The Brush tool, the Color Replacement too, the Pencil tool, and the Gradient tool. You can use each of them to select a foreground color by Option/Alt clicking in the image. Did you know that you can control how many pixels are used to determine that new foreground color?...
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, June 2005 Learn how to blur your background a bit in order to make the subject of your photo stand out in sharp focus. Photoshop author Peter Bauer makes it easy.
Photoshop’s Transform> Perspective command is grayed out when you have a type layer active in the Layers palette. That gives you a choice of rasterizing the type layer or not using the Perspective transformation. Or does it?...
Photoshop CS includes the Crop and Straighten Photos feature. It enables you to scan a number of images at once and automatically separate that single scan into individual image files. However, sometimes you need to give it a little help...
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Articles, June 2005 Find out what Adobe's new .dng format is, what it offers, and why, some believe, it provides no compelling advantages that justify using it.
Photoshop's Camera Raw includes a pop-up menu named Size that let's you change the number of pixels in an image. But is it better than resizing with Photoshop's Image Size command? Not dramatically...
Clear your mind. Clear your head. Here's a different way to consider the term "image resolution." It's nothing more than an instruction to a printing device about how large to replicate each pixel. It's a printing instruction about pixel size. Nothing more...
Adding a reflection can change
the appearance of a surface dramatically. Rather than a flat,
boring surface, you can give the illusion of shine or polish.
And it can be as easy...
While Photoshop doesn't offer a dashed line option,
such as that found in Illustrator's Stroke palette, you can easily
simulate them by editing a brush in the Brushes palette.
The key to dashed lin...
Sometimes a drop shadow needs to fall on only part of the layer or layers below. Perhaps the shadow should fall on the content of the layer immediately below, but not the layer below that. You'll need to convert the drop shadow layer effect to a layer of its own, then edit that layer...