Here’s a few shortcuts I recently found on 120 Photoshop tips, tricks and …fixes.

http://www.creativebloq.com/photo-editing/photoshop-tips-and-fixes-612316?page=1

Try some of them out on your version of PS

• Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will merge a copy of all Layers
• F Cycle through workspace backgrounds
• X Change your foreground and background colours
• D Reset foreground and background colours to black and white
• ] and [ Change your brush tip size
• Cmd/Ctrl+J Duplicate a layer or selection
• Space Bar Hold Space and drag to navigate around the image
• TAB Hides or shows all panels and tools
• Cmd/Ctrl+T Transform a layer
• Cmd/Ctrl+E Merge selected layer down, or merges several highlighted layers
• Cmd/Ctrl/Ctrl+Shift+Opt+S Save for web & devices
• Cmd/Ctrl+L Bring up levels box
• Cmd/Ctrl+T Open Free Transform tool
• Cmd/Ctrl+M Open Curves
• Cmd/Ctrl+B Edit Colour Balance
• Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Opt+C Scale your image to your preferred state
• Cmd/Ctrl+Opt+G Create clipping mask
• Cmd/Ctrl+0 Fit on screen
• Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+>/< Increase/decrease size of selected text

Try the tutorials at http://www.photoshop.com  There’s over 200 of them free.  Photoshop, Lightroom and Photoshop elements,

there’s also Blogs for PS and Lightroom.

you can even try the Photoshop express app on-line to see if you like it.

Terry White made an appearance at CanAm photo conference in Buffalo.  He was our keynote speaker on Saturday evening and is a prolific Adobe TV evangelist

http://tv.adobe.com/show/adobe-evangelists-terry-white

Recently we had Deke McClelland come to the CanAm photo conference in Buffalo. Here is a link to some of his work on Adobe TV

http://tv.adobe.com/show/dekepod/

Photographers can get Photoshop, Lightroom, Behance pro site and 20 gb of cloud storage.

https://creative.adobe.com/plans/offer/photoshop+lightroom

For a limited time, you can join a special Creative Cloud plan. It includes access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5, plus feature updates and upgrades as they are available, 20GB of cloud storage for file sharing and collaboration, and a Behance ProSite. And it’s just US $9.99/month when you sign up for a one-year plan, but you need to join by March 31, 2014. Questions? See our FAQ and terms.

A tip from Photoshop User magazine 100 tips…

When your retouching, it’s best practice to work nondestructively so that you can go back at any stage and make alterations if needed.  Smart objects play a big part in the nondestructive workflow, but did you also know that by converting your layers into a smart object rather than say, creating a merged or combined layer, that you also virtually reduce the file size of the working file in Photoshop, which speeds up your computers processing speed, which in turn speeds up your workflow.  Now that’ working smart

Here’s a 10 year old tip from Scott Kelby,  Sharpening that doesn’t use the Unsharp mask filter, but leaves control over the sharpening even after it is applied.

• Open the photo
• Duplicate the background (Control or Command J)
• Go to filter, under Stylize, emboss, leave settings at the default or increase height to 5 or more. Press OK
• In layers palette, change blend mode to Hard light.  This removes the gray colour from the layer but leaves the edges accentuated, making the photo sharper.
• If the sharpening seems too intense you can control the effect by lowering the opacity of the layer

Cool eh!

Black and White 101

Black and White could not get any easier.  Open and image. Choose image}Adjustments}Black and White.  Instead of using all of the sliders that are in the dialog box, click on different areas of the image that you want to make darker or lighter and drag-left to make them lighter, right to make them darker.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while but bin busy…anyway was doing a search for photoshop tips and noticed this blog, I believe I may have mentioned it before but in any case it looks like a good site for introductory as well as some more advanced techniques.. enjoy

http://photoshoptips.net/

In most if not all versions of PS, if you press the “D” key you will reset your foreground and background colours to black and white.

To switch the foreground and background colours press the “X” key.

Easy!

If you want to select a specific colour to paint with use the eyedropper tool to select (left click in windows) a colour anywhere on your image