Today’s Visions

I often cannot see the cursor whenever I am in a grayish area of the image. Solution: press down on the spacebar and the hand icon becomes visible where the cursor is located. Some other keys also work, depending on what tool you’re using, but the spacebar always works.

You’ve got a zillion Photoshop windows open, and now you want them all to go away. How long would it take you to close them manually? No need — just hold down the shift key when you go File> Close and Photoshop will close all the open documents.

You may have noticed that PhotoShop automatically adjusts the settings in the New dialog box to match the contents of the Clipboard. If you want to bypass this feature so that PhotoShop ignores the Clipboard and opens the New dialog box with default settings, press Alt in Windows or Option on the Mac and choose [...]

For as long as I have been working with WordPress, I have pushed WP-Blog Stats as the visitor statistical plugin of choice.  I was wrong.  There!  I said it – I found a better plugin than the old tried and true.  Blog Stats had an outage with their system that sent me looking and reviewing [...]

You can incrementally adjust a highlighted option box value in just about any dialog box by pressing an arrow key. Press the Up or Down Arrow key to raise or lower the value by 1. Press Shift-Up Arrow or Shift-Down Arrow to raise or lower the value by 10.

By default, Photoshop retains several things in memory–undos, items you’ve copied to the Clipboard, a documents action history, and defined patterns. These items can be an enormous drain of memory and are usually the source of low memory errors. Therefore, purge these items from memory as often as possible. To do so, choose Edit, Purge, [...]