Alignment Tricks
Here's a few Alignment Tricks to help you Center a layer in your document or even within a selected area of your document.
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Oct 05, 2005
Basic Shapes: Part One
1. Select the Shape Tool option (Press the letter U on the keyboard). Hold the mouse click and the drop down option reveals six different Shape options.
2. Once you have selected a basic Shape tool, at the very top of Photoshop's menu area, a new 'Options Bar' appears...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Oct 04, 2005
Smooth out jaggies channels
1. You've got a shape or font created in Photoshop, but doesn't quite appear smooth around the edges. Here's a simple way to correct this.
2. Ctrl + Click the layer in question to Select it.
3. Go the Channel Palette and create a new Channel...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Oct 04, 2005
Smooth Out Jaggies: Simplified
1. You've got a shape or font created in Photoshop, but does'nt quite appear smooth around the edges. Here's a simplified way to correct this, in just three steps.
2. Got to Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur and choose a setting between 2.5 and 3.5, as i have done. Click OK...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Oct 04, 2005
Extract v.1. Default Settings
Select the target layer in the Layers Palette and choose' Alt+Ctrl+X' (Mac: Option+Command+X)('Filter/Extract') to open the 'Extract Filter Tool'.
Using the default settings, except for brush size, I simply selected the 'Edge Highlighter Tool (B)'...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Sep 30, 2005
Transparencies to Indexed images
Here's a powerful trick to quickly add transparency to an indexed composite using features in the 'Save for Web' Control Panel. Below is a simple index (.gif) image I loaded into Photoshop. Instantly, you should notice that the image is locked...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Sep 30, 2005
Full of crop
Cropping an image, whether to remove unwanted parts of the picture or for size purposes, is common in Photoshop. Last week's column explored the Crop Tool and the Crop command. This week we'll turn to lesser-known ways to crop and look at Perspective Crop...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Sep 29, 2005
A bountiful crop
What better time than Thanksgiving, when the harvest is in, to discuss the crop? Photoshop offers several ways to resize a picture, and we'll start a two-part look with the Crop Tool and Crop command...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Sep 29, 2005
Blurring to Improve Compression
One of the biggest challenges facing many Photoshop users is maximizing compression while minimizing file size. This is an especially tough balancing act when working with photographs for the Web. Selective blurring can help...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : All levels
Added : Sep 29, 2005
Scanning Line Art - Adobe Photoshop
Step 1: Set the scanning mode to Line Art In the scanner dialogue box (varies dependant on your scanner and its software) you should be able to select a mode called Line Art. When you use this mode you are actually acquiring an image that is only all black and white pixels as opposed to tones. ...
Type : Photoshop Tutorials
Level : All levels
Added : Sep 28, 2005
