Tutorial: Adding image dimension presets to Adobe PS7
Another tutorial about 'how to make Adobe PS7 easier'. This one is just a small step, but I am very fond of it.
People who make a lot of icons or other graphics will know what I'm talking about; you work with various image dimensions, and Adobe PS7 offers you a set of predefined document sizes to choose from. But how about adding your own document sizes to that set? It's not hard and it could save you some time.
You create a new image file to work on by going Ctrl+N, or File > New. In the dropdown menu, you're given a variety of image sizes to choose from. Personally, aside from the 1024x768, I almost never use this, and enter my dimensions manually.
Which makes this tutorial... kind of pointless, but on we go.
1. Close PS7. We won't be needing it until the very end of the tutorial.
2. I use a German version of Windows, so my file locations are slightly different from English-speaking people. However, there are only two locations where the file you need is to be found.
Navigate to:
C:\Programme\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets
OR
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets
and look for a file called 'New Doc Sizes.txt'. A caveat, when you later save this file, make sure it does save as '.txt' ( text file ), and not another format.
3. Open New Doc Sizes.txt and take a look at what's written in it. Basically, the instructions you're looking for are already there, so I might as well stop writing here now, but again, let's go on.
4. Document sizes in PS7 are defined by the following parameters:
"Name" (do not forget the quotation marks!)
Width
Height
Unit Measures (pixels/inches/centimetres/mm/etc)
Resolution in dpi
That's all you need. Now, to add the preset size 'icon' to your dropdown menu in PS7, simply add the following line to 'New Doc Sizes.txt':
"Icon" 100 100 pixels 72 dpi
which will result in a 100x100px new document with 72dpi.
5. Close 'New Doc Sizes.txt', start PS7, and go File > New. Your new document preset should be at the very end of the dropdown menu.
People who make a lot of icons or other graphics will know what I'm talking about; you work with various image dimensions, and Adobe PS7 offers you a set of predefined document sizes to choose from. But how about adding your own document sizes to that set? It's not hard and it could save you some time.
You create a new image file to work on by going Ctrl+N, or File > New. In the dropdown menu, you're given a variety of image sizes to choose from. Personally, aside from the 1024x768, I almost never use this, and enter my dimensions manually.
Which makes this tutorial... kind of pointless, but on we go.
1. Close PS7. We won't be needing it until the very end of the tutorial.
2. I use a German version of Windows, so my file locations are slightly different from English-speaking people. However, there are only two locations where the file you need is to be found.
Navigate to:
C:\Programme\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets
OR
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets
and look for a file called 'New Doc Sizes.txt'. A caveat, when you later save this file, make sure it does save as '.txt' ( text file ), and not another format.
3. Open New Doc Sizes.txt and take a look at what's written in it. Basically, the instructions you're looking for are already there, so I might as well stop writing here now, but again, let's go on.
4. Document sizes in PS7 are defined by the following parameters:
"Name" (do not forget the quotation marks!)
Width
Height
Unit Measures (pixels/inches/centimetres/mm/etc)
Resolution in dpi
That's all you need. Now, to add the preset size 'icon' to your dropdown menu in PS7, simply add the following line to 'New Doc Sizes.txt':
"Icon" 100 100 pixels 72 dpi
which will result in a 100x100px new document with 72dpi.
5. Close 'New Doc Sizes.txt', start PS7, and go File > New. Your new document preset should be at the very end of the dropdown menu.