CSS Rules create a list of detailed instructions for how certain aspects of a web page should look. Using CSS Rules, you can change fonts, color schemes, virtually anything with one click, versus manually going through code to make changes.

CSS Rules appear in a toolbar in the upper right. To create a new CSS rule: In the properties tool box, click the paper with the plus sign on it. Always be specific when naming rules. Titles like Body, Header, box, help keep track of the rules so you can easily locate a rule for editing.

This window will pop up:

Tags

Specific tags are created to apply in multiple situations. Tags tell specifications, such as font, size, and color. If you create a tag for H1, all H1 will look that way.

To create a tag: Select “Tag” in the dialogue box.

ID
ID’s are used for specific things, like page wraps.
To create an ID,  select advanced in the dialogue box. Begin all ID names with #.

Class
A class can be used over and over and only affects one thing.
To create a class, select “Class” in the dialogue box. Begin class names with a period.

For those drunk photos where the horizon skews for no artistic purpose, this is a quick and sure way to straighten the horizon.

1. In the tools pallet, select the ruler tool (it’s under the eye-dropper tool box).

2. Click and drag the image horizon that should be straight.

3. Edit > Rotate

Photoshop will automatically calculate the angle the image needs to be rotated, so just click OK.

Now just crop.

For your regular old, run-of-the-mill simple border:

1. Creat a new layer

2. Select all

3. Edit > Stroke. Select pixel width.

4. Resize however you’d like it and done!

When you’ve been working on a project a lot, you might find that it’s taking longer and longer to render clips. You’ve got too many rendered clips stores. The fix is easy.

File > Render Manager

Find the folder of the project you are working in and put a check in the delete column next to the audio and video icons (the directions are in the window). Then click OK. This will clear out older rendered clips – this will also clean our your undo cache so make sure you don’t intend on going back to a previous state in your project.

Once it’s finished, you’ll need to render your whole project again.

This tutorial will show you how to make photos look antique.

1. Start with a photo.

2. Duplicate the image to keep your background image protected.  In the copy later, desaturate the image: Image > desaturate.

3. Now we need to adjust the coloring to a sepia tint. Images > Adjustments > Color balance. The settings will vary from picture to picture and it may take quite a bit of fussing to get it right. You’ll want to adjust the shadows, midtones, and highlights. Here are the numbers I used:

4. My photo still looked a bit red, so I also went into the layers pallet and adjusted the Selective Color.

Before selective color——–> After

5. Sometimes images can look washed out after you give it a sepia tint. You might try changing the blending mode of the second layer to Color and setting the layer opacity to 80%.

6. Make a new layer. In this layer I’m going to use my brush tool and some cool brushes that I downloaded for free to add some cracks and crinkles on the photograph.

7. Alright, here’s where I reached out to my resources. I downloaded an action that adds an antique affect to images. Download it, open it and it should appear in your actions tool bar.

Play the action – you’ll be amazed at how many steps go into this and thankful that you don’t have to do the work! At the end, you’ll have an option to keep layers or merge the image. I strongly suggest keeping the layers.

At the end, I added another selective color layer and removed a layer. The cracks that I added earlier make a big impact in the final result:

Photoshopsupport.com has a link to free downloadable brushes that include really neat things like tattoo designs, butterflies, foilage, auroras, cracks, and more. They are easy to download and are quick ways to add interesting affects to your pictures.

Burnt paper tutorial

Selection tutorial that will maks out difficult objects with clean edges.

1. Edit –> image size –> uncheck the Resample image

*make sure the constrained porportions is checked

2. Change resolution to 300 or 240