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Magnetic Lasso Switch

If you are working with the Magnetic Lasso tool and need to access the Polygonal Lasso tool, press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click. That will automatically switch you to the Polygonal Lasso tool. UPDATE: Dave Cross just ran in and added a variation to this: if you press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click-and-drag, it will turn into the regular Lasso tool. Thanks Dave!

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

Quick way to find a Pantone Approximate Color

Ever wanted to know what a specific color would be in a specific library (like Pantone)? Select the color with the Eyedropper tool (I). Click on your Foreground color swatch to open the Color Picker. You will notice there is a button for Color Libraries. Click on that, and it will bring you the approximate color swatch for whatever library you chose.

December 1st, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Instant Artistic Effect – Just add Edge Vignette

Anyone can take a picture and give it more of an artistic feel using vignetting. In the Lens Correction dialog (Filter>Distort>Lens Correction), there is a setting called Vignette that’s used to correct problems with lenses that darken the edges of a photograph. It can also be used to add vignetting to a picture for dramatic effect. Drag the Vignette Amount and Midpoint sliders to the left. In a few seconds, your picture will look just like the pros.

November 30th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Increasing Brush Sizes

Pretty much all applications that use a brush can be regulated using the Bracket keys. The Left Bracket ( [ ) key decreases the brush size, while the Right Bracket ( ] ) key increases its size. If you press-and-hold the Shift key, it increases the size by a larger amount.

November 27th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

Scrubbers 101

In most dialogs, you can use the scrubber (slider) to change measurements. To change the performance of the scrubber, try using these keys: Shift will make the scrubber jump very quickly to larger or smaller numbers and Option (PC: Alt) will slow down the scrubber to move one number at a time

November 26th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Previewing your Type very quickly

Serif or sans serif? Oblique or Avant Garde? I am from more of a “Yeah, that looks appropriate” school of font usage. If you would like to cycle through your fonts to see what looks good, first commit the type. Once the type has been committed, click on the font name in the Character panel (Window>Character). With the font name highlighted, press the Up and Down Arrow keys to move through different fonts.

November 25th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Changing Multiple Type Layers

To change the properties of a series of Type layers, Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on each of the layers that you would like to adjust.

November 24th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Cycle Through All Open Documents

Press Control-Tab (on both a Mac and a PC) multiple times to cycle through all of the documents that are currently open.

November 23rd, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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.

November 20th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

Rotating your images with Shortcuts

I spent some time playing around with the orientation of images. Instead of having to go to Image>Rotate Canvas>90° CW or 90° CCW, I set up actions for them. To do this, create a blank document. Once you have the document onscreen, create an action called 90 Degrees Clockwise and assign it a keyboard shortcut. Click on Image>Rotate Canvas>90° CW and then stop the action. Do the same for 90° CCW, and be sure that you place both keyboard shortcuts next to one another. It will make working with images a bit easier.

November 19th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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Photoshop Tutorials

3D Light Beams
This effect was discovered by a 'happy accident' and uses the 3D features inside of Photoshop CS4 Extended.
More Texture Effects
Further experiments into what you can do with texture images in Photoshop.
Reverse Restoration
Corey shows you how to make a new photo look damaged by blending in some unusual textures.
Rain Drops
In this tutorial, Corey not only creates the raindrops, but also the splashes that are formed with the raindrops hit the hands.

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.
Animate 2D in 3D

Corey shows you how to create a 3D animation form 2D elements using Photoshop CS4 Extended. Click here to download a .MOV file with the final version of this animation.

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Vanishing Point and 3D

While working in the Vanishing Point filter, you can create a multi-plane grid and return the part of the image contained in the grid back to Photoshop as a 3D layer (choose Return 3D Layer to Photoshop from the flyout menu). Once it is a 3D layer, you can move the object around in three dimensions using Photoshop’s 3D tools.