Photoshop Ninja

With Adobe putting in new features in Photoshop every time they launch a new version its actually quite hard to put together a wishlist of features for future releases. (more…)

Noisy scans are a real pain - this is caused by a number of factors like digital camera images, low level light situations and scanning in halftone images. (more…)

Both hard drives and RAM have got very cheap over the last few years - gone are the days when ad agencies would get broken into and all the RAM was stolen out of the Macs (aka a RAM raid)! (more…)

Here is a very rarely documented feature-when you are working with text in Photoshop, you often have lots of different layers containing it. It’s always a hassle if you want to change some or all of them to update a design or try out new design options quickly (more…)

When you free transform (Command+T) a layer, you often find yourself zooming out loads so you can reveal the handles on the edge of the bounding box (more…)

Apple are finally turning to the darkside, and early next year we will see Intel processors appearing in our favourite Apple Mac computers. (more…)

When you are doing creative Photoshop work, you often find yourself flicking through loads of different layer blending modes. (more…)

When you are working on a layer mask, rather than just brush randomly - it is often useful to actually see the channel/greyscale image that is making up the layer mask. (more…)

If you are serious about Photoshop you really should invest in a Wacom tablet - they are not just the realm of illustrators! (more…)

Here are all the keyboard shortcuts for switching to different tools in Photoshop CS. (more…)