Episode Summary 
Penultimate Episode
Dave has a tip on turning text into a work path so that you can get creative with it. Corey uses smart objects to build a grungy text graphic. Matt shares some tips for making your composites look more realistic. Pete recommends toggling between display modes.
This Week's Sponsors:
Wacom | On One Software | iStockphoto | Mpix
Links Mentioned in the Show
- davecrossworkshops.com
- Corey's Down and Dirty Tricks book
- Matt's Compositing Secrets book
- Nik software
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Happy New Year to all of you! Welcome back. I hope your holidays were as great as mine. I am looking forward to a new year of great tips and tutorials. You guys ROCK!
Another great show.
Happy New Year Guys!
How about a tip or tutorial on sketching in Photoshop?
Cheers
C.
Great show, I always learn a lot! Could you please do a tutorial about using the refine edge tool in cs5
Great show.
Glad you guys are back… Missed you!
I really enjoyed your show today. and i loved your tips.
Thanks Greg
Tips or tutorials – why not just call them “quick tiporials”?
Hi great show . i have got the Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks for Designers. it is
fantastic . thanks Corey. you should make it in to a class for KelbyTraining, it well be great .
thanks. drew from the u.k
Love, love, love you guys!!
Great show, lots of useful tips
Dave, good to see ya. Thank for the quick tips guys.
Hi!Ho! I use Photoshop Elements and I can ALWAYS use more books about it… Wink wink… Happy New Year guys (and gals)!
Love the show. Really like the atmosphere you guys create
Cool show. Great atmosphere
Thanks for great tips!
Workpath should be great to embelish a signature.
I read it backwards too, well…….
I just like to get Q&A out of the way first. I always go to Corey’s articles for the real reading.
Thanks guys for the great tips!
Love you guys!!
Welcome to the New Year. Always enjoy the show.
Thanks for a great show guys! You always come up with something new & useful.
good tutorial
Great show
Welcome back – Keep those tutorials (hints) coming.
good show glad you guys are back.
Love the show – wish it could be daily! Please enter me in this week’s contest. Thanks guys!
Hey guys, very cool tips, may I had that with the paint bucket selected hold Shift and click in empty space in Photoshop and it will change the color to the foreground color selected.
Penultimate Awesome new word for my vocabulary !
Good show
Looking forward to the coming year.
Thanks for your information.
Watched you on the big TV today [via TiVo]. You look even more influential on the big screen. Good show.
Nice Show !
Glad your back!
Great show today. What is the show schedule?
Hey Guys, Great show as always! Thanks for the tip on the blur tool … never knew about it, and I have a need for it! Awesome!
Dennis
Great show! Great tips as always!
another great show with amazing tips.
neat show. I am glad I found it.
love the text tip by matt
Hey Matt. I have a tip for you. You mentioned that you like using Color Efex pro 3 because 4 doesn’t have the same tonal contrast effect as 3 did. I know exactly what you mean. In 4 it seems to apply the setting in a much deeper way that feels like you are losing detail to the contrast. Almost too grungy. Well you’re in luck. I discovered that by changing the contrast type to “fine”, it simulates the effect that you get in version 3 much better. That’s it… Just change the contrast type and I bet you won’t be going back to version 3 anymore.
Hi love your show
Love Matt’s composite tip
Why is it always pick on Pete week? Love the show and look forward to watching each new one.
Wish I could afford NAPP membership – in the mean time I would make do with the hat! lol
Great show again boys!
Great show guys…love the tips & tutorials.
Imagine this being said in Jim Careys mask voice. Those smart objects aren’t really smart if you’re taking advantage of them all the time. =) lol I kill myself. =/
I love the show!
Fun stuff as always.
Love the show
great show guys
Don’t pick me!
As always helpful tips bringing the world together!! Nice show!
Corey, slow down when you share your wonderful tips.
Ulrich
I know that the liquify filter has been around for some time, but could you make a tutorial on how to use it?
Ulrich
Love Dave’s text tip! I will get a lot of use out of that, as I love making stylized headings in my documents. Keep the goodness coming
I don’t believe I am the first to post. Good to have you back.
Enjoyed the show.
have got some of the books
Great episode. I really liked the tips from Mark
Hi, like the video & tips. You can have the floating type workspace with windows as well. I use Photoshop CS4 so I can’t say for any other versions but If you put Photoshop as a non-maximized window you can actually drag out of the application frame any of the work space windows that you use. Now you would still have that application frame but it can be re-sized to the point so that only the menu bars are showing.
Another great show. looking forward to the next one.
Hi, like the video & tips. You actually can have the floating type workspace with windows as well. I use Photoshop CS4 so I can’t say for any other versions but If you put Photoshop as a non-maximized window you can actually drag out of the application frame any of the work space windows that you use. Now you would still have that application frame but it can be re-sized to the point so that only the menu bars are showing.
My wife just bought me CS5….will be spending a lot of time watching all these videos. Too bad my real job gets in the way.
thanks for super useful tips specially pete’s with this shortcut to scroll betwin open images ! thanks again and, i’m looking forward to see next photoshop user tv !
Good show guys.
Thanks
What is the Moire in LR4 beta and what does it do.
Great show!
Love the super four photoshop guys
Thanks for all the great tips throughout all the years!
Hi there I lovfr your show.
great show!
Every episode you do is cherished. I always learn something new. You are getting close to episode 300 — any plans for that episode?
Being an hobyist and not a professional, I do not have CS anything but rather use Lightroom and Elements. I note one of the prizes is an Elements book and also that Matt has written one too (I didn’t nkow that). I suspect, with Adobe’s new pricing policy, there wil be more of us who use Elements. Will we be seeing tips on Elements on PSU TV?
great show and thanks
Great Show!!!!
Great Episode
Well, thanks, guys. I’ve seen your intro and the Intuos ad about 7 times now. After the ad, the video cuts right back to the beginning. I’ve tried scrolling past that point in the player, but no luck. Photoshop user is getting harder to watch for a lot of reasons. Wonder if I should keep trying . . .
Great show…Can I ask a question…Does Dave ever wear anything that doesn’t say Canada? Does he wear a spedo with the Canada Flag on it or Canadian under roos? If Dave wanted to save some money, just get a tattoo on your forehead saying “Canada”. Just food for thought…..lol
Luv the show
I also can only view the ad!
Great tutorials and tips guys. Corey very useful tutorial on the smart objects love it. Matt i been following the show for 3 months now and i can tell you that i been learning a lot with you guys very useful tip matt. Dave thanks about your tip on making a text into a work path. Nice thank you guys and God bless, Keep it up!!! I want to win one of your prices too. Also i would love to see more about layer styles on text. thank you again.
Does WordPress save all blog posts to only one file? If so, what file is it?
Late comment
Nice tips guys!
That’s exactly how it works … you get to photoshop user TV somehow (in my case was through Scott’s blog) and then you get so addicted that you join NAPP hehehehe
Good work you all! Happy new year!
You guys are so great. keep the fire burning!
Some great tiptorials guys!
I appreciate, cause I found just what I was looking for. You’ve ended my four day long hunt! God Bless you man. Have a great day. Bye
Thanks a lot for sharing this with all people you actually understand what you are talking about! Bookmarked. Please also discuss with my site =). We will have a link exchange contract between us!
Great post!
I love the tips on adding the atmosphere to a composite photo. thanks guys.
Just wanted to let you guys know there is a way to get that mac feature when you press F on a PC. It’s a small tweak you can do. Won’t be 100% like it looks on a mac but you’ll get very close.
1. Open Photoshop
2. Go to the right top corner and press the RESTORE icon that looks like a little window in between your _ and your X
3. Now you need to drag all your pallet windows, tool windows etc out of this window.
4. Go to the bottom of the screen till your mouse becomes to arrows. One pointing up and down. Drag your window all the way up. Adjust to the size of your window and you’re done.
In order to keep this look it must remain in RESTORE mode. If you click the full screen icon again it will go back to it’s windows default look.
Hope this helps someone.