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BRISTLE BRUSH PREVIEW

The new bristle brush feature gives you the ability to add real bristle brush effects right in Photoshop. It even responds to the tilt of the Wacom pen. To see the angle of the brush there is a convenient preview window that comes on when you select a bristle brush. It can also be turned on or off inside the Brush Options panel by clicking the icon at the bottom. You can also click inside the preview window to change the angle of view from a side view to a top view.

October 14th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

SEE WHAT’S NEW IN CS5. LITERALLY!

So you’re in Photoshop and you want to know what’s new in CS5 and where it is located. Simply go under the Window menu to Workspace and choose New in CS5. This will highlight all the new features in all the menus.

October 13th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

SCRUBBY ZOOMY!

To zoom in and out of your images is getting so much easier. While keyboard shortcuts will always be a favorite a great new addition to CS5 is the Scrubby Zoom. Simply select the Zoom tool then click and drag to the right to zoom in and to the left to zoom out.

October 12th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

CHANGE OPACITY OF MULTIPLE LAYERS

Before you could only change the opacity of a single layer. Now in CS5 you can change the opacity of multiple layers in CS5 by highlighting 2 or more layers and then change the opacity as you normally would.

October 11th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

I SHALL CALL IT…MINI BRIDGE!

So those of us who use Bridge know it’s an awesome app but wouldn’t it be cool if it could live inside Photoshop? Well thanks to custom Flash panels it does. Just go to the Window menu to Extensions and select Mini Bridge. This will open a new panel containing a light version of Bridge. With on the most essential features available. Now you can browse and open your images without ever having to leave Photoshop. You can even dock it at the bottom of the interface and have filmstrip view of your images while you are working. Pretty cool!

October 10th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

HDR PRO/ HDR Toning

There are two ways to approach HDR in Photoshop now. One way, of course, is you can use the Merge to HDR Pro feature to combine several photos into an HDR image. However if you are after that HDR look on a photo that wasn’t shot for it. Go under the Image menu to Adjustments and choose HDR Toning. Here you have a number of settings that, when manipulated, can yield a pretty convincing HDR looking form one photo. Hence the name: HDR Toning. It’s worth exploring because I have discovered that with some experimentation the results can be very interesting.

October 7th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

CONTENT AWARE: AWESOME!

That is perhaps the best way to describe this new feature. This feature easily does 50-90% percent of the work right away. Simply select an area you want to remove then press Shift-Delete {PC:Shift-Backspace} and choose Content Aware from the Use menu and watch the magic. Now it’s not perfect but if it does 75% percent of the work only requiring you to do some minor tweaks, then it’s well worth it. I guarantee you will try this on every image you have. Even if they don’t need it. It’s that cool to see in action.

October 6th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

BRUSH SIZE CONTROLS

They have improved on the brush resize shortcut and made it one keyboard shortcut requiring you to only change the gesture direction. When the brush is selected hold down Control-Option {PC:Ctrl-Alt} then click-and-drag right to increase the brush size, left to decrease. Drag up to make the brush softer and down to make it harder.

October 5th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

HUD COLOR PICKER

You can now access the color picker right on the fly in Photoshop CS5 by holding down Control-Option-Command as you click in the canvas area. It will pop up the color picker allowing you to move around the palette and select a color.


October 3rd, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (3)

STRAIGHTEN THAT IMAGE QUICKER

So you may remember you can use the ruler to establish a baseline for the horizon of an image. Then you would use the Arbitrary rotation to straighten. Well since this became such common practice they simply added a straighten button in the options bar. Simply use the ruler to set the baseline as usual then just click on the Straighten button. Done!

September 30th, 2011 | | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

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Create A Composite Layer

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

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