Comments on: Photoshop CS6′s “‘Cool Little Secret Features’ That Nobody is Talking About”

By: Lorii Abela

Lorii Abela — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:05:19 +0000

Those are truly cool features!..

By: Shangara Singh

Shangara Singh — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:29:47 +0000

Secret as in the nose on your face?…Here’s a secret or two:

To turn layer filtering off *totally,* so that the layer filter menu isn’t greyed out, Option/Alt-click the On/Off switch.

When the crop box is active, you cannot draw another until you escape, nor can you start to draw a crop box from outside of the image after selecting the Crop tool. If you need to do either, hold down Shift, click, let go of Shift and continue to draw.

I am compiling a list of similar tips for an eBook that I hope to release in August.

By: Alan Hogan

Alan Hogan — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:48:20 +0000

This is off-topic, but the title of this post used U+2032 PRIME instead of the standard U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK for its apostrophe.

I’m unhealthily curious as to why that is.

By: Landon

Landon — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:39:09 +0000

Some of those aren’t new at all. Cropping outside was a handy little bit that was added years and years ago (CS maybe?). And you’ve been able to change the color of the window surrounding the canvas for as long as I can remember by picking a color and the paint bucket then shift+clicking outside the canvas. The rest is cool though.

By: Sean Teegarden

Sean Teegarden — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:41:28 +0000

Wasn’t Contact Sheet II taken out because a PDF Contact Sheet made from Bridge or Lightroom is smaller in file size and text searchable, whereas the (flattened) PS Contact Sheet is not?

[It was taken out because we thought that Bridge was a fundamentally better place to deal with multiple images & set parameters related to them. --J.]

Plus, most clients who want a contact sheet (from my experience) will know Acrobat and PDF more than Photoshop.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:47:01 +0000

Yay !!! Nice additions.