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Performance Preferences

Here are two things that can help in the Performance preferences: Your Memory Usage can let you specify how much of your RAM you would like to dedicate to the use of Photoshop. And, you also have the option of setting up a scratch disk in the Performance preferences (think of a scratch disk as temporary RAM that Photoshop creates by using actual hard drive space).

October 23rd, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Zoom Scroll

Rather than using a keyboard shortcut to zoom in and out, use your scroll wheel! Most mice these days have a center scroll wheel on them. If you press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and use the scroll wheel on the mouse, you can zoom in and out of your document.

October 22nd, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Undo Heaven, Just Add History States

If you are like me, and love having a good amount of undos in the event that you go overboard with your adjustments, you can change the amount of History States that you have in Photoshop CS3. Note that the location of the History States preference has changed as well. Choose Photoshop>Preferences>General (PC: Edit>Preferences>General) and notice that there is now a Performance option on the left. You can change the History States in this area. Keep in mind though, if you are excessively using History States, you may want to rethink what you are doing wrong in the first place. I know I have to.

October 21st, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Finding the Panel Tabs Hard to Read? Change the Font Size

Sometimes, it’s a bit hard to read the type in the panels. Choose Photoshop>Preferences>General (PC: Edit>Preferences>General) and change the UI Font Size. This will make the type in the panels larger. You will need to restart Photoshop to see the type change.

October 20th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Know All of the How To Tutorials? Make Your Own!

At the bottom of the Help menu, there is an option that teaches you how to create your own How To tutorials for Photoshop. In order to create How To tutorials, you will need some HTML skills and to know the directory where you need to place the How To files. Sorry, there is no How To for HTML. This is Photoshop.

October 17th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Check Out the How To Tutorials in CS3

Starting off in a similar manner to our CS2 tips, there are really cool features and tutorials packed right inside of Photoshop CS3. If you choose Help>How To, you can run through some tutorials on how to expand your knowledge on a variety of Photoshop topics.

October 16th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Make Sure You See It The Same Way They See It

If you’re designing Web graphics on a Macintosh, you can be sure they’re going to be viewed by lots of people using a PC, and vice versa. A design problem arises because the monitors on Macs and on PCs display with different levels of brightness. For example, if you design Web graphics on a Macintosh, they’ll look more than 10% darker when viewed on a PC using Windows. Photoshop will let you see an approximation of how those graphics will look when viewed on a PC. Here’s how: Choose Save for Web from the File menu. Then, at the top right of the preview window you’ll see a pop-up menu called the Preview Menu. From that menu, choose Standard Windows Color to get a preview of how your currently opened graphic will look when viewed on a standard Windows monitor. Windows designers can do the same thing and view how their Web graphics will look when viewed on a Mac (they’ll look lighter). Knowing how your graphics will look on each platform will help you find a happy middle ground that looks good on both.

October 15th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Read The Web Color Onscreen

Want to know the hexadecimal Web color values of any color in your image? The Info palette can tell you instantly. Go under the Window menu and choose Info. In the Info palette, click on the little Eyedropper icon next to the CMYK readout and a pop-up menu appears. Choose Web Color, and you’ll get the hexadecimal readouts right in the palette.

October 9th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Exercising Your Influence On GIFs

This is an old trick we use to influence how Photoshop builds its color table when creating GIF images. We put a selection around the area of the image that’s most important to us (for example, if we had a product shot, we’d put a selection around it), then we’d convert to Index Color (by choosing it from the Mode submenu under the Image menu). Photoshop will look at the colors contained in your selection and build the Indexed Color Table giving preference to those colors. It’s another slick way to use less colors, creating a smaller file, but with a better-looking image.

October 8th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Got A Folder Full Of Images For The Web? Batch ‘Em!

Do you have a whole folder of images that you’re going to convert to Web graphics? If the images are somewhat similar, don’t do them one at a time—automate the process using actions. Start by opening one image from the folder. Go to the Actions palette (under the Window menu) and click on the Create New Action button. Give this action a name (something like Optimize as JPEGs) then go about the business of optimizing this one graphic into a JPEG for the Web. When you’re done optimizing it, click the Stop button at the bottom of the Actions palette. Continue Reading »

October 7th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

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Viewing and Basking in your Image

When I’m done working with an image, I like to sit and admire it (hey, I spent six hours working on it, I should). To do that, I hit the Tab key, then hit the F key three times. This hides all of the panels and toolbars and lets you see the image by itself surrounded by black. To get back to regular mode, press the F key and the Tab key one more time.