Instead of going through the preferences to change your rulers, 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 preferred measurement…
Category Archives: Tip of the Day
Resetting Photoshop’s Preferences
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…
Turn the Font Off and On
Often, I echo Matt Kloskowskiís feeling that font preview is either loved or hated. I find myself usually turning it off, and hereís why: I love fontsólots of them. I install fonts like thereís no…
LiveDocs to the Rescue!
Sometimes you will find that the Help feature may not offer complete assistance on a specific topic. Documentation for software often changes and expands, and LiveDocs is Adobeís answer to this problem. If you go…
Check Out Photoshop Help
The best place to check out whatís new and improved is still in the Help feature. Choose Help>Photoshop Help and you will launch the Adobe Help Viewer. This has an index of all things CS3,…
Does Your 3D Act More Like 1D?
In Photoshop CS3 Extended, you have the ability to work with 3D files. This, however, carries specific requirements to do so. If your graphics card has a hard time keeping up with 3D, you can…
Performance Preferences
Here are two things that can help in the Performance preferences: Your Memory Usage can let you specify how much of your RAM you would like to dedicate to the use of Photoshop. And, you…
Zoom Scroll
Rather than using a keyboard shortcut to zoom in and out, use your scroll wheel! Most mice these days have a center scroll wheel on them. If you press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and…
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!!!!