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Toggle Between Keyframes

When animating objects in the timeline, Photoshop interpolates between keyframes to give a sense of movement. However, if you would like the animation to toggle between keyframes, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on that keyframe in the timeline to bring up the contextual menu and select Hold Interpolation. The appearance of the keyframes will change, and when played back it will cut to each keyframe.

October 13th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Scrub Through Timeline

You can quickly scrub through the timeline by clicking-and-holding on the Current Time Indicator. You will notice the cursor turn into opposing arrows. Just click-and-drag either to the left or right to scrub through the timeline.

October 12th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Change Timeline Settings

You can modify the duration setting in the timeline by going to the Animation panel’s flyout menu and selecting Document Settings. In the dialog, you can set the duration and also choose a frame rate from the pop-up menu or you can enter a custom setting.

October 9th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Keyframe Comments

In the Animation panel (in Timeline mode), at the top of the layer list there is an item called Comments. This allows you to place keyframes on the timeline and each keyframe is an annotation which can contain information specific to that point in the timeline. You can add a Comment keyframe by clicking on the clock icon on the Comment layer. Toggle through them by clicking the left and right arrows to the left of the Clock icon.

October 8th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Video Can Also Become a Smart Object

One of the cool features of video layers is that they can be set up as Smart Objects. This opens up a ton of possibilities for image manipulation, including scaling, rotation, and even warping.

October 7th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Trim Your Video

At the top of the Animation panel (in Timeline mode), you will notice two blue handles at the ends of the Work Area bar. This is your work area. You can drag the Work Area Start and Work Area End handles to specify how much of the video you want to work with.

October 6th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Vanishing Point 2

Big changes in Vanishing Point! Now you are not constricted to 90° angles. This offers lots of cool possibilities with the Vanishing Point filter.

October 5th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Refine Edge

Although there are many tools that will create exact selections, Adobe does step up the game a little with Refine Edge (Select>Refine Edge). With the Refine Edge feature, you have the ability to modify your selection using a set of sliders and preview your output on different color backgrounds. Use the F key in the dialog to cycle through the preview options.

October 2nd, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Use Overlay in the Clone Source Panel

Have you ever used the Clone Stamp tool and wondered what exactly you were going to paint in the area? Wonder no more. Now you can turn on the Show Overlay checkbox at the bottom of the Clone Source panel to automatically see an overlay of the image as you would clone it. You can automatically turn this off and on by turning on the Auto Hide checkbox.

October 1st, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

The Clone Source Panel

This panel has a couple of neat features for people who spend a lot of time in cloning. You can now set up a series of preset areas in the Clone Stamp tool. Simply click on one of the icons at the top of the Clone Source panel and Option-click (PC: Alt-click) on a point. That will save that location to the first icon. Click on the second icon and do the same thing. Now you can save a series of location points and go back by just clicking on the icon.

September 30th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

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Photoshop Tutorials

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Reverse Restoration
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Rain Drops
In this tutorial, Corey not only creates the raindrops, but also the splashes that are formed with the raindrops hit the hands.

Light From 3D Shapes

Corey shares another way to get a cool 3D light beam effect.
Olympic Graphics, Part 2

Corey finishes up the Olympic-inspired design that he began last week in Part 1.
Olympic Graphics, Part 1

The Olympic-inspired tutorial will be coming in two parts. Stop by next week for the conclusion to this video.
Masking with Channels

This week’s tutorial deals with creating masks for complicated images by using channels.

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Open in Camera Raw from Bridge

You can open RAW images in Camera Raw right from Bridge in Photoshop CS3. This frees up Photoshop to continue working on your files while they’re being processed in Camera Raw. Just select one or more images in Bridge, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on them, and choose Open in Camera Raw. This will open the image(s) in Bridge’s Camera Raw rather than Photoshop. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command-R (PC: Ctrl-R).