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• Rotate View tool

  • Thursday, 22 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (22 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  A long-desired feature from other leading digital painting tools is the Rotate View tool, which allows you to rotate the document canvas to make otherwise uncomfortable strokes with a digitized art tablet perfectly natural. Press the R key or click-and-hold the Hand tool at the bottom of the Toolbox and select the Rotate View tool. [...]

• Pre-pro prep

  • Wednesday, 21 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (21 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  If my experience with develop-ing rich media in a collaborative environment has taught me anything, it’s to keep project assets as organized as possible. Even though the layers’ paradigm in Photoshop provides an inherent organizational approach, it can quickly become unwieldy and bloated. A well-structured file folder hierarchy allows for easy access to core project [...]

• Transform selection

  • Tuesday, 20 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (20 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  That selection not exactly how you want it? Don’t want to go all the way back into the path and modify it? No problem. Just go to the Select menu and choose Transform Selection and you can manipulate the selection just as you would with the Free Transform tool.

• Speedy clipping mask

  • Monday, 19 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (19 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Sometimes a masked layer is just an Option-click (PC: Alt-click) away. Simply click-and-drag the layer to be used as a mask directly above the layer to be masked. Press-and-hold Option (PC: Alt) and hover your cursor over the horizontal line separating the layers. The cursor (hand) becomes a Clipping Mask icon; just click on it [...]

• Invert to alpha

  • Friday, 16 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (16 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  When working with vector- created art and the source art is unavailable, modifying the art to create a logo can be a pain, to say the least particularly when it’s flattened and the background needs to be knocked out. A careful combination of Invert (Command-I [PC: Ctrl-I]), Color Bal-ance (Command-B [PC: Ctrl-B]), and layer Blending [...]

• Glow/Bloom effect

  • Thursday, 15 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (15 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  In the same composition, use Select>Color Range to select the high-lights of the base image. Be generous with the Fuzziness, as detail won’t be an issue. Copy the selection to a new layer (Command-J [PC: Ctrl-J]) and set its blend mode to Screen, which works kind of inversely from Multiply blacks become invisible [...]

• Get into Dodge

  • Wednesday, 14 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (14 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Anyone who’s used Photoshop CS3 (or prior) versions and tried to com-posite a human subject into an existing light setup knows that they eventually hit a wall with Levels, Curves, Color Balance andóeven in desperate situationsóBrightness/Contrast adjustments to match the environment. Careful use of the Dodge tool (O) in the right tone range can allow [...]

• Only shades of gray

  • Tuesday, 13 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (13 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  A simple tip to creating believable retro imagery is never to use 100% black or white tones in the artwork. The retro look often relies on distressed or faded artifacts, and a foundation of grays in a subtle tonal spectrum can enhance the vintage believability. Unlike using Desaturate (Image>Adjustments>Desaturate), Image>Adjustments>Black & White gives you control [...]

• Light depth with layer blending

  • Monday, 12 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (12 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Studio lighting can be quickly and easily dramatized by blending multiple layers. Duplicate a layer with a subject by press- ing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J). Desaturate the new layer, then adjust the Levels dialog (Command-L [PC: Ctrl-L]) to create a strong contrast. Now, apply a Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur) to the new layer and [...]

• Quick shapes

  • Friday, 9 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (9 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Use the Lasso tool (L) or Polygo-nal Lasso tool to rough-in a shape. After making your selection, open the Paths panel (Window>Paths), press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key, and click the Make Work Path From Selection icon at the bottom of the panel. Choose a suitable Tolerance from the ensuing dialog and click OK to [...]

• Stamp Visible

  • Thursday, 8 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (8 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  This is one of those tips that you’ll either use all the time or never. Press Command-Option-Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E) to Stamp Visible layers, which creates a new layer on top of all the visible layers below. This is really useful when you want to apply a filter to the compiled image but want to keep [...]

• Change the Hardness of a brush on the fly

  • Wednesday, 7 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (7 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  You probably know that when the Brush tool (B) is selected, you can decrease or increase the brush size by pressing the Left Bracket ([) or Right Bracket (]) key, respectively. But at times it’s useful to change the brush’s Hardness setting as well. To do this, just press Shift-[ (the Left Brace {) to [...]

• Create a “rule-of-thirds” grid

  • Tuesday, 6 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (6 July 2010)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Don’t use the grid view very often? Then turn it into a rule-of-thirds grid. In Photo-shop, press Command-K (PC: Ctrl-K) to open your Preferences. Click on Guides, Grid & Slices from the list on the left and change the settings for the Grid section as follows: Gridline every 100 percent, Subdivisions 3, and click OK. [...]

 
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