Let’s face it, all Adobe products are expensive, particularly if you are a startup or small business with a limited budget. This means we often get asked how people can edit their images without having to fork out for Adobe Photoshop. Luckily, there are alternatives you...
TIP 5 : SPACE BAR SELECTIONS Another beginner tip, this one’s a massive help for quick edits. It’s also a bit of a lifesaver that goes hand in hand with the last tip , copy merge. Making a selection is easy, you select the marquee tool and...
TIP 4: COPY MERGE The discovery of Copy Merge was one of those lightbulb moments, where you think “Why has it taken me so long to realise Photoshop does this?” Need to copy a selection of your choosing but Photoshop doesn’t seem to want to play?...
With the use of a CTE and the ROW_NUMBER() ranking function, you can easily find, and delete, any duplicates in a table. First, let’s take a look at the code you’ll need within your CTE: SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY DuplicateSearch ORDER BY DuplicateSearch) [No of Rows], ID_Column FROM...
TIP 3: ALWAYS WORK ON A COPY Tip three is a quick one, ALWAYS WORK ON A COPY! You can’t imagine the amount of issues this causes whilst using Photoshop. When making destructive changes to an image the first thing you should be doing is making...
TIP 2: LAYER MASKS Today we’re moving on to the next tip for Photoshop beginners, Layer Masks. Layer Masks are what you should be using almost every time you think about using the eraser tool. If you have a photographic image that you want to make adjustments...
TIP 1: AUTO-SELECT Photoshop’s layer system takes a while to get used to, and without the use of Auto-Select, they can drive you crazy. Its default tool when you open a new document is the Move tool. This tool allows you to select anything and move...
