Photoshop Tips

Trips, tricks, techniques, and short tutorials on all the tools integral to the modern design workflow to help get you through a deadline a little faster, more creatively, and with more fun.

Photoshop Tips

Automatic New Image Sizing in Photoshop

Being a technical writer who takes many, many (many) screenshots, one of my favorite features of Photoshop is its ability to automatically create new documents of exactly the size I need…

Photoshop Tips

ImageReady CS3

For Web graphics work, some people prefer ImageReady’s very Photoshop-like interface to FireWorks’s obviously Flash-esque controls and interface…

Photoshop Tips

Select Color Range Preview Toggle

In Photoshop, Select > Color Range allows you to create a selection based on sampled colors…

Photoshop Tips

Layer Blending Mode Shortcut

Changing layer blending modes is common. So common, in fact, that there’s a shortcut to jump straight to it from your keyboard…

Photoshop Tips

Reselect

Masking—selecting parts of an image to isolate changes—is a constant part of any Photoshop work…

Photoshop Tips

On the Fly Layer Thumbnail Resizing

Photoshop pros differ in their choice of thumbnail size on the Layers, Paths, and Channels palettes. Some usually run with small thumbnails, some with none, others with medium or large…

Photoshop Tips

Guides Help Find the Center of an Image

Once in a while it’s useful to find the center of a Photoshop document—either the horizontal center, vertical center, or both…

Photoshop Tips

Change Guide Colors

Need to adjust the color of your guides on the fly…

Photoshop Tips

Multiple Undos In Photoshop

CMD+Z (CTRL+Z on Windows) has ever been the universal keyboard shortcut that undoes the last action…

Photoshop Tips

Quick Mask Channel Selection

When selecting large areas with the magic wand it’s common to leave a few pixels here and there throughout the areas unselected…