Photoshop Ninja

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 by firstly setting your foreground colour to your desired colour, selecting the Paint Bucket Tool and then clicking anywhere on the outside canvas whilst holding down shift.

This is useful if you want to check out how your image will interact with different colours. It is generally better to switch it back to the default neutral gray once you have finished though as this is the perfect colour to use when colour correcting images. I prefer the slightly lighter than the default neutral grey, which has a colour value of 214/214/214 in RGB (the colourspace monitors display colour in).

• Karma Kula

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