The True Color of Your Type

How do you change your text color? Highlight it and choose colors from the palette, isn’t it? Yes, but have you noticed that while your text highlighted, the text color isn’t supposed to be. For example, when you highlighted blue text with Photoshop Type tool, it turns into yellow on black background. Read here about how to show the exact color of your type while it’s selected

Switching Tools While Typing

Want to save more of your time while formatting your type? Here you go. Once you type your text, if you need to move it somewhere, you don’t have to switch the Text tool to Move tool. “Then, how do I move it ?”, you asked. And you can still typing while switching your Type to Move tools

Unfold the Mystery of Photoshop Dark Matter

We all familiar with the colorful feather on the splashing startup screen of Photoshop. Go under Help > About Photoshop menu and you’ll meet the feather once again with rolling text of acknowledgements within. But have you ever curious that they might hid another version of Photoshop startup screen? How to to unfold the Dark Matter mystery

Downsize the File Size of a Photoshop Image

Working on images for web might give you thinks twice harder, since you need to keep the file size as low as possible while enhance the quality of your image. GIF file is the right format for you in this case. There’s even more trick for you to reduce the file size in Photoshop. Read here how I used transparency in Photoshop to downsize the file size

Using Photoshop Navigator

You can maximize the function of every instrument in Photoshop to enhance your work performance. For that some time, you might see the navigator palette as only an image box which views the entire canvas that you’re working on. But wait there are more to do with this stuff. Read more about using Photoshop navigator

Navigating Canvas While Doing Selection

Working on a detail image and making selection by using lasso tools would be a tough work to do. You usually zoom the image, make a start point click, trace and apply ticks on some corners. But when your pointer reaches the edge of the canvas, suddenly the image scrolls too far. It must be hard times since you can’t move pointer to scroll bar and bring back your view to the last check-point. The view becomes ‘wild’ as you move the pointer around the canvas. So how will you tame this ‘wild-buffalo’ lasso tool and get your job done with a fast and furious trick? Continue reading about navigating photoshop images while selecting

Let Photoshop Tells You the Hexa Number of Your Color

Photoshop can show you details about the value of a color of your choice, right on its dialog box. You’ll provided by ranges of value from RGB, Lab color, CMYK, HSB, and ahaa! Those six-digit hexa-numbers are filled under the RGB value. Continue reading about Photoshop color dialog box

Minimizing Toolbox to the Smallest Size

So you think that your left-side toolbox is taking up more space than you need. But closing it is not a good option because you feel you need to switch tools a few seconds later. Rather than disable the toolbox, you only need to make double-click on the very top of it, and tadaa… Read more about how to minimize the Photoshop Toolbox

Remember the Tools by the Letter

I’m calling out at your childhood time when you used to call some of your mates with their first alphabet of their name. Didn’t you CJ? Fortunately, Photoshop did this to their feature, especially the tools. You’ll find connections between the key and its corresponding tools like.. Read more how to remember the Photoshop Tools shortcut

Cutting The Unwanted Brushes

Since you understand how to increase and decrease the size of your brushes quickly from your keyboard, you think it’s quite necessary to get rid some of identical brushes from the palette. The first way to do that is by right-clicking the corresponding brush and selects the “Delete Brush” option. And here’s how I cut the brush without right-clicking