{"id":15812,"date":"2009-04-28T00:17:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/04\/a-few-useful-reminders-about-photoshop-cs4.html"},"modified":"2009-04-28T00:17:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T00:17:22","slug":"a_few_useful_reminders_about_photoshop_cs4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/a_few_useful_reminders_about_photoshop_cs4\/","title":{"rendered":"A few useful reminders about Photoshop CS4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously noted the following points, but as I continue to encounter folks who haven&#8217;t found this info, I thought it would be worth repeating:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If you&#8217;re using Photoshop CS4 and can&#8217;t find Extract, Contact Sheet, Picture Package, Web Photo Gallery, you can download &amp; install them: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/detail.jsp?ftpID=4047\">Mac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/detail.jsp?ftpID=4048\">Win<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to create\/edit a Curves adjustment layer in CS4 <i>via a dialog box<\/i>, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/configurator\/Curves-Dialog-CS4.mxp.zip\">use this panel<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/configurator\/screenshots\/curves_dialog.gif\">screenshot<\/a>)*.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t like the CS4 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/10\/shortcut_changes_in_cs4.html\">changes to keyboard shortcuts<\/a> for channels, download <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/Use_Old_Shortcuts.zip\">this plug-in (Mac)\/registry entry (Win)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If touching your MacBook Pro trackpad produces unwanted canvas rotation\/zooming, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/detail.jsp?ftpID=4337\">use this plug-in<\/a> to disable that feature<\/a>.\n<li>You <em><b>can<\/b><\/em> drag and drop layers between document tabs in CS4; you just need to start the drag from the document surface, not from the Layers panel.  (I know, the latter behavior <i>should<\/i> work, and we&#8217;ll work on improving it in the future.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If I might ask a favor of you: if you hear people complaining about any\/all of this stuff, please refer them to this URL (or directly to the ones linked above).  I greatly appreciate your help in spreading useful info.<\/p>\n<p><i>* In case you have trouble installing the panel via Extension Manager, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/configurator\/Curves-Dialog-CS4.zip\">download this plain-zipped version<\/a>, then unzip it and drag the resulting &#8220;Curves &#8211; Dialog&#8221; folder into your &#8220;Adobe Photoshop CS4\/Plug-Ins\/Panels&#8221; directory.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously noted the following points, but as I continue to encounter folks who haven&#8217;t found this info, I thought it would be worth repeating: If you&#8217;re using Photoshop CS4 and can&#8217;t find Extract, Contact Sheet, Picture Package, Web Photo Gallery, you can download &amp; install them: Mac, Win. If you want to create\/edit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}