 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. To create equal slices: Open an image in Photoshop. Select [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] (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 [...] 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: 1. Launch Photoshop and choose File > Open. 2. Select the PDF file that [...] Duplicate your file to avoid saving over the original (Photoshop 7/CS/CS2/CS3) Have you ever attempted to create a low resolution copy of an image and in the process accidentally saved over (instead of Save As) the original? The History palette provides a quick way out of that mess—simply click on the original snapshot and you’ve [...] |
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