Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers - Martin Evening [43]
Full Screen mode
If you click on the Full Screen mode button in Camera Raw, you can quickly switch the Camera Raw view to Full Screen mode.
Easter eggs
We'll round off this chapter with some of the hidden items that are in Photoshop. If you drag down from the system or Apple menu to select About Photoshop… the splash screen reopens and after about 5 seconds the text starts to scroll, telling you lots of stuff about the Adobe team who wrote the program, etc. Hold down and the text scrolls faster. Last, but not least, you'll see a special mention to the most important Photoshop user of all… Now hold down and choose About Photoshop… Here, you will see the White Rabbit beta test version of the splash screen (Figure 1.102). When the credits have finished scrolling, carefully -click in the white space above the credits, but below the image, to see what are known as Adobe Transient Witticisms appearing one at a time above the credits. If you want to see another Easter egg, go to the Layers panel, hold down and choose Panel Options from the panel submenu (see Figure 1.101).
Figure 1.102 The White Rabbit beta splash screen.
Figure 1.101 Can you find Merlin?
ATWs
Being a member of the team that makes Photoshop has many rewards, but one of the perks is having the opportunity to add little office in-jokes in a secret spot on the Photoshop splash screen. It's a sign of what spending long hours building a new version of Photoshop will do to you! The instructions for how to access these are described in the main text.
Photoshop code names
Nearly every version of the Photoshop beta program has traditionally contained a reference to a music track or a movie. Past honored music artists have included: Adrian Belew, William Orbit and Lou Reed.
Photoshop On-line
Photoshop On-line… is available from the Help menu and lets you access any late-breaking information along with on-line help and professional Photoshop tips. Photoshop help is also available as a PDF (there's a link in the upper left corner of the Help page).
Chapter 2. Configuring Photoshop
In order to get the best performance out of Photoshop, you need to ensure that your computer system has been optimized for image editing work. When I first began writing the ‘Photoshop for Photographers’ series of books, it was always necessary to guide readers on how to buy the most suitable computer for Photoshop work and what hardware specifications to look for. These days I would suggest that almost any computer you buy is now capable of running Photoshop and can be upgraded later to run Photoshop faster. As always, I try to avoid making distinctions between the superiority of the Macintosh or PC systems. If you are an experienced computer user, you know what works best for you and I see no reason to evangelize my preference for using a Mac. All I'll say on this subject is that throughout my computer career, the Mac is what I have grown up with and it feels like home. The same argument would apply if I had always been a Windows PC user. This shouldn't be a big deal. Apart from anything else, once you have bought a bunch of programs, you are kind of locked into using that particular system and, if you switch, you face the prospect of having to buy most of your favorite software packages all over again.
64-bit processing support
It is well worth installing as much RAM memory as possible in your computer, as the RAM figures quoted here are the minimum recommended amounts. Personally, I would advise installing at least 4 GB RAM if you can. If you are working with a 32-bit operating system you can only install