Earthbound Light Photography TipsWeekly Photoshop and digital photography tips, articles and tutorials from EarthboundLight.comPhotoshop Selection: Winning Against the Marching Ants- April 27, 2008 Grab the Lasso tool in Photoshop and trace around something. Or use one of the other selection tools if you prefer. Regardless of how you do it, the boundary of your selection will be displayed as a dotted line that is commonly referred to as the "marching ants" because of how the dots seem to be moving around the outline of the selection. But while it can be nice to see what is selected and what isn't, the "ants" can get in your way sometimes by making it hard to see...http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-selection-marching-ants.html Seeing Double in Photoshop- April 20, 2008 Apart from the space taken up by Photoshop's tools and palettes, the usual tendency is to fill the rest of your screen with the biggest view you can of the image you are working on. That makes sense since you want to see what you are doing. But sometimes you are better off having two copies of the same image on screen rather than just one big one in order to avoid problems. Sometimes "seeing double" can be a good thing....http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-duplicate-new-window.html |