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	<title>Never Use This Font &#187; Photoshop</title>
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	<description>Aaron Parecki is the co-founder of Geoloqi.com, and specializes in backend systems development.</description>
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		<title>photoshop freezes on startup</title>
		<link>http://neverusethisfont.com/blog/2007/03/photoshop-freezes-on-startup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photoshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troubleshooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freeze]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This has happened once before. One day, photoshop decides it doesn&#8217;t want to start up. During the loading screen, it just stops on &#8220;Reading text global resources.&#8221; </p>
<p>Luckily, after a short google search, I found this:</p>
<p><a href="http://photoshopnews.com/2005/01/07/photoshop-freezes-when-you-start-it-cs-on-mac-win/" >http://photoshopnews.com/2005/01/07/photoshop-freezes-when-you-start-it-cs-on-mac-win/</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the fix: </p>
<p>You need to delete the &#8220;New Doc Sizes.psp&#8221; file. It is located at:<br />
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\9.0\Adobe Photoshop CS2 Settings</p>
<p>Fin.</p>
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		<title>Create a weird colored star thing in Photoshop</title>
		<link>http://neverusethisfont.com/blog/2006/11/create-a-weird-colored-star-thing-in-photoshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photoshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial will show you how to create the most beautiful image you have ever seen. I&#8217;m serious. There is nothing you could ever like more than this. Ok, now that you&#8217;ve seen it, there is nothing you would rather do more than make this image. This is not a question. Step 1: Create a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This tutorial will show you how to create the most beautiful image you have ever seen. I&#8217;m serious. There is nothing you could ever like more than this.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/final.jpg" alt=""/></div>
<p>Ok, now that you&#8217;ve seen it, there is nothing you would rather do more than make this image. This is not a question.</p>
<p><b>Step 1:</b><br />
Create a blank 20&#215;15 pixel image. That&#8217;s right. PIXELS. It&#8217;s going to be small. Then go to Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise. Add some colored noise. Here is a zoomed-in version of what it should look like:</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/step1.gif" alt="" /></div>
<p><b>Step 2:</b><br />
Go to Image -> Image Size, and resize this image to something more useful, like say, 1200 pixels wide. It should look like this:</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/step2.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p><b>Step 3:</b><br />
It looks pretty dumb. Go to Filter -> Pixelate -> Crystallize, and choose a cell size of about 50 pixels. Experiment with it.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/step3.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p>It looks a little better now.</p>
<p><b>Step 4:</b><br />
Now we need some empty space around the colors. Double-click the &#8220;Background&#8221; layer to turn it into a regular layer. Then either enlarge the canvas to add space around the image, or shrink the layer. Your choice. It should look like this now.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/step4.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p><b>Step 5:</b><br />
Now go to Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur. Change the blur method to &#8220;zoom,&#8221; change the amount to 100, and change the quality to best. After it does its thing, do it again. (Press CTRL+F to repeat the last filter.)</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/step5.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p><b>Step 6:</b><br />
Now comes the tricky part. We&#8217;re going to do Glowing Edges to this. Go to Filter -> Stylize -> Glowing Edges. Play with the width and brightness a bit to see what happens. I ended up only increasing the brightness slightly. After you do that, you&#8217;ll end up with this.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/step6.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p><b>Step 7:</b><br />
If you invert the layer, then all the black turns to white, and since the colors were just random anyway, they don&#8217;t look a whole lot different.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/step7.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p>Now you can use this in other images, and it&#8217;s even got transparency so it will blend nicely, or you can add a solid white background to finish it off.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="/images/final.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p>You can tweak the colors to match whatever project you&#8217;re working on by playing with the curves for red, green and blue. You can completely remove the green for example, if green would clash with the rest of your image.</p>
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