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Why Dragging-And-Dropping Styles Rocks!

You probably already know that you can apply styles to an image from the Styles palette, and you may even know that rather than just clicking on them, you can drag-and-drop these styles right from the palette straight onto your current layer. But what’s the advantage of dragging-and-dropping? Isn’t it actually harder to drag-and-drop, rather than just clicking once? The advantage is that you can drag-and-drop styles to any layer, not just your currently active layer. You can also drag-and-drop effects between different open documents.

March 13th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Hide Your Other Layers In The Blink Of An Eye

To hide an individual layer, click on the Eye icon in the first column next to that layer in the Layers palette. To make the layer visible again, click on the spot where the Eye icon used to be. If you want to keep one layer visible and hide all the others, hold the Option key (PC: Alt key) and click on the Eye icon beside the layer you want to keep visible. To make the other layers visible again, repeat the process.

March 12th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Toggle Through The Blend Modes

When I’m struggling to get just the right effect by changing the layer blend modes, it’s great to be able to rotate through each mode without having to go back to the layer blend mode pop-down menu every time. To do this, simply switch to the Move tool (V), then press Shift–+ (Plus Sign). Every time you press it, it goes to the next blend mode.

March 11th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Lock All Those Layers In Just One Click

You can lock all of your linked layers at once by choosing Select Linked Layers from the Layers palette’s flyout menu, then choosing Lock Layers from the same menu. They’ll kick and scratch for a while, but they’ll eventually calm right down.

March 10th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Avoiding The Layer Menu

Once you’ve applied a layer style to a layer, if you need to access some related commands that are in the Layer menu, you don’t need to go up to the menu bar and go digging through the submenus. Instead, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on the little “ƒ” icon that appears to the right of your layer’s name in the Layers palette. A contextual menu will appear with most of the Layer Style menu commands right at your fingertips—without the searching and digging through menus.

March 7th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Missing Your Background Layer? Here’s The Fix

If you’re opening new documents and they don’t have a Background layer, there’s a reason (of course there’s a reason, everything has a reason; we just happen to know what it is). The reason is that you’ve selected the Transparent option in the New document dialog. That seems like a reasonable thing to do; everybody wants transparency, right? However, what it tells Photoshop is “Don’t worry about creating a Background layer.” To get Background layers again, the next time you’re in the New dialog, under Background Contents, make sure you choose White, and from then on, you’ll have Background layers in your documents.

March 5th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Opening Layered Files Without All The Layers

If you have a large multilayered file, you know it can take a while to open, and that’s fine—it’s part of working with large files. But sometimes you’re not going to actually work on the file, and you just want to open it, take a quick look at it, and then close it (maybe you just want to see if it’s the version of the file you’re looking for). So why waste time opening a huge multilayered file if you just want to take a quick look? Well, you don’t have to—just go under the File menu, choose Open, and navigate to the layered file, but before you click the Open button, hold Option-Shift (PC: Alt-Shift). By holding those two keys down before you choose Open, it opens a flattened version of your layered file. Pretty darn slick.

March 4th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

Opening Layered Files Without All The Layers

March 3rd, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Turning Your Layers Into Separate Documents

If you have a multilayered document and want to turn each layer into its own separate document, just go under the File menu, under Scripts, and choose Export Layers To Files.

February 29th, 2008 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Jump To Any Layer Just By Clicking In Your Image

You can jump to any layer in your document without going to the Layers palette. Press V to switch to the Move tool. Now, press-and-hold the Command key (PC: Control key), and click on an object in your image that you want, and you’ll instantly jump to that object’s layer.

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

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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.