Adobe-Photoshop -- A Basic Tutorial by John Gibb
The basics of Photoshop are relatively easy to pick up, but can seem a bit of a mystery when you first come to the program, thanks to its somewhat unintuitive interface and lack of simple tutorials. Photoshop is basically made up of four areas: the menu bar, at the top, the toolbar just below... While the toolbox contains everyday tools such as selecting, filling and making shapes, the menus have more complicated functions like blurring, sharpening, and all the other effects Photoshop can achieve (mostly to be found under the Filter menu).

The Right-Click Trick by Scott Carey
Microsoft Windows employs an extremely helpful capability for finding out what actions are available at any point on the screen. This capability, which displays context-sensitive menus, is available by clicking on the right mouse button with the cursor at the desired point on the screen. ... Right-click on one of the icons on your desktop and you will get an entirely different menu with very different selections, such as Open, Pin to Start Menu, Create Shortcut, and Properties. ... The context-sensitive menu on the Macintosh (which doesn't normally come with a three-button mouse) is...

Have All Programs In Your Start Menu Become Enormously Numerous? by Alexander Styopkin
HAS ANYONE PUNISHED YOU? DOWN WITH SISYPHEAN TOIL! Have All Programs In Your Start Menu Become Enormously Numerous? You bought a computer and started turning it into a habitable thing by installing various useful programs for work and entertainment. But then you opened the Start menu one day and... The program Start Menu Tuner will easily solve your problem. ... You can observe this oppressive situation on most users' computers, it is enough just to open the ‘All Programs’ item in the ‘Start’ menu.

Windows XP Repair- Tweaks for WinXP 3 by Davin Ogden
LuvComputers PC Repair Tweak No.3 Now moving on to the final part of this little series of Windows XP tweaks . In this part were going to improve the computers all around start up time. The way that were going to do this is to remove the amount of programs starting up when we boot our... But, any of these sorts of chat programs will start when you need them to, just by double clicking their icon or else starting them from the programs menu. ... So remember, click Start, menu opens, find and click run.

Changing the Size of Text on Screen by Tim Wakeling
My Mum and Dad came to visit last week and as always they’d saved up some PC questions for me (they also brought some French crepes so I didn’t mind too much!) One thing Dad asked about was how you change the size of text on the screen. He knows how to do it in a word processor, to change the... You can start it by going to the Start menu, then clicking on Programs, Accessories, Accessibility, Magnifier. ... If it’s not there, it isn’t installed on your PC: go to the start menu, then help and type in “install accessibility” to get help on how to install it.

Learn Windows XP Tips and Tricks by Bob Cheeseman
Windows XP can look a bit boring, but with these few tips and tricks that I will discuss below, you can customize your Windows XP according to your needs or make it as fancy as you want it to be. They are easy to do, so read below to learn the how to’s. ... If you want to customize your Start Menu, you should first right click your Start button and left click on the Properties. ... You now have the option to choose if you want the new-style Start menu for Windows XP or the old 2000 version. ... If you want your welcome screen turned off, go to Start Menu, Control Panel then User Accounts,...

Newbie Computer Tips-or Why Didn't Someone Tell Me About This Months Ago? by Deborah Baird
So, you’re new to computers and you feel like you’re back in kindergarten … well, in a way, you are! Computers are new and very foreign to you right now if you’ve just recently sat down in front of one! Just remember, because it’s so new you must approach it differently, just like you did in... You’ll see a menu with a list of many commands for that particular icon, one of which is ‘delete’ … if you move your pointer to the menu and then move the mouse you’ll see that you can select any one of the commands.

How To Control The Way Linux Starts Up: GUI or Command Line Interface by George Chamoun
If you were interested in learning linux, one of the main reasons was learning how to work using Linux Shell environment. That is the Command Line Interface ( CLI). How Did I know?. It happened to me, and the most asked Question is how to access the Command line in Linux. ... Depending on the preference of a users, some prefer their Linux operating system to start with GUI, and others want it to Start up with the Command Line Interface. ... 2-If you Linux computer start up with the GUI, and you are Taken to the desktop environment, there is a way to access the Linux command line.

5 Easy File Management Tips in Microsoft Word by Dawn Bjork Buzbee
How many steps does it take you to locate and open your Word documents? Try these tricks to streamline how you find and open the files you use most often: Opening Documents With a variety of choices, how do you open a file? Here are the standards plus several keyboard shortcuts: • File > Open... Add the Work menu to your main menu bar which makes it easy to locate important files: 1. ... On the right side column, find the Work menu choice and drag it up to the main menu. ... Each time you start Microsoft Word, this will be the default file location but Word remembers your most recent...

How to Design DVD Menus Like a Pro by Kirk Peters
You have created a brilliant video. You have utilized a insightful combination of images, graphics, and sound to truly convey your message to the public. Now it would be nice if they could see it. Out of the many ways to distribute your video, maybe you have chosen DVD. ... You should start with a 720x540 size to design your menu images and then resample the menu to 720x480 when you are ready to take your final product to DVD. ... Menu text should always be at lease 10 percent from the edge, all critical elements should be at lease 5 percent from the edge, and the background should extend...