Hi all, I just purchased Heavenly Hair brushes for Photoshop7. I love the effect they give with the wispy hair. I do fine on the bottom part of the hair but I'm having trouble making the top look right. I'm quite sure this is something I am doing..or not doing. I'd love some suggestions if any of you use them.
One problem I have is an inability to save really big jpgs.
My monitor isn't huge and it can't seem to handle a resolution higher than 1074x768. I am relegated to working on a fairly small image in comparison to some I have seen

Myst

You do know of the zoom tool in Photoshop, don't you? The only thing that could influence the maximum resolution of images in Photoshop is your RAM. Nog being able to save big jpgs could also be a RAM issue. Sometimes Photoshop says you are trying to save an image 'save for web' is not intented to, but still lets you try. 'Saving as...' and choosing jpg takes care of that. Maybe an image of your not-right looking hair could help for that part of your question.

Ok... If I make it sound as if I'm talking to a newbie, please don't be upset.... remember, I don't know what you already know, and sometimes the simple things will trip up a pro, too.
there are a few things that you can do that might help. Like Hoofdcommisaris said, you can zoom in on anything on your screen, to about 1600%... if you're working with microbes, that's fine... also, if you have your image set to maximize, that helps. your monitor screen resolution may be a factor, but it needen't be a BIG issue. My normal screen res is usually only slightly greater than yours... I tend to keep it that way, because if I "max out", I can see the image, but I can't read a thing, and the tools are vanishingly small. Your graphics card will have an effect on what you're doing too. If it doesn't have much memory, it takes what it needs from the system... Also, how large, and what drive are your caches for Photoshop?... that will play an enormous role in what PS is willing/able to do. Do you purge your caches, and how often, when you're working? Also, saving... be sure of exactly what format you want to save in... different formats have different "needs", in terms of size. .... take a look at some of these things, and let us know what's happening. Lou.

Message edited on: 02/25/2006 13:03

Lou Feel absolutely free to talk to me like I'm a total beginner, my experience is all with psp and photoshop is entirely new to me. I've been saving everything as jpgs. I have no idea where the caches are, so no I haven't emptied them which certainly cause some of my troubles. Off to search. Thanks very much! Myst

Okay I looked for the cache, did not find it. In help it said to click on 'purge cache' on the palette menu but I can not seem to find it :( Myst

Go to Edit; Purge; All This should take care of your problem for the time being, or so I hope... Your next step should be to start saving for some more RAM. Good luck, Mike

One more thing;

You can also try going to Preferences (top of screen click Photoshop) than go to Memory & Image Cache and lower the Cache levels, (mine are set to 4).
Check how much ram you have available in the lower part of the same window (hopefully more than 256MB) and tell Photoshop tu use 50% of it. If you have enough left you can choose more, but half should be enough...
Greetz

Message edited on: 02/25/2006 22:24

If you are working with big pictures, here is the way how you can clean up the working space. First press "F" key on keyboard twice to go to full screen. To remove all palettes, toolbox and menus press "TAB" key on keyboard, press "TAB" again to show all. To hide only the palettes press the SHIFT+TAB combination, press again to show them. To exit the full screen press "F" key again. If you want to switch between opened documents, you dont need to exit full screen, just press CTRL+TAB combination. Also you can zoom with keyboard by pressing "CTRL" + "+" and "CTRL" + "-" combination :) Hope this will help you :) Tihomir

Thanks very much Everyone, settings found and dealt with! Plenty of ram from the looks of things. Also one of the kind folks who made Heavenly Hair sent me a tutorial. Short cuts also duly noted :) Myst