Helpful Photoshop Tips

1) Use the Paint Brush tool to “paint away” color to black and white while working on a color image to make a section of your image stand out dramatically. From the Paint Brush Options palette, change the blend mode to Color and then paint to remove the color from the image.

2) Press Shift to add more to the selection or Alt to take away from the selection when using your magic wand tool.

3) Photoshop’s image gallery will build a webpage of thumbnailed images for you should you have a large number of images to display. To do this follow steps: FILE > Automate > Web Images Gallery

4) To automatically select the entire text layer, double click on the 'T' on a Type layer in the Layers Palette.

There are at least two ways to switch between the different measurement units that Photoshop displays.

5) The first is to change them in your Preferences by going to the Photoshop menu under Preferences and selecting Units & Rulers (in Photoshop 7 under Mac OS 9, Preferences is found under the Edit menu). From here you can change the ruler units and click OK.

6) The second way is to open the Info Palette (go to the Window menu and choose Info) and click on the small triangle next to the cross in the lower left quadrant to pull up a menu that will allow you to change units.

7) To cycle through different screen modes, simply press the F key

8) You can select just the pixels without the transparency area of the layer by holding the Cmd/Ctrl key and clicking the mouse on that layer in the Layers palette.

Take a look at this video from You Tube on how to change a color photo to Black and White