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101 Photoshop tips, tricks and fixes to try today

101 Photoshop tips, tricks and fixes to try today
Photoshop is an easy tool to use and a difficult one to master, but help is at hand with our comprehensive list of tips, tricks and fixes for Adobe's showpiece software. Whether you're looking for tips on using layers, advice on mastering the pen tool, a guide to using RAW, or ways to improve your brush work, it's all here! Most of these tips were originally published in Practical Photoshop magazine – now part of Digital Camera World. Here are the best Photoshop tips, whether you are using an older CS version or the very latest Creative Cloud software. Let's get started… Quick Photoshop tips 01. Hold down Alt to start a selection at the centre point with any Marquee tool, and then hold Space to temporarily move the selection around. 02. You probably know that Cmd/Ctrl+Z is Undo, but you may not know Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Z lets you undo more than one history state. 03. 1000 history states Go to Edit>Preferences>Performance to change the number of History states up to a maximum of 1000. 04. 05. 06.

The 30 best Photoshop plugins | Photoshop In this article we've lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe Creative Cloud's photo editing giant. Photoshop is an amazing tool – capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and very passable renders for 3D art. All this power offers a world of possibilities – but occasionally it's worth adding a few optional extras to get the most out of your investment. There's a plethora of plugins available for PS users, but we've selected the best of those that you can download and use straight away. Publisher: Filter ForgePrice: $149-$399 (now with 80% discount $29 - $79)Good for: Photographers, photo editors, graphic designers, 3D artists Currently in version 6.0, Filter Forge offers 11 thousands of filter effects and textures, covering almost every application you can imagine. 63 Photoshop shortcuts to speed up your workflow Publisher: Alien SkinPrice: $129 (free trial available)Best for: Designers 01. Publisher: FontselfPrice: £43Good for: Designers 02. 03. 04.

Create radial patterns using type As a letterer, I find a lot of beauty in the shape and form of letters, and I like to play with different ways of using them, other than simply laying them out in readable fashion. The shapes are so interesting in themselves that we can use them as you would any other shape object to build new and maybe even more pleasing results. In this tutorial I’ll show you a quick and easy way to use letters to make some complex, ornate and highly customisable radial patterns. 01 First, choose a typeface and type out all of its characters. As well as the standard letters, look for shapes that will create interesting patterns when we move on to the next stages. I’ve used my own typeface, Muirside, as I thought the gaps in the stencil font would add further detail for more varied patterns, but you can use anything you like. 02 Next, type out one of your chosen letters and convert it to an outlined shape by highlighting it and going to Type>Create Outlines (Cmd/ Ctrl+Shift+O).

Weekly Art Challenges Icônes dans Photoshop : 2 plugins à tester pour vos webdesign Avoir accès à des icônes vectorielles en deux clics sans quitter Photoshop. Voilà la promesse de ces deux plugins gratuits à tester de toute urgence. Certains d’entre vous se demandent sûrement pourquoi je m’entête encore à présenter des plugins Photoshop. Le monde du webdesign évolue, les outils changent, oui mais voilà, nombreux sont encore les webdesigners qui utilise le tradionnel logiciel d’Adobe pour le webdesign. En partant de ce constat, je vous propose un petit test comparatif entre BlendMeIn et FlatIcon, deux extensions qui vous permettent de rechercher directement des icônes depuis Photosohop. FlatIcon Créer par l’équipe de Freepik, le site de recherche de ressources graphiques, FlatIcon propose un plug-in Photoshop gratuit vous donnant instantanément accès à plus de 25 000 icônes « faites maison ». Comment ça marche ? Téléchargez le plug-in sur le site FlatIcon et suivez les instructions d’installation. Mon avis sur le plug-in : Blend Me In Bonus

Color Splash Effect in Photoshop CS6 I’m finally back from vacation, armed with thousands of photos that I really don’t know what to do with. So over the next few weeks, as I’m sorting through the photos I took in London and Paris, I’ll be releasing tutorials and providing you with the images so you can follow along. In today’s image, we’re going to attempt to single out the red phone box, leaving everything else black and white. If you want to download this image, click on the image below. First, we need to single out the red in the phone box. This feature works by allowing you to select specific colors of your image, either by choosing a basic color from the dropdown, or by sampling your color of choice. Further, changing the Selection Preview at the bottom to Black Matte shows us that the selection is somewhat faded. Let’s try out the sampling method. Now if there are reds that have not been selected, holding down your Shift key and clicking on the additional tones will include them in the sample. And there you have it.

Quickposes: pose library for figure & gesture drawing practice You can upload images that you would like to draw using quickposes ! Share your work at the official Quickposes thread on conceptart.org. Procedure Grab something to draw! Note: Challenges are always 20 images each session. For a special list of types go to Challenges. Examples I believe Ryan Woodward is one the best artists when it comes to figurative gesture drawing. Tips First focus on the mass and flow. SlickGallery: An Elegant Photo Gallery Script - only $14 Taking great photos has certainly gotten easier over the years. So has displaying them! Whether it's in a digital frame in your house or through various photo galleries on websites. There are certainly a number of online image galleries available, but the Mighty Deals crew doesn't want you using just any old image gallery script. What's more, it's pretty tough to beat the price. SlickGallery Highlights: Elegant DesignThere are photo galleries, and then there are photo galleries. Live Demos: Click the images below for gallery and admin demos. See more demo galleries Testimonials: "When I stumbled across SlickGallery I found exactly what I needed! "Martin provides a very prompt support all the way, and makes installing, using, and modifying SlickGallery a very pleasant experience. Pricing: To purchase the SlickGallery script, you'd normally pay just $25, but today is the LAST DAY to get this beautifully slick gallery for only $14! Deal expired

100 wonderful photo effects Photoshop tutorials How can we define what’s a photo effect? That was my main concern when I started the research to build this list. Despite of this situation, I had one thing clear: the final result had to be quite different from the orignal picture and be recognized as a post production photo manipulation. That idea would leave all kind of complex photo retouching and subtle color correction out of the discussion. So, with that idea in mind, I gathered what I consider 100 of the best photo effects Photoshop tutorials available on the web. Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials Click on each image to read the tutorial Adobe Photoshop CS5: Professional Portrait Retouching For the first time, Scott Kelby has assembled all of his best Photoshop techniques for professionally retouching portraits and collected them here in this groundbreaking new volume.

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