Photoshop adjustment layers are much like any other Photoshop layer. They sit somewhere above or below the other layers in your layer stack and can be used with effects, masks, and filters. An adjustment layer will affect all layers below it. So, for example, if we applied an orange solid color adjustment layer to our [...]
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Photoshop Type Time Savers
Dec
20
Check out this video for some quick, simple, but possibly significant time-saving techniques to use with text in Photoshop. In this video, we’ll discover how to: Quickly convert between point type and paragraph type change fonts on multiple layers at the same time Quite useful! Video tutorial by Peyton Crump.
Trimming away excess pixels with Photoshop
Nov
09
This is just a quick tip describing how to trim away pixels that are locate off-canvas from a layer in Photoshop. Deleting the area within a selection of a layer is often not enough because it can leave behind any pixels located invisibly off-canvas. To delete these pixels, you will want to use Photoshop’s Trim [...]
Dashed Lines with Photoshop
Jul
22
Creating dashed lines is easy in Illustrator – there’s a button for it. With Photoshop, it’s a little trickier. To do it, you’ll need to use the brushes palette (Window > Brushes). Got it open? Click on Brush Tip Shape. You’ll want to tweak the roundness significantly lower than 100% to flatten out your brush. [...]
Measuring Selections and Images in Photoshop
Oct
19
Measuring the height and/or width of a selection in Photoshop can be useful for myriad reasons. I use these measurements to fill in CSS values (especially useful for the highly exact measurements involved with using CSS sprites) when converting a Photoshop document into a web page. Photoshop allows measurements to be taken using the Ruler [...]