Tips and Tricks
The Magic of the Square Bracket
You have to fall in love with your keyboard sometime, so let this be the day!? To the right of the letter P are the Bracket Keys, they are called the Square Bracket and the Curly Bracket.? You can re-size your brushes in both Photoshop and Elements by using these handy keys.? The [ bracket will make your brush get smaller and the ] will make it larger.? This is perfect for selecting and drawing.
To try it:? Open a Photo, choose a brush, fill it with a color by clicking on your color box and choosing a good contrasting color, Draw, Stop, Press on the Bracket Keys, draw again, Voila!
Bracket Trivia from Wikipedia
Square Brackets [? ]
- Square brackets are mainly used to enclose explanatory or missing material usually added by someone other than the original author, especially in quoted text.[3] Examples include: ?I appreciate it [the honor], but I must refuse?, and ?the future of psionics [see definition] is in doubt?.
- The bracketed expression [sic] is used to indicate errors that are ?thus in the original?; a bracketed ellipsis [...] is often used to indicate deleted material; bracketed comments indicate when original text has been modified for clarity: ?I?d like to thank [several unimportant people] and my parentals [sic] for their love, tolerance [?] and assistance [emphasis added]?.
- Square brackets are used in mathematics in a variety of notations, including standard notations for intervals, commutators, the Lie bracket, and the Iverson bracket.
- Square brackets can also be used in chemistry to represent the concentration of a chemical substance or to denote a complex ion.
- Square brackets (called move-left symbols or move right symbols) are added to the sides of text in proofreading to indicate changes in indentation:
Curly brackets or braces { }
- Curly brackets (also called braces, or “squiggly brackets”) are sometimes used in prose to indicate a series of equal choices: ?Select your animal {goat, sheep, cow, horse} and follow me?.
- They are used in specialized ways in poetry and music (to mark repeats or joined lines). The musical terms for this mark joining staves are accolade and ?brace?, and connect two or more lines of music that are played simultaneously.[8] In mathematics they delimit sets. In many programming languages, they enclose groups of statements. Such languages are therefore called curly bracket languages.
- Indian programmers often use the name ?flower bracket?.
This is the Photoshop tip for Wednesday the 1 of July.
“Now what did I name that file?”
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Add secret info to your file!
Ever wonder where that file that had the flower from, ohhhh, around 1978, with the little girl in the background is.? Yeah, like you are going to find that!? Well you might have no problem if you labeled it before you saved it last.? Both Photoshop and Elements have this handy function and you access it the same.? Go to File > File Info.? Fill out the information and when you save the document it will be imbedded for all to see.
You can also add notes in Photoshop.?? Go to the recording icon or the notes icon near the bottom of your tool bar, and than click on the area you want to make comments on.
Audio and Typed Notes
I clicked on my name and recorded the info and then changed tools to the note tool and typed information and comments.
You can also add notes in both Photoshop and Elements by using Bridge or Organizer.
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