Spanish Photoshop FAQ

Stamp Visible

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:32:16 +0000

This is one of those Photoshop tips that you’ll either use all the time or never.

Press Command-Option-Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E) to Stamp Visible layers, which creates a new layer on top of all the visible layers below. This is really useful when you want to apply a filter to the compiled image but want to keep all of your existing layers intact. The only downside is that it can increase the file size dramatically.

Full-screen preview in Bridge CS4/CS5

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:19:12 +0000

Bridge CS4 lets you quickly get a full-screen preview of any image. Select the image and press the Spacebar or select the Full Screen Preview from the View menu. This opens the selected image in a full-screen preview. Click on the image and it zooms to a 100% preview; Control-click (PC: Right-click) and drag on the image to move around; press the Arrow keys to move between images. Pressing the Spacebar a second time returns Bridge to the previous mode.

Smart objects as the default

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:52:48 +0000

If you hold down the Shift key while opening an image in Photoshop from Camera Raw, it will open as a smart object. You can also set this as the default action by clicking on the Workflow Options link under the image (the blue, underlined information that looks like a hyperlink), and checking the Open in Photoshop as a Smart Objects checkbox.

Photoshop Garden FAIL!

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:35:46 +0000

Photoshop Garden is offering a nice tutorials for Photoshop, but with stupid polls (not free) locking contents. If you don’t complete a poll (and pay something thru your cell phone or so) you cannot access to content!!!

Sorry folks, but this is a very annoying technique to get some cents in your pocket!

FAIL!

CS5 – space bar no longer gives ‘hand’ cursor

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:41:33 +0000

If temporary shorcut for Hand command don’t respond, just quit Firefox and Photoshop CS5, launched Photoshop again and, hopla! spacebar is back.

Select with color channels

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:51:03 +0000

Sometimes, targeting a specific color channel can help create a much better selection, especially if there are distinct color differences you can take advantage of. In this example, the same diagonal move with the Quick Selection tool resulted in a much better selection of the heart when it was applied only to the Red channel in the Channels panel (Window>Channels).

Zoom in the Color Range preview

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:35:26 +0000

The preview in the Color Range dialog shows the entire image by default, which can make it hard to judge the potential selection mask if you’re trying to select only small areas. The solution is to first create a selection around the area on which you want to work before you choose Select>Color Range. Once you do, the preview in the dialog will only show what you have pre-selected.

Remove Lasso tools: control points

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:41:46 +0000

When using either the Polygonal Lasso or the Magnetic Lasso tools (both nested under the Lasso tool [L]), you can remove control points in the order in which they were put down by backtracking along the selection path and pressing the Delete (PC: Backspace) key for each point. The Magnetic Lasso tool may try to add new points as you back up; just delete them until you get back to where you need to be.

Where are my palettes?

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:17:50 +0000

They are still there only their name has changed. Palettes no longer exist in Photoshop CS4. Officially, they are now called panels.

Change the default Eye-dropper sample setting

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:44:17 +0000

The sample size of the Eyedropper tool (I), found in the Options Bar, controls the size of the area that’s evaluated when it provides color and tonal feedback, but it can also affect how certain selection tools work,e.g., the Magic Wand or the Color Range command. The default Sample Size value is Point Sample, which samples a single pixel; however, this isn’t ideal for photographs, where using 3 by 3 Average or 5 by 5 Average will give you better results.