Silly, empty utterances from Jenn who knows nothing about a subject but writes about it anyway.
Posted last year, mid-June.
Filed in: Photoshop, tips
I rarely use photoshop for anything other than image optimization. I learned how to use it oh so long ago in Navy A-School and I’ve stuck with it over the years. For me, it’s one of those programs with a sea of features, but I only use the surface even though the possibilities are ocean-deep.
The basic image adjustments I use are sharpness filters, levels, variations, clone stamp, crop, burn, layers, masks, - okay, I use a ton of crap it seems. Recently I learned some new keyboard shortcuts to speed up my productivity.
1) Hand Tool. Hold the spacebar to turn your pointer into the hand-tool no matter what you’re working on. Release the spacebar to go back to the tool you were using.
2) Multiple Undo. Hold down the alt while you press ctrl +z. Undo as many times as your heart desires.
The most useful feature of Photoshop is the “save for web” option. I can change so many details of the image in order to get the file size as small as possible with the best quality. Very handy.
What do you use Photoshop for? What’s your favorite feature?
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Posted last year, mid-January.
Filed in: images, photoshop
Okay, I don’t want to get on my high-horse about how much I love free stuff, but I can’t help it. I just found something else I can’t live without!
About’s Red Eye Removal Photoshop Action (it’s a mouthful, I know). This action is a quick way to get the best red eye removal results without all the hard work.
This is the first time I’ve ever used an action. My Photoshop knowledge is novice, to say the least. But oh my goodness gracious. There are a ton of default actions I will use in the future (now that I know about them)!
Now I can upload my hideous red-eye photos in a fraction of the time it used to take!
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Posted 2 years ago, at the end of December.
Filed in: downloads, photoshop
I’ve downloaded lots of freeware, shareware stuff from the internet. There are a few things that I just love and would be willing to purchase at an outrageous price - but lucky for me, they’re free. Well, the developer lives off donations. Which he probably doesn’t get.
There is one photoshop plugin (ICO) that allows me to create favicons just by choosing the file type when saving in photoshop. Love it. Love it, love it, love it.
I haven’t made a new favicon since I switched computers because I bought Fireworks instead. But I don’t like it. I switched back to Photoshop last week. And I downloaded this wonderful plugin again. But this time I donated some cash.
Maybe I’ll do that more often. It’s only five bucks. I should donate to FireFTP.
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