Photoshop Week: Wednesday
Hey, Tony; I have a load of images that I need to convert to [JPEG | TIFF | PSD], and I’d also like to set their size to fit a scheme and maybe a couple of other things – like add copyright info and perhaps run some actions… could I write one big action that does all that? The answer of course is yes, but herein lies another great undiscovered Photoshop nugget – the Image Processor, … Read entire article »
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Photoshop Week: Tuesday
To fill a selection or the background/current layer with the foreground colour, most users know the shortcut alt-backspace – in my experience slightly lesser known is that you can also use cmd-backspace to fill with the background colour, cmd-alt-backspace to fill from the currently selected history state, cmd-shift-backspace to fill with the background and preserve the transparency (of a layer) and cmd-alt-shift-backspace to fill from the history and preserve the transparency. If you’re on Windows, … Read entire article »
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Photoshop Week: Monday
It’s all things Photoshop for me at the moment and so I thought I’d share a different tip (for users at all levels) with you every day this week. Although this is a newbie tip really I am quite often surprised to find out how many seasoned users have let this one escape their attention. You can reset quite a few Adobe dialogs by holding down the alt/option key – the Cancel button will change to … Read entire article »
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Random Tip 33
This week a really basic random tip is how to make quick duplicates in your Adobe Design Premium apps. I am often surprised to find so many people are completely unaware of this basic skill so here it is presented in video, and in five apps! … Read entire article »
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Photoshop for Web
My new Photoshop for Web course is now running exclusively via Certitec at the centres in Bristol, Cardiff and London. It’s a one-day course for existing Photoshop users who are already familiar with the program but need to build their knowledge and skills for screen output – graphic designers from a print background and photographers are perhaps good examples (although it is of course open to all). If you’re one of my small-but-steadily-growing Facebook fans then you’ll also get 20% off the cost of the course – that’ll save you about seventy quid by my reckoning!! I must point out that the offer can’t be used in conjunction with any other run by Certitec, is only available by booking directly with them and is also subject to verification (they’ll email me … Read entire article »
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