Today’s Visions

In the Layers palette, when you choose Duplicate Layer, you can change the document setting to “New” to create a brand new picture from any layer. I wish I knew about this one a few years ago!

Palettes are often in the way. One method of quickly moving a palette out of the way is to send it to the edge of the screen. To do so, press Shift and click the palette’s title bar to snap the palette to the nearest edge of the screen, away from the centre of the [...]

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.

The role of websites in today’s businesses is growing with each day: more and more customers search for information about products by browsing the Web, more and more companies create special departments to promote and sell their services in the Internet. By making regular website backups you can always feel [...]

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 [...]

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.