The one palette that we absolutely don’t use at all anymore is the Web-safe Color palette (choose Web Color Sliders from the Color palette’s flyout menu). Why? You don’t need it—and it can make your…
Category Archives: Tip of the Day
Imageready Feature Comes To Photoshop
One of our favorite little features from Adobe ImageReady has made its way into Photoshop—it’s called Slices From Guides. What it does is slice your image (for the Web) where your guides are positioned. To…
Zoom Out For Sharper Web Images
This is a tip we use almost daily when we have to greatly reduce the size and/or resolution of an image. Sometimes when you make a drastic size/resolution change, it can really make the resulting…
Let Photoshop Make The File Size Call
Oftentimes you have a target size you’re trying to hit when creating Web graphics; for example, you’re creating a Web banner and your file size limit is 32 K. If that’s the case, and you…
Crop It Even Closer
When you’re designing graphics for the Web, you don’t want even one extra pixel of unused space, because it adds to the overall file size of the image. Because of that, you want to crop…
Need To Shrink The File Size? Use Transparency
Want a killer tip for squeezing even more size out of your GIF Web images? Make something transparent. That’s right, if you can pick an area of your image to make transparent, your file size…
Lose Those Annoying Numbers In The Upper Left-Hand Corner
We get more letters from people who ask us, “How do I get rid of that number in the top left-hand corner of my image?” This little puppy appears if you accidentally click on the…
Adding Music To Your Flash Web Gallery
In CS2 Adobe added two Flash-based templates you can use for your online Web Photo Gallery. Even cooler is the fact that you can now add a background music track to one of these Flash…
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!!!!