Photoshop Tip: How to Control Your Brushes Using the Square Brackets Keys

One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop is using the Square Brackets keys (at times in conjunction with others) to control the size and hardness my brushes. It is a real time saver. So, how do Square Brackets work in Photoshop:   Increase or Decrease the Size of Your Brush 1. Click on...

6 Quality Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

“Photoshop” and “text”, not words that were originally supposed to appear together, after all Photoshop is an image processing software, and text is, well, text. But designers are resourceful so making Photoshop work it’s magic on type was just a question of time, and as time...

7 Paper Textures Collections for Your Designs

A recent project got me looking for paper backgrounds and in the process I discovered that there are many choices here. It seems to me that so far as texture backgrounds are concerned there are many more choices then any other material. Maybe I am wrong but here are a few choices for you, most of them are...

Photoshop’s Mighty F key Here to Help You Focus

Creativity is a messy business. In the midst of creating something you got all sorts of windows open, especially if you are composing something in Photoshop and grabbing things of of other files/layouts. All this clutter can help you become unfocused. Here is the default view:   And that is where the...

How to Turn Off Annoying Scrubby-Zoom in Adobe Photoshop CS5

It used to be pretty easy, if you wanted to magnify a certain area in your Photoshop document you would grab the Zoom Tool, click and drag and POW that area would fill your screen. But one of the new improvements that Adobe came up with takes away this option, at least as a default...

A Roundup of Great Phtoshop Brushes

[ad#tswAdsense] We love Adobe Photoshop Brushes, they are so helpful in creativity and time savings. Here is a round up of our latest free and non free brushes. Paint...