Splashup.com is a free Photoshop alternative that may be a perfect solution for those of you that need to edit images for the web, or make quick changes to images. The web-based software does a great job of importing both small and larger files very easily.

In this video we quickly go over the [...]

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After our last tip on quickly switching windows in Photoshop, you all suggested I do more. So I recently found three handy tips that saved me time.
Duplicating Slices with Option
Creating slices can be a pain to make over and over again, thankfully there’s a quicker way. Select a slice with Command+Click then Option+Click to duplicate [...]

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If you find it frustrating you can’t switch between active windows in Photoshop by pressing Command+Tilde (Command+~), you’re not alone.
Thankfully there’s a few quick shortcuts nearby that accomplish the same thing:

Command+Shift+Tilde
Control+Tab
Control+Tilde

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Photoshop has many different fullscreen modes that make focusing on your work much easier. Pressing the “f” key takes you through the following modes. Also keep in mind you can toggle the window pane visibility with the Tab key.

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If you were to guess what application that window came from, what would be your first guess; Aperture? Photoshop? Nice try, but it actually comes from Preview.app. By hitting Option+Command+C, you can obtain this little popup that let’s you adjust the color levels in your photo. Here is a picture of my sister with a [...]

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Selective decolorization is removing the color from parts of a picture. In this picture, I removed all the color from the background. For some reason there’s some noise that appeared when I uploaded it but it’s not like that in the master version.
It looks complicated but it’s actually a relatively simple process. Just open the [...]

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My good friends at Micahville introduced a great Photoshop tip a little while back on how to create your own fake iPod Nano, like the many fakes going around the web before Steve Jobs’ big announcements yesterday.
Check it out here: The Making of A Fake iPod Nano
Lets hope that Micahville releases more Mac-related tips in [...]

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A quick way to zoom in and out while using Photoshop is to use the and keyboard combinations.

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