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Any screen color picker
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Any screen color picker

Here's a few simple steps to capture any color from your screen, inside or outside the Photoshop program view. Though, many Color Pickers exist, there's actually a rudimentary one available within Photoshop's 'Eyedropper Tool (I)'...

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Single Click Transparency Trick
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Single Click Transparency Trick

Here's a neat trick to apply a single click transparency trick straight inside the 'Save For the Web' control panel. This works best if its's an indexed image, if your working to create a transparency to a flattened file, a pasted or imported file...

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Basic Shapes: Part One
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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...

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Smooth out jaggies channels
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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...

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Smooth Out Jaggies: Simplified
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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...

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Extract v.1. Default Settings
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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)'...

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Transparencies to Indexed images
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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...

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Full of crop
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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...

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A bountiful crop
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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...

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