You can now access the color picker right on the fly in Photoshop CS5 by holding down Control-Option-Command as you click in the canvas area. It will pop up the color picker allowing you to…
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STRAIGHTEN THAT IMAGE QUICKER
So you may remember you can use the ruler to establish a baseline for the horizon of an image. Then you would use the Arbitrary rotation to straighten. Well since this became such common practice…
THE NEW REFINE EDGE
This feature isn’t necessarily new but you could say it has been overhauled. With the new edge detection feature you can just make a very loose selection and then use this feature to tweak and…
WHERE DID LIGHTING EFFECTS GO?
Well you may notice that in the Filter menu under Render there used to be a filter called Lighting Effects. Unfortunately in CS5 this filter will not work in 64-bit mode. You need to go…
BYPASS CAMERA RAW AND GO STRAIGHT TO PHOTOSHOP
If you’re in Bridge and you want to open a RAW photo without going through the Camera Raw dialog, just press-and-hold the Shift key and double-click on the image. It’ll bypass the Camera Raw dialog,…
OPENING A JPEG IN RAW
Did you know that you could open and process JPEG photos in the Adobe Camera Raw dialog? If you’re in Bridge, select a JPEG photo that you want to edit. Then go to the File…
SHARPENING WITH ALT/OPTION KEY
Camera Raw has some killer new sharpening sliders that let you get a lot more sharpening work done before you ever even get into Photoshop. One cool trick when using the sliders is to press-and-hold…
GO WITH THE FLOW
The Adjustment Brush in Camera Raw has a few settings that can change the way you brush. For example, there’s a Size setting which is pretty obvious. There’s also a Feather setting which softens the…
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!!!!