10 Great Photoshop Tips!
Tip 4: Create snapshots before running actions
How many times have you ran a complex action on an image and the end result was not what you were hoping for? Then you go back and try to undo everything, but the action required too many steps and you can’t go back far enough. The easy answer? Create a snapshot of the image before running the action. This way, if you don’t like the result, you can easily roll back to the previous version.
To do this, open the “History” palette and click on the “Create new snapshot” button.
This way, after running your action, if you don’t like the result, you can go back to the History palette and click on the snapshot to revert to the earlier version.
Alternately, you can save the file before running the action and then use File - Revert to go back to the saved version. An action can also include a “save” command, though, in which case this method will not work.
Tip 5: Edit multiple text layers at once.
If you’re like me, sometimes you end up with text layers on top of text layers, literally. You’ll have one layer on the bottom with one set of styles, then another layer on top with identical text and a different set of styles. These two layers then work in conjunction with one another to create the look you’re after. What happens when you need to edit the text? Don’t do it twice, edit both layers at once.
Open the Layers palette and select one of the text layers, then Ctrl+Click on the other layer to select it as well. Be sure to click on the words and not the icon. You just want to select the layer, not load its selection.
Now you can grab the type tool and select and edit the text. Whatever changes you make will effect both layers. Finally, once you’re done, hold down shift when applying the changes
Tip 6: Bigger tiles for better performance
Do you have 1 gig or more of RAM? If so, you can enable large tiles for better performance. When opening, saving, or running filters or effects on an image, Photoshop breaks that image down into “tiles” and processes the tiles one at a time, to conserve on memory usage. This means that the computer has to read/write to the RAM or scratch disk frequently. If you have enough RAM, you can process these tiles at a larger size and cut down on the number of times the computer has to read/write the information, thus improving performance.
To do this, close Photoshop, open Windows Exploer and navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins\Adobe Photoshop Only\Extensions\Bigger Tiles\
Find the file named ~Bigger Tiles 8BX and rename it to Bigger Tiles 8BX (removing the ~). Then restart Photoshop
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