Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts – Tips  ...

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts – Tips & ResourcesIn this tutorial I’ll show you how to use Photoshop CS and CS2 to chang …

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 – ...

Disabling Plug-ins
Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. The problem is that you may or may not ne …

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Setting Preferences
Photoshop ships with factory settings, known more popularly as Preferences, sometimes shortened to Prefs, that you …

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Reducing Palette Thumbnail Size
Leaving the Preferences dialog for the time being, the palettes also have options that can affect perfo …

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 – ...

Assigning Scratch Disks
Photoshop uses a temporary file for storing data and performing computations when there is insufficient RAM. It …

Using Palettes – Brushes

While working in Photoshop, you will be hard put not to use the brush tools in an editing session. Most tasks require some form of pain …

Using Palettes – Channels

The Channels palette acts as a sort of container for the pixels in a layer. Each time you activate a layer; the channels associated wit …

Using Palettes – Color

The Color palette provides an alternative way of choosing foreground and background colors to the Color Picker (Figure 3-8). In contras …

Using Palettes – Layers

The Layers palette is where all the action takes place. From it, you can control the position and the appearance of all the data in you …

Using Palettes – Levels

When people first start to use Photoshop and want to lighten or darken an image manually, most people gravitate toward the Levels comma …

Using Palettes – Navigator

When you magnify your image’s view by a percentage higher than 100%, you can use the Navigator palette to show the hidden areas o …

Using Palettes – Swatches

When you are working with a strict color scheme on a project, the Swatches palette is indispensable. The palette allows you to create, …

Using Palettes – Tool Presets

The tool options that appear on the Option bar when you select a tool can be saved in a preset and stored in the Tool Presets palette f …

Using Palettes – Info

The Info palette displays color values of the pixels beneath the pointer and, depending on which tool is currently active, measurements …

Using Palettes – History

As you apply changes to your document, the histories feature creates snapshots and stores them in RAM or on your hard disk that you hav …

Hacking Preferences and Documents part 1

Photoshop, ImageReady, and Bridge all use preference files to store application settings. For example, the Adobe Photoshop CS2 Prefs fi …

Managing your Photoshop workspace

Hi there and welcome to this tutorial. I’m going to show you some quick and dirty tips on managing your webspace in Photoshop (CS …

Perspective Shadow

For this tutorial I am going to use a shape that I created from a 3d render. You can see the shape below.

Let’s start by applyin …