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How to Add Border around an Image in Photoshop

Adding image border in Photoshop is quite easy after following the below steps.

  1. Just launch the Photoshop Software, and open the desired picture in it. Now to select the whole picture area hit CTRL + A (If you wanna add borders to some particular part to that picture, then you can choose the Photoshop Selection Tool).

  2. After performing the selections, visit Select > Modify > Border, and select the size of the border which you want to be created around that photo.

    How To Add a Border Around an Image in Photoshop

  3. Thereafter, select the border color from the Photoshop Color Palette, and visit Edit > Fill, to make the borders.

And you’re done with adding borders.

Enjoy!

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How to Draw An Arrow in Photoshop

Most of the Photoshop beginners ask about drawing the arrows by using photoshop software.

Well, it is really easy to do so, for that you will have to use a line tool in a following way.

  1. Launch the Photoshop Software, Open the desired image in it, and and create a new layer
  2. Choose line tool as shown below in the picture (from the tool box)
    How to Draw An Arrow in Photoshop
  3. Then just select the Shape Layers, and launch the drop-down menu,
    then choose the Arrowheads as the Start or End. Then arrow head will be drawn to your desired point. Moreover, you can change the weight to 3px or more based on your desire.
    How to Draw An Arrow in PhotoshopHere you go! So you can now easily create the arrows in the Photoshop itself, as shown below in the picture.

    How to Draw An Arrow in Photoshop

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.

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What is a .lit file? and How to open .lit files?

Did you get some file with .lit extension while you were testing something or in some work-around?

Okay! Here is the method for opening the .lit files.

.lit file is a format from Microsoft Reader, which is Generally for an e-book reader, available for the mobile phones as well as for the desktops.

The easiest way to open .lit files is to download the Microsoft Reader and use it. But it will only work on Windows Operating Systems.

If you want .lit files to be opened on Mac or Linux, then you will need to download a small program called ConvertLit. ConvertLit converts the .lit file to the open file formats. ConvertLit is also available for the Windows Operating Systems.

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What are the FB2 Files and How to Open the FB2 Files?

If you have downloaded some E-Book which comes with .FB2 extension and wondering, what’s that! How to open that file ?

Then the answer is here :

.FB2 is an abbreviation used for the FictionBook 2.0, an E-book file format which uses XML to display the file contents as done by the Mcrosoft Office Suit 2007 or greater versions like Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access and so on.

To open a FB2 file, you need special e-book viewers.

Here are some free e-book readers listed:

  • Cool Reader supports FB2 file formats, and consists of features like smooth scrolling (as provided in Mozilla Firefox), text reformatting, and a fully customizable palette panel.
    What are FB2 Files? How to Open FB2 Files?
  • STDU Viewer can be used to work with several file formats including the .FB2 one. It also consists of really nice GUI and standard features like searching, rotating an so on. It also supports the page extraction from PDF and the DJVU files, as images.

Both the FB2 viewers are available free but for only for the Windows Operating Systems.

Enjoy!

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Convert pdf, doc, docx and txt (text) files to mp3 format

Ever wanted to convert your documents to mp3 format ?

Well, Zamzar can easily convert your document to mp3 in just a single click.

Zamzar Currently supports formats like,

  • .txt
  • .pdf
  • .doc
  • .docx
  • .pub
  • .odt
  • .wps
  • .wpd

For the visually impaired people, converting the documents into mp3 formats would be a very wise solution. One can also carry the documents in mp3 format on his mobile phone or onto a portable audio device like iPod and so on.

To convert your file to mp3 format, just visit Zamzar.

Convert docx, doc, pdf and txt files to mp3 in Single Click

Select the required document conversion format, enter your email address and submit the form. The converted document will be mailed to you within a day or two, in your selected format.

Enjoy!

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How to enable Select, Copy and Print on Restricted PDF Documents ?

I think you might have met with some pdf files which are sent with restrictions e.g. requires password to open, with disabled text selection, disabled text copying, and disabled printing.

These limitations are imposed by the creators or pdf writers in order to keep their work protected from the unauthorized access / from the content thieves. However, sometimes it gets really annoying to the simple people as well, who have nothing to do with the cheating or stealing the data. By adopting the following ways, you can remove all these limitations very easily, PDFpirate.

The procedure for removing restrictions from a PDF file :

  1. Just upload the restricted pdf document to PDFpirate,
    Enable Select, Copy and Printing on Restricted PDF Documents
  2. Then and you will get the file without any restrictions as PDFpirate scans the whole document. Thereafter you can download the clean pdf document from there.
    Enable Select, Copy and Printing on Restricted PDF Documents

However, there’s one disadvantage of using the PDFpirate, that it doesn’t work with the password protected files. Please share your opinions.