You might think that that isn’t much space. I disagree. Considering almost all monitors coming out now are pretty much all widescreen. While most screens are labeled as “widescreen” they don’t have true widescreen resolutions. On true widescreens you loose even more vertical space how ever you do get more horizontal space. The physical layout of the screen makes the potential to see less of the images you are editing.

So as you can tell the Mac Version is actually Lacking compared to the Windows version.

What do you think?

Today I did a scan on an infected machine with both “Eset Nod32 Antivirus” as well as “Tend Micro Housecall”. Like normal trend did absolutely nothing to help me get rid of the viruses. Nod32 helped me remove most of the viruses but not all of them from the infected machine.

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1. Open the registry. START – Run – regedit
2. Find this Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TrendMicro\PC-cillinNTCorp\CurrentVersion\Misc
3. Change the “AllowUninstall” value to 1.
4. Go to Add/Remove Programs and remove trend.
5. If you have to do this on multiple machines what I recommend you do is to export the “AllowUninstall” key and save it as a .reg file.
6. You can then run the .reg file on any other machine and you will now be able to uninstall Trend OfficeScan Antivirus.

Hope this helps you remove the Trend OfficeScan Client password from the Registry.

First off “Snippets” in Netbeans are called “Code Templates” but I will use the two terms interchangeably. *NOTE* The one thing I wish Netbeans did have is drag and drop access to it’s snippets. Dreamweaver has this functionality and I find it very useful.

Let’s go setup your first Netbeans Code Template.

Go to “Tools-Options”.

Then go to “EDITOR – Code Templates”. Make sure you specify the programing language you want to the template to be valid in. I’ve selected HTML in our case.

Click “New” button. After you do that window will popup. It will ask you what you want to type to use the code snippet. I chose “form”. Hit Ok.

You should now see “form” has been created. You must now enter the code that you want to be automatically displayed when you type “form”

Fill out the code you want to use.

Make sure to note what the “Expand Template on:” key is. In my case I select “Tab”.

Hit OK.

Now try it out.

In the body of the HTML document type “form” and then hit the TAB key. Voila! Instant form with barely any coding at all!

For some extra reading you might like this as well: Netbeans Code Template Module Tutorial

Once you are sure you have the proper version of Netbeans installed the next thing to do is check the MIME settings. Netbeans uses Mime settings to figure out how to what code completions to show you when you are working with a file. The mime settings are located in: “TOOLS-OPTIONS”

Click on “Miscellaneous – Files”. The File extension should be “html” and then you want to associated the file type to “PHP (text/x-php5)” as seen in the screenshot.

By making this selection you will have successfully enabled php code completion in HTML files in the Netbeans IDE.

To backup Dreamweaver snippets just go to:

Windows (32 bit) Location

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS4\configuration\Snippets

Windows (64 bit) Location

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS4\configuration\Snippets

Once you are in the location just copy the folders and save them to an external drive etc.

This is a screenshot from a Windows 7 64bit machine.

To change the product key you’ll have to uninstall the Office suite from your system and then reinstall it.

But here is a small and simple tutorial which will help you in changing the product key without uninstalling the Office.

Change Office XP Product Key:

1. Open regedit and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Registration
2. Under "Registration" key, you’ll see one or more GUID (Globally Unique IDentifiers) containing a combination of alphanumeric characters in following format: {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}
3. 3. Select each key and look at "ProductName" key in right-side pane. One GUID key will contain the version number of Office installed in your system "Microsoft Office XP Professional Edition".
4. Select that GUID key and delete following 2 registry entries from right-side pane: DigitalProductID / ProductID
5. Close registry editor and run any Office application e.g. word, excel, etc. It should prompt you to enter a new product key.
6. Enter the desired product key and click on OK. That’s it.

Change Office 2003 Product Key:

1. Open regedit and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Registration
2. Under "Registration" key, you’ll see one or more GUID (Globally Unique IDentifiers) containing a combination of alphanumeric characters in following format: {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}
3. Select each key and look at "ProductName" key in right-side pane. One GUID key will contain the version number of Office installed in your system e.g. "Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003".
4. Select that GUID key and delete following 2 registry entries from right-side pane: DigitalProductID / ProductID
5. Close registry editor and run any Office application e.g. word, excel, etc. It should prompt you to enter a new product key.
6. Enter the desired product key and click on OK. That’s it.

Change Office 2007 Product Key:

1. Open regedit and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration
2. Under "Registration" key, you’ll see one or more GUID (Globally Unique IDentifiers) containing a combination of alphanumeric characters in following format: {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}
3. Select each key and look at "ProductName" key in right-side pane. One GUID key will contain the version number of Office installed in your system "Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2007".
4. Select that GUID key and delete following 2 registry entries from right-side pane: DigitalProductID / ProductID
5. Close registry editor and run any Office application e.g. word, excel, etc. It should prompt you to enter a new product key.
6. Enter the desired product key and click on OK. That’s it.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. Take a backup of "Registration" key before deleting the registry entries from right-side pane, so that in case the new product key doesn’t work you can restore the previous key without any problem. To take backup right-click on "Registration" key and select "Export".
2. If you are a x64 bit Windows user, then the key location will be different in registry. Please check following paths:

Office XP: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\10.0

Office 2003: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\11.0

Office 2007: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\12.0

I plan on writing an article later why you might want to do this but since you are here you most likely already know why one would want to to create a mask from a color channel.

Quick Answer:

You can hold down the CTRL and clicking on the Color Channel. Go back to the Image and make a mask from the selection.

In depth tutorial

Anyways let’s get down to it:

1. Open Photoshop and the photo you want work on.
2. You want to make sure layers is visible. If you don’t see it in the sidebar hit “F7”.
3. Make sure you only have one layer.
4. Make a copy of that layer by hitting “ctrl+J”.
5. In the layer you just made click the channels tab. Currently you should be on the layers tab.
6. You will most likely see 4 channels. RGB, Red, Green and Blue. Each Channel can be selected by the displayed shortcut. For example red is: “Ctrl+3”
7. You will notice the picture turn to grey scale.
8. Holding down the “Ctrl” key click on the Red Channel. This will make a selection of ONLY the red channel.
9. You will need to go back to the Layers Tab from the current Channel tab. Click it now.
10. At the bottom of the layers box there are a few different Icons. There is a “link” then “FX” and then a “Circle in a box” icon. This is the “add layer mask” button. Click it.
11. You picture will no longer be grey. You should now have a mask that looked identical to the grey scale image.

After a few google searches I was told that my original hunch was correct about the filters menu. A few more searches revealed that someone could not get their plug-ins working under the 64bit version of Photoshop. Was I running the 64bit version?

I made sure Photoshop was closed and I went to the START menu and found the Photoshop App (32bit). I ran the program and went to filter menu. Sure enough the plug-ins were there.

Note – The reason why I said make sure that “Photoshop” was closed was If you had Photoshop 64bit open and clicked on the 32bit version, it would just bring the existing 64Bit Photoshop window to the foreground.

So if you find that some of your filters are not showing up in Photoshop make sure you are running the 32bit version before getting worried.

1.) First Open the picture that you want to work on.

2.) Make sure Actions window is viewable. If it isn’t you can open it by going to Window file meu, and selecting actions

3.) Click on the Folder Icon at the bottom of the Actions window. Create a new action set. Name it Skin

4.) Click on the new action icon and create a new action called “Skin Softening”.

5.) Click on the Record button. Photoshop will now record EVERY action you do. Don’t mess up!

6.) Hit Ctrl+j to copy layer

7.) Click on Filters Menu

8.) Click on Convert to smart filter

9.) Click on Filter Menu

10.) Click on “Blur” then “Surface Blur”

11.) Select radius of 3 pixel and a threshold of 15 levels

12.) Click Filter and select “Noise”. Then click “Add Noise…”

13.) Pick 2% for the amount, Gaussian and Monochromatic

14.) You will now need to make a mask from the red channel.

15.) Click on the channels section.

16.) Hold down “Ctrl” and click the red channel. This will select everything in the red channel

17.) Click back to the layers section

18.) Click the layer mask icon to make a mask based on the red channel

19.) You can now click the “Stop” button in the “Actions” section.

Now that you have the action most of the work is now done for you. You can apply the action to any other picture you want to soften the skin. You can REALLY make the picture pop by:

1.) Holding down the “ALT” key and clicking on the mask layer you created. This will show the mask in grey scale.

2.) Using a black brush blacken out the eyes and hair as you still want those parts to be crisp. The person will kind of look like a zombie

3.) If you find at any time that there is not enough skin softening you can always click on the noise and blur layers and change the amount. I normally keep the setting the same but I adjust the “opacity” amount by click on the icon at the far right of the layer.