Tutorials For Adobe Photoshop - 15 Photoshop User Tips

1. Use the brush tool to "paint away" from color to black and white while working on a color image to a portion of the image stand out sharply. From within the paint brush palette options, change the blend mode to color and then paint to remove the color of the image.

2. Press the Shift key to add more to the selection, or press the Alt key to remove from the selection using the magic wand tool.

3. The Photoshop image gallery will create a web page nailed images of gold for you if you have a large number of images to display. To do this, follow these steps: File - Automate - Web Gallery

4. Double click on the "T" in a text layer in the Layers palette to automatically select the entire text layer.

There are at least two ways to switch between the different units of measurement shows Photoshop...

5. The first is to change your preferences, go to the Photoshop menu and select Preferences in the Units & Rulers (in Photoshop 7 on Mac OS 9 preferences are located in the Edit menu). From here you can change the ruler units and click OK.

6. The second way is to open the Info palette (go to the Window menu and choose Information) and click the small triangle next to the cross in the left lower quadrant to pull up a menu that allows you to change the units.

7. To switch between different display modes, simply press F.

8. In keeping with the cmd / Ctrl key and clicking the mouse on the layer in the Layers palette, you can select only the pixels and not the area of transparency of the layer

9. Do you have a layer style you like to use a lot? You can save that layer style as a way to display the palette of styles. In the blending options, just below the OK and Cancel will 'Save Style'. Name it and save it. Here you will find this new style in the styles palette. Note: the style should be in its own layer.

10. Occasionally when you combine multiple images, there can be a bit of margin around the edges of the composite images. Hide this in steps: Layers - Estero - Defringe. In the dialog box, choose the default settings, it should not work, undo, and try again Defringe a value of 2.

11. Do you have too many layers? Simply select the layer of the right using the Move tool (V) Click the mouse on the layer and a drop down list will come up.

On the other hand, you can assign your layers in layer sets. In the bottom of the layers palette, click on "create new layers together" (looks like a folder), the name of the new layer set, and just drag the layers you like in that set. Highlight the right mouse button and choose Copy to copy your games with ease.

12. Press Shift-Command-M (Mac) / Shift-Control-M (PC) to switch between Photoshop and ImageReady.

13. To access the Web faster Save dialog, press Shift + Command + Option + S (Mac) / Shift-Control-Alt-S (PC).

14. Press Cmd / Ctrl J to duplicate the current layer.

15. To display the Extract dialog box, press Command + Option + X (Mac) / Control-Alt-X (PC). In the Extract dialog box, change the Edge Highlighter Extract tool to press the letter "b", the Fill tool by pressing the letter "k", and change the Edge Highlighter brush size by holding the "]" to make it bigger and the ["" to make it smaller.

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