Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:09:15 +0000 From: Duncan McNeill Subject: Re: [PRODIG] composite photos in PS7 Coming after Marc Pawliger, Martin Evening and Others chimed in regarding 'Batch Numbering' and the magic use of the hash symbol( for which, believe me I am truly grateful, having wasted heavens knows how much time previously,) do I smell a rodent?
These shortcuts - and I guess that I am not the only one to find them of great use- didn't just 'happen', they were carefully coded- and to glibly state that they are undocumented certainly fails to convince me. Could it be that there are certain combinations vouchsafed to alpha, beta, or even omega testers that will make power presentations 'worth the money' for attendees?
Now, I'm sure that Rod's tip is drawn from personal usage and skill - but as for inserting hash characters...if it's undocumented- WHY?- and think of all the users who are not on this list.
Duncan, I sympathise with your frustration, finding out such news through a forum like this, when you would like to have been informed sooner.
But I assure you that it is not the case that Adobe would deliberately want to hide this information in order that privileged insiders get to have a monopoly on certain Photoshop information. I only came across the batch numbering tip myself, late in the day, shortly after Photoshop 7 was launched. If I had know earlier, it would have appeared in my book. And there lies the most likely answer. The Photoshop User Guide is a carefully edited manual that follows strict format guidelines. It is written by people who I imagine liase with the engineers, but not everything gets in to the guide. The tip we are talking about here reveals something that was perhaps not a fully finished Photoshop feature (maybe there was going to be a box in the File Browser Batch dialog that enabled you to enter the batch start number) and for that reason the feature was not included. Or more likely, there are lots of Photoshop details that just don't make it - if you systematically included every Photoshop tip and feature, it would be an enormous, unwieldy manual. Just look at the size of my book, or Katrin Eismann's or Bruce Fraser's. And we don't profess to cover everything in Photoshop either.
Martin Evening Photography <www.martinevening.com> Co-listowner ProDIG discussion list <http://www.prodig.org>
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