 In this article, we offer you, in no particular order, seven tips to help you capture the best scan possible when restoring your old photos: • Clean the scanner. Make sure your scanner bed is free of dust and lint. Your old pictures have their own dust and scratches—no need to introduce more during the scanning [...] GUEST BLOGGER: Cristian Easterly, Applications Instructor When designing a website, one of the most important things to keep in mind is, “Is this site easy to use?” There are a few ways to make sure your site will be easy to use for your target audience. First, you need to know your target audience. Who [...] GUEST BLOGGER: Cristian Easterly, Applications Instructor
Adding a blending mode to a layer can add a quick effect to a photo or logo design in just a few simple clicks of the mouse. Think of it as blending two layers into each other. The two most commonly used blend modes are Multiply and Screen. They darken [...] Marching ants can be distracting when working on a selected image area in Photoshop. An easy solution to this problem is to hide them. After you create the selection, simply choose View > Show > Selection Edges. This turns off the selection edges, giving you a more natural and pleasing view of your image. When [...] If it’s a spot color, there’s a really simple way to identify it. You can identify process colors, too, but it’s a bit more complicated. To identify a spot color in a PDF: No matter what size monitor you have, you probably never seem to have enough workspace. And even though Photoshop allows you to manage panels efficiently, they will still sometimes get in the way. Don’t let the lack of screen space slow you down when editing your images. Keep these tips in mind when you need to [...] You can quickly check the dimensions of an open image without opening the Image Size dialog box. To do so, select the Crop tool, and click Front Image on the tool options bar. The Width, Height, and Resolution of your image are displayed in the tool options bar’s data fields. Discover the benefits of becoming an [...] The hidden benefit to the Sample All Layers option (CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) Many tools in the Tools panel such as the Smudge, Blur, Sharpen, Healing Brush, Spot healing Brush, Clone Stamp and Smudge tools provide you with an option in the tool Options bar, to Sample All Layers. This is useful if you’re retouching a [...] Avoid file corruption: Don’t work on Photoshop files across a network (CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) If you’re experiencing frequent file corruption, you may want to re-examine your workflow. If it consists of working on your Photoshop files directly from a network or removable media, such as a Zip disk or Jump drive, that could be to blame. Opening [...] Create evenly sliced slices in Photoshop (7/CS/CS2) If you’re a Photoshop slicer and dicer, there may come a time when you’ll want all of your slices in an image to be equal. For our example, we’ll slice an entire image into 25 equal slices. Open an image in Photoshop. |
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