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 …

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. …

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 last filter you used with exactly the same settings, simply …

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 no need to click on Colorize - simply move the cursor …

Previously, if you had a transparent background GIF image that you would use on the Web, you would select the type GIF89a and you would click the color that you would like to be transparent.
Now, there is no need to resort to GIF89a in Photoshop because you can choose a background color that is transparent through the dialog box “Save …