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Protecting your digital images from unauthorised usage Part 1

Protecting your hard work from unauthorised usage is of great importance to digital artists and photographers and there is many ways to effectively make your images viewable for approval, but almost unusable for anything else!



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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



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Web image slicing the quick and easy way

All web developers have been through the painful and slow process of cutting up images into sections, individually optimising them for the web and then constructing a table to hold them all together in a HTML design application. Fortunately Adobe have realised that this is a common task and have given us a quick and easy way to perform boring job!



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Designing flexible website visuals

Almost web designers begin their layout designs in Photoshop – its so much more flexible than jumping straight into your actual web design application like Dreamweaver or Go Live. Well, here are some great tips for when you are working up visuals that have personally saved me a-lot of headaches and repetition of work!



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Editing multiple layers of type together

Here is a very rarely documented feature-when you are working with text in Photoshop, you often have lots of different layers containing it. It’s always a hassle if you want to change some or all of them to update a design or try out new design options quickly




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