Category Archives: Design

How To: Backup and Restore Photoshop CS2 Settings and Workspaces

Fairly regularly, it seems recently, I have had to backup and restore my settings for Adobe Photoshop CS2. This isn’t the most straightforward process but is relatively painless if you know where to look. This process can be followed for most of Adobe’s apps but in this example we will backup and restore Photoshop CS2.

This ‘how to’ applies to Vista/XP.

Backup

  1. Exit Photoshop CS2.
  2. Ensure that you can see hidden files and folders.
    • XP/Vista: From ‘folder options’ and the ‘View’ tab, select the radio button ‘Show hidden files and folders’.

Seloquent – Free Myspace Div Overlay

With a reported 230,000 signups a day MySpace is more than just an internet phenomenon, a phrase that is banded about far too lightly these days. The social networking site started in back in 2003 by Tom Anderson, has grown to such an extent that it was acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for a figure in the region of $580 million in 2005 and the 100,000,000 user signed up in August 2006. A figure thought of as inflated at the time, the current valuation is considered to be nearer a cool $1 billion!

Creative Pitches – An Unpaid Necessity?

Andy Budd has done a thought provoking post covering the advantages and disadvantages of creative pitches to potential clients and whether they should be chargeable. Certainly in the current market it is expected that creative pitches should include examples of work potential ideas and the cost should be consumed by the agency.