General photoshop tips

Draw straight lines:
There are other ways to draw a straight line than using the line tool. After this tip, you may find your need to reach for the line tool reduced, in fact this may even break your addiction. While using any of the drawing tools; Brushes, Pencil, Dodge and Burn, Eraser, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge holding down the shift key will cause you to draw in a perfectly straight line either vertical or horizontal. An added feature will let you create straight lines between points by clicking, Hold down shift and click again anywhere to join the 2 points.

Easy loading of Layer Styles:
Start Photoshop> Open your email program if they were emailed to you or navigate to their files on the hard disk> right click/Option Click, then select open and the style set will be loaded automatically

Closing Multiple windows:
How long would it take you to close all these documents in Photoshop? Just hold down the shift key when you go File>close and Photoshop will close all the open documents.

 

Hey Colorexperts

I would appreciate if you DONT steal my tips from PhotoshopCAFE and post them all over the web as spam and pass them off as your own.
Admins - Please ban this loser

 

If anyone wants to know what I'm talking about photoshopcafe.com/cafe/viewthread.php?tid=54486

 

you linked to another forum where he also started the thread? i dont get where hes "stealing" just seems like hes saying heres some tips i got, not really trying to steal, its a forum.

 

Well the problem lies 2 fold
1 I wrote those tips and published them on my site and copyrighted them, he didn't ask permission to use them
2. He didn't credit anyone else for them, thus implying authorship

There are laws against such things
This is commonly know as "ripping" on the internet.

 

General Photoshop Tips
An easy way to reset Photoshop's Preferences
Give yourself more Undo steps by adding more History States (Photoshop CS2 and earlier)
Give yourself more Undo steps by adding more History States (Photoshop CS3)
Change the size of the type in Photoshop's interface
Add more files to the Recent Files list in Photoshop
Showing and hiding Photoshop's Tool Tips (Photoshop CS2 and earlier)
Showing and hiding Photoshop's Tool Tips (Photoshop CS3)
Switch between a single or double column toolbar in Photoshop CS3
Cycle through multiple open documents in Photoshop
Change Photoshop's pasteboard color
Reset the pasteboard color to the default gray
You will all these usefull tips after visiting the site-www.photoshopessentials.com

 

nice if it is ur own tips