#60 Photoshop Tips: Getting More Control Over the Magic Wand
Posted on 9:01 PM by Daniy
By default, the Eyedropper’s tool’s Sample Size option in the Options Bar is set to "Point Sample", which comes into play if you’re using it to read values for color correction. But for now, it’s important to know that the Sample Size option chosen for the Eyedropper tool actually affects how the Magic Wand tool makes its selection (the two have an undocumented relationship).If you increase the Eyedropper’s Sample Size to 3 by 3 or 3 by 5 Average, the Magic Wand will select an average of a much larger of pixels in the sample area. This is important to know, because with one of those two other Sample Sizes chosen, if you were set to the Magic Wand Tolerance to zero, it wouldn’t just select all of the pixels that match any of the pixels in the sample.
The next time your Magic Wand isn’t behaving the way it used to, check and see if you have changed the Eyedropper tool Sample Size.
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#46 Photoshop Trick: Selecting The Area For Your Pasted Image
Posted on 8:44 PM by Daniy
Whenever you paste an image into another document, Photoshop will usually place it on the center of the document. If don’t want to appear that way, you can make a selection in the area where you’d like the image to appear. Photoshop will center the pasted image in the selection.
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#45 Photoshop Trick: Defringe Your Selection
Posted on 8:39 PM by Daniy
Whenever you create a collage, eventually you’ll add an image that has little white pixels around the edge of the object. That’s what we called "fringe". So how can we get rid of that?Find your way to Layer > Matting > Defringe and try the default setting of 1 pixel and click OK. What this does is replace the edge pixels with a combination of the pixel colors in your object and the colors in the background. That usually does the trick. If it doesn’t, get the undo, and try to apply 2 or 3 pixels defringe.
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#35 Photoshop Tips: Turning Off the Photoshop Snap Feature
Posted on 5:59 PM by Daniy
This is what usually occur in default when you want to crop an image which one or more side of the crop is quite close to the edge of the document window. The cropping border tries to snap to it. This might also be happening when drawing large marquee selections as well.
Well, you don’t have to call somebody to get rid the behavior since you can do it yourself by pressing "Ctrl+Shift+;" [Mac: Command+Shift+;]. It’s the shortcut for turning off this snapping, include snap to guides, snap to guides, snap to rulers, etc. If you only want to turn off snapping to document bounds, you need to scroll down those View > Snap To > Document Bounds menu, and make sure you left it unchecked.Read More...
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#30 Photoshop Tips: Converting Text to Path or Selection
Posted on 7:00 AM by Daniy
Text is certain object in Photoshop that you can modify its values such as color, warping, etc. But, sometimes you need to apply some filters to the type which is impossible to do on Type mode. Normally you can rasterize the Type layer, but today you want to edit them on the different layer so you’re not gonna ruin the original text. The choices are making them into paths or selections and modify them on a new layer.
If you want to convert your Type into paths, Photoshop provide your needs under the Layer > Type > Create Work Path menu. This is a lot simpler than trace the type itself, which I assume will costs you more time and effort. Before you do this, make sure you have copy the original Type layers by dragging it to the New Layers icon in the Layers palette.To make selection based on the Type shape, simply hold the "Ctrl" [Mac: Command] and click on the Type layer in the Layers palette. Whoosh! Look at those marching ants around your type. A precise selection, isn’t it?
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#28 Photoshop Trick: Growing Your Selections
Posted on 7:18 AM by Daniy
If you have a selection and want to make it larger, you can tell Photoshop to do it for you. The keyword is “Grow”, you can find it under the "Select" menu. Your selection will expand to the next set of pixels based on the Tolerance setting in the Magic Wand tool. The Higher the tolerance, the more will grow.Labels: selection
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#24: Adding, Subtracting, Intersecting the Active Selection: Fast
Posted on 12:36 PM by Daniy
Selection. It’s the keyword that will occupy most of your activity when you’re working on Photoshop. Since Photoshop is the bitmap based image editor, the exact things you need to work with are those bunch of bitmaps. A group of digital boxes each contains value of certain color which gathered and forms the entire of your smile picture.If you tend to make operation on the overall image, selection importance hasn’t come to its way. But if you want to change only certain part of your picture [i.e.: alter your lips or eyes color], then selection is the creature which you’re gonna deal with.
In every case of my Photoshop experience, I found out that I should make more than one selection to convince me that the selection has put itself on the right place. It helps me to avoid unwanted cropped hair or unusual finger shapes. Usually I put my trust to do the first selection on Magnetic lasso tool, and let the rest done with Polygonal lasso tool. And here’s how I do it fast.
Look at the Option bar when you activate the Lasso tool. You’ll find the four icons, each represents the tools habit: new, add, subtract, and intersect. Normally, you can click on it manually but since you have a keyboard on your computer, we’re gonna forget it for a while. Press and hold “Shift” to add selection, "Alt" [Mac: Option] to subtract, and "Shift+Alt" [Mac: Shift+Option] to intersect.
Maybe it’s quite hard for you which key to add, subtract, or intersect. Well, fortunately the cursor will give you a hint at this. When you press the "Shift" you’ll see the plus sign at the top right of the cursor. That means you’re gonna add some selection. This works for every key you press. And don’t forget to hold the space bar whenever you need to navigate while doing selection. It helps me a lot.
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