{"id":122,"date":"2007-03-09T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/wordpress\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-03-09T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T12:37:07","slug":"photoshop_frust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/2007\/03\/09\/photoshop_frust\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop frustrations!<br \/>Actually, it&#8217;s my own damn fault."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know, I&#8217;m the webmaster for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scubadorag.com\/coco\/scuba.asp\">ScubaDoRag&trade;.com<\/a>. Every so often Susan (aka CoCoCheznaynay), the creator of said DoRags, sends me a new postcard. She has just finished a new one. I&#8217;ve created a series of Photoshop actions to handle creation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/articles\/sprites\">sprite<\/a> that shows the corresponding DoRag depending on which fabric you mouse over. It makes life so much easier. Well, here I am on this fabulous new 15&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\">MBP<\/a>. As you might also know Adobe Photoshop isn&#8217;t yet a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webwire.com\/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=28798\">Universal Binary<\/a>. I&#8217;m using CS under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/rosetta\/\">Rosetta<\/a>. At any rate. I googled for file locations so I could transfer over my patterns and actions from the Photoshop stored on my old computer. Adobe tells you that patterns live in <br \/>\n<code>Preferences\/Adobe\\ Photoshop\\ CS\\ Settings\/Patterns.psp<\/code><br \/> and that actions live <br \/><code>~\/Library\/Preferences\/Adobe\\ Photoshop\\ CS\\ Settings\/Actions\\ Palette.psp<\/code>.<br \/> Unfortunately, this isn&#8217;t the case. They really live here: <br \/><code>\/Applications\/Adobe\\ Photoshop\\ CS\/Presets\/Patterns\/myPatterns.pat<\/code><br \/> and <br \/><code>\/Applications\/Adobe\\ Photoshop\\ CS\/Presets\/Photoshop\\ Actions\/myActions.atn<\/code>.<br \/> Big difference. This location sucks in my opinion. Whenever I want to install something on a new computer, I like to do it from the original installation disk; as I did in the case of this here new laptop. I then move mail, music, photos, etc. from the old computer. So you can see the problem. This method doesn&#8217;t help with actions and patterns. In order to make room for another project, I deleted the Applications folder from my old drive; thus destroying myActions.atn and myPatterns.pat. Fortunately, I had an older backup and have installed them. Whew. This took me a long time and caused much cursing and smoking of cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>I finally have these things restored and can actually get to work. Hopefully, in addition to being a native Intel app, PS CS3 will allow for a more commodious location for actions and patterns. In the meantime, problem solved and I can finally get to work. I hope someone finds this useful and avoids all the hunting around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know, I&#8217;m the webmaster for ScubaDoRag&trade;.com. Every so often Susan (aka CoCoCheznaynay), the creator of said DoRags, sends me a new postcard. She has just finished a new one. I&#8217;ve created a series of Photoshop actions to handle creation of the sprite that shows the corresponding DoRag depending on which fabric you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4,7,6],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mac-os-x","tag-photoshop-cs","tag-rosetta","tag-universal-binary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}