Since giving up my studio, I’ve been doing more location work. Still I need to shoot studio based stuff too, so when I do, I’m shooting in my kitchen. I’ve a 5 foot section of wall, that works fine for up to 3/4. When I need to go wider, then the sides of the shot become an issue. Fortunately Photoshop comes to the rescue in these situations. Todays Photoshop Quick Tip is on Content Aware Scale, available in CS4 and 5.

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A lot of the work I do in Photoshop involves brushes. Usually for painting in Layers Masks or Adjustment Layers. 2 simple shortcuts that dramatically speed up brush use are: [ and ] to decrease and increase brush size, and Shift [ and Shift ] to change the Hardness. A final quick shortcut is to use Shift + Alt + P (Shift + Option + P on Mac) to toggle the Airbrush.