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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 09-16-2009 12:47 PM
quote: Charles Greenlee
If a mac only has a single button mouse, how does one right click?
Don't know what planet the computer you were using is from by my brand new Mac has 4 buttons, plus an X-Y scroll ball. The mouse is completely programmable via the control panel. You can set buttons to do virtually any function you need.
If your mouse isn't programmed to "right-click" just hold down the "control" key while you click.
If you understand chording, you have the ability to click your 4-button mouse in about 28 different ways, considering that there are "command", "option/alt" and "shift" modifiers to click with.
If you also consider "click", "click+hold", "click+drag", "double-click", and "triple-click" then add the modifiers, there are somewhere in the neighborhood 50 different mouse-clicking options available to the user.
In my experience, Windows users have less awareness of all the different ways to click the mouse even though there are similar options available to them.
In Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, "Option+Click+Drag" on the handle of a Bezier curve "breaks" it into a corner point instead of a curve. But, weirdly enough, most Windows users don't see it even though they may use that function on a daily basis. Most Mac users I know speak of "Option+Click", etc., etc., as a normal part of using the computer.
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 09-16-2009 07:14 PM
Why the heck would you want to run XP on any computer, let alone a Mac?
I can count on one hand the number of times I ran into something I couldn't do just as well, if not better, on Mac OS or Linux. Out of those times, I can remember only once or twice when I couldn't get the program to run under WINE or some emulator.
Two of the three Macs I own dual boot Mac OS and Yellow Dog Linux. (If you count the fact that one of them is set up to boot Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X on top of Yellow Dog, it's a quad-boot machine! ![[Wink]](wink.gif) ) I have an old, rejuvenated Del PC that I converted to dual boot into Ubuntu and/or Fedora. The old PC drive is still mounted in the chassis. If I should ever find myself in the position of needing Windows, I can reconnect the old drive and use it again.
I have never owned a purely Windows machine. I have never needed to own one. And, after more than 10 years of owning three Macs (consecutively) I have not "needed" to use a PC.
Business just too important to lock yourself into one operating system. I really don't believe in proprietary software and, except for a few special cases, I don't use it if I can get away with it.
(And, just for the record, I think Apple's record on proprietary software is only little better than M$!)
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 09-16-2009 11:07 PM
quote: Randy Stankey
In Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, "Option+Click+Drag" on the handle of a Bezier curve "breaks" it into a corner point instead of a curve. But, weirdly enough, most Windows users don't see it even though they may use that function on a daily basis.
Windows users? Since when does having a Mac automatically bestow the user with knowledge of screwing around with pen tool paths in Photoshop?
Mac or Windows platform aside, MY experience is 99.99% of wannabe computer graphics users are idiots when it comes to understanding vector graphics, never mind being able to properly use the extremely convenient keyboard shortcuts for editing vector clipping paths in Photoshop. Whatever computer hardware they're using doesn't make a damned bit of difference. I've seen plenty of Mac users just as laughably incompetent at creating proper vector artwork as folks on the PC side. At least many of the PC people have an excuse: they stole their copy off Bit Torrent. Lots of Mac people paid for their version and still don't know how to use it right!
When I digitize clipping paths around photo objects or manually trace clean vector art over scanned drawings, I frequently use the shift, ctrl, alt and space bar keys to not only change the nature of anchor points on a path (and constrain directional points) as I edit them, the same keyboard keys allow you to manually pan across, zoom in and zoom out on the artwork view. I really wish Adobe Illustrator worked in this same manner, but it does not.
Additionally, most Photoshop users regardless of platform don't know how to weld and cut their created paths within Photoshop. You can do weld, cut, intersect and exclude operations on selected paths in Photoshop if you know what you're doing. Most folks just brush away with the freaking brush and eraser tool and plainly do bush league crap. I just want to tell them to down-grade to Paint Shop Pro or perhaps move to Photoshop Elements. But I don't.
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