extracting?HELP

So i have spent 1 and half day trying to make one god damned cursed sig, that i so badly wanna finish.I had to start 3 times over and now 4.

this is my problem. the first 2 times Ps just stucked and didnt move anything.(i dont mind about that) BUT the other MAJOR problem is that everytime that i wanna press ctrl+t i press ctrl+somthing else (e,w,q,x,z,r) and it open me a window which says extract.first time it came out i clicked cancel and PS closed.This happened a couple times with other sigs but i really wanna know how to not lose my work.so i when i pressed the wrong button it appeared again.after cursing it i thought i should have a look to see if i could save it after all.but i dont know how to work it, i googled it aswell. it says something like " fill the areas that you wanna retain".i filled it and did whatever it told me but when i clicked on okay, PS closed again. :(

thanks in advance

What version PS is it, and can I ask, is it a legal version?

CS3, if its not can u do anything bad to me??? *evil glance* :P
dont mind the crash thing.

The extracting thing is like a tool (it opens a window)

I'm not trying to ban you. :p

But from the way you responded, I think I got my answer.
The issue may lie with the fact that your copy may not 100% untouched. When a program is accessed so that people can crack into it, they often do more to the software then what they were intending to. Sometimes they purposely make faults in the program

The other issue with non-legit software is that you actually don't know what program you actually have. Unless you're a software designer and you can read the coding, you won't know if an additional program has been inserted into the code. Something like a keylogger or a trojan. Fortunately enough I don't think you have that problem, but my first suspicions are leaning towards the fact that someone other then adobe have accessed your program before your use.

It'll also be useless to contact adobe as well cause they'll just tract your IP and could file a copyrights violation to your address.

I've never ever seen that popup untill today lol... I was trying to ctrl+alt+z and my finger slipped lol.

Yea, Its prolly not a Legit Version, mine used to crash all the time but I got a friend to fix it...but yea, I've never seen that pop up either.

okay so we found out why its crashing (that's what i thought aswell ) :P

but the problem is the extracting thing.I found out (cause i started another 2 times from scratch >.>) that its when u press ctrl+x .I dont know what this is?does anybody?

Ctrl+X is to Cut. Try going to Edit -> Cut instead of using the keyboard shortcut if that's whats fucking you up.

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Originally Posted by Monroe

Ctrl+X is to Cut. Try going to Edit -> Cut instead of using the keyboard shortcut if that's whats fucking you up.

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okay i made a mistake.it is CTRL + ALT + X. i dont even wanna do this i just press them by mistake.and the problem is that if u click cancel PS shuts down.

try it

Ctrl + Alt + X = Pattern Maker

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + X = Extract

cool its the extract thingy.whats does it do? and how can i cancel it without closing my PS?

Ok I just opened up Photoshop and tried them. I had them mixed up.

It's:

Ctrl + Alt + X = Extract

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + X = Pattern maker

I tried them both and they did exactly what they're supposed to and brought up the appropriate window. Clicking cancel on either one just canceled it and closed the window. But it didn't close Photoshop.

But the extract thingy, use it when trying to extract something out of a background. Like if you're trying to use a render but you dont want the background its on, then use Extract. Select what size brush you want and trace along the edges of the render. Then fill it with whatever color (the default is blue I think) and hit OK. Then you will just have the render without the background. Here's a tutorial because I'm not good at explaining shit:

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutoria...out/cutout.htm

Extract tool is used when you want to extract a certain something out of the whole image, it isnt very acurate butisvery useful for you guys doing sigs.

Anyways, inmy opinioin, your cs3 sucks get another. its probably coz you got a bad copy.
if its not the case, then another thing is that your pc cant support the load. Whats your specs?

thanks everybody. but on my ps, it just closes the whole program..well hell with it ill be more carefull