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

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

Find the Center of Any Object on A Photoshop Layer

It’s a great tip for you to quickly find the exact center of any object on a layer. You can start it by pressing Ctrl+T to bring up the Free Transform handles. Notice that you can see the handle in the center of sides, left and right, above and below… read more

Straighten Your Scanned Images

You know you can’t always put you photos or documents straight fully on the flatbed scanner. You also know you can always fix them in Photoshop by using the free transform tool, and then rotate them manually. Now here’s the catch: you can straighten your scanned images just in seconds… read more

Creating New Document with Exact Properties

Now here’s the scene. You are working on your girlfriend’s photo, making selections, smoothing edges, and applying filters. But it’s too risky for you to apply it on the original document, since you have lack of memory of what you’ve done to your images, and accidentally save them along with unwanted changes. So you tend to make a new document with the same size and resolution as your original image…. read more

How to Open Your Images Quickly

If you’re a newbie to Photoshop stuffs, maybe this little dirty trick will help your performance to a more professional one. At least, you look like professionals. Some time you want to open your last project on a specific folder. Rather than digging the “File > Open” menus… read more