Everyone wants to become faster when working in the creative field. Getting fast makes everyone happy including you, your boss and the all-important client. In this episode of Quicktips we take a look at a few techniques that will allow you to start shaving precious minutes off of your next project.

Once you have mastered these techniques I promise that you will be well on your way to becoming a more efficient Photoshop user and an super-productive creative professional!

Converting digital photographs to black & white is one of the most popular photographic techniques today. In this week's episode of Quicktips we take a look at how to utilize the Calculations Command in Photoshop to create better black & white compositions by essentially blending image channels together.

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In this week's episode of Quicktips we take a look at how to create a cool 3D effect in Photoshop. This is a great special effect that can be applied to images, text, shapes or pretty much anything else you can think of. The best part of this tutorial is the flexibility and compatibility!

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