When you’re zoomed in on an image so tightly that you’re only viewing a fraction of its contents, press-and-hold the H key and then click-and-drag your mouse to temporarily zoom out and see the full…
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Preview RAW Masks
When using the new Adjustment Brush in Adobe Camera Raw 5, you can mouse over the adjustment pins to temporarily view the mask that’s limiting where that adjustment is affecting your image. This makes it…
Gestures Bring You Closer to Your Work
Photoshop CS4 can detect when you use more than one finger on the trackpad of the newest Apple MacBook laptops. Pinching your fingers together will cause you to zoom out on the active image. Starting…
Bring Back Missing Features
Many features that were found in Photoshop CS3 are missing in CS4 (Extract, Web Photo Gallery, Contact Sheet II, etc.). Just find those files in the Photoshop CS3 folder, then you can copy them to…
Auto Process HDR Brackets
If you regularly shoot multiple exposures for merging into a single high-dynamicrange (HDR) file, try this when viewing a folder full of bracketed exposures: In Bridge, choose Tools>Photoshop>Process Collections in Photoshop. This will cause Bridge…
Getting to Adjustment Options
The Curves and Levels dialogs in Photoshop CS3 featured an Options button that seems to be missing from Photoshop CS4. Press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click the Auto button in the new Adjustments…
Getting Rid of Tabs
Photoshop CS4 defaults to opening multiple documents as tabs in a single window. To open your images in separate windows as in prior versions, press Command-K (PC: Ctrl-K) to open your Preferences, click Interface from…
Dragging Between Tabs in CS4
You can drag a layer between documents even when the images are displayed as multiple tabs in a single document window. With the Move tool (V) active, click within the layer you’d like to move,…
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!!!!