Tuesday Tutorial: Quick Brush Adjusts in PSE & CS

This one came from the Digital Scrapper and I hope to use it enough to retrain my brain. If I don't use it, boy do I forget it.btw, there are lots of great tutorials on the DS site.

With brushes, it can be a lot of fiddling and I often just use the .png for ease. But there ares shortcut keys in PSE and CS to enlarge/decrease the size and also to adjust the opacity. The shortcut keys are the same. After the shortcut key you drag left or right for size and for opacity you drag up and down. Is that not easy? Oh yeah!

Click HERE to find the original tutorials and get the exact shortcut keys for your version of either software and operating system. Ans if you want some free goodies including a great brush set, try this week's Creative Market's freebies. But each week's items are only good for that week what you see today will be gone by next week. But there will be a new set so keep checking!

How I Learned to Scrub

Recently, I've heard more and more people say 'scrub' in PSE/CS tutorials when they were adjusting a function that had a number value. Font size, percentages, opacity etc. I knew they were doing something but I could never quite see or understand what it was. This tutorial from the Digital Scrapper blog explained it perfectly for me! Now I can scrub with the best of them! Just don't call me a scrubber!

click right here to see the tutorial

Tuesday Tutorial: Yes, PSE 11 is Here

Even as the stores put out the Christmas decorations before Halloween, we know that Adobe has new versions of PSE and probably CS waiting on the horizon. It can be a lot of expense to upgrade each year, so when I got an email from Digital Scrapper, I thought I'd share the link. Click here.

Linda Sattgast really has a great base of knowledge, and shares it clearly. Will I buy this one? Well, having JUST written the xml for about 10 new styles, I can only sigh... What I will probably do is wait for this version to be sold at Costco, at a discount price, with the wonderful dvd Linda prepares for each version. That image makes me wonder if it's going to be available immediately as opposed to later in the release time as is usual?

However, right now my mind is on Lightroom and one new program a time is enough for me!

Tuesday Tutorial: Toggle Your Choice

Another great Quick Click from the newsletter of Digital Scrapper.  I am still such a total novice in the wonderful  blending modes that PSE contains.

This Quick Click hint will make it super easy to see theses two blends in their basic form. Then if one appeals to me I can fiddle with the opacity.  In cooking, I've heard this referred to as 'messin' with the recipe' which I DO like to do!

As always I suggest you sign up for the newsletter to get these wonderful tips right in the privacy of your own inbox!

Tuesday Tutorial: You Can Hide!

Another quick tip from the Digital Scrapper newsletter.

Now I must say, I've never had the need to hide one of the items mentioned above. But maybe you have! and maybe I will one day! These tips are also my own kind of record keeping of "now how do you do...???"

Teusday Tutorial: Another PSE Quick Click Shortcut

This one from the Digital Scrapper newsletter  is one I tend to forget. I hope that the writing of this blog post will help me remember to use it. That seems to be the only way for it to stick in my head.  Hope you like this one! I do.

Tuesday Tutorial: Get Back, Get Back

Get back to where you once belonged. Ok the Beatles said it and so did the folks at Digital Scrapper. 
Every once in a while you'll find that your PSE settings get wonky. An easy way to fix those who have strayed from their proper place is to use this Quick Click! 

Tuesday Tutorial: All those Shortcuts

Do you get the newsletters from various scrapbooking stores? You should you know! Why?

1. They're free
2. They often have coupons or offers for products at their store
3. They often have some great tips or tutorials - right in the newsletter!

This short one comes from a recent newsletter from Digital Scrapper. I love shortcuts in PSE and use some all the time. What would we do without the Undo command...CMD-Z or CTRL-Z for you Windows users. If I say CMD, you use CTRL.  Then there is CMD-S for Save, CMD-O for Open, the old standbys CMD-C for Copy, CMD-V for paste. I only get myself in trouble sometimes when I've been doing a lot of cutting and pasting, and reverse them. That's the time for CMD-Z to undo my own mistake!

Now three step ones I'm not sure I can translate into Windows since it's been a good while since I had to deal with the Gates empire.

I really like this 'quick click' from the Digital Scrapper newsletter because it eliminates a few key strokes when you want to make that background a layer. Why would you want to do that? Good question. So you can edit it. Have you ever tried to edit a background and Adobe just sat there petulantly? That's why.

I hope Digital Scrapper continues including more of these 'quick clicks' because any way we can save our hands and wrists makes sense.

Tuesday Tutorial: Yes, Actions and Styles Again

Even though this tricky little subject was covered last month, it's always good to have another teacher's perspective on the subject. The method that is clear to one person may not be clear to another. This is why it's always great to have more than one explanation on the same thing. You may have been shaking your head with the way the Texas Chicks explained the process, and if so here's Linda Sattgast, aka as Digital Scrapper telling you how she sees it.

No video, just a link which will take you to a page that looks just like this one. I hope this helps you installing those fun but pesky actions and styles to your program. Oh, and Adobe, why do you make this so complicated for us????