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Formatting symbols in Photoshop

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 text below the baseline (for cases such as H2O, etc).


Should I use raster or not?

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 that. This is why Type layers are different to images layers. …

Sharpen jelly

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 (or Freehand, or CorelDRAW) to put your text on a path and then …

How to get realistic colors

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, take a sample from the true colors and return to your …

Avoid confusing clipping groups with clipping paths

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 can say it removes everything except the limits of the text. …