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....

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...

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...

Learning Effects      Before you start, look at your History palette, and make a mental note of what the last state showing is named. We will be coming back to...

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...

Learning Effects Before I get started, I'd like to point out to any users of Photoshop 5.0 or later that Effects in Photoshop Elements are not layer effects. They...

Last, we'll go ahead and combine Glass Buttons, with Complex styles and then add a Bevel on top of it all. Shown below is the the Orange Glass Button style...

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...

     Now, let's try something a little more complicated. We'll combine some of the Glass Button styles with the Complex styles.     The Glass Button styles proved very dominant, i.e. if applied...

Clear the last style by clicking the Default Style button, and apply the Copper Tube and Negative styles to get the result shown below. Below, I used...

Clear the last style, by clicking on the Default Style button, and try the Molten Gold style followed by the Brushed Metal style. Again, you have to apply them in...

Click the Layer Style palette tab to bring it to the front. If you can't find the palette, choose Window Show Layer Styles. If the palette is in the palette...