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Using Camera RAW Images As Smart Objects

You can add any RAW image to your existing document as a Smart Object. Just use the Place command (under the File menu) and navigate your way to the RAW … Continue reading →

October 16th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Find Things Fast By Color-Coding Them

If there are particular areas of Photoshop you use a lot, you can make finding them in the menus even faster by color-coding your favorite menu items. Here’s how: Go … Continue reading →

October 15th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Filter Gallery Zoom Quick Tip

If you’re in the Filter Gallery (under the Filter menu) and want to zoom quickly to a particular level of magnification, just Control-click (PC: Right-click) anywhere within the preview window … Continue reading →

October 12th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Use The Move Tool Anytime

When you’re using just about any of Photoshop’s tools, you can temporarily switch to the Move tool at any time by simply holding the Command key (PC: Control key). It’s … Continue reading →

October 11th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Showing One Effect In The Filter Gallery

The idea behind the Filter Gallery is the stacking up of one filter on top of the next, but if you want to see any one of the filters by … Continue reading →

October 10th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

See Every Tweak With Bigger Filter Gallery Previews

Once you’ve chosen a filter from the Filter Gallery (under the Filter menu), you’ll probably want to spend some time tweaking the settings. If that’s the case, you’ll also need … Continue reading →

October 9th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Don’t Cancel; Reset And Save Time

Most of Photoshop’s dialogs (but not all) will let you use this little tip, which can save you loads of time. When you’re making changes in a dialog (let’s use … Continue reading →

October 8th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Stuck In A Field? Here’s How To Escape

This is one of those tips that keeps you from pulling your hair out. Sometimes when you’re editing values in a field (for example, you’re typing numbers in the Opacity … Continue reading →

October 5th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Copy One Layer, Or Copy ‘Em All

If you’re working on a layered document, and you make a selection and copy that selection, by default Photoshop only copies the information on your currently active layer (and that’s … Continue reading →

October 4th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

Let Photoshop Straighten Your Crooked Scans

That’s right—straightening is totally automated in Photoshop. In fact, try out this ideal situation: Toss two or three photos casually onto your scanner bed, without taking the time to carefully … Continue reading →

October 3rd, 2007 | Corey Barker | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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Photoshop Tutorials

Hollywood Touch-Ups
See how you can add some subtle touches to give that green screen studio shot the Hollywood treatment.
Flare Effects
Corey has a cool trick for creating a flare brush and see how one effect can lead to another.
3D Christmas Ornaments
Corey shows how to create reflective holiday ornaments using 3D in Photoshop.
Styles & Text
This week Corey has a tutorial using layer styles and text shapes to create energetic effects.

CS6 Blur Tools

Use Photoshop CS6 to create selective softening effects using the new on-screen Blur Filters. Mix and match among the three filters for a variety of depth-of-field and tilt-shift effects. Continue reading →
High Roller 3D

This week Corey shows you how to take simple vector shapes and gives them life with 3D in Photoshop CS6. Using simple extrusions and lighting effects you can achieve a level of hyper-realism you never could before. Continue reading →
Dark Edge Vignette

Make your subject of your photograph stand out using dark edge vignettes. Continue reading →
Content Aware Move Tool in CS6

Lesa explores the new Content Aware Move tool in Photoshop CS6. Continue reading →

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don't flatten the layers--use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
by Colin Smith