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15 Simple Photoshop tips and tricks

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Here are 15 simple Photoshop tips and tricks to take advantage of .

 Bird’s eye view  ( use with mouse)

Hold down the letter H and just click

and drag and it will zoom you out and

give you the little viewing box and you

can zoom in anywhere on the image. 

 Subject tool

If a picture consists of a main image and a background and you want to change the colour of the background. Click the quick selection tool, then click select subject. Photoshop will automatically select the subject of the image. To select the background, click select then inverse. Change the foreground colour to anyone you wish. Next select the brush tool, set the brush size and use it to paint the background. If the selection is not exactly what you want, select either add to selection or subtract from selection from quick selection options. Then click to add or subtract depending on what option you selected.

Temporary tool ( use with mouse)

If you are using a main tool and don’t want to break the workflow by changing to another tool. You can temporarily select the other tool you quickly want to use. Do this by pressing the letter assigned to that tool. For instance if you were on the dodge tool and quickly want to use the lasso tool, press and hold L to use after then release L to get back to the dodge tool. Whatever you are doing, when you press and hold  the spacebar, it temporarily gives you the hand tool which you can use to navigate, and when done release the space bar to go back to the main tool you were using before.

Use a blank adjustment layer to quickly change the feel of an image.

To use it, place a blank adjustment layer over your image and then use blending mode to quickly change the appearance and feel of the image.

Smarter selections 

When you are making a selection  on an image and you make a mistake, instead of pressing select then deselect to start over you can hold down the spacebar and work around the selection.

Use export as instead of save as

When you have finished editing your image, a better way of saving your image as a picture file is to use the export function.  Go to file , then export, select the type of export file you want in export preferences, then click export. The file is saved in the picture format and location you chose.

Export multiple layers function

You can also export multiple layers as jpeg. Just select the layers, group them right click and select quick export as jpeg and you are done. You can also go through file, export, export preferences, select the file type and other settings and you are good to go.

Use the Alt. Key to quickly duplicate

Holding down the alt key while clicking and dragging out a layer  straight up will duplicate it. It a quick way of creating a copy of pictures in photoshop

Straightening perspective 

This helps to straighten pictures that are in perspective. To do this go to filter, Camera Raw filter. In geometry click on guided. Next Draw straight lines in the bottom, top and sides of the picture to adjust.

Healing brush tool to perfect rough edges

If you have images with rough edges you can use the healing brush tool to remove the imperfections. Make sure to select the source image along the edge 

Colour replacement brush

To change the colour of an object within an image, you can easily do this using the colour replacement brush. Select the brush, play with the options, select the colour you want to change the object to then carefully apply on the object.

 Moving quickly from one open document to the other

When you are working in photoshop there is every probability that you will have several documents open at the same time

To select open document by moving forward, press ctrl tab, to move backwards , press control shift tab

Isolate one layer of an image

Hold down the alt button then click the eyeball of the layer you want to isolate.

Copying layers from one document to another using Ctrl C and V

Layers that you used in a document and you want to use it in another , make sure the documents are open, the select the layers in the documents you want to copy from then press Ctrl C to copy, move to the document you want to paste to and press Ctrl V

Using the Rotate tool

Press and hold down the R key while working on an image to rotate it.

Popular South Korean Pastor, David Yonggi Cho has Died.

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David Yonggi Cho

Popular South Korean Minister, David Yonggi Cho has died. He was 85 years old. He died on 14 September, 2021. He was said to have died due to complications from a stroke.He was born 14 February 1936. 

He is the co-founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church, the church with the World’s largest congregation. The Church is said to have over 830,000 members as of 2007.

Yonggi Cho was raised initially as a Buddhist, but converted to Christianity at the age of 17

He was a trained Bible Scholar. His Ministry concentrated on Evangelism and Church growth. 

In 1979 he founded Church Growth International an organization dedicated to teaching Evangelism and Church growth to pastors all over the World. Yonggi Cho also founded several other Christian organizations including a newspaper and university. 

He is a mentor to many pastors all over the World.

He retired in 2008 with Young Hoon Lee succeeding him as senior pastor.

How to Resize Pictures with Your Android Phone

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1.First things first, go to Google Play Store and search for “ Photo and Picture resizer” and download.

(Note : to view the size of picture on your android phone, click to select photo, then look to the top right of your screen and click the 3 dots(vertical), then click; Details)

2.Start the Photo and Picture resizer app you just downloaded.

3.Click, Select Photos.

4.Navigate to and click on the photo or photos you want to resize.

5.Click on Resize.

6.You will be presented with several resizing options including percentage, width & height and pixel resolution options.

If the preset picture sizing is not listed, click on Custom to set picture size to the one you want exactly.

7.In this example I will reduce the picture using the percentage option.

8. For instance click 75% to reduce the picture to 75% of its original dimension. Note the new reduced dimensions in pixels is stated.

9.To view the resized picture, click; See in resized photos

How to do an lmage Search on Google ( Mobile)

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The Google search engine on your mobile  phone is a portable version but still has all the necessary  features to enable you to perform a good search.

Of course you can still access the desktop version of google search on your mobile phone.However, you may have to do a lot of panning and zooming depending on your screen size.

This article briefly describes how you can do image search using google search mobile.

There are 2 ways you can access google image search. You can either go to google.com then click, images  at the top of your screen. Or, just directly go to images.google.com. Even if you entered image.google.com, Google will still take you to image search.

In the image search bar you can type the title of the picture you want to search for.

Google search engine is very smart. For instance you can go beyond just searching for a type of picture. You can type both the title of the picture and the file type and click search. Let say you want to search for pictures of sand, in addition you also want the file type to be png. Then just type sand png in the search bar and images of different types of sand with file type png will be returned.

You can still go a step further and type; sand png 1280 x 720px in the search bar. The search engine will return different sand images of file type png and size 1280 × 720 pixels.

When you click on an image result, you will be given the option to visit the website that has the picture. If you click and hold the picture, you will be given the option to download the image.

Google has other tools that can help refine your image search. Just take a good look at all the options available. Picking the settings icon at the top left just before the picture results will give you the option of searching only pictures with creative common license. That is, pictures you can reuse without having copyright issues.

Also note that once you perform an image search, other search categories such as videos, maps, books, etc become available.

There is so much more you can do with google image search and indeed google search engine as a whole. I have written this short article to give insight. Feel free to explore google search and get the search you want.

About Engine Oil Consumption of Your Car

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Cars consume engine oil, but oil consumption is minimal.

Note that the amount of engine oil your car consumes will depend on viscosity, quality of the oil and the way you drive your car.

Your car consumes engine oil when you drive at high speeds and also frequent acceleration and deceleration.

A new engine consumes engine oil.

Normally your car should consume about one liter of engine oil every 1000km (600 miles).

If your car consumes much more then have it checked by a qualified personnel.

You should also note that engine oil drops on the floor under the car and oil stains on the engine body need to checked by qualified personnel.

Bandits invade Nigeria Defence Academy in Kaduna

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Reports from major Nigerian newspapers have it that gunmen in military uniform invaded the Nigerian Defence Academy in Afaka Kaduna.  Two soldiers were killed and one was kidnapped.

The following facts have emerged so far;

1.That the bandits invaded the defence Academy at about 1am on Tuesday night.

2. That the soldiers on guard were caught unawares.

3. That the bandits wore military uniform

4. That the bandits attacked the military institution from several directions

5. That two soldiers were killed and one kidnapped. 

6. The military are on the trail of the attackers and they would soon be apprehended.