Wow... that's a good tip :) Excellent, thanks Andrew!
Found a quick video tip online that shows it in action too:
http://www.apple.com/business/theater/#tutorial=keyboardviewer
On 23/10/2008, at 7:59 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
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> The standard 'option-G' works in PS text - in fact all the
> 'option-...' characters will work.
> To see what they are, pull down the menu from the flag in the header
> bar in the finder and select 'Keyboard Viewer'. This opens a little
> keyboard image and if you then hold down Option or Option-Shift, you
> can see all the characters that you can get with that routine. Can't
> find a Smiley tho' - Mac users are too serious for factory provided
> emoticons.
> We don't need no Alt numbers...
> Andrew Fildes
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> On 23/10/2008, at 7:38 AM, Brent wrote:
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>> On a Mac (OSX), in most programs using the standard Mac interface
>> design rules you would simple choose Edit / Special Characters... -
>> which would bring up a dialog very similar in function to Charmap and
>> allow you to paste in whatever symbol you need.
>>
>> For some reason, Photoshop (at least CS2 that I have), doesn't
>> implement the hook for this. So usually I bring up textedit, paste
>> the symbol into textedit (using Edit / Special Characters), then copy
>> and paste the result over into Photoshop.
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