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How To Save A Selection & How To Use An Alpha Channel In Photoshop
Here’s a quick guide to saving selections, refining them and reusing them using the alpha channel in Photoshop. What in blue blazes is an alpha channel? Not always the first question a person asks when...
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How To Save A Photograph For The Web Using Photoshop’s “Save For Web”
The Photoshop “Save for Web” tool is a simple and easy way to prepare your JPEG, PNG and GIF files for the web. It allows you to create a compromise between image quality – obviously you want your...
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A quick guide to Guides, Grids and Rulers in Photoshop
*Updated November 2016* One of the easiest ways to improve your designs, whether they are for print or screen, is to align visual elements. Photoshop provides us with a set of tools that make it simple...
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How to use the Sponge Tool to add and remove colour in Photoshop
*Updated in November 2016 to reflect changes in Photoshop CC interface. The Sponge tool works in the same way in previous versions of Photoshop too.* The Sponge Tool is one of Photoshop’s image...
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Beginners Guide to Blending Modes and Opacity in Photoshop
*Updated in January 2017 to reflect the change in the interface in Photoshop CC. Note that pretty much everything we talk about here in relation to blending modes and opacity works the same way in...
View ArticlePhotoshop Tutorial : Mixing image sizes when dragging between documents
People new to image editing in Photoshop are often puzzled when they drag an image from one document window to another document and the sizes don’t match. You may have found that you have two...
View ArticlePhotoshop : Tutorial – Give your drop shadows a little more life!
It’s really easy to add a drop shadow to any object on a layer in Photoshop. Just select the layer in the Layers palette and then click on the “Add a layer style” button at the bottom of the palette...
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Seven Move Tool Tips For Speeding Up Your Work In Photoshop
*Updated November 2016* As the name suggests, the main function of the Move Tool in Photoshop is to move objects around the document window. It’s basically your index finger for pushing stuff around,...
View ArticlePhotoshop Tip: Holding On To Your History
As you may know, the History palette in Photoshop allows you to keep track of all the commands, brush strokes and changes you make when you’re working on an image. The problem is, it only allows a...
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How To Convert The Background Layer Into A Normal Layer in Photoshop?
* Updated in January 2017 to reflect changes in the Background Layer in Photoshop CC * A question that comes up fairly regularly in Photoshop class is; “why can’t I move the Background layer ?” The...
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