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Nice and easy for Photoshop

Nice and easy for Photoshop

Find the Transform Handles If you have dragged a large image onto a smaller layer the outer edge of the new, larger layer is of course, hidden. This becomes a problem when you use the free transform command, since you cannot see the handles...

 

Designers choose Photoshop

Designers choose Photoshop

Fill Commands These commands fill the entire later: to fill with Foreground color, use Option-Delete. To fill with Background color, press Command-Delete. These commands only fill areas in the layer where there are pixels (preserving transparency)....

 

News from Photoshop Mac

News from Photoshop Mac

Temporary Flatten a File To open a flattened version of a layered document, hold down Shift-option as you open the file. You’ll be asked if you want to "Read the composite data instaed". This only works if "Always Maximize...

 

Notes

Notes

Instant Background Want an instant background for a project when nothing inspires you? Take an image – just about any will do – and apply a motion blur at the maximum setting of 999 (or some other high number). You’ll blur...

 

The peculiarities of the Photoshop Mac

The peculiarities of the Photoshop Mac

CMYK Safe Colors Unfortunatly, there is no checkbox in the Color Picker for "Only CMYK Colors" as there is for "Only Web Colors". To ensure that you’re picking colors in the Color Picker that are safe to use in CMYK,...

 

Photoshop to help young designers

Photoshop to help young designers

Change Opacity With Airbrush Turned On If you have the Airbrush capabilities turned on in the Options Bar, the standard shortcut will no longer work to change the Opacity (normally you can press 1 for 10, 3 for 30, etc.) Once you’ve turned...

 

With us you will learn everything about Photoshop

With us you will learn everything about Photoshop

Scale Layer Styles If you’ve applied a Layer Style to a layer and then scale down the contents of the layer, the style probably needs to be scaled too. Rather than returning to the original settings and re-adjusting them, just Control-click...

 

Photoshop on a Mac – what is it?

Photoshop on a Mac – what is it?

Adding New Text Close to Existing Type Did you ever try to add some new text a little to close to existing text, only to have the Type tool assume you want to edit the existing text? To avoid this, hold down the Shift key as you click with the...

 

Small review Photoshop

Small review Photoshop

Can’t Decide on a Font? Here’s a simple way to solve the "what font family to use" dilemma. With a type layer active, create a new action and use the arrow keys to scroll through all the fonts in your type menu in the Options...

 

Not very important functions photoshop

Not very important functions photoshop

Improved Shearing There are a couple of things that can improve results with the Shear filter (Filter>Distort>Shear). First, since the Shear filter only works in one direction, you’ll often have to rotate the image 90 degrees (Clockwise...