Sponsored by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Learn More

Put Your Gradient Picker At Your Fingertips

 

Want to make the Gradient Picker appear under your cursor in your image window? You can do this when you have the Gradient tool (G) active, allowing access to your gradient library, by Control-clicking (PC: Right-clicking) within your image area. It also works with the Custom Shape Picker. Here’s an even slicker trick: You can use the Return or Enter key instead to bring up the Gradient or Custom Shape Pickers.

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

Once You’re In CMYK Mode, Stay There

You’ve read some techniques in this chapter that require you to be in either RGB mode or Lab Color mode; however, if for any reason your image is already in CMYK mode, do not (I repeat, do not) convert to RGB or Lab mode for any reason. Once you’ve converted to CMYK mode, the data loss from the conversion has already occurred, and switching back to RGB mode won’t bring back those lost colors. What’s worse is, if you switch from CMYK to RGB (or Lab), when you convert back to CMYK mode, you’ll go through another CMYK conversion and damage your image even more. The moral of this story is-once you’re in CMYK mode, stay there.

Read More Tips

Tip of the Day
 
Kelby Training