Digital BW, The Print

> Not much help

Not so, good help. You make a great case against Picture Viewer. That's one
less thing to confuse me!

Todd

> I've not heard of a way to rid yourself of the window borders but when I
> have a PS file I want to access for use in other PS files I keep a copy on
> the desktop, then while in PS I drag it to my open working file, put it on
> the top layer like you mentioned and if required make my canvas bigger to
> accomodate it's movement.  The resolution differences won't matter, the size
> of the wedge will just change with the various resolutions of your file.
> File modes shouldn't be a concern if you are using a consistent working
> space.
> 
> If you are using a wedge open in a different app (like picture viewer), then
> you'd worry about working space compatibilities... as far as I know app's
> like picture viewer don't use the embedded profile for viewing accuracy...
> it's like soft proofing in PS using your monitor profile.
> 
> Not much help,
> Carolyn
> 
> 
>> 
>> As an aid while I image edit, I'd like to be able to have a file of a step
>> wedge open on my desktop that I can lay over an image while I manipulate it,
>> so as to better judge where some of the tones in my image are falling. My
>> only beef with what I'm able to do so far is that the image is contained
>> inside of the typical OS window, with it's scroll arrows, et al, (made worse
>> in PS with it's mag view percentage and document info etc,). Is there an
>> application (I'm on a Mac BTW) which will allow me to have this file open
>> without it being bounded by the gray of a window? I want to be able to butt
>> the tones of the two files up against each other without some intermediary
>> tone of a window's border between them.
>> 
>> One thing I thought of was that I could create it as a PS document that I
>> can drag into each image as a layer, but that just seems like overkill, to
>> have to actually add it into every file, and worry about compatible
>> resolutions and file modes, etc. I'd really prefer to have it just open on
>> the desktop to be shoved around as needed.
>> 
>> So far Apple Picture Viewer has the smallest window borders, but is there
>> any way to eliminate them altogether?
>> 
>> Todd
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