Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland

Home to at least eight of the features Deke has mentioned so far in the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, the Layers palette i... Read more

Photoshop lets you modify your view of an image using a variety of tools, commands, and options. But you don’t need a si... Read more

Changing the Opacity is like mixing a cocktail with, say, 30% active layer and 70% all layers below. Assigning a blend m... Read more

The safety-net trio of Undo, History, and Revert protect the intrepid image editor from unexpected disasters. But they a... Read more

Virtually every Photoshop project starts with Open (how often do you choose New?) and ends with Save. And unlike other a... Read more

Photoshop doesn’t just support multiple color spaces, it supports infinite variations on the device-dependent ones. You ... Read more

The essential Image Size command lets you scale an image on screen or in print. Here's your chance to understand resampl... Read more

Photoshop doesn’t sharpen focus, it sharpens detail. Using any of three remarkable filters, Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen,... Read more

Camera Raw is an independent application that lets you develop your raw photographs and exploit every byte of the vast i... Read more

The ubiquitous eyedropper is simple in purpose and easy to use. But imagine a world without it, where you had to dial in... Read more

The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Sui... Read more

The Levels command, and its cohort the histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The ups... Read more

Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author (you!), a ... Read more

Gaussian Blur is a filter that blurs an image. But its also the math behind the Feather command, drop shadows, and every... Read more

Much can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire w... Read more

An adjustment layer is an independent layer of color adjustment that can edit any time you like. Plus it affects all lay... Read more

Yes, layer effects let you make drop shadows. But they also let you create credible compositions, render simple layers i... Read more

Smart objects aren't all that smart. And they aren't objects. What they are is envelopes. The kind that hold things. And... Read more

Buried deep inside the Layer Style dialog box are two slider bars, This Layer and Underlying Layer, that let you blend p... Read more

As powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer... Read more