(Note: this post applies to Photoshop CS3 on a PC. I haven’t played with it on the Mac yet) I’ve been frustrated for a long time with one simple thing in Photoshop CS3: the fact that ctrl+left-clicking an item in my layout with the move tool no longer selects the layer of the item I’m clicking, but the most top level folder that its layer resides in. Well, today I finally figured out the new shortcut for selecting a layer...

I’m at Adobe MAX this week. I’m currently sitting in the sneak peek session and blogging it with my phone (so forgive any typos or misunderstandings). Out of over 600 entries, the MAX award’s people’s choice was given to eBay Desktop. Now for the sneaks: Adobe Visual Communicator is new to Adobe. We all got a copy when we got here but had no idea what it was until the session explained that its pretty much a way to...

Today I accidentally discovered how to make a pretty interesting texture in either Fireworks or Photoshop (the process and outcome are almost identical in each) and probably many other image editing programs. First, create a new 3 pixel by 3 pixel image. Now zoom in on the image as far as you possibly can. Select the pencil tool, and fill in the image with some random colors and patterns (you only get 9 pixels to play with in my...