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Turn the Font Off and On

Often, I echo Matt Kloskowski’s feeling that font preview is either loved or hated. I find myself usually turning it off, and here’s why: I love fonts—lots of them. I install fonts like there’s no tomorrow. I’m assuming that this is going to catch up to me at one point or another, but I continue to troll sites to find more and more fonts.
As you install more and more fonts on your machine, you might notice that there could be a performance problem. Because of this, we should go to Photoshop>Preferences>General (PC: Edit>Preferences>General) and turn off the Font Preview Size checkbox in the Type preferences. You can also turn on the Font Preview Size there too, if you happen to like it. I’ll stay away from that argument now.

October 30th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

LiveDocs to the Rescue!

Sometimes you will find that the Help feature may not offer complete assistance on a specific topic. Documentation for software often changes and expands, and LiveDocs is Adobe’s answer to this problem. If you go to www.adobe.com/support/documentation, you can access online documentation on all of your Photoshop topics. The good part about this documentation is that it is developed on a collaborative level, allowing the community to chime in on questions and answers to the topics at hand.

October 28th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Check Out Photoshop Help

The best place to check out what’s new and improved is still in the Help feature. Choose Help>Photoshop Help and you will launch the Adobe Help Viewer. This has an index of all things CS3, and includes a section on what is new.

October 27th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Does Your 3D Act More Like 1D?

In Photoshop CS3 Extended, you have the ability to work with 3D files. This, however, carries specific requirements to do so. If your graphics card has a hard time keeping up with 3D, you can turn off the Enable 3D Acceleration in the Performance preferences.

October 24th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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)

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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.

Light From 3D Shapes

Corey shares another way to get a cool 3D light beam effect.
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.

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Fill and Recovery Sliders in Camera Raw

Chances are you’ve noticed that when you attempt to increase the exposure in an image that is underexposed, you are going to clip your highlights, take areas of light color information and make them completely white. Before Camera Raw 4.1, the only way for you to compensate for this would be to dial back the exposure. Now, with the Recovery slider you can bring back some of the detail that was lost in the highlights without affecting the entire image.