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Using Palettes – Color

The Color palette provides an alternative way of choosing foreground and background colors to the Color Picker (Figure 3-8). In contrast to the Color Picker, it comes with an assigned...

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Using Palettes – Layers

The Layers palette is where all the action takes place. From it, you can control the position and the appearance of all the data in your image. It would not...

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Using Palettes – Levels

When people first start to use Photoshop and want to lighten or darken an image manually, most people gravitate toward the Levels command. Nothing wrong with that; the design of...

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Using Palettes – Navigator

When you magnify your image's view by a percentage higher than 100%, you can use the Navigator palette to show the hidden areas of the image. There are three ways...

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Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts – Tips & Resources

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts - Tips & ResourcesIn this tutorial I'll show you how to use Photoshop CS and CS2 to change your keyboard shortcuts, how to save sets of...

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Using Palettes – Swatches

When you are working with a strict color scheme on a project, the Swatches palette is indispensable. The palette allows you to create, save, and store colors that are particular...

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Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 – part 1

Disabling Plug-ins Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. The problem is that you may or may not need many of the plug-ins during the...

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Using Palettes – Tool Presets

The tool options that appear on the Option bar when you select a tool can be saved in a preset and stored in the Tool Presets palette for easy access....

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Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 – part 2

Setting Preferences Photoshop ships with factory settings, known more popularly as Preferences, sometimes shortened to Prefs, that you have the option of accepting or rejecting and, in their place, specifying...

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Using Palettes – Info

The Info palette displays color values of the pixels beneath the pointer and, depending on which tool is currently active, measurements for tools. For example, it can provide instant feedback...

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Managing your Photoshop workspace

Hi there and welcome to this tutorial. I'm going to show you some quick and dirty tips on managing your webspace in Photoshop (CS but it also applies to other...

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Perspective Shadow

For this tutorial I am going to use a shape that I created from a 3d render. You can see the shape below. Let's start by applying a Drop...

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