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Deleting Unwanted Photos Fast

Let’s say you’ve opened the photos from your latest shoot (after you’ve backed them up to CD, of course), and you realize there’s only five or six photos that you really want to keep, and you want to delete the rest. Use this tip to make quick work of getting rid the hundreds you don’t want—just Command-click (PC: Control-click) on the five or six you want to keep, then go under the Edit menu and choose Invert Selection. This command selects every photo but those five or six you selected. Now you can just press Command-Delete (PC: Control-Delete) to delete all the ones you don’t want. Big time saver.

June 4th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Duplicate Any Photo Fast!

Want to duplicate an image in Bridge? Just click on it and press Command-D (PC: Control-D) and it will appear at the bottom of your Bridge window. This used to be the shortcut for Deselect All back in the File Browser of CS, but now it duplicates the image. That’s probably got you thinking, “Hey, so if Command-D doesn’t deselect all, what shortcut does?” It’s Command-Shift A (PC: Control-Shift-A).

June 1st, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Collections Are Live, Baby!

If you create a collection (let’s say it’s a collection of all photos on your hard disk that have your son’s or daughter’s name as the keyword), this collection is “live” and by that I mean that anytime you import a new photo and assign that same keyword (your son’s or daughter’s name), that photo will automatically also appear in that collection (well, technically it updates the next time you click on that collection, but that’s technical, right?). To create a collection, just do a search for the keyword you want by pressing Command-F (Control-F), enter your criteria in the Find dialog, and then once the results window appears, click on the Save As Collection button in the top-right corner. To see if your imported image appeared in your collection, click on Collections in the Favorites pane, and double-click on the collection to open it in its own window.

May 31st, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Getting Back To Your Bridge Window After Searching

When you perform a search (by pressing Command-F [PC: Control-F]), although it at first seems that your results appear within your same Bridge window—they don’t. They appear in their own separate window, so if you want to get back to working in Bridge, you have to close the results window.

May 30th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Faster Color Labeling Shortcut

By default, the shortcuts for applying a color label require you to hold down the Command key (PC: Control key), so you’d press Command-6 for Red, Command-7 for Yellow, etc. (PC: Control-6, -7, etc.). But if you find yourself using color labels a lot, you can change it so it only takes one key—the number, rather than Command/Control. Just press Command-K (PC: Control-K) to go to the Bridge Preferences, click on Labels (from the list on the left side of the dialog), and then turn off the checkbox for Require the Command Key (PC: Control Key) to Apply Labels and Ratings.

May 29th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

I Wanna Go Back

If you’re on a webpage and you want to go back to the previous page, you just hit the Back button, right? Well, luckily Adobe added a Back button to Bridge as well, so to get back to your previous folder of images, just click the Go Back button (it’s the left-facing arrow) at the top-left corner of your Bridge window. You can also go to your next folder by clicking the Go Forward button (it’s the right-facing arrow), but did I really have to tell you that?

May 25th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Opening An Image And Hide Your Bridge Window

One thing that really adds to your desktop clutter is the fact that when you open a photo from Bridge, your Bridge window remains open behind your photo. In most cases, you can still see the top, right-hand side, bottom, or all sides (depending on the size of your image) peeking out from behind your photo. But it doesn’t have to be that way. To open a photo and have Bridge automatically close its window, don’t just double-click on the thumbnail to open it; instead, Option-double-click (PC: Alt-double-click) on the thumbnail.

May 24th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How To Know If A Photo Is Open In Photoshop

If you’re in Bridge and notice a little round icon with a bent page has appeared in the bottom-right corner of your thumbnail, that’s Bridge’s way of telling you that the image is currently open in Photoshop.

May 23rd, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How To Get More Than Three Panes

That headline is a setup I can hardly resist, but I’m going to totally ignore it and jump right to the tip, although it panes me. (Sorry, I couldn’t help it.) By default, Bridge (and the File Browsers that came before it) has three panes visible on the left side of the window (with the Folders and Favorites panels on top, Preview in the middle, and the Metadata and Keywords panels below that). But in CS2 it doesn’t have to be just three—you can add more panes (ideal if you’re working on a really large monitor). Here’s how: Just click-and-drag the tab of the pane you want to have in its own section until it appears right beneath one of the existing panes. When you see a thick, blue horizontal line appear between the two panes, that’s your cue—release the mouse button, and your pane has a new home.

May 22nd, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Seeing Your PDF Pages Bigger

If you’re using the previous tip to view PDF documents within Bridge, here’s a tip you’ll probably want to know to make your PDF’s pages appear larger onscreen. If your PDF contains regular letter-sized pages, click the Switch Filmstrip Orientation icon found to the right of the arrow buttons below the PDF. This switches your view so your thumbnails appear along the side, which makes your letter-sized pages larger. Now you can grab the bottom-right corner of the Bridge window and expand it to make your view even bigger, so it’s “biggity big” (that’s a technical term, not to be used lightly).

May 21st, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Viewing The Pages Of PDFs From Within Bridge

Got a multipage PDF and want to see inside it? No sweat—just switch to Filmstrip view (click the Filmstrip icon near the bottom-right corner of the Bridge window), click on the PDF’s thumbnail in Bridge, and little arrow buttons will appear beneath the PDF, which let you move from page to page inside the PDF.

May 18th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Seeing More Than One Folder Of Images At A Time

If you’d like to see more than one folder of photos onscreen at the same time, it’s no problem, because in CS2 you can have multiple Bridge windows open at the same time. Just press Command-N (PC: Control-N) and a new Bridge window will appear (your previous Bridge window will still be there). Now, navigate to the folder you want to display in this window, and you’re set-your original window is still open, and your new window is showing some new photos. Mighty darn handy stuff for a Buckaroo like yourself.

May 17th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Deleting Folders From The Bridge

This is one Adobe snuck into CS2, and they made so little fuss about it, hardly anyone realizes they did it—you can now delete entire folders from right within Bridge. Just click on the folder and press Command-Delete (PC: Control-Delete). Now, with great power comes great responsibility, so don’t just start deleting stuff all willy-nilly (by the way, I have no idea what willy-nilly means), because those folders have photos in ’em. Even though you’ll get a warning dialog before the folder disappears, make sure that before you click OK to delete a folder, that’s really what you want to do.

May 16th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Resetting Bridge’s Preferences

Want all the options in Bridge set back to the factory defaults? Then close Bridge, hold down Command-Option-Shift (PC: Control-Alt-Shift) and then launch Bridge again. A dialog will appear asking what you want to do. Turn on the Reset Preferences checkbox and click OK. Now when Bridge appears, the preferences are factory-fresh.

May 15th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Keeping Bridge Always On Top

The idea behind Bridge is to use it to manage all your images for all your programs, and if you’re doing just that, you’ll definitely want to know how to keep Bridge up front, and floating above whichever program you currently have open. First, click on the Switch to Compact Mode icon that appears in the upper-right corner of Bridge’s Options Bar. Then, once it switches to Compact Mode, a new icon will now appear to the left of that icon—the Switch to Ultra-Compact Mode icon (I kid you not). If you use either Compact Mode, Bridge will remain at the foreground just like a floating palette, no matter which program you’re using. To stop the floating, just click on the Switch to Full Mode icon (which had been the Compact Mode icon—it changes its function depending on the mode you’re using—I know, it’s confusing).

May 14th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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Photoshop Tutorials

Design Effects
Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos.
Stylized Comic Book Effect
Using this effect, you can transform anyone into a comic book character with a halftone, saturated look.
Text Shape Layers
Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.
Borders Under a Minute
Create really cool borders in under a minute to use on virtually any one of your photos or even video for that matter.

Halftone Smudge Brush

Here is an unusual way of using the Smudge tool to generate interesting halftone streaks.
Scale Effects

Now this is something that still seems to stump people in Photoshop when it come to Layer Styles.
Energize That Photo

Learn how to add excitement and energy to your photo in just a few simple steps.
Design Elements from Photos

Here is a cool way to use parts of you photos as abstract design elements.

Acrobat 9 PDF Security
In this tutorial, learn about applying and removing security options in Acrobat 9
Flash Video the Easy Way, Pt. 3
Tom Green demonstrates how to embed a Flash document into a Dreamweaver document and play it on a browser using the Insert>Flash Video menu in Dreamweaver.
Premiere Pro CS4 Nest Command
In this video, Franklin McMahon uses Premiere Pro CS4 to create a nested sequence and then overlay it over a backdrop.
Roundtrip Logo From Illustrator to Photoshop
Dave Cross creates some grungy text using graphics with a texture image.

Imageready’s Supercharged Eyedropper

In previous versions of Photoshop, you could only use the Eyedropper tool to sample a color from other open images in Photoshop, but for some reason, ImageReady had a supercharged Eyedropper. If you clicked the mouse button within your image and held it down, you could leave your image window and sample colors from, well… just about anything—including your computer desktop or any other open application. Freaky! Fortunately, Adobe finally added this same power to Photoshop’s Eyedropper tool.