#58: Navigating While Dealing With Tonal Adjustment Dialog Box
Posted on 7:32 PM by Daniy
Here’s another handy tip. When you’re working in one of Photoshop’s tonal adjustment dialogs such as Curves, Levels, and so on, you will notice tht most of the menus in the Menu bar are grayed out. That means you cannot access them while you are in these dialog boxes.But hey, you will also find that two of them are still active: View and Window menu. This means you can still access them while keeping your Curves dialog box open. Does it handy enough? Of course. Under the view menu, you can set and change your magnification, toggle on/off the guides, rulers, snap, and more. And under the Window menu, you will able to close or open Photoshop’s floating palettes.
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#56 Photoshop Trick: Give Me A Half or Quarter Undo
Posted on 6:04 PM by Daniy
Sounds a little weird, huh. As we know when we already put a command on our work, sometimes we want to roll it back to the previous state. And pressing Ctrl+Z would have solved that for an instant. But, how then if you want to go back just a half way backward. For example, when I apply a Gaussian Blur over a layer, I think it was too intense, so I need to go back and do the the filter once more but at a lower value.By hitting Ctrl+Z you will have twice the work, but when you scroll through Edit > Fade menu, you will be half way from your Undo. Drag the slider to the left, and you will have a less intense effect. Drag all the way to the left, and the effect is undone.
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#54 Photoshop Trick: Find the Center of Any Object on A Layer
Posted on 8:15 PM by Daniy
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 both sides: left and right, above and below.The next thing you have to do is make Photoshop’s ruler visible by pressing Ctrl+R, and drag out a horizontal and a vertical ruler guide to those handles to mark the center.
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#50 Photoshop Trick: How Do I Change the Measurement Units Quickly?
Posted on 6:36 PM by Daniy
Using measurement on working in Photoshop depends on what media you are projecting. Between the print and screen, there are basic units which comply with each media. The general measurement for screen media is pixels since user tend to count the size easier, rather than putting a ruler on the monitor and start figuring how much does it length which is usually done with papers.And how do you toggle between those measurements in Photoshop? It’s a really quick step, buddy. Do you notice the ruler in your canvas, yet? If you haven’t, the try to hit Ctrl+R [Mac: Command+R] so you can instantly bring it up to your screen. Then give a right click [Mac: Control +R] on it until you see the pop-up menu, so you can toggle between them easily.
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#42 Photoshop Trick: Let Photoshop Write The Code
Posted on 6:35 PM by Daniy
As Photoshop can tell you about the color’s hexa number, this stuff can also automatically write the code for you. More clever than I thought. Photoshop can extract the hexadecimal codes from an imageand paste them into your HTML code.Switch to Eyedropper tool by pressing the letter "I" and right-click [Mac: Control + click] on a color within your image. A pop-up menu will appear where you can choose Copy Color as HTML. Now you can switch to your HTML editor and paste the code there.
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#39 Photoshop Quickies: Reset, Don’t Cancel
Posted on 1:14 AM by Daniy
Nobody’s perfect. So does your setting. What we’re gonna talk here is that time when you deal with those Photoshop dialog boxes: Levels, color balance, curves, etc. Since they’re visually adjusted by sliders and ticks, it’s so easy for us to change the settings as it would immediately previews the result in your document.But sometimes your settings just went too far and you need to roll back to current settings. And I guess you will hit the cancel button and then [once again] opened the dialog box and restart the process, moving the sliders until you got the right value.
All my advice is keep those work with you, shift the slider, move the curves, but when you stumbled on unwanted result, don’t instantly hit the cancel. Press Alt [Mac: Option] on an opened dialog box and you’ll notice that Cancel will turn to Reset button. Now, you can start it all over again without closing your dialog box.
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