Tip of the Day

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 (0)

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)

Using the Button Mode in Actions

The best way to automate tasks in Photoshop is to create actions of common tasks. When you are working with multiple images, you don’t want to keep selecting an action and clicking on the Play Selection icon. Speed up your workflow by enabling Button mode. In the Actions panel flyout menu, you can select Button Mode, which will let you run your actions by simply clicking on the action in the panel.

November 18th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Increasing the Crop tool’s Opacity

There are times that you want to see what your finished product will look like once you crop it. The best way to see that is to have a black background. To do that, once you have clicked-and-dragged out your crop border, increase the Opacity in the Options Bar to 100 percent. This will make the area to be cropped away completely black, and will allow you to see what your finished product will look like.

November 17th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Cropping to a Specific Size

If you would like to crop to a specific size with the Crop tool (C), enter the dimensions and resolution you would like in the tool options up in the Options Bar. When you click-and-drag out your crop border, you will automatically constrain the crop handles to the size that you have set.

November 16th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Getting back to the Default colors

To get Photoshop back to its default Foreground and Background colors of black and white, press the D key.

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

Loading a layer as a selection, adding to, or Intersecting the selection

To load a layer as a selection, press-and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key and click on the layer’s thumbnail. If you
Command-Shift-click (PC: Ctrl-Shift-click), it will add that layer to the already existing selection. If you Command-Option-click (PC: Ctrl-Alt-click), it will subtract from the selection. If you Command-Option-Shift-click (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-click), it will intersect the selection.

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

Increase and Decrease your Text Without Scrubbers

To increase and decrease your text size, select all of your text in a type layer and press Command-Shift-< or > (PC:
Ctrl-Shift-< or >). Command-Shift-< decreases the text, while Command-Shift-> increases the text.

November 11th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Place an Image from Bridge

You can place an image into any Adobe application right from Bridge CS3. Just choose File>Place and select the application you’d like to place the file into.

November 10th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Use the Adobe Media Gallery

Taking your files from Bridge to the Web is simple using the Adobe Media Gallery. You can simply select the images that you would like to use, and choose a Template from the top pop-up menu in the Adobe Media Gallery panel. After filling in some Style Information fields (things like your email address, some gallery text, copyright information, etc.), you can create the gallery in a folder on your computer or upload it to a website. In order for you to use the Adobe Media Gallery, you must have Bridge CS3 version 2.1, so be sure to upgrade. (That in itself is a tip.)

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

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