Thread: How I lost Photoshop

^ I don't have a thousand quid to spend on Photoshop, Acrobat, Bridge and all the other 92% I have never and will never use.

The challenge continues, update soon.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

I'll have a look, but nothing beats Photoshop and I have an affinity with it.

Take your bloody computer to Fortune Tower and have someone install copy Adobe Creative Suite. You're making this much harder than it needs to be.

^ I did already and unless I set my laptop to factory settings I was told by one of the Apple staff who was sympathetic to my cause and not just being a loyal Apple jobsworth that this was the case.

Other than buying a new laptop, this is the last resort and I still have a few more numbers to try, however I have a, (maybe unfound) concern that it could have the same effect as getting your PIN number wrong more than three times, but I will give it a try as soon as I have finished the dvd cover I am working on.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

unless I set my laptop to factory settings I was told by one of the Apple staff

My apologies. Had forgotten you have a "use friendly" Apple.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

^ I don't have a thousand quid

actually you do,

^ And it is up to me what I spend it on, would you buy a Swiss army knife if you only needed a toothpick?

knowing that PS is your primary tool for your business, you should invest into it, not steal from it

^ But I'm sure Scampy will never mind others stealing his work.

it would make sense to use a crack for testing the software for a few months, or if you were an occasional user

but in this case, it's plain stealing

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

would you buy a Swiss army knife if you only needed a toothpick?

Remember you are talking to an assclown who thinks Windows XP is the bee's knees!

I just spent two hours on this as a gift for my brother and his wife for shouting my eggs benedict and watermelon juice when I visited them at the six senses resort last friday.

Earlier this year I was ticked off for not bringing a bunch of flowers when I stayed with them for four nights in London. That would have cost me between 7 and 15 quid (a weeks food shop budget here) and they would have lasted maybe a week.

With their first kid on the way I will send them this to go with their free wedding video and pics and ask them which they would prefer.

This was made from five different photos.

Oh shit, I've noticed a mistake - but once the layers are merged it can't be undone.

Fok.

Originally Posted by Wallalai

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

How I lost Photoshop



I was too cheap to pay for it.

Many people think they need:




When



will do the trick.

that's my bike.

the scooter? forget that for a pile of shit./

Originally Posted by Butterfly

knowing that PS is your primary tool for your business, you should invest into it, not steal from it

Originally Posted by Wallalai

^ But I'm sure Scampy will never mind others stealing his work.

i'm sure he can justify it, somehow....

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Oh shit, I've noticed a mistake - but once the layers are merged it can't be undone.

Fok.

What a total idiot you are...

^ Come on then, how do you 'un-merge' layers?

I don't think the above effort is bad considering I'm self taught without any manuals, just the odd call to MTD.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

^ Come on then, how do you 'un-merge' layers?

You retain a **BACKUP** of your original layered file, and do a 'SAVE AS...' of a file after you flattened it and merged the layers, dumb ass.

Yeah, I bet that's a revelation to you - keeping a backup of the complex and editable version of the file, instead of just saving over it. What a concept.

^ he is a mactard, what else do you expect ?

this is how 99% of mac users do it, they don't think, it's a mac, it does the thinking for them

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

^ And it is up to me what I spend it on, would you buy a Swiss army knife if you only needed a toothpick?

Scampy, a grand is nothing as you cannot move on and make money without it.......or can you ?

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Oh shit, I've noticed a mistake

What is the mistake?

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Oh shit, I've noticed a mistake

What is the mistake?

He photoshoped the wrong girl into the picture...

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

You retain a **BACKUP** of your original layered file, and do a 'SAVE AS...' of a file after you flattened it and merged the layers

No need to flatten the .psd file. Simply do a save as JPEG or other desired format and PS will create file name xxxxcopy.jpg.

Without reading back through the whole thread, did Scampy get it all sorted and re-installed?

I'm just about to install photoshop CS3 premium suite onto my new machine using the same discs that we couldn't get working on scampy's. (I know they work because they worked on my last mac)

What was the problem with his in the end?

Cheers.

^ I would answer but you just called me and we had a nice chat about it.