As you become more and more familiar with Photoshop, you start to move through the menus very quickly. While many of the fastest combinations of activities will involve keyboard shortcuts, there may still be a lot of things that you do to your images that are more comfortable through the menus. But you might find […]
How to Find Your System Information in Photoshop CC
Photoshop is a very useful image editing application that provides you with a lot of tools for creating and editing images. But it also needs a lot of resources to run well, and you may find yourself in a situation where you are troubleshooting a performance issue. If this is happening to you, then someone […]
How to Check if Photoshop is Using Integrated or Dedicated Graphics
Is Photoshop running slowly, or does it seem like it’s having trouble performing certain tasks? While this may be due to a lack of RAM, it might also be occurring because Photoshop is running off your computer’s integrated graphics rather than your dedicated graphics card. If you have a dedicated graphics card on your computer […]
What Version of Adobe Photoshop Do I Have?
Adobe Photoshop, like most other popular applications, is updated to a new version regularly. Each of these versions adds new features and fixes existing problems in an effort to provide a more enjoyable experience for people using the application. But if you are troubleshooting or following a tutorial, you may find that you are stuck […]
How to Change a Canvas Size in Photoshop CS5
Are you trying to change the dimensions of your image without changing the image dimensions? This is possible by using the Canvas Size menu in Photoshop. While the Image Size menu can be beneficial when you need to scale your image, you may sometimes find that you need your image to be specific dimensions. Our […]
How to Hide a Layer in Photoshop CS5
The ability to create multiple layers in Adobe Photoshop is something that can give you a lot of control over the individual elements of your image. By choosing to put each image element on a different layer you can choose to modify that element independently of everything else that you have put in the file. […]
How to Duplicate a Layer in Photoshop CS5
The ability to work with layers in Photoshop is one of my favorite reasons to use the program. keeping individual elements of an image on different layers makes it much easier to edit those elements separately without affecting the rest of my work. Occasionally you may encounter situations where you need an identical copy of […]
How to Use Bigger Font Sizes in Photoshop CS5
Are you making a Photoshop image that has a very high resolution, and you’re finding that you just can’t make your text large enough? When you make a text layer in Photoshop, then highest visible option for the text size is 72pt. In many cases this will be more than enough, but it can become […]
How to Check if an Image is RGB or CMYK in Photoshop CS6
Are you creating an image for a client or for a project, and that image needs to be in a specific format? For example, if you are creating something that is going to be printed on physical media, then the printing company is likely requesting the image to have a CMYK color profile. Due to […]
How to Change the Font of a Text Layer in Photoshop CS5
Adobe Photoshop is a very popular image editing program that provides you with a large number of tools for creating and editing images. One of the most powerful elements of Photoshop is the ability to add image elements on layers. This allows you to change part of an image without affecting the other parts of […]