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Photoshop is a most essential skill for graphic designing. This software offers enhanced output and flexibility and is featured with many aspects. These aspects include file browser, vanishing point tool, smart sharpen filter, noise reduction filter, smart objects and camera workflow enrichments too. It also entices the graphic designers with its photo editing features, digital imaging and nondestructive editing too.

Here are some of the hidden features and approaching to this software. Exploring all of them might not be possible.

1. There is an option available to replicate bold and italic formatting styles for fonts. To invoke the character palette, you need to select the type tool option. Now, you can select the text and click on the arrow in the upper right corner of the palette. This is where the faux bold and italics are available. Once the format has been applied, you cannot bend or twist it.
2. To flip at once, you need to do it using the blend modes when you are trying out the effects by using ‘Shift+’ to move to the next mode and ‘Shift-’ to navigate to the preceding mode. This shortcut will change the blend mode of the painting tool when the painting tool is in use. If some other thing is activated, then this shortcut will not work. Then the option is to press the escape (Esc) key to make use of the shortcut keys again.
3. To craft a panorama, it calls for the art of blending multiple images and this can be done using the Photo-merge feature that is present in the Automate menu. To upgrade its composition, you can use the other tools like rotate, zoom, pan and also set vanishing point.
4. In the process of re-sampling the images, there are two attractive features that will be of use. They are Bi-cubic Smoother and Bi-cubic sharper which can be used for up sampling and down sampling respectively. You also have the option to indicate which interpolation technique to be employed. This option is available in general preferences and setting a default.
5. To print there are two features namely contact sheet II or picture package. To make the picture look small and to print the name below the image, you could use ‘contact sheet’. To print a number of images that vary in size on the same page or to print multiple copies of the same image or a text overlay, you can use ‘printer package’.
6. For instance you have an image wearing specks reflecting a glare. To remove the glare effect, you can use that part of the lens without glare to layer the lens with a glare. Rotate, skew, soft-tip eraser are some of the tools that could be used to soften the corners. You also have an option to use the clone tool to remove off the glare that is shown from below.
7. If you need to go online, you can use the online services and get linked to the online photo printing and sharing websites.
8. Another feature is the ‘web photo gallery’. This can create hyperlink pages and these pages can easily be uploaded to the server.
9. If you wish to print a layout of images that vary in size in a single page, you can use the ‘picture package’ option.
10. To avoid losing track on the steps taken to attain certain results, you have the ‘History Log’. It also acts as a legal record. You have 3 choices in it. First choice – to create sessions that will record the steps only while the Photoshop is opened or closed. Second Choice– a small summary record will be created. This will record every step including the text that is present in the history palette. Third choice – the entire editing history including the text that is present in the actions palette.

Adobe Photoshop is an excellent tool for every enthusiastic graphic designer. When used on a regular basis, one can master with all the tools available with it.