Quick tip 14 – Crosshair problem

This is part 14 of the Photoshop quick tip series where you will learn how to fix a common problem with the crosshair.

If you have any Photoshop tool currently selected and the ‘Caps Lock’ turned on. You will receive the following crosshair as shown below. This crosshair feature is extremely annoying and many users have complained that they can’t get rid of the crosshair, even from the preference menu on the tool bar.



This problem is fixed by simply turning off ‘Caps Lock’ on the keyboard. If you ever need to use the caps lock remember to turn it off afterwards, or you will not be able to use any of the tools.

Free cloud textures

I previous wrote a post on free wood texture. Today I will provide a collection of four cloud textures which are available to download for free. These textures can be used for adding clouds to your Photoshop files. To download the images, simply right click and select ‘Save As’,








Quick tip 13 – Select Hex colour in Photoshop

This is part 13 from the Photoshop quick tip series and in this quick tip you will learn how to quickly select the hex colour codes in Photoshop.

Normally if you want to find out the hex colour code in Photoshop you would have to select the eye dropper tool, then open up the colour picker panel and copy the code as show below.



However, there is a much quicker method of finding the hex colour code. Firstly, you need to have the eye dropper tool selected. Then you click to choose the colour you want, and then right click and select ‘copy colour as html’. This will copy the select the colour into a hexadecimal value.



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