Serif or sans serif? Oblique or Avant Garde? I am from more of a ìYeah, that looks appropriateî school of font usage. If you would like to cycle through your fonts to see what looks…
Category Archives: Tip of the Day
Changing Multiple Type Layers
To change the properties of a series of Type layers, Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on each of the layers that you would like to adjust.
Cycle Through All Open Documents
Press Control-Tab (on both a Mac and a PC) multiple times to cycle through all of the documents that are currently open.
Rotating your images with Shortcuts
I spent some time playing around with the orientation of images. Instead of having to go to Image>Rotate Canvas>90° CW or 90° CCW, I set up actions for them. To do this, create a blank…
Using the Button Mode in Actions
The best way to automate tasks in Photoshop is to create actions of common tasks. When you are working with multiple images, you don’t want to keep selecting an action and clicking on the Play…
Increasing the Crop tool’s Opacity
There are times that you want to see what your finished product will look like once you crop it. The best way to see that is to have a black background. To do that, once…
Cropping to a Specific Size
If you would like to crop to a specific size with the Crop tool (C), enter the dimensions and resolution you would like in the tool options up in the Options Bar. When you click-and-drag…
Getting back to the Default colors
To get Photoshop back to its default Foreground and Background colors of black and white, press the D key.




