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AVARiCE · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 5780 Location: London, England

Good morning all.

As some of you may remember, I enjoy(ed) mucking around in PS. So I thought (on my current quest to post a thread in each forum category) I'd ask who else shoops da whoop from time to time?

What do you mainly use it for? Any tips you want to share?

~ AVARiCE

Vagilik · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject:

I use photoshop mainly for menu buttons and stuff for my website. been too lazy to actually do anything with it though lol. i also use it to scan in photos and sometimes even documents. I would like to know (if possible) if theres any way to do a twain aqquire that will automatically crop the white border or even the picture period, instead of having to manually crop it. This is frustrating when trying to import many pictures. i used to have software that came with an old printer of mine and that did exactly that. now i know that pretty much anything you use with twain aqquire will automatically use the software that somes with your printer/scanner, but is there any way to get it to use anything else that has that feature instead? lol im not sure thats a photoshop question or not, but photoshop is what i import my pictures to so if anything can be helped it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Lamiaceae · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:27 pm Post subject:

Always amazed me how so many people can afford software that has a price tag of £600+ :wink:

I personally use GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/

I used to use it for messing about with random pictures, nothing actually specific or interesting. The odd 'old paper' effect to a photo etc... nothing special.

alienator · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 4228 Location: Buckinghamshire

My husband & I mainly use Photoshop for our photography work.

AVARiCE · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 5780 Location: London, England

Vagilik wrote: I use photoshop mainly for menu buttons and stuff for my website. been too lazy to actually do anything with it though lol. i also use it to scan in photos and sometimes even documents. I would like to know (if possible) if theres any way to do a twain aqquire that will automatically crop the white border or even the picture period, instead of having to manually crop it. This is frustrating when trying to import many pictures. i used to have software that came with an old printer of mine and that did exactly that. now i know that pretty much anything you use with twain aqquire will automatically use the software that somes with your printer/scanner, but is there any way to get it to use anything else that has that feature instead? lol im not sure thats a photoshop question or not, but photoshop is what i import my pictures to so if anything can be helped it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Wand Tool.

~ AVARiCE

Vagilik · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:31 pm Post subject:

wand tool. is that built in? cant be that simple...lol. ill have to check it out when i get home