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Photoshop Friday Tip of the Week-

February 17, 2012  Photoshop Friday Tip of the Week:

Guide lines are useful for many things, lining up images, text or defining edge.  To find the guidelines, you must have your rules visible. To get the rulers go to View> Rulers or just click Ctr R.  With the rulers visible, using your pointer tool, just click on the ruler and drag out the thin blue guide line. It will not print and can be hidden by clicking Ctr Semicolon. 

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January 27, 2012 Photoshop Friday tip:

to easily copy several layers at the same time, click on the top layer you want to copy, holding down the “Shift Key” select the last layer you want to copy, and then drag any layer to the “New Layer Icon” and all the Highlighted layers will copy at the same time. They will all move together as well,as long as they are all highlighted.

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January 20, 2012   Photoshop tip Friday: When cloning, it is best to use a new blank layer to clone onto. Create a new layer by clicking on the “new Layer” icon on the bottom of the layers pallet. Be sure that you have selected “all layers” from the drop down menu on the menu bar.

 

 

 

 

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January 6, 2012

Friday Photoshop Tip of the Week:  You can distort your text layers and still keep them editable by using the warp tool associated with the text tool.  Type the text at the size you want it to be.  Hit enter to set the type and then with the text tool still selected you can select Warp Text from the menu bar. (a letter T with a curved line under it).  When the drop down menu pops up, you can select the warp shape from the available shapes.

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December 23, 2011

It’s easy to draw a straight line in Photoshop using this trick. You can draw horizontal, vertical or at an angle.  Simply select the bush tool with the color you want to use as your foreground color, click the mouse where you want your line to start while holding down the Shift key. While still holding the shift key, click the mouse where you want the line to end and you have a straight line. This is great for erasing for a straight edge as well.

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December 16, 2011

Photoshop Friday tip of the week:
When you are working on a multi-layer file, you might want to name the individual layers. This makes it easier to identify what you are working on. To name a layer, double click on the layer name in the layers pallet and just type in the new name. If you have several related layers put them into a group. Just chose the group icon (looks like a folder) on the bottom of the layers pallet and when it opens, drag the layers into it on the layers pallet. If you do not want any effects to come through that group, with the group selected go to the layers effect drop down menu at the top of the layers pallet and select “Normal”.

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December 9, 2011

You can use the crop tool to define an exact size for the image. This is handy when you want to crop to several images to a fixed size – 8×10 for example.  Select the crop tool, and then in the tool bar enter the size you want to crop to. Draw out crop box. The box can be moved around if you hold down the space bar while still holding down the mouse button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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December 2, 2011- Photoshop Friday tip of the WEEK: Fontasizing:
Start by selecting File, then New – this will bring up a box to create your canvas size, title, adjust resolution, etc. When you have set your parameters hit OK. Next click on the Text tool, make your text box on your canvas and type in the text needed. Hit Enter when you are done. Now up in the options bar highlight the font in the box. By using the up and down arrows you can cycle through the different fonts to see exactly how your text will appear.

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November 25,2011_ Photoshop Friday tip of the week: To create a new layer above the layer you are working on, just click the “New Layer” icon at the bottom of the layers Pallet. To create a new Layer below the one you are working on hold down the control key (Comand on the Mac) and click. This works on any layer but the background layer.