Lockergnome’s Top 50 Photoshop Tips

“For Photoshop Users” - Photoshop can be an overwhelming tool even for seasoned users. Adobe has managed to pack more features into ever successive release and it’s hard to know how to make them all work to your advantage. These 50 tips will give the novice user a head start and may just save you Photoshop experts some time too. Compiled by Norm Stevens, a professional photographer with plenty of hours logged in Photoshop editing time, the time you spend reviewing these tips will mean hours you can save for something more endearing than editing multitudes of photos. [ Download this PDF for $10 / Download ]

Work a Little, Look Busy a Lot

If you have done corrections on a photo with Adjustment layers, and you have more photos to do that were shot the same way at the same time, you can save a bunch of time with this tip!

After the first one is done to your satisfaction, link all of the Adjustment layers together, open up the next image from the series, and left-click and drag from the finished Image Window to the next image window, and all of those changes will duplicate instantly. If there are some slight brightness or color variations between the individual photos, you can go into the appropriate adjustment layers and tune them up much more easily than doing the whole process over again. You can also do this anytime in the future because those adjustment layers will be saved with your multilayered document, and you can always make copies to flatten and print or e mail while keeping the master file intact.

Those of you at ad agencies who are concerned with your job security? Just pretend to be busy for an extra hour.