Another way is to select the Paint Bucket tool in the toolbar. Set the desired color in the Foreground color swatch and Shift-Click in the background area to assign that color.

In CS5 you can change the background color that your images show up on in the image window. For example, some folks prefer to have their images surrounded by black or even white instead of…

Instead of going through the preferences to change your unit of measure, you can Control-click (PC: Right-click, though more and more Macs now have access to the Right-click, too) on the ruler and select your…

Here’s a quick way to reset your preferences in Photoshop: Press-and-hold Command-Option-Shift (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift) while you start Photoshop. As you start the program you will get a pop-up dialog asking you if you would like…

The Font Preview is either loved or hated. I find myself usually turning it off, and here’s why: I love fonts—lots of them. I install fonts like there’s no tomorrow. I’m assuming that this is…

I have to say this tip rocks if you use Adobe Camera Raw a lot. See, in previous versions of Camera Raw, if you cropped your photo you’d still see all of the cropped area…