PhotoShop Tips (daily updated)

[Queen Victoria]

Assalam o Allaikum
here we will share simple, easy n useful photoshop tips with all of u.
You are all invited to share your knowledge about PS , with us in tips.
thank u


Some tips about CS3

• Cloning Vat
  Whenever you want to duplicate an image on a layer, (eg. you are putting star-bursts everywhere) Just hold the Alt/Option key and drag.. zap, a duplicate. To keep it aligned, also hold down the shift key as you drag.

• Color Modes and formats
  For the web use RGB and save as a jpeg if its a photo. If you want tranparency, use gif or png. If you need animation save as a gif. For print use CMYK and save as either a tiff or an eps. For most print purposes 300dpi. To print to an inkjet only, RGB and 300 dpi.

• Straight Lines with brushes.
  To draw a straight line with any of the brush tools just click, hold the shift key and click again anywhere. A straight line will be drawn between the 2 points! Also works with most tools including erasers and even the highlight tool in the Extract filter.

• Quick Black and White
  If you press Ctl/Cmd+Shift+U all the color will be removed from the selection. If no selection is made, then the entire layer will be turned into grayscale instantly.

• Bitmap: use for some line art in low end situations, doesn't support color on a printing press but background shows through as transparent. Also used for wallpaper on PC computers.

• Grayscale: For black, white and shades of gray., When you use this mode all color information is lost. However you must convert to grayscale before you make it a duotone. This mode doesn't support alpha channels.

• Duotone: This is when you want to add some depth or color to a b&W image, or just get a trendy effect. A true duotone lets you choose 2 ink colors on your image and will print as a 2 color job on the press. There is also a Tri-tone -which has 3 colors and a quad-tone that has 4. You can produce some very sharp black and white (Grayscale) images with this and it is used in photography books all the time.

• RGB: Uses the computers colors (Red, Green, Blue) and is the best option for the web or electronic publishing. Also called additive colors.When defining color spaces, use sRGB for web and Adobe RGB for printing, in most cases avoid the other RGB colorspaces unless you are doing specialized tasks that take advantage of these. Pro Photo is another useful colorspace but many of the colors can't be reproduced on an inkjet printer.

• CMYK: Color printing presses print with 4 ink colors Cyan, Magenta, yellow and black. If you look at a magazine close up you will see tiny patterns of dots, these dots are arranged in different patterns and sizes to fool the eye into seeing colors that are not really there, e.g. brown etc. This method is used in most full color printing. I would only use this if you are going to a press. The disadvantages are, the image is a third larger than RGB, and you will lose some brightness as CMYK does not support as wide a tonal range as RGB. Also called subtractive colors.

• Lab: LAB stands for Luminosity, a and b channels. Luminosity is the grayscale information and the a and b channels contain the color. It's useful to seperate the colors from luminosity for some different types of image correction including sharpening, noise reduction and also to increase the saturation of colors without damaging the overall color balance.

[Queen Victoria]

• Draw straight lines
  There are other ways to draw a straight line than using the line tool. After this tip, you may find your need to reach for the line tool reduced, in fact this may even break your addiction. While using any of the drawing tools; Brushes, Pencil, Dodge and Burn, Eraser, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge holding down the shift key will cause you to draw in a perfectly straight line either vertical or horizontal. An added feature will let you create straight lines between points by clicking, Hold down shift and click again anywhere to join the 2 points.

• Easy loading of Layer Styles
  Start Photoshop> Open your email program if they were emailed to you or navigate to their files on the hard disk> right click/Option Click, then select open and the style set will be loaded automatically.

• Closing Multiple windows
  How long would it take you to close all these documents in Photoshop? Just hold down the shift key when you go File>close and Photoshop will close all the open documents.

• Custom Gradients Made Easy.
• When you are making a new color gradient and you want to use the same color more than once, don't recreate it. Just hold down the option/Alt key and drag a copy of the slider.

• Auto Collapse
  Here’s another tip to help you love the new interface. Have you noticed that when your in icon mode (everything is minimized) and you expand a palette to choose it’s option, it stays open and now you have to make an extra step to close it? Right click anywhere in the palettes and choose Auto Collapse Icon Palettes. Now when you choose an option and then click in your document, the palette will automatically collapse closed again.

• B&W drag to change color
• The best way to convert a color photo to Black and White is to use the new Black and White Adjustment. While using this adjustment, you don't need to quess which colors belong to which tones. Drag your mouse over the image and the underlying tone will adjust.

[coolprince]

Queen g bohat hi zabar10 thread hay yeh sach mein

But meray pass CS-2 hay. First of all CS-3 gift kar dein plzzzzzz


Takeh mein bhi iss Thread say benefit hasil kar sakoon

Khush Rehain

[Queen Victoria]

thanx much janab
main cs2 k baray main bhi khuch post karun gi inshAllah
and about CS3
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[Queen Victoria]

Creating Irregular Multicolor Gradients

Photoshop allows you to create linear and radial gradient fills from one color to another. After some time you'll be able to create linear gradients using more than two colors — not very easy to do it, but possible.

And if you need multicolor radial gradients, Photoshop offers you no standart tools.
Here comes our best friend — airbrush.
Create new brush size — like 300 or 400 pixels wide with edges smooth enough to paint blurry dots.
And you have what you need.

[Queen Victoria]

Refreshing the Font List

If you just got a new font and dropped it in the appropriate Fonts folder or if you've just added new set in Suitcase, you will probably will have to quit Photoshop and reopen it.
But I won't.

• Drop a font in the Fonts folder or activate a new set in the Suitcase.
• Finder says that «The new fonts will not be available to open applications until they quit» or something like that.
• Ignore it.
• Go back to Photoshop.
• Simultaneously press OPTION key and the mouse button.

...«Building the fonts menu. This may take a minute or so...» — you will like it.

[noorbano]

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[bluemoon]

bahot hi super sharing QV g
keep it up
khush rahen

[Queen Victoria]

Create Guides Easily

Guides can help you align objects in your composition. You can quickly create guides using rulers that appear at the top and the side of the document window. Click on the ruler and drag to create a guide. Release the mouse button where you want to create the guide. Once created you can quickly show/hide guides using Ctrl + ;

[Queen Victoria]

Adjust Opacity Quickly

The opacity controls can be manipulated even faster! Just hit a number from 0-9 and opacity will be adjusted in increments of 10. This means that 1 would set the opacity to 10%, 7 will set it to 70% and 0 will set it to 100%. If you are looking for a definite value say 57% you can quickly type 5 followed by 7 to set the opacity to 57%. The trick works with layer opacity as well as for any tool that has an opacity setting.





Scrub The Input Boxes

There are a lot of controls in Photoshop that let you enter a value using the keyboard. Font size, brush size, opacity and who knows how many others. Well a peculiar thing about these input boxes is that you can increase or decrease the value that’s in them by just scrubbing with the mouse pointer. As you move close to any such control the mouse pointer changes to something like the one shown above. Now just click and drag in the direction you want to change the value. Generally dragging towards the right side increases the value and towards left side decreases the value.