Photoshop Tips


	Photoshop Tips Photoshop tips are a collection of interesting and useful things you can use with Photoshop. They do not need a full blown tutorial - just a quick description and away you go ... Photoshop running slowly? Check your RAM. If Photoshop seems to be running slowly it may be because you do not have enough RAM and Photoshop can check it for you. At the bottom of the screen is the status bar which is set, by default, to display your document's file size. If you click and hold the little arrow head a pop up menu will appear. Choose Efficiency. If the number is 100% then your RAM is OK. It means that your memory is doing the image work all on its own. If it is at 75% or less it means that at least 25% of the time Photoshop ran out of RAM and had to use your hard drive to make up for it. In essence it means that Photoshop is running slow at least 25% of the time - time for more RAM or a new computer! Rounding of a square corner when selecting. If you have ever done a selection on a sharp corner and the darn thing rounded it off this is how to fix it. Check your feathering amount - it should be 0 (the default). You may have changed it at some time and forgot to set it back to its default value. 100% view How annoying is it when you want to zoom in or out to 100% to locate the correct keyboard shortcuts or get the zoom tool or fuss with the Navigator? If you have an Intuos4 or a Bamboo it is not a problem, of course. The Zoom function is built right into the tablet. Anyway, if you want to get to 100% zoom quickly, simply double click on the Zoom Tool and there you go - instant 100% view! Full screen view This one is like the previous 100% view but double click on the Hand Tool instead. Photoshop will fill the screen with your image no matter how big it is. Get color from - well - anywhere This Photoshop tip is really amazing! You can get any color on your computer as your foreground color with the eyedropper tool. Select the Eyedropper Tool and sample any color on the screen you are working with and then drag it out of Photoshop onto your desktop or other open document wihtout letting go of the left click or without lifting your pen. You will need to have the Photoshop window less than the whole screen to get at any open windows on your desktop. The Hidden Reset Button Did you know that Photoshop has a built in Reset Button in the different dialogue boxes? It does and this is how you access it ... Say you are messing with Curves and the changes you have wrought are just really nasty. Normally you would cancel and reload curves. Instead of doing that just press the Alt key (Windows) or the Options key (Mac) and the Cancel button turns into a Reset button. Neat! New window Sometimes it is nice to have two copies of your image on the desktop - one to modify and adjust and the other to act as a guide to see how things are coming along. Select Window > Arrange > New Window For (open file name) and a duplicate of yor image pops up. Cycle through documents With both Windows and Macs pressing the Ctrl-Tab keys will cycle through all of the open documents in Photoshop. Straighten an image This can be done with the Transofrm tool but here is an easier way. Get the Measure Tool (it lives with the Eyedroppers), find an edge that should be horizontal or vertical, left click at one end and drag along the straight edge to the other end. Now go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary ... The angle needed to straighten the image is in the dailogue - all you need to do is click OK and it is done. Some cropping will probably be necessary at this point but that's simple!	Photoshop Tips Some quick and easy Photoshop tips to make your digital editing a bit easier!
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