To reset the display of all warning messages (Photoshop): 1 Do one of the following:

•In Windows or Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > General.

•In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > General.

2 Click Reset All Warning Dialogs, and click OK.

To turn on or off warning messages (ImageReady):

1 Do one of the following:

•In Windows or Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > General.

•In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > General.

2 Deselect or select Disable Warnings, and click OK.

Monitoring operations

A progress bar indicates that an operation is in process. You can interrupt the process or have the program notify you when it has finished.

To cancel operations:

Hold down Esc until the operation in progress has stopped. In Mac OS, you can also press Command+period.

To set notification for completion of operations: 1 Do one of the following:

• In Windows or Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > General.

• (Photoshop) In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > General.

• (Photoshop) In Mac OS X, choose ImageReady > Preferences > General.

2 Do one of the following:

• (Photoshop) Select Beep When Done.

• (ImageReady) Select Notify When Done and choose (Mac OS only): System Alert to use your system alert for notification or Text to Speech to use a spoken notification.

3 Click OK.

Closing files and quitting

To close a file:

1Choose File > Close (Windows and Mac OS) or File > Close All (Mac OS).

2Choose whether or not to save the file:

•Click Yes (Windows) or Save (Mac OS) to save the file.

•Click No (Windows) or Don’t Save (Mac OS) to close the file without saving it.

To exit Photoshop or ImageReady:

1Choose File > Exit (Windows) or File > Quit (Mac OS).

2Choose whether or not to save any open files:

•Click Yes (Windows) or Save (Mac OS) for each open file to save the file.

•Click No (Windows) or Don’t Save (Mac OS) for each open file to close the file without saving it.

Using plug-in modules

Plug-in modules are software programs developed by Adobe Systems and by other software developers in conjunction with Adobe Systems to add features to Photoshop and ImageReady. A number of importing, exporting, and special-effects plug-ins come with your program; they are automatically installed in folders inside the Photoshop Plug-ins folder.

You can select an additional plug-ins folder to use compatible plug-ins stored with another application. You can also create a shortcut (Windows) or an alias (Mac OS) for a plug-in stored in another folder on your system. You can then add the shortcut or alias to the Plug-ins folder to use that plug-in with Photoshop and ImageReady.

Once installed, plug-in modules appear as options added to the Import or Export menu; as file formats in the Open, Save As, and Export Original (ImageReady) dialog boxes; or as filters in the Filter submenus. Photoshop and ImageReady can accommodate a large number of plug-ins. However, if the number of installed plug-in modules becomes great enough, Photoshop or ImageReady may not be able to list all the plug-ins in their appropriate menus. Newly installed plug-ins will then appear in the Filter > Other submenu.

To install an Adobe Systems plug-in module:

Do one of the following:

•Use the plug-in installer, if provided.

•(Windows) Copy the module into the appropriate Plug-ins folder in the Photoshop program folder. Make sure that the files are uncompressed.

•(Mac OS) Drag a copy of the module to the appropriate Plug-ins folder in the Photoshop program folder. Make sure that the files are uncompressed.

Important: For Macintosh, the plug-ins that come with Photoshop 7.0 are compatible with both Mac OS 9.x and Mac OS X. However, any plug-in originally intended to work on Mac OS 9, such as plug-ins from previous versions of Photoshop and some third-party plug-ins, can only be used on Mac OS 9.x or in the Classic environment on Mac OS X. You can place such plug-ins in the Plug-ins folder for the Mac OS X version of Photoshop, but they will not appear unless you launch Photoshop in the Classic environment.

To install a third-party plug-in module:

Follow the installation instructions that came with the plug-in module.

If you cannot run a third-party plug-in, the plug-in may require a legacy Photoshop serial number.

To specify a legacy serial number (Photoshop):

1 Do one of the following:

• In Windows and Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch Disk.

• In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch Disk.

2 Enter the serial number from Photoshop 6.0 or earlier in the Legacy Photoshop Serial Number text box.

To select an additional plug-ins folder:

1 Do one of the following:

•In Windows and Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch Disk.

•(Photoshop) In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch Disk.

•(ImageReady) In Mac OS X, choose ImageReady > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch Disk.

2Select Additional Plug-ins Folder.

3Click Choose, and select a folder or directory from the list. Make sure that you do not select a location inside the Plug-ins folder. To display the contents of a folder, double-click the directory (Windows) or click Open (Mac OS).

4When you have highlighted the additional plug-ins folder, click OK (Windows), Select (Mac OS) or Choose (Mac OS 9.0 and later).

5Restart Photoshop or ImageReady for the plug-ins to take effect.

To suppress the loading of a plug-in or folder of plug-ins:

Add a tilde “~” character at the beginning of the plug-in name, folder, or directory. That file (or all files in the folder) will be ignored by the application.

To view information about installed plug-ins:

Do one of the following:

•In Windows, choose Help > About Plug-In and select a plug-in from the submenu.

•In Mac OS 9.x, choose Apple menu > About Plug-In and select a plug-in from the submenu.

•(Photoshop) In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > About Plug-In and select a plug-in from the submenu.

•(ImageReady) In Mac OS X, choose ImageReady > About Plug-In and select a plug-in from the submenu.

To load a plug-in in only Photoshop or ImageReady:

Install the plug-in either the Adobe Photoshop Only folder or the Adobe ImageReady Only folder inside the Plug-ins folder.

Note: Use this procedure when you want to use a plug-in within only Photoshop or ImageReady, or when a plug-in may only be compatible with one of the two applications.

Assigning scratch disks

When your system does not have enough RAM to perform an operation, Photoshop and ImageReady use a proprietary virtual memory technology, also called scratch disks.

A scratch disk is any drive or a partition of a drive with free memory. By default, Photoshop and ImageReady use the hard drive that the operating system is installed on as its primary scratch disk.

You can change the primary scratch disk and, in Photoshop, designate a second, third, or fourth scratch disk to be used when the primary disk is full. Your primary scratch disk should be your fastest hard disk, and should have plenty of defragmented space available.

The following guidelines can help you assign scratch disks:

•For best performance, scratch disks should be on a different drive than any large files you are editing.

•Scratch disks should be on a different drive than the one used for virtual memory.

•Scratch disks should be on a local drive. That is, they should not be accessed over a network.

•Scratch disks should be conventional (non-removable) media.

•Raid disks/disk arrays are good choices for dedicated scratch disk volumes.

•Drives with scratch disks should be defragmented regularly.

To change the scratch disk assignment:

1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks.

2 Do one of the following:

• (Photoshop) Choose the desired disks from the menus. You can assign up to four scratch disks of any size your file system supports. Photoshop lets you create up to 200 GB of scratch disk space using those scratch disks.

• (ImageReady) Choose a primary scratch disk.

3 Click OK.

4 Restart Photoshop or ImageReady for the change to take effect.

Important: The scratch disk file that is created must be in contiguous hard disk space. For this reason you should frequently optimize your hard disk. Adobe recommends that you use a disk tool utility, such as Windows Disk Defragmenter or Norton Speed Disk, to defragment your hard drive on a regular basis. See your Windows or Mac OS documentation for information on defragmentation utilities.