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...
The Channels palette acts as a sort of container for the pixels in a layer. Each time you activate a layer; the channels associated with the layer automatically come into...
Elements has a fairly limited number of styles in its Layer Styles palette, but by combining them in different ways, you can make them go a lot farther. I'm going...
While working in Photoshop, you will be hard put not to use the brush tools in an editing session. Most tasks require some form of painting, even if it's not...
This is a continuation of the Holes tutorial. Though both use the same editing technique, that probably isn't obvious to new users, so I am making this a separate...
I get email all the time asking how to make one photo show through a hole or shape in another image. You should be able to figure this out on...
Assigning Scratch Disks Photoshop uses a temporary file for storing data and performing computations when there is insufficient RAM. It places this temporary file, commonly referred to as a scratch...
Reducing Palette Thumbnail Size Leaving the Preferences dialog for the time being, the palettes also have options that can affect performance. For example, the Layers, Channels, and Paths palettes all...
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...
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...
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...
To sharpen images, the Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask should always be your first choice. The sharpen tool in the toolbox can be used for adding sparkle to...