Are you tired of scrolling up and down the right side of Lightroom Develop module to get to the panel you want in Adobe Lightroom? – Top Tip – try Solo Mode
Adobe Lightroom Solo Mode automatically keeps only one panel open at a time. As you open another panel, the other automatically collapses. So now you don’t need to have 7 panels open and keep scrolling up and down to switch panels.
To turn it on, right-click on any dark gray area (the bits that surround your panels) in your left or right side panels.
A pop-up menu appears and Solo Mode will be one of the options.
Click it to turn it on.
Turning it on in the right side of the Develop module only turns it on for those panels – you need to turn it on for the left side too.
It’s also module specific so turning it on in Develop wont turn it on in the Library module.
They may not be as snazzy as Adobe’s Photoshop CS5, but here’s our list of free photo-editing software that make great substitutes to Photoshop if you’re not yet ready to splash out. They can also be a great choice for those who photograph or blog on the go and need a quick and easy way to edit images.
For fellow Photoshop fans we’ve scoured the web to bring you our favorite Photoshop blogs for either informative Photoshop Training in Brighton, Sussex, news and tips or for inspiring Photoshop feats (if you’re looking for the best Photoshop tutorial websites try this list). There are a lot of blogs out there, so read on to find the ones we thought most stood out…
There’s nothing more inspirational to watch than someone doing what they love. On Saturday I was at the Fringe Festival – Fringe City event in Brighton, where entertainers put on free shows in the street. The one performer that stood out was not a scheduled act but “Dancing Man” a local character from Hove who dresses as Michael Jackson (he’s 76) and dances non stop. He danced for 4 hours on Saturday and he told me it was what kept him alive – you can see him almost every weekend dancing along with local buskers.
I think he was the most memorable personality on show; people recognise him and love him because he does what he loves.
Adobe CS5 is due out at any moment, with mid-May the expected release date – find out what’s new in Photoshop CS5and what’s new in Flash CS5. But there’s one big change on the cards for web designers: Adobe is no longer offering their popular and accessible Web Standard suite, although Design Standard will still be available. New HTML5 Training courses now available.
“Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium” is up and coming, ready to pre-order by tomorrow – but it’s no more for Web Standard Suite… You won’t find much information about this on Adobe’s website and they would justify their change as a similar suite is still available. But will people pay more? If not the established web design combo of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash could be about to change (compare the Adobe Suites here or see Wikipedia on Adobe Creative Suites).
If you’re buying Adobe Web Premium new instead of upgrading from your current version, expect to pay a whopping £1679.08 inc VAT in the UK. Of course Adobe Web Premium will include Flash Catalyst, Illustrator and Photoshop Extended, but will the bigger price tag put off new users? For starters, many HTML/CSS web designers don’t wish to dabble in Flash. What’s more, Adobe risk putting off new users who wonder how to fit these tools into the picture when Fireworks already does the job with web graphics.
We’ve been running workshops on Photoshop since 2000 back when we were still all using Photoshop 6! Now we’re up to CS4 (and looking forward to CS5!) so we thought it was about time we made some of our knowledge available in the Free Resources section of the site.
So – check out our Photoshop Resources for a wide range of tutorials, tips, how-to’s and techniques.
If you’re in need of more in-depth tuition from an industry expert, we offer the following courses on a public basis here in Brighton:
If you’re interested in attending a course and would like to know which would suit you best, please feel free to call us on 01273 622272 or e-mail info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk
If you’re new to Photoshop the interface can be a pretty daunting sight. The best way to learn is to attend one of our tutor led Adobe Photoshop workshops which are delivered by industry experts.
However – here are 5 quick and easy tips that will help beginners with their Photoshop technique and help you to save time:
Opening lots of palettes at the same time can clutter the Photoshop workspace and hide the image you’re working on. An easy way to get rid of palettes temporarily is to press thetab key. To bring them back again you just press the tab key once more.
If you’re producing newsletters, brochures or other printed media for your clients and are frequently outsourcing design work to creative agencies, you could save a fortune by investing in Adobe Design Training for your staff so that they can carry out some or all of the work in-house.
If you compare the cost of regularly commissioning a creative agency to produce a newsletter or brochure, compared with the one-off cost of training a member of staff in InDesign, Photoshop Lightroom or Illustrator to produce it, the savings are considerable…
A design agency will charge anything from £500 to several thousand pounds per job, whereas a place on one of our public Photoshop, InDesign or Illustrator courses is just £445 + vat (or sometimes less if you take advantage of our last-minute offers). If you’re producing a monthly document you will be seeing a return on your training investment immediately, and the long-term savings will be considerable.
In addition to our public courses, we can also arrange bespoke training on dates to suit you, with content tailored around your requirements. On a bespoke course we can use your own documents as live examples, so you can leave the course with a template for your document completed, as well as the skills you need moving forward.
Private training starts from as little as £450 + vat for a 1-day one to one course. To discuss your requirements in more detail, call 01273 622272 or e-mail Alistair Wylie at alistair@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk
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