned Dynamic Super Resolution. A bit of research shows this is a way to make your 2k-1920×1080 monitor look more like a 4k monitor. The keywords are “more like”.
The video explains and shows what is being talked about. It touches on the fact that a 1080 or 2k monitor is physically limited to showing that fixed number of pixels. Nothing anyone can do will change that. You have 1920×1080 pixels, horizontal and vertical, for a total of 2,073,600 pixels. Those manufactured into the screen. To get more pixels you need a screen manufactured with more.
Interesting Video
I’ve been playing with Premiere for an upcoming project. I needed to figure out how to do some transitions. I thought this was interesting enough to share.
Mine looks noobish compared to a really professional looking video…
Oh well…
Will the Internet Die Nov 8?
Some Internet security companies are warning of a major Internet failure on Nov 8th as some state sponsored entities may try to block USA voting results information, i.e., exit polls and such. No one knows if such outages will or won’t happen. But, there is a significant probability some actors will try to take down parts of the Internet. Thus security companies are warnings to their clients.
Some of the security companies are recommending mission critical sites setup secondary DNS services to survive DDoS attacks on the primary DNS system. So, I’ll provide some steps you can take for free.
Adobe 2017 CC Update
We are getting a big update. User interfaces change… :/ I haven’t played with the new apps yet. They are downloading.
I expect more videos. There are 8 of Adobe’s apps that are updating. The list in the image below.
Within Photoshop is a feature that allows you to search for tools, image layers, help, and stock images. For those of you using Firestorm it is like the search inside Preferences. So, this will be fun. I’m used to looking for effects in Premiere using search.
This version has emojis. I don’t know that I’ll ever use them but, they may be fun. They are in the video at about the 25:00 minute mark. They are NOT intuitive. So, watch the video.
You have options for how you update in your Adobe CC App. Have fun.