Greased Lightnin': Way Cool Tips
- THE TRICK TO TRICKY
- LIVE PATCHING PREVIEW
- ZOOMING ALL YOUR TILED IMAGES AT ONCE
- FINDING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC BRUSH TIPS
- HOW TO DUPLICATE A COLOR STOP
- REMOVING EDGE FRINGE WHEN COLLAGING
- CRACKING THE EASTER EGG MYSTERY
- SUPERCHARGE YOUR FILTER EFFECTS
- UNDO ON A SLIDER!
- GETTING TO THE FOLDER OF PHOTOS YOU WANTFAST!
- TWO FILES ARE BETTER THAN ONE
- RESIZING PATHS THE EASY WAY
- THE GAUSSIAN BLUR KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
- THE ADVANTAGE OF PHOTO FILTER ADJUSTMENT LAYERS
- WHERE TO SET CUSTOM VIEW SIZES
- MOVING YOUR IMAGE IN FULL SCREEN MODE
- DON'T RANK ITFLAG IT
- PHOTO-RETOUCHING SAFETY TIP
- PHOTOSHOP'S HIDDEN STEP AND REPEAT
- PAUSING FOR A BRUSH PREVIEW
- THE UNDOCUMENTED AIRBRUSH TOGGLE TRICK
- GIVE MOST ANYTHING A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
- NO MORE UNLOCKING A BACKGROUND COPY
- SWAPPING CROP FIELDS
- LET THOSE WINDOWS BREATHE!
- THE MULTIPLE UNDO SHORTCUT
- WANT ARROWHEADS? PHOTOSHOP CAN ADD THEM FOR YOU!
- GETTING TO THE FREE TRANSFORM TOOL'S POP-UP LIST
- DRAGGING AND DROPPING WHERE YOU WANT
- CUSTOM BRUSHES DON'T HAVE TO BE SQUARE ANYMORE
- FEATHER A SELECTION WITHOUT THE GUESSING GAME
- CREATING A FLATTENED VERSION OF YOUR LAYERED IMAGE
- IF IT'S NOT SQUARE, YOU CAN STILL CROP IT
- TOP-SECRET PHOTOSHOP SPLASH SCREEN
- FALL IN LOVE WITH A TEMPORARY BRUSH, OR NOT
- UNDO A SAVE? THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE, ISN'T IT?
- MAKE A PHOTOSHOP CLIENT PRESENTATION
- CHANGE BRUSH SOFTNESS ON THE FLY
- LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: SLIDE SHOWS USING PHOTOSHOP
- HOW TO CORRECT ONE PROBLEM COLOR
- BUILDING A BETTER BACKGROUND ERASER TOOL
- GETTING SIDE-BY-SIDE PREVIEWS
- CUSTOM BRUSHES: START WITH A CLEAN SLATE
- TIMING IS EVERYTHING!
- INSTANT THUMBNAIL SIZE CONTROL
- BRING UP YOUR LAST PREFERENCE
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Why is this chapter named “Way Cool Tips”? It's because “Boring Regular Tips” was already taken (psyche!). Actually, it's because this is where a lot of the really cool tips wound up that didn't fit into any of the other categories. I don't really have anything else to say about this chapter, so instead, let's fill this space by singing a verse of “Greased Lightnin'” from the motion picture Grease.
“We'll get some overhead lifters, and four-barrel quads, oh yeah (keep talkin', whoa, keep talkin'). Fuel-injection cutoff and chrome-plated rods, oh yeah (I'll get the money, I'll see you get the money), with the four-speed on the floor, they'll be waitin' at the door, you know that ain't no…” Hey, wait a minute—that next word is a cuss word. Okay, no problem, we'll skip over that word and continue, “…we'll be getting lots of….” Geez, another nasty word. I've been singing that song for years and never really noticed how nasty it was. Just to be safe, let's just jump to the end of the chorus, “…you know that I ain't braggin', she's a real….” Oh, that's just wrong! I'm stopping right here.
THE TRICK TO TRICKY EXTRACTIONS
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Adobe's own Julieanne Kost (Photoshop guru and instructor supreme) showed this last year at the PhotoshopWorld Conference & Expo (before Photoshop CS was announced), and it had everybody's jaw dropping, but little has been said of it since, even though it's built into Photoshop CS's Extract function (found under the Filter menu). It's called Textured Image and you use it when you're dealing with a tough extraction—a person with a dark shirt posing on a dark background, for example—and Extract can't really tell where the shirt ends and the background begins. Turning this on helps detect the edges by examining the texture, and if it detects a texture (like you might find in a shirt), it can often help pull you out of a tight situation.