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Scrubbers 101

In most dialogs, you can use the scrubber (slider) to change measurements. To change the performance of the scrubber, try using these keys: Shift will make the scrubber jump very quickly to larger or smaller numbers and Option (PC: Alt) will slow down the scrubber to move one number at a time

November 26th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Previewing your Type very quickly

Serif or sans serif? Oblique or Avant Garde? I am from more of a “Yeah, that looks appropriate” school of font usage. If you would like to cycle through your fonts to see what looks good, first commit the type. Once the type has been committed, click on the font name in the Character panel (Window>Character). With the font name highlighted, press the Up and Down Arrow keys to move through different fonts.

November 25th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Changing Multiple Type Layers

To change the properties of a series of Type layers, Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on each of the layers that you would like to adjust.

November 24th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Cycle Through All Open Documents

Press Control-Tab (on both a Mac and a PC) multiple times to cycle through all of the documents that are currently open.

November 23rd, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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 (2)

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 (1)

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)

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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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Open in Camera Raw from Bridge

You can open RAW images in Camera Raw right from Bridge in Photoshop CS3. This frees up Photoshop to continue working on your files while they’re being processed in Camera Raw. Just select one or more images in Bridge, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on them, and choose Open in Camera Raw. This will open the image(s) in Bridge’s Camera Raw rather than Photoshop. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command-R (PC: Ctrl-R).