Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Quick tip 27 � Seeing font changes

This is part 27 of the Photoshop quick tip series where you will learn how to visually see the font changes in Photoshop. Normally when you type some text on the canvas and want to change the font, you have to manually have to select the font from the drop down menu to see a different font.



Now wouldn�t it be easily if you could see the font changes directly instead of manually cycling through all the fonts. There is a quick solution to this problem which is to click the font from the drop down menu. Then use the up and down keys on the keyboard to cycle through the fonts. This means you will visually see the changes from the font instead of manually change the fonts.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Quick tip 26 � The hand tool

This is part 26 of the Photoshop quick tip series where you will learn how to quickly select the Hand tool. The hand tool is similar to the selection tool, but you can click and drag around the Photoshop document. The main function of this tool is basically navigation.

To use the Hand tool you need to firstly open an image in Photoshop. If you want to quickly open a document in PS, checkout quick tip 3.

On the toolbar the Hand tool can be located just above the foreground and background palettes. Another method is to hold down the spacebar which is a very useful keyboard shortcut. The great benefit of this tool is that it will activate no matter what tool is currently selected.

Now zoom into your image Ctrl + then select the Hand tool (Spacebar) and you will be able to move around the zoomed in image by clicking and dragging.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Free Scrapbook Design Theme Resources

I've always love scrapbook theme in web design. There's a warm feeling that I cannot explain. The random images and colorful pattern textures just make it more personalized and welcoming to the visitors. There are a lot of resources out there to help you create the warmest design. Some will cost you money which I'm sure is not the best option for you if you're just designing for fun. But there's