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 [...] [...]
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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 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe Adobe has removed a number of features that previously shipped with earlier versions of Photoshop. The reason given for a number of these is that their functionality has effectively been superceded by new or improved features. While this is true in some areas one of the most common activities in Photoshop, namely selecting objects from [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe Birds’ Eye View In Photoshop CS4 there is a new way to scroll and zoom around an image. This is called the Birds’ Eye View. It saves you time when you are zoomed in closely to an image. To quickly move to another part of the image at the same zoom level simply press: – H + Click [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe There are hundreds of Photoshop CS4 keyboard shortcuts available to every user. The best ones to memorise are those that you find yourself using most often. While that is often a personal choice there are a number of options that will be at or near the top of everyones’ list. One group of these [...] [...] When making panoramas with Photoshop or otherwise warping images we are often left with irregular areas of transparent pixels around the edge of the image. More regularly shaped borders can be left when using the canvas command. How then to get rid of them? Instead of reaching for the Crop tool one other option is the [...] [...] When using the Colour Picker panel, have you ever noticed a small cube and colour square combination that sometimes pop up to the right of the new/current colour panel? This is a friendly warning telling you that the colour you just selected is not web safe. This may not be of interest, but if it is, [...] [...] Adding a Drop Shadow is one of the many layer effects you can add via the ‘fx‘ button at the bottom of the layers panel. Did you know that, while the effects panel is on screen, you can click and drag the shadow wherever you want it? Why not try it now? The ability to do [...] [...] |
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