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 Adobe Photoshop Tips: April 26: A Quick Fix for Overexposed Photos
If you liked last week’s tip for underexposed photos, you’re sure to like this week’s tip, too. Like last week’s tip, you’ll be able to complete the fix in just a few steps, but for this tip you’ll need to start with an overexposed or faded photo. I find this ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: April 18: A Quick Fix for Underexposed Photos
Dark, underexposed photos are a common problem. When shooting pictures indoors or in low-light situations, your photos may come out darker than you would like. Fortunately, there is a quick fix for underexposed photos with Photoshop and PSE. Open an underexposed photo and select it. Press Ctr ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: April 12: Hide and Seek
Will your little ones be hunting Easter Eggs tomorrow morning? While you can’t hide and seek eggs In Photoshop and PSE, it is easy to play hide and seek with layers! To hide a layer, begin by selecting the layer you want to hide. In the Layers Palette, click on that layer’s Layer ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: April 5: Front and Center
Want to center an image on your document? You’ll be surprised how easy it is! First, select the image you want to center. Press Ctrl + A , Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V (Mac: Cmd + A, Cmd + X, Cmd + V) on the keyboard. With just those few keystrokes, your image will be perfectly centered on your doc ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: March 29: Layers and Layers of Copies
Do you catch yourself coming and going? Between work, ball games, helping the kids with homework, cooking, cleaning, volunteer work and scrapbooking, I sometimes think I need a copy of myself! You too? If life were as easy as Photoshop, we’d be able to create a copy of ourselves in a snap ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: March 22: Lift the Flap on Hidden Tools
The Tool bars in Photoshop and PSE remind me of the Lift-the-Flap books my sons used to love when they were little. Some of the pages in those books had little flaps that lifted to reveal a hidden surprise. The Tool bar does, too! Some of the tools have a small arrow to the right of the icon. B ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: March 15: On the Level
When I’m taking a photo in a hurry, I often forget to line it up perfectly straight. Too bad my camera doesn’t have a built-in level! But luckily, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have tools that allow me to straighten up my crooked photos. Once you learn how fast and easy it is to ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: March 8: A Text Message
Photoshop and PSE have a handy feature that makes it easy to edit type. With the Text Tool selected, the software detects when you move the cursor close to existing type. Photoshop and PSE are programmed to assume that you want to edit your type, so the software selects the existing type layer. ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: March 1: Straighten Up and Crop Right
I recently acquired a huge cache of family photos from a relative. In order to share them with my extended family, I have been scanning them six at a time on a flatbed scanner. Photoshop and PSE have a few very handy features which make quick work of separating and straightening scanned photo ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: February 22: Brush up on Brush Shortcuts
Here’s a quick tip that will increase your productivity with Photoshop Brush Tools. When you have a brush selected in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you can use the bracket keys to quickly change the size of the brush. Pressing the Left Bracket [ one or more times decreases the size of ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: February 14: Release Your Inner Cupid
Cupid isn’t the only one sporting arrows today. If you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you have a quiver full of them, too! Hiding in the Tool Bar under the Rectangle Tool (with the Custom Shape tool, Ellipse, Polygon and Rounded Rectangle tools) your arrows are a function of the Li ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: February 8: Love Letters: Viewing Fonts on the Fly
Are you writing a love letter to your special someone this week? As you work with text in Photoshop and PSE, it’s sometimes nice to see what it would look like in a different font. Here’s a quick way to view your message in different fonts. Get the Text tool and type your message. H ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: January 31: New Years Resolution: Resolve to Edit Nondestructively
When you are making adjustments to photos, digital papers and elements, it’s easy to develop the bad habit of editing the layer directly. For example, if you are making a color adjustment it’s quick and easy to press Ctrl + U to open the Hue/Saturation dialog box. When you make your ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: January 25: New Years Resolution: Resolve to Keep Track of the Products You Use
It’s a good habit to keep a record of the products you use to create your scrapbook pages. If you are building a page at some time in the future and want to locate an item you used on a previous page, you’ll appreciate having the names and location of the kits at your fingertips. Additionally ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: January 18: New Years Resolution: Resolve to Be Safe with Templates
When you are working with templates, it’s easy to accidentally overwrite the original template by saving your changes with the same file name. This can permanently alter your purchased template. To avoid this, it’s a good habit to duplicate the template before you begin adding photo ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: January 11: New Years Resolution: Resolve to Save Your File Early and Often
When you are working on a scrapbook page, it’s a good habit to save your file early and save it often. To save the file for the first time, press Ctrl + Shift + S (Mac: Cmd + Shift + S) to open the Save As dialog box. Type a name for your file and click Save. As you are working, periodica ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: January 4: A Fresh Start: the Reset Function
Happy New Year! I love this time of the year, when we can start fresh and “reset” our lives with new resolutions. It’s like getting a chance to start over and do things right this time. With Photoshop and PSE, you can get a fresh start by transforming the Cancel buttons to ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: December 27: Get Up Close and Personal
The Zoom Lens on my camera is one of my favorite toys. It’s fun to use the zoom function to see details that my eyes can’t detect. It’s also nice to be able to take photos at a focal length that is similar to what I’m viewing. Photoshop and PSE have tools that are just a ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: December 20: Running Around In Circles
Are you running around in circles trying to get it “all” done before Christmas? With our hectic holiday schedules, it’s always nice to discover shortcuts that can save a few precious moments. Here are a couple of handy shortcuts for creating perfect circle selections in Photos ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: December 13: Doomed to Repeat History
If you are like me, the Undo function is one of your favorite Photoshop features. As I’m working on a project, I sometimes create a mess of such proportions that it requires reverting back several history states. In Photoshop Elements, you can press Ctrl+Z (Mac: Cmd+Z) again and again to ...
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