When you use a color profile different than sRGB, the color of your images do not look right when opened in a non color managed application, like a web browser. A solution is to convert your images to sRGB before you use Save For Web...

Over the past couple of columns, we've looked at selections and masks – what they are and how they work. This week, we'll explore creating and editing masks by working with the various tools and commands that allow you to take advantage of all 256 levels of "masked."

Photoshop's improved Options Bar includes the capability to save tool presets. This is a great way to speed your work with the Type tool. If you regularly use certain fonts at certain sizes, they can be saved as presets in the Tool Presets Picker at the left end of the Options Bar...

One of the most difficult issues for many Photoshop users is color management. Let's take a look at some basic concepts of color management and the minimal steps that everyone should take...

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...

Here is just a brief overview of the new features available in Photoshop CS; the most powerful version of Photoshop to date, now satisfying upgrade requests of the most demanding users worldwide. An upgraded file browser which ha

What do you do with a whole series of digital photos with such descriptive names as and ? How do you re-label those shots so you can later have some idea of what they are? Photoshop's File Browser can handle the job for you, and with a great deal of flexibility...

Let's now turn our attention to CMYK profiles. The CMYK color mode is used primarily with images destined for four-color printing on huge commercial printing presses...

The vast majority of the time, the vast majority of us use Photoshop's Color Picker in the default configuration. Perhaps we use Custom Colors to select a spot color, but when using the Color Picker itself, we ign

Actions aren't as complicated as they might seem. All they are is a set of commands or actions that you can record or �run'. If you go to the actions palette you can see that there are different default action sets that you can load (production, image effects, etc.)...