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» Launching daily quick-tips on the site!

Check out a new feature, the daily quick-tips where each day there will be posted a quick tip on either of the adobe products that’ll help you work with the programs! Once a week you might also get a video quick-tip as well!

So check out this very exciting feature either by choosing the Quick-Tips category in the category picker in the right sidebar or go under the tutorials in the navbar and click on Quick-Tips there or just click this link!

» It’s all Photoshopping Satuday!

So lets take a day that you’re all off the work on and ready to use Photoshop for some fun to booth reveal some exciting news as well as posting some quick-tips!

In the breaking news, just released and kinda sneak peak for the blog readers is the Creative Suite Tips & Tricks podcast, fresh of the site here! Go over to the Creative Suite Tips & Tricks site to find it or wait a day or so for it to get added to iTunes (I will post a link here then)! I’m really excited on this and I’ll be posting weekly or even half weekly updates to it!

So now, lets bring on the Quick-Tips and make it a Saturday with Photoshopping!

 Always open .jpeg in ACR!

If you always want to open your .jpg files inside of camera raw, go under the Photoshop preferences, down to File Handling and tick the box “Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEG Files”.

Shortcuts on Applying Filters

You might have known that you can re-apply the same filter again by pressing Command + F (PC: Ctrl + F) but did you know, that by pressing Command + Option + F (PC: Ctrl + Alt + F) you can get the filter dialog of the filter you just applied, with the settings you applied before filled in.

Hide all layers except one!

To hide every other layer except one, hold down the Option (PC: Alt) key and click on the eye icon next to the layer.

Creating Layer Shortcuts

When creating new layers, there are the shortcuts you must know! First, to create a new layer below the current layer, hold down the Command (PC: Ctrl) key while pressing the new layer button. If you want to create your layer through keyboard strokes, press Command + Shift + N (PC: Ctrl + Shift + N) and to bypass the “New Layer” dialog box, throw in the Option (PC: Alt) key in the mix so it gets Option + Command + Shift + N (PC: Alt + Ctrl + Shift + N). Of course to Create a new layer via copy (likewise to duplicate) press Command + J (PC: Ctrl + J).

That’s it for Saturday Photoshopping, enjoy the tips and check back for the regular news on Monday! Until then, have a great weekend and check out the Creative Suite Tips and Tricks (CST&T) Podcast!