Photoshop Ninja

I have read a-lot about this around the Internet, and there is a-lot of debate about how to stop this shift in colours when you use the ’save for web’ function. I will explain what I do in as easy to understand manner as possible! This is something that is really annoying for Photoshop users, especially those that have little or no understanding of colour profiles and ’soft proofing’.

Here is the scenario - you have an image that you have colour corrected to your hearts content. You the go to ’save for web’ and disaster strikes - the contrast can go a bit wishywashy, saturation is lost and all-in-all your perfect image doesn’t look so perfect anymore! Don’t panic, just follow my simple step to perfect web colour!

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This is something that catches a-lot of Photoshop users out. You are getting used to using layers and think they are wonderful. Moving them around - re-ordering them to your hearts content! Then you do something on the ‘background’ layer and suddenly realise that you can’t move it… it won’t budge even in the layers palette, let alone moving it around you actual image canvas!!

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Many people like to work in full screen mode in Photoshop to really get the best out of your display. However, with all the palettes hidden too, how do you apply text transformations when you can get to the ‘apply’ tick as its not even visible?

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You spend ages setting up your palettes exactly how you like them in your workspace, and then you maybe knock the keyboard and they all disappear! This can be infuriating for people working in Photoshop, especially those who are just learning.

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Very occasionally Photoshop can really start acting strange, and if none of the troubleshooting tips on this site have helped you sometimes the only cure for a problem in Photoshop is to trash the preference files. Yea, you can go digging around your system for them, but there is a quicker way!

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There are times when it is convenient to draw paths outside the actual image canvas, a good example of this is when you need a nice smooth curve that goes off the edge of your image - those curve handles can get very tricky to manipulate when they get very short!

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We have all had this happen at one stage or another - you brush…nothing, you brush again…arghh, its broken you might think! However, there are lots of little things that stop brushes doing what they are meant to do before you reach up for the Adobe install discs, and here are the solutions!

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Have you ever come across this situation - you change to a brush based tool in Photoshop, but no matter how big or small you make the brush it just displays a small crosshair instead of the brush outline, even if you change the preference? This also might be mistaken for the brush disappearing as the crosshair is very small and tricky to see making you think that the brush size is not visible.

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