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Top 10 Favorite Photoshop Shortcuts

Not including the single-key shortcuts for items in the Tools palette, here are the Adobe Photoshop keyboard shortcuts I find most useful. It says “Top Ten” but there’s actually a bunch more that I included in each item, variations of the main one. Did I leave your favorite(s) out of the list? E-mail me and I’ll include them in an upcoming issue.

To keep things simple, I’ll use Mac shortcut keys. If you’re on Windows, just think “Control key” when I say “Command” and “Alt” when I say “Option.”

1. Undo/Redo again and again
Command-Option-Z to step back through time, Command-Shift-Z to step forward after stepping back.

It’s frustrating to me that I can’t just keep pressing Command-Z to undo multiple times as I can in InDesign, but there ya go. Photoshop’s Command-Z only undoes the most recent action. However, Command-Option-Z serves as both a regular Undo as well as an Undo again. My History palette is gathering dust.

2. Cycle through layers

Option-[ selects next layer down, Option-] selects next layer up

Amazing how much time you save groping for the mouse and the Layers palette just knowing these two guys.

In the more recent versions of Photoshop, you can add the Shift key to select multiple layers — Shift-Option-[ or ]. That’s handy if you want to do a Free Transform (see #4 below) on multiple layers.

Let me jam in a couple more layer shortcuts that I use all the time: To add a layer, press Command-Shift-N. To skip the New Layer dialog box while you’re doing so, press Command-Shift-Option-N. And to make a selection into a new layer, press Command-J.

I count 45 entries in the “Keys for Using the Layers palette” keyboard shortcuts page in the Photoshop CS3 Help file (my faves above are the tip of the iceberg). But not one of the shortcuts is a mouse-free method of showing/hiding a layer. Sigh. The closest you can get is Option-clicking on a layer’s eyeball to toggle between a) hiding all other layers except that one, or b) showing all layers including that one.

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Webcam Motion Detection with VB6

The main function of this program is capture snapshot of a picture from webcam when a motion detect at front of camera. The program work based on image pixel differentiate . the program using a timer for take a picture from camera and store a picture at clipboard for a time to a process differentiate.  The picture result of screen shot will be stored at hardisk with jpeg format for better size. the size of picture depend of video format on webcam. for example if we used video format 640 x480, the jpeg file can be around of 50 kb and i think is more save hardisk space than using .bmp Format.  The program using VB .60 and active-x ijl11.dll/Intel Jpeg Library for convert picture from Bmp into Jpeg format.  i put this active-x into source code download link in the end of this post. the routine code of  differentiate picture , i found from PSC , i think the simple code with good performance.  Continue reading…

ASP.NET AJAX File Uploader with VB.NET and C# Sample

Ajax Uploader is an easy to use, hi-performance ASP.NET File Upload Control which allows you to upload files to web server without refreshing the page.  It allows you select and upload multiple files and cancel running file uploads, add new files during uploading.  Ajax Uploader allows you to upload large files to a server with the low server memory consumption. The look and feel of file upload controls can be customized to seamlessly blend into your website design.
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BarCodeWiz Barcode ActiveX Control

Creating barcodes has never been easier. With BarCodeWiz Toolbar you can add all major barcode types to Microsoft® Office applications with a click of a button. In Microsoft® Word, create single barcodes, pages of labels, or mail merge documents. In Microsoft® Excel®, select a range of cells and automatically convert each cell to a barcode. In Microsoft® Access®, create reports with barcodes based on your data tables.  BarCodeWiz Barcode ActiveX Control is also a tool for a Visual Basic, Visual C++, VB.NET, C#, or Delphi developer looking to include barcodes in his or her programs. In addition to the above, you may now use it to create barcodes in web pages (ASP). The control uses vector graphics for highest quality images, which is important with barcode scanners demanding highly accurate images.  Version 3 of BarCodeWiz Barcode ActiveX Control supports PDF417 Symbology (2D barcodes) and introduces a number of other improvements and bug fixes. Continue reading…

I share in this post the last version I download from a page that does not remember libraries for developers. NET I hope you find them useful.

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A Complete Inventory and Account Receivable System – This is an inventory and account receivable system project which I made some of my client here in Philippines.The program uses ADO and have lot of functionalities. The program can be able to run using keyboard,track user updates and etc. If you download this program you will learn the fallowing:(1) Know how to use ADO in real world business software. (2) Know how to handle millions of records using paging techniques.(3) How to use listview in database programming. (4) How to use flexgrid in creading a Master Detail form. (5) How to use crystal report (6) How to how to design a good looking software. (7) You will learn how to use custom define procedures and functions to optimize your codes. (8) You will learn the used of string and file manipulation in real world. (9) The used of API in real world database programming.There is a lot more to learn from this code… so download it and share your comment on what you have learn. Please don’t forget to vote! I CONSIDER YOUR VOTE AS ONE WAY ON HOW YOU WILL ACKNOWLEDGE MY WORK!! have a nice day and GOD Bless -Philip

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TurboCASH Accounting System

TurboCASH Accounting, entry level Accounting package for single users, small networks and distributed networks. Delphi development in Windows, Linux in Wine. Accomodates developer scripts, local plugins and multi language translation. Ideal for Small and Medium Size Business. Continue reading…

Active Report 2.0 For Visual Basic 6

ActiveReports is fully integrated into the Visual Basic programming environment and allows you to create rich reports without cryptic scripts or work-arounds. Features robust design-time environment including report wizard, support for DAO, ADO, and OLE DB, support for VB events, and more. Reports are compiled into your VB application for increased runtime performance.

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Download For FREE! Quantum Grid Active-X Grid Control For Visual Basic 6.0

Requested By: Indresh (India)

Below is a short list of some of the features and benefits available to you when using the QuantumGrid and QuantumTreeList controls.

• Automatic Data Grouping– Without writing a single line of code. Just set two properties at design time (or runtime) and you are on your way to enabling an extremely powerful data viewing and manipulation metaphor inside your applications. When in grouped mode, the ExpressQuantumGrid does not display information in a READ-ONLY state. If you allow, your users can continue to edit records even if data has been grouped by one or more columns.
• Automatic Sorting Against an Unlimited Number of Columns– The QuantumGrid, and TreeList allow you to sort against one or more columns without writing a single line of code. You can finally do what has been so sorely needed in VCL grids…SORT on the FLY against one or more columns without having to set the ORDER BY CLAUSE in your SQL or fussing with the TTable component. The sorting behavior found in the ExpressQuantumGrid is exactly like that of the List View control used in tools such as Explorer®. And just as important, sorting can be done against one or more columns in the grid, be it a standard column or a calculated one.
• Complete Banded/Stacked Column Support– The QuantumGrid and TreeList allow you to create banded columns to enhance the display of information to end-users at runtime. Continue reading…