Photoshop Tips

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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