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Laurie McCanna's Photoshop Tip #8
Photoshop Gotchas!
Don't get me wrong. I think that Photoshop is a fantastic program. I use
it at least fifty hours a week, and it would be the last program I would
give up.
I Can't Use a Tool
This is the scenario: you select a tool and try to use it and nothing happens. Solution? You probably have changes that you've made with the
My Filters are Greyed Out
I Can't Select Something
My Cursor Looks Funny or There's a Hole in My Screen or ...
I use Photoshop more than anything else on my system.
BUT...
There are a couple of big gotchas I'd like to tell you about to save you
some of the hours of frustration that I've enjoyed.