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 How to Use the Eyedropper Tool Outside of Photoshop and PSE
Over the last few weeks, our tips have focused on using the Color Swatches Panel to select colors for your digital projects. This week, we’ll pull color from a website or document by dragging the Eyedropper tool outside of the software. When you are working on a digital project and ...
- How to Rename and Delete Color Swatches
Is it time to make a change? The designers of Photoshop and Elements give you the power to make changes to many functions of the software. The Color Swatch Panel is one area that can be customized to fit your moods and needs. To change the name of a Color swatch, double-click or right-cli ...
- How to Create a Custom Color Swatch
One of the things I like most about Photoshop and Elements is the ability to customize the workspace and personalize my projects. Last week, we started our series of Swatch Watch tips by selecting custom Foreground and Background colors. This week, we continue exploring how to personalize th ...
- How to choose Foreground and Background Colors
School is out and summer time is here! Our cameras get a workout this time of the year – photographing summertime activities and sights. From brightly colored beach balls to azure blue skies, golden sunsets to candy-colored Snow-cones, our photos and scrapbooks will be awash in color. ...
- Decluttering Editing Windows by Hiding Panels
Where we live, it is spring. With the beautiful spring weather comes the annual ritual of spring cleaning. I always enjoy the fresh, decluttered look when we are finished. When you are working in Photoshop and Elements, it’s sometimes nice to view your project without all of the clu ...
- How to view an image close-up and full size at the same time
When you are tweaking details on an image, it’s sometimes difficult to get a feel for how the overall results look as you are working. To see both the details and the actual size image, open the image in a second window in Photoshop or Elements. Zoom in on one document and set the other ...
- How to Move Sliders Incrementally in Photoshop and PSE
Now that it is spring, the local park is full of children enjoying themselves on the playground equipment. The slide seems to be a favorite year after year. Some children like to fly down them as fast as they can, while others use their sneakers as brakes and scoot down the incline in slower ...
- How to Save Project Pieces to a New Folder in Photoshop and Elements
This week, a customer wrote with an interesting dilemma in Photoshop Elements. She was working on a digital project and had chosen a number of digital papers and embellishments to use. As it often happens, she was interrupted before she could finish her project. She wondered if there was a q ...
- How to Use Digital Paper Clips
This week, a customer emailed me to ask how to make the paper clips look like they are clipped to paper. I thought it would make a great video topic for our weekly tip. When you purchase a kit or element set with paper clips inside, the clips are whole, complete clips. So when you drag a ...
- How to separate items that are grouped on one page using Photoshop, PSE or other image editing software
Designers sometimes group alphabets or elements on one page for your convenience. I like pages of grouped elements because it means I only have to open one file, but I have all of the letters or elements available to use on my digital project. When you download a file with elements that are ...
- How to store and open your favorite folders in Photoshop and PSE
Everyone has their favorites – comfort items we turn to over and over again. In Photoshop and Elements, you can identify your favorite folders – the ones you tend to use each time you open the software. Just choose File > Open to enter the Open dialog and navigate to a folder ...
- Using a shortcut to change the numbers in a field
Spring has arrived and with it, my favorite sport: baseball. The kids in our area are already busy practicing in the fields, dotting them with color like so many wildflowers rustling in the spring breeze. When you are filling fields in Photoshop and Elements, clicking on the field name is a ...
- How to move layers with transparency in Photoshop and PSE
When you are working with digital overlays, word art and other images that are primarily transparent, it can be difficult to “grab” those layers to move them. Positioning your cursor over an opaque area will allow you to move the layer. When the opaque areas are particularly f ...
- How to rename layers in Photoshop and PSE
What’s in a name? In Photoshop and Elements, a name can help you easily locate a layer when the thumbnail image is too small to be seen. When you are working on a layered document with many layers, it’s easy to get confused about which layer contains which image. Small elements ...
- How to open up to 30 recently edited files in Photoshop and Elements
These days, our lives are so full of activities and distractions, it’s difficult to carve out large chunks of time to work on our Photoshop projects. When you do have some time to work, it’s nice that Photoshop and Elements automatically remember the last ten projects you edited. ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: March 6, 2010: How to change the thumbnail size in the Layers Panel
One of the things I like most about Photoshop and Elements is the ability to customize the interface to suit your project or computer screen. One of the changes you can make is to increase or decrease the size of the thumbnail in the Layers Panel. It’s easy to do – simply open a ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: February 27, 2010: How to choose the unit of measurement for Photoshop and Elements rulers
Where I live, we get very little snow. But this week, the children in our town were very excited to get a big snow storm. Where we can usually measure our snowballs in inches, this year, we had so much snow, our snowballs were measured in feet instead! When you are working in Photoshop an ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: February 20, 2010: How to save a layer as a new document
When you are working on a multi-layered project, you occasionally run across layers you’d like to save to use on another project. This is especially true when you have purchased layered templates where you’d like to save a title, text path or other element for use on subsequent ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: February 13, 2010: How to swap tools on the fly with Alt/Opt
What a fun week this has been – swapping Valentine cards and treats with our friends and loved ones. As a child, I eagerly anticipated the card exchange and was impatient to find out what each card looked like. As an adult, I’m still impatient to see how things will turn out ...
- Adobe Photoshop Tips: February 6, 2010: Strike a Match: How to color match two digital images in Photoshop
Valentine’s day is just a few days away – a day for celebrating perfect matches. If you have Photoshop (full version), you don’t have to wait to celebrate a perfect match! It’s just a few clicks away and that’s something we can all fall in love with! There ...
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