Personalized "How-to" tips

[Bob R]

I attempted to put a few personalized “how-to” tips into my help file on Photoshop CS (placed in the Additional how to content folder under the help folder in PS).

These help files need to be in html format, with the extension .html according to Adobe’s instructions in their “Create your own How To tips”.

Well, on my PC anyway, after 30 minutes of trying to figure out what I was doing wrong (photoshop kept going to the web looking for these html files that I had stored on my local hard drive), I tried using the .htm extension. This worked fine.

I’m don’t know a lot about html; is this something that is just so obvious that Adobe felt it was unnecessary to specify that the file extension be htm instead of html? Or could I be doing something stupid?

Thanks,
Bob

[sPECtre]

I hope that heatrowe will show up in this post, as I know that he managed to create his own help files (you can get them at: http://www.heathrowe.com/tutorials.asp )

[Ammar Midani]

And Bob if you like to share those tips with PST members please visit the tip and techniques site.

Cheers.


Ammar

[Bob R]

Ammar,

The 2 tips are really techniques or recipes (for wood and water droplets) that I copied verbatim from my Total Training Photoshop DVD by Deke McClelland (www.totaltraining.com) . Before committing to posting these two techniques, I felt like I needed to get permission. I just got an email from Deke (who is a great guy by the way) authorizing me to post these tips on this site. And he said to say “hi to Greg”.

Bob

[Ammar Midani]

Great thinking Bob. Pretty intersting, make sure Greg to get his hi :)

I find myself asking you another favor, why don't invite Deke to PST, it would be great to have him here.

here's the link for posting the tips:
http://photoshoptechniques.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=10

Cheers

Ammar

[heathrowe]

somebody beckoned my name
I thought i heard a faint cry of heathrowe from acroos the galaxy..

he he
heathrowe

ps: if ya still need help with it bob, let me know where you are with it and u can email me info@heathrowe.com

tho i, admit, of the two ways to modify the Photoshop Help file addon, I took the easy root and it simply involves opening the HOWTO file with an editor and adding the appropriate info as outlined via the Help' manual.