At some point in time, our friend and colleague, Carla Barrett of quiltwhisper.com fame, convinced us to start teaching online with her. I don’t know why we ever waited. It’s such a blast. We are right now in the throes of the class Introduction to Photoshop Elements for Fiber Artists and Sewing Enthusiasts. Oh, and we’re giving a prize to anyone who can think of a shorter name that still conveys what we are teaching! Needless to say, there are a lot of Photoshop courses out there, but Deb and I think we know it all . . . about using Photoshop for creating designs for fabric, that is. Anyway, it’s amazing what kind of crazy things pop up when you teach. Here is one weird scenario.
We had a student who could never see the tool she was using. For example, instead of a brush tip, she could only see what looks like crosshairs. Well, did you know that if you click the CAPS lock key – and how many times can you do that when you’re working furiously on a project (I must have just hit it twice while typing this!) – , which a lot of our students do (not to mention moi!), you will get that crosshair cursor.
Another student hit the jackpot and got three cursors – not very handy when you’re trying to put your cursor on a certain part of the screen. It all had to do with changing the system font size to something you can actually see. Why no one tells you these things, I don’t know. Anyway, some of us still need the big font, so the Pixeladies suggest you return to regular-sized font when you’re in PSE and revert back to the “big screen” when you’re not using this great but sometimes finicky software program! You can change your image/text size under Display on your desktop.
[We did not start Tech Tuesday until June 2012, but since this was really our first Tech Tuesday topic, we decided to rename this blog entry and to file it under TT.]