Archive for July, 2005

CS2 support - in due time!

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Please note that I will not be supporting Photoshop CS2 just yet as none of the studios I work in have got it in for me to use! (more…)

Applying text changes in full screen mode

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

When you are working in full screen mode (with no palettes visible) you have a problem when editing text - as you cant hit tab to reveal your ‘apply tick’ in the main palette across the top of the screen! (more…)

Lots of Variable transparency layer mask techniques

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

When composing layers and blending them together in Photoshop, you sometimes need to vary opacity in certain areas. Obviously - a layer mask is ideal for this. There is a number of techniques you can use on layer masks to make cutouts easier and quicker. (more…)

Using the Fill slider

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

On first appearance the Fill slider in the Layers palette seems to do much the same as the opacity slider and is often ignored. However, it actually serves a much more important and flexible function than simply opacity, we have something to control this already! (more…)

Image resolution and DPI explained

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Image resolution is a very important area to fully understand when using Photoshop, as it dictates the printed output dimensions and quality of your image. (more…)

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The most useful production filters in Photoshop Part 1

Friday, July 15th, 2005

Photoshop offers you so many filters, however most fall into the creative category which create effects more suited to one particular task rather than everyday studio production work. (more…)

Various shortcuts for working with layers

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

There is lots of things you can do with various shortcut key combinations when working with layers to make your life easer and work smarter! (more…)

Resizing an image to the dimensions of another

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Sometimes you have two images and you need to make one the same size as the other. You could check out the image dimensions of the first image and write it down (or remember it!)… but of-course there is an easier way to perform this operation! (more…)

Free Transforming linked vector shape layers together - the right way!

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

You probably have discovered that if you try and Free Transform (Command+T) some linked vector shape layers, only the active layer transforms, instead of all the linked layers together-most annoying! (more…)


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