http://www.photoshopinstructions.com Free Photoshop Tutorials and Instructions. Download plugins, read our free tutorials and play with our online editor! Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:50:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, the title is slightly misleading .. You can not move layers without touching them, but you can move them from the layers palette without clicking on them using the following keyboard shortcuts: To move a layer down to the layers palette, press: Command-left bracket (PC: Ctrl-left bracket) To move ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/how-to-move-the-layers-without-touching-them/ To go directly to view 100% of your image, then double click the Zool tool. To adjust the image directly to the screen size, double-click the Hand tool. Other useful Shortcuts for zooming: [Ctrl + =] - zoom in [Ctrl + -] - zoom out [Ctrl + 0] - fit to window http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/shortcuts-for-zoom/ There are two ways for selecting the outline of your text. The first is to use ctrl-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the layer palette to Type Layers. The second way is to go to Select menu and select Load. When the dialog box opens, click OK and create a selection around ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/select-the-outline-of-your-text/ To adjust the distance between the character of the baseline (as must be done on commercial symbols), highlight the character you want to format and press Shift-Option-up arrow (PC: Shift-Alt-up arrow) to move the character above the baseline. Use the same shortcut, but the down arrow key to move the ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/formatting-symbols-in-photoshop/ When you digitized a Type layer, you no longer have the option to revert back to your text and change the spelling, the number of words, or spaces between words. But why do so? If you apply a filter, of any type (from the filter menu), you have to do ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/should-i-use-raster-or-not/ The jelly-type effects are extremely impressive and are three-dimensional if the filter Un-sharp Mask (select from the menu Sharpen Filter). Yes, try the following values and run the filter twice: Amount: 150%, Radius: 1 and Threshold: 7. There is another way as well for achieving this: You can use Adobe Illustrator ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/sharpen-jelly/ A clever method to get realistic colors in important areas of an image; such as skin, grass, hair, and sky is to open a color image containing true colors such as black or white. You can then use the Color Picker to move the mouse pointer to a true color, ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/how-to-get-realistic-colors/ The clipping group used in the layers is often confused with the well-known term clipping path, but they are two completely different things. The only common point is their effect: a group of off putting your picture in a text (or whatever space) and in the next lower layer, we ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/avoid-confusing-clipping-groups-with-clipping-paths/ If you apply a filter and want to apply it again with different parameters, there is a keyboard shortcut to do just that. You can display a dialog box containing the last filter you ran with the settings used by pressing Option-Command-F (PC: Alt-Control-F). If you want to re-apply the ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/display-the-dialog-box-for-last-filter-used/ The only time you should enable Colorize within the framework of dialogue Hue / Saturation is when the image or selected area does not contain any color. Enabling this framework adds color to the picture. If your image is already colored and you only want to change the color, there's ... http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/when-to-use-the-colorize/