If you are working with any dialog that has an OK and a Cancel option, you don’t always have to cancel out to get back to the original state of the effect. If you press-and-hold…
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Kick It Up a Notch with Smart Filter Masking
Last topic on Smart Filters: you can selectively show or hide any of the filters that you have applied to a Smart Object by painting on the mask for the Smart Filter (just click on…
Blend Mode in Smart Filters
In the olden days, you could control how a specific effect reacted to an image by choosing Edit>Fade (effect name). This would give you a blend mode option for the effect, as well as an…
Smart Filters! Smart Filters! Smart Filters!
Gone are the days of having to use Undo for a filter. Now you can apply filters with aplomb because we have Smart Filters! The Smart Filter works much in the same way that an…
Document Your Happy Accidents
Sometimes our best creations happen by pure experimentation and accident. Sitting in front of a Photoshop file, you are 40 History States in, and then it happens…magic! You really want to be able to get…
Sample Color from Anywhere
You can use the Eyedropper tool to pick colors from any area of your screen. First, press the letter I to select the Eyedropper tool, then click-and-hold inside your document, and drag outside the document…
File>Open Recent
Under Photoshop>Preferences (PC: Edit>Preferences), you have an option called File Handling. In the Recent File List Contains field, you can specify how many files you would like it to remember.
Opening Multiple Images in Photoshop CS3
To open multiple images in Photoshop CS3, you can Shift-click a series of images in the Open dialog, and then click Open. You can also select noncontiguous images by Command-clicking.




