Did You Know: That you can let Photoshop determine your new document size when copying and pasting. When you’ve selected something in a Photoshop document and want to copy and paste it into a new document, you don’t need to know the Width and Height to type it into Photoshop’s New Document dialog box. Photoshop...
Category Archives: Photoshop Tips
Did you know? – Where’s the toolbar?
Did You Know: That if the tool box is just bothering the heck out of you but don’t want to close it out in fear of needing another tool. Well fear no more Mighty Mouse is here. Well not really, just double-click at the top of the Toolbox and it collapses to a small itty...
Did You Know: Need to see two photos side by side?
Did You Know: Need to see two photos side by side? Well here is a simple tip. In Photoshop, under the Window menu, choose Arrange > Tile. What this does is places both of your images side by side. Now if you want both to be at a certain zoom here’s what you can do....
Did you Know?
Did You Know: Have a certain angle you want to rotate a layer. Well here’s a quick easy way to do it. Grab your Measure tool (Shift-I till you get the Ruler looking icon) and click and drag a line till you get your desired angle. Look up into the Options bar under the menus...
Did You Know? Saving you PSD’s
Did You Know: When saving a layered Photoshop document (.psd), a dialog box appears saying “Maximize compatibility” shows up. What it’s saying is that when a document is saved as a .psd file, you’re making it compatible with older versions of Photoshop. The down side to this is that you get a fairly larger size...
Did You Know…..MONDAY? All about the RAM!
Did You Know: Have you freaked out when the “Not Enough RAM to complete this function” dialog box appears? Go ahead and confess to it, you have, I know I have. And what did you do? Immediately go to crucial.com and ordered more memory. Yep go ahead, your laptop is now maxed with RAM. But...
Photoshop Tip Wednesday
Did You Know: Here is one for wedding or landscape photographers. Have a shot outdoors with the blue sky kinda looking blah like bath water after playing in the dirt. Ok its extreme but you know what I mean. You want to increase the blue without affecting the rest of the image and masking is...
Photoship Tip
Did You Know: Want to sample a color but it’s on a different document, file or even sample a color off a website. Fear no more. Go to your tool box and select the Eyedropper tool or simply press the letter I. Don’t ask me, eyedropper starts with the letter E. Anyways once you’ve got...
Photoshop Tip Wednesday
Did You Know: When you drag and drop and image in Photoshop, it falls right at the spot where you let loose of the mouse. Also, if you hold the Shift key while dragging and dropping the image, it will automatically appear centered in the document. Lets go one step better than that. Say you...
Photoshop Tip Mondays
Did You Know…..You have a step and repeat function in Photoshop. Well it’s kinda hidden and tucked away, but here is how you do it. If you have an object on a layer, and you want to repeat it several times, just hold down the Command-Option-T:Mac or Control-Alt-T:PC to bring up the special Free Transform...