Tips and Tricks

Photoshop Center 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. For those who may not be aware of the ‘Alignment Options Bar’, you’ll find in on the ‘Option’s Bar’ whenever the ‘Move Tool (V)’

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One 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. Below is simple

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Type Tool (T) Tips & Tricks: Reloaded

Here’s a number of interesting things you should know and can do to enhance productivity and design work flow when working with Photoshop’s ‘Type Tool (T)’ . Image Inside Text First things first, select the ‘Type Tool (T)’  (or press the ‘T’ key on the keyboard to

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Type Tool (T) Tips & Tricks

Here’s a number of interesting things you should know and can do to enhance productivity and design work flow when working with Photoshop’s ‘Type Tool (T)’. Toggle It First things first, select the ‘Type Tool (T)’ (or press the ‘T’ key on the keyboard to make it

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Various Tips & Tricks

CTRL/Command + Click on any given layer to Select it. You just about finished your layout design and you realize it requires a new Object and so your layers require rearrangement. Here’s what to do, in your Layers Palette ‘Link’ all the Layers that need to be

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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)’. To get the Color Code you want though, involves resizing Photoshop’s program

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Photoshop® CS & ImageReady CS Help File Extras

Here’s an extra for Photoshop CS & ImageReady CS users. The below zip file contains an additional help file to access all the tutorials on this site via the ‘Help’ file menu of Photoshop CS & ImageReady CS. Simply download the zip file to your hard drive.Download

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Troubleshoot Preferences Checklist

Ever load up Photoshop only to discover that some or all of your Tools or Tool Palette are acting strangely. Here is a checklist of items to go through to help resolve the issue at hand. Note: I’ll use a single tool (Type Tool (T)) as an

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