Photoshop Ninja

Expert Photoshop tips and tricks for designers and photographers since 2005

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All work and no play for Jonny!

For all regular visitors to this site – Im afraid new posts to the site are going to be a-lot less frequent over the next few weeks as I have a number of major design projects on at the moment that are sucking up all my resources.



Transient witticisms Easter Egg

You can reveal some very strange bits of text and comments from the Photoshop development team with this little hidden Photoshop Easter Egg!



Changing the surrounding background colour in full screen mode

This is not so much an Easter Egg in the traditional sense, more of a little known hidden feature – as this one may actually be occasionally useful, especially for web designers! When you are working in full screen mode you can change the default surrounding canvas colour (the area around the image) of neutral gray



Lots of shortcuts and techniques for working with guides effectively

Using guides in Photoshop is a core principle that is essential for any precise work.



Image adjustment shortcuts

There are quite a few shortcuts you can use to bring up image adjustments, rather than fishing around in the Image>Adjustments menu.




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