Archive for the 'Photoshop' Category

Fit to Window in Photoshop

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

A quick follow-up to my previous zoom tip. If you ever need a quick way to fit an image in the working window, all you have to do is double-click the Hand Tool in the toolbox.
 
Just as easy I’m sure you’ll agree?

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Magnify 100% in Photoshop

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

If you ever need a quick way to get an image in Photoshop back to 100% zoom view, all you have to do is double-click the Zoom Tool in the toolbox.
 
How easy was that?

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4 steps to add a drop shadow to text in Photoshop

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Let’s assume you have some text on a layer that you’d like to apply a drop shadow to:

step 1: In the Layers palette, make sure the layer containing the text you want to add a drop shadow to is selected [just click on the layer once if it’s not selected].
step 2: Click the Layer Styles […]

Toolbox or no Toolbox, that is the Photoshop question

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

How many times have you thought the Toolbox takes up too much space in Photoshop, but closing it is the wrong option because a few seconds later, sure as eggs, you’ll need to choose a tool?
Relax, there’s an easy solution [actually there’s usually an easy solution to everything in Photoshop, it’s just a question of […]

Quickly find the center of any document

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

First things first - fill a layer with your Foreground color.
Click on the Create a New Layer icon in the Layers palette and press Alt-Backspace on your PC (Option-Delete on a Mac) to fill it with your Foreground color.
Make your rulers visible - press Control-R (Command-R on a Mac) and drag a guide down from […]

Photoshop Tip of the Day

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Another [useless?] Photoshop tip…..
If you ever wanted a quick way to find a particular color’s web value and then make it available to your clipboard, just follow the steps below:
- open an image in Photoshop [I’m using CS1]
- choose the eyedropper tool
- right-click whichever color you need the value of [zoom in if necessary]
- choose […]

Quick, clean look in Photoshop CS

Monday, October 24th, 2005

Here’s a useful shortcut for Photoshop CS on a PC. When you want a clean, no-guides look on your page (actually by clean I mean no ruler guides, no gridlines, no slices, no selection edges), just press Control+H to make them disappear.

Edit multiple layers in Photoshop

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

This is one of those really useful tips that for some reason I can never remember, so I’m going to go ahead and post it here for future reference. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve wanted to change a font, a color or some other property of the Character pallette across […]