A lot of times when you're working in Photoshop, your screen can get really cluttered with palettes. For those who likes to be clean and organized here are some instant ways to clean up your work area.

Easter eggs are an unexpected surprise, perhaps a message, an image, or a sound, hidden in a Web site or in an application program. This is one of the Easter Eggs found in Photoshop called "Merlin Lives.

Some of the tips may be repeated, as I basically compiled the replies of that particular thread, and some may only be compatible for one version of PS, and not the other, and vice versa.

All CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) have a refresh rate. A refresh rate defines how fast the frames are being shown. For example, if a monitor has a refresh rate of 60hz, it means that the image is being shown and updated 60 times a second. At 60hz, the monitor will flash the image 60 times every second.

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, November 2005
This tutorial course is a comprehensive Photoshop Toolbox reference. Here you will find the descriptions of all Photoshop Tools, including video manuals.

1. In the Optimize palette, select GIF in the format menu. The palette changes; lots of options appear!
2. GIF images may have very limited amount of colors (up to 256); the less colors contained in image, the smaller file we get. First, let's choose a color reduction algorithm (movie)...

Look at our sample image. Narcissus covers about 20% of overall area, inscriptions about 10% and approximately 70% of the picture are almost black. Why should we save all the image with equally high quality? Channel-based weighted optimization solves this problem.

The Default Actions.atn contains just a few actions selected from 6 pre-packaged sets. Let's try some other actions.

Ok, we've had some fun playing with the ready-made actions. Now it's time to record an action of our own. For example, let's create a yet another frame.

We are coming up to color and tonal adjustments. First of all, to adjust the colors correctly, make sure, that images displayed in Photoshop look the same way as on your target output device.