To get Photoshop back to its default Foreground and Background colors of black and white, press the D key.
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LOADING A LAYER AS A SELECTION, ADDING TO, OR INTERSECTING THE SELECTION
To load a layer as a selection, press-and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key and click on the layer’s thumbnail. If you Command-Shift-click (PC: Ctrl-Shift-click), it will add that layer to the already existing selection. If…
INCREASE AND DECREASE YOUR TEXT WITHOUT SCRUBBERS
To increase and decrease your text size, select all of your text in a type layer and press Command-Shift-< or > (PC: Ctrl-Shift-< or >). Command-Shift-< decreases the text, while Command-Shift-> increases the text.
ADDING KEYWORDS TO MULTIPLE FILES
In Bridge, you can add keywords to images to make searching for pictures a little less cumbersome. You don’t, however, want the process to become tedious as well. By either Command-clicking (PC: Ctrl-clicking) or Shift-clicking…
CREATING FAVORITES IN BRIDGE
Sometimes navigating to whatever folder you have specific images in can be cumbersome. Save yourself some time and create favorites out of your most-used folders. To do that, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on the folder and…
GROUPING AND STACKING IN BRIDGE
If you have multiple shots of the same subject and would like to be able to group them, image stacks are a good idea. Either Shift-click or Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the images that you…
VANISHING POINT AND 3D
While working in the Vanishing Point filter, you can create a multi-plane grid and return the part of the image contained in the grid back to Photoshop as a 3D layer (choose Return 3D Layer…
BETTER DODGE AND BURN
The Dodge and Burn tools got a big enhancement in Photoshop CS5. They actually work like we think they should now and you’ll get very good results with them. There is one trick though. When…
on 3D Bold Text Effect[...] This tutorial will explain how to create a bold bright-textured slick text effect in Photoshop CS6. A simple pattern...
on 3D DNAGood tutorial with nice instruction. 
on Replace ColorI found something that worked great for me that will work for black (that's what I used it on), select...
on Vintage Metal Text EffectNice tutorial and cool effect!!! Thank you!!!!