Photoshop Tips & Tricks Tutorials
Handy Tips and Cool Tricks for Photoshop at Photoshop Essentials.com!
Welcome to the Tips & Tricks section of Photoshop Essentials! These essential time-saving tips and cool tricks for Photoshop will help speed up your workflow and make your time with the program more productive and enjoyable. One of the great things about Photoshop is that no matter how long you've been using it, there's always some new useful tip or trick just waiting to put a smile on your face, and finding a better, easier way of doing something is what these Photoshop tips & tricks are all about! Check back often to see all the new Photoshop tips and tricks we've added!
General Photoshop Tips
An easy way to reset Photoshop's Preferences
Give yourself more Undo steps by adding more History States (Photoshop CS2 and earlier)
Give yourself more Undo steps by adding more History States (Photoshop CS3)
Change the size of the type in Photoshop's interface
Add more files to the Recent Files list in Photoshop
Showing and hiding Photoshop's Tool Tips (Photoshop CS2 and earlier)
Showing and hiding Photoshop's Tool Tips (Photoshop CS3)
Switch between a single or double column toolbar in Photoshop CS3
Cycle through multiple open documents in Photoshop
Photoshop Tips For Working With Photos And Images
Zoom in and out of images with your mouse scroll wheel
Add a new layer below the currently selected layer
Add more canvas space around an image
Increase the number of grid lines in the Curves dialog box
Step-and-repeat a transformation in Photoshop with "Transform Again"
Better results with layer masks when working with Layer Styles
Lower the opacity or change the blend mode of a Photoshop filter
Turn the airbrush option on and off on the fly when using a brush
Photoshop Tips For Working With Text
Turn Photoshop's Font Preview on or off (Photoshop CS2 and higher)
Save and reuse text as a custom shape
Handy tricks and keyboard shortcuts for working with type in Photoshop