Today’s Visions

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.

To draw a straight line with any of the brush tools, just click, hold the Shift key, and click again where you want the line to end. Photoshop will draw a straight line between the two points! This trick also works with most tools, including erasers and even the highlight tool in the Extract filter.

A lot of Photoshop problems can be fixed by dumping the Preferences file. While launching Photoshop, hold down Alt+Ctrl+Shift on the PC or Cmd+Option+Shift on the Mac. When asked to reset the preferences, choose Yes. But before you do this, save your custom Patterns, actions, styles, brushes, gradients, shapes, and color palettes. These will also [...]

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’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 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.