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30 Stupidly useful tips in Photoshop that you will regret not knowing

Colin Smith

Photoshop Tips part 1

It’s Photoshop’s 30th birthday.

To celebrate, I’m going to share my top 30 Photoshop tips.

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Here are the first 10.. I’ll make this a 3 parter, with 10 tips each (Actually I’ll give you more than 10 in each)

Part 2 Photoshop Tips here

Check out parts 3 and 4 here!

I hope this little tutorial saves you lots of time.

If it does, please take a few of those valuable seconds I just saved you to share this with a friend or 2 on Social Media or email.

Great to see you here at the CAFE

Colin

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26 thoughts on “30 Stupidly useful tips in Photoshop that you will regret not knowing

  1. March 6, 2020 at 6:38 am

    Helpful information as always. I’d like to see how to build a collage template, say 3×3 square (nine) with image placeholders that autofit. I have Adobe CC and an intermediate understanding of PS, AI, and ID. Thanks again for what you do.

  2. Norma Goebel
    March 6, 2020 at 6:52 am

    Wonderful first 10 tips on PS. I would like to see the other two presentations please.

  3. Karen
    March 6, 2020 at 6:56 am

    Thanks Colin for the great tips. My fav is the straightening tip – awesome!

  4. Robert Dacquay
    March 6, 2020 at 7:47 am

    Thanks for these Photoshop tips Colin. They are great. I have been following you for a few years now and enjoy your teaching style. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3.

  5. José P
    March 6, 2020 at 9:51 am

    Thank You Colin, you always helping the Photoshop CAFE community, we all appreciate your tips.
    Have a wonderful day,

    José

  6. Peter
    March 6, 2020 at 10:23 am

    Great tips particularly the copy with the option key and also the straightening tip

  7. Christian Bille
    March 6, 2020 at 1:16 pm

    I understood you samled a lot of photographs into one layar or each photo ended up as layars, but what should then that be used for? To bring them all into a pdf or what, I did not get the idea?

    1. Colin Smith
      March 9, 2020 at 6:54 pm

      For any kind of compositing or design work.

  8. George K Arthur
    March 6, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    Thank You!!!
    Those were great tips. Keep them coming.

  9. Judy
    March 7, 2020 at 12:49 pm

    Thanks Colin, you are a great teacher and I appreciate all the free tips. I knew some of these but not about expanding the canvas, the align tools, and placing all open files into a document the easy way!

  10. Geoff Brook
    March 7, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    Thank you Colin, as usual there’s always something to be learned. I especially liked the “straightening” tip. Now all I have to do is remember them all.

  11. Ian Daniels
    March 8, 2020 at 6:32 am

    Great lot of tips. Thank you. Looks like some more late nights learning

  12. Marina
    March 8, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    Thanks a lot for useful tutorial, well explained, easy to understand and definitely I didn’t know much of what you shared with us!

  13. March 10, 2020 at 7:11 am

    Please issue these as a printed outline, perhaps illustrated with screen shots if appropriate, as an option for people like me who find video tutorials a nuisance. I can absorb information much more quickly and efficiently in print than by sitting through several minutes of video. Appreciate your considering this.

  14. Peter John Bott
    March 10, 2020 at 7:24 am

    Brilliant tips – 30 of them! Can my brain take it?

  15. Eugene Robinson
    March 10, 2020 at 5:29 pm

    Really enjoy the tips especially Part 1 & 2. Is there an e-book available that one can use to come to grips with PS. I love the software but really struggle with the intricacies.
    Keep up the good work. Cheers

  16. Kishor
    March 11, 2020 at 2:25 am

    Great tips…I am nearly 68..and have enjoyed Photoshop PS. love to be a part of Photoshop PS..and Thanks for tips.

  17. Kishor
    March 12, 2020 at 2:43 am

    I want to make a flower reflection in water…to be animated Gif… how do i do this?

  18. March 13, 2020 at 7:55 am

    I think I watched this too early in the morning….so much information. I struggle with brushes….Like how to organize them, create new ones in a specific existing group of brushes, etc, etc, etc. I’ll watch this again. Thanks so much for doing this!! It’s very helpful!!

  19. Deborah
    March 15, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    Hi! It would be great to have a cheat sheet for this, as I, too, have trouble watching videos. I love your tuts and benefit from them, but only the ones that have cheat sheets. Thanks for posting all these!

    1. Colin Smith
      March 19, 2020 at 12:50 pm

      Just a time issue 🙂

  20. TRH
    March 18, 2020 at 12:22 pm

    Create new text without selecting text or path underneath it! This has been bedeviling me for a while, and so simple! I have been making coin designs requiring lots of text inside of a circle [or circles]. Do you have a foolproof way of always aligning the proper center inside of a shape? The shape is not always in the center of the document. When I re-size text or text paths I always have to re-center. Thanks, Colin!

    1. Colin Smith
      March 19, 2020 at 12:48 pm

      Make a slection and choose free transform, will show the center

  21. shawnie
    March 20, 2020 at 1:36 pm

    I like all these tips Colin!
    Especially the select and align / distribute as well as the straighten using arbitrary!
    Thank you so much

  22. November 18, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    Thanks for putting up the video!! I have to say…I didn’t know that. But now I do! I wish I have known these tips earlier. Especially the part where you can view all of your images with the “Reveal All” . I would have saved lots of time working on my images and graphics in different layers with the tip, have I known it earlier. Again, thanks Colin!

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