When you’re making a complex selection, seeing the selection on the right backdrop helps a lot. When you’re in the Refine Edge dialog (Select>Refine Edge), you can switch to different backdrops for viewing your selection….
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What To Do With Moles?
If your subject has a mole and you’re not sure you should remove it, reduce its impact. Get the Healing Brush tool (nested under the Spot Healing Brush tool [J]); make your brush size a…
Painting In Adobe Camera Raw
First, saturate and warm your image a bit beyond the norm. Then, navigate to the Detail tab, maximize Luminance under Noise Reduction, and pull down the Luminance Detail to get the level of surrealism you…
Channel Mixer For Preview
Sometimes it’s very difficult to find all the spots on skin. Try creating a Channel Mixer adjustment layer to turn the image into a high-contrast black-and-white image. Turn on the Monochrome checkbox, and move the…
Smart Object Instead Of Stamp Visible
For years I’ve been telling people to press Command-Option-Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E) to make a merged copy of all visible layers. The only problem with that method is it’s a snapshot, so if you change the…
Save A Selection In A Jpeg As A Path
The ability to save selections inside a file is something that you can only do inside of a PSD, PDF, or TIFF image. Sometimes, you want to take advantage of the JPEG format. If you…
Turn Off Fractional Character Widths
By default, Photoshop uses fractional character widths, which helps the spacing between letters. However, when you’re using any font to be viewed online below 20 points in size, the type can run together or have…
Cycle Through Fonts
Double-click on a text layer’s thumbnail to select the text, then in the Options Bar, highlight the font name. Press the Up and Down Arrow keys to cycle through your available fonts and see exactly…
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!!!!