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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 CS5. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Also, by default the “Clipped” option is turned on in CS5 and that clips your overlay to the actual brush size. If you want a full image overlay (which you probably won’t because it’s really hard to see your original image) you can turn Clipped off. One more thing. You can automatically turn this feature off and on by turning on the Auto Hide checkbox.
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. This 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.
BLACK AND WHITE 101
Black and white could not get any easier. Open an image. Choose Image> Adjustments>Black and White. Instead of using all of the sliders that are in the resulting dialog, click on the different areas of the image that you want to make darker or lighter and drag—left to make them lighter, right to make them darker.
RESET A DIALOG
If you are working with any dialog that has an OK and a Cancel option, you don’t always have to cancel out to get back to the original state of the effect. If you press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key when you are in a dialog, the Cancel button will turn into a Reset button. This will give you a chance to try the effect again without having to leave the dialog.
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If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.
Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
by Colin Smith
