Photoshop offers many different cursors to help you complete your tasks but some are a bit cumbersome for detailed work. Sometimes, the tool you are using just gets in the way. With some tools, such as with the crop tool, it is not very clear where the point of the cursor is (its half way along the [...] [...]
Marching ants are wonderful. They shift leaves and help recycle the forest. In Photoshop they are as helpful but, like the real thing, some times you wish they weren’t there. No problem. To remove the marching ants press: – CMD+h (Mac) CTRL + h (PC) Voila; an ant free image. Press the same shortcut to get them [...] [...]
In the midst of all the excitement here at Improved Images there is nothing like getting back to the tranquility of Photoshop’s many keyboard shortcuts. After the War and Peace nature of some of the previous ‘shortcuts’ it is time to return to the fast and snappy. It is an interesting fact that some of the [...] [...]
Courtesy Adobe What use is a keyboard shortcut if it doesn’t save you time? Precious little. It is a surprise then that some default shortcuts rely on so many keys you could type War and Peace in the time it takes to select them. Fortunately, the maximum Photoshop actually uses in the default set is ‘just’ 4. [...] [...]
After much trailing of new features across the blogosphere in recent weeks, the mothership has reached close earth orbit (if not actually landed) in the shape of the latest incarnation of the industry leading CS suite of software from Adobe. The glossy official introduction can be seen at http://cs5launch.adobe.com/. The word ‘launch’ is appropriate as the [...] [...]
Courtesy Adobe F12 Short and sweet is the theme for today. This shortcut will get you back to whence you came in a fast and easy way. Pressing F12 on your function key area of the keypad (both Mac and PC) will revert the image you have been working on to its original state. Another good shortcut to [...] [...]
Courtesy Adobe Working with your layers and want to quickly change the order of the layers without clicking and dragging? Here’s how to send a selected layer 1 place down the stack press : – Command + [ (Mac) Ctrl + [ (PC) To bring a selected layer 1 place up the stack press: - Command + [...] [...]
Courtesy Adobe Today the humble Option (Mac)/Alt (PC) key comes to your rescue when in dire need within Photoshop CS4. Have you ever played with all the sliders and options in a menu box and wished you could extricate yourself quickly from the mess you have just generated? Happily there is just such a solution, and you [...] [...]
Courtesy Adobe Adobe has just released a free iPhone app, the snappily entitled Photoshop.com Mobile, which, as the name suggests, is tightly integrated with Photoshop.com. The app has a limited range of editing options that include Cropping, Rotating, Flipping, Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black and White and Sketch, Soft Focus and a small range of Filtering options. It [...] [...]
In this category we will be publishing sets of free actions for your personal use. Today, the actions relate to the articles on the Rule of Thirds and the Golden Ratio. They overlay guides on your image showing either the location of the Rule of Thirds key lines or the Golden Ratio lines. Firstly a small tutorial [...] [...]