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Remove unwanted background detail from images in Adobe Photoshop (CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) Layer blending allows you to control the range of light or dark pixel values in the active layer and in underlying visible layers that appear in your final image. Among other things, you can use this feature to remove a dark background from a light [...] Lighten a color without changing its hue or saturation (Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) The Adobe Color Picker allows you to select foreground, background, and text colors in Photoshop. To open it, simply click on the Foreground or Background box in the Tools panel. By default, the H (Hue) option button is selected, so you can select a color [...] What’s the difference between Fill and Opacity? (Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) Have you ever wondered what the Fill option on the Layers panel is for? It seemingly does the same thing as the Opacity option just above it, which is to control a working layer’s level of transparency, but there’s a little more to it. When you set [...] Using digital sticky notes on your files (Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4) Did you know that you can attach notes to your Photoshop files without exiting the application? Well, you can. The next time you have a file that’s going to be modified by another designer or reviewed by someone else, and you want to include a note, just [...] Adjust the tracking of your words and separate letters (Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4) Did you know that when typesetting in Photoshop you can fine-tune the spacing between letters or words in your document? Well, you can. To do so, after setting your text, open the Character panel by clicking the Toggle The Character And Paragraph Panels button on [...] (Photoshop 7/CS/CS2/CS3/CS4) Layer blending allows you to control the range of light or dark pixel values in the active layer and in underlying visible layers that appear in your final image. Among other things, you can use this feature to remove a dark background from a light image or vice versa. To remove a range of dark [...] Unless you have Adobe Acrobat Professional, you can’t edit PDF files. You can, however, open PDFs in Photoshop CS2/CS3. But what if you just want to repurpose an image that’s in a PDF file? No problem! To extract an image from a PDF: Duplicate your file to avoid saving over the original To create a smooth selection in Photoshop with one of the many selection tools, such as the Magic Wand tool, you must first select the Anti-aliased check box on the tool Options bar. This tells Photoshop to pick up a few neighboring pixels to create a gradational effect. The result is usually more appealing than [...] Ever wonder what the Fill option on the Layers palette is for? It seemingly does the same thing as the Opacity option just above it, which is to control a working layer’s level of transparency, but there’s a little more to it. When you set the Opacity value for a selected layer, the change applies [...] |
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