1. Layer styles like strokes are anti aliased and you cant turn it off. So if you make a stroke, and create layer, it will have slightly fuzzy edges that you cant magic wand to get a clean selection... unless you fix it.
2. Multiple strokes on multiple layers, regardless of how powerful your cpu is, will be very memory intensive. You are better off baking the stroke and using create layer. Same goes for other layer styles. Memory hogs. Say Hello to my little friend, Spinning Beach Ball of Death.
3. Path fills, just like strokes are anti aliased.
4. If you double click the background layer and make it a non-background layer just like the others, it will add approximately 500+ kb of data on your PS file. Stupid!
Also if you have any extra undeleted paths, they will also create extra kbs of data.
5. You can save paths in jpegs. Just don’t delete em, and they will be retained in the file. Sometimes useful, or useful to leave hidden messages like F-U. ;P
6. You can use levels in quick mask. So say you select a baked stroke layer, you can go into quick mask, use levels, blow out the less than 100% opacity pixels and delete, thus ridding yourself of nasty dirty edges.
7. Holding ALT or SHIFT or CTRL while using tools will let you access other tools or nifty things depending on the tool you are using. IE) Transform... Holding any of those buttons will allow you to do things like skew, etc without going through menu system.
BLAH.
30 Comments
ithew said 3 months ago
I had no idea about number 4...that’s wack
Lazyeye said 3 months ago
muah
jimiyo said 3 months ago
I noticed it on accident because at work we were having to send a bunch of files, and I noticed some files that were flat were bigger. Internet pollution of unnecessary data is a crime! Inefficiency is heinous.
ithew said 3 months ago
got a question...why is it that when i save a file as an .ai or a .pdf it is small
but when i take it to photoshop and save it as a .jpg, it’s freakin huge?
quakerninja said 3 months ago
Warning, not safe for work!
Nice tips.
Randomentity said 3 months ago
oh i got this one!
it’s cuz the ai file and the pdf file are just the points and line data, where as the jpeg is every single pixel.
ithew said 3 months ago
ah of course....
next question...
why when I save files in ptoshop for web...the colors get mudded down?
Randomentity said 3 months ago
web safe gamut of colors is shitty small.
rgb gamut =huge
websafe gamut =no so huge
cmyk gamut = stupidly small
volatile v said 3 months ago
what the fuck is a baked stroke.
Randomentity said 3 months ago
i was thinking that too, but i’m pretty sure he means flattened and rasterized
smo0thie said 3 months ago
what’s anti aliased?
an what do u mean in #1?
DrewGliever said 3 months ago
cmyk gamut is lame :/ always fucks my colors!
smo0thie said 3 months ago
i think dpi cost more than vector points depending on resolution like high res=high dpi where as to vector depends on points.
ithew said 3 months ago
damn file sizes...i hate them
jimiyo said 3 months ago
1. make stroke on layer.
2. make a blank layer. (SHFT CTRL ALT N)
3. link both layers.
4. merged linked (ctrl e)
5. viola. baked! you cant edit the stroke size afterwards thus... its baked... as if you painted it yourself and its not being calculated in relation to the image size by ps.
volatile v said 3 months ago
what file are you saving as? jpg? just keep the quality at like 75. you can barely tell between there and 100. i mean the difference exists, but to anyone who doesn’t design, they won’t be able to tell.
or save as a png.
and thanks jimiyo, never heard the term before but i gotcha.
heroes said 3 months ago
i understood none of this : ]
collisiontheory said 3 months ago
just use illustrator. =)
ghostforhire said 3 months ago
Word! :D
ghostforhire said 3 months ago
Anti-aliasing adds the tiny artifacts around your images making them appear smooth on the screen. When you zoom in 100% in Photoshop® you’ll recognize them on the edges as different opacities of your image’s color.
What kind of rig are you using? My Mac really jacks the color more so than the Dell I’m using at the office...
I’ve tried different color profiles and calibration settings to fix it but to no avail... I pretty much gave up.
Boycott Christian HC said 3 months ago
Thank you Jimiyo.
I tend to let (working) file size get out of hand, and this will help.
ithew said 3 months ago
I’m on a mac
godmachine said 3 months ago
whats that Jay and Silent Bob quote that Ameeee uses? well, inset that here:
Ameeee said 3 months ago
I don’t know what the fuck you just said little kid. But you special man - you reach out and you touch a brothers heart.
Hahah!
justgeoff said 3 months ago
Hold down Command-Alt-Z to do more than one undo level.
Command-Alt-Ctrl-Shift-T-W allows you to control the weather in a 10 mile radius.
jimiyo said 3 months ago
CTRL SHIFT ALT WINDOWS 3 will open up a hole in the sky, through a roof if necessary, and you will get a 100 lb pair of testicles teabag you with such force, you get knocked out. It will erase any work you have done.
Holding ALT while in a menu system like curves, levels, layer styles, anything with options, will cause the Cancel button to show as RESET... ITTTTS GREAT.
artulo said 3 months ago
Agreed 1000%. But I’m horrible at photoshop, too.
Thanks as always for the PS insight though, Jimiyo!
jimiyo said about 1 month ago
Even after using PS for 10 Years... I learned something new today.
In Save for Web,
If you hold ALT, the bottom choice becomes REMEMBER!!!!!
Sets default for whenever you go into Save for Web.
Now if this could be done for the default layer styles like Strokes, etc.
Survival said about 1 month ago
ahhaha great thread jimiyo!
cajun metal said about 1 month ago
ditto