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Photoshop Top 40, Feature #20: Free Transform

How do you rotate a layer? Right-click it and select Rotate? Choose Rotate from the Layer menu? Click the rotate tool? The answer is no, no, and no. Fortunately, there

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #21: The Gradient Tool

Every app offers a gradient tool. But Photoshop's is special. Not only can you paint a soft transition from black to white. But you can soften the transition from one image to another. It fades, swipes, and more.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #22: The Healing Brush

Pits, pock marks, pimples. We all suffer blemishes that we wish we didn't. Or so we would were it not for Photoshop's healing brush. This amazing tool grafts good skin onto bad and heals the seams in between.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #23: Color Range

If you use the magic wand tool, stop what you're doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image as easily as the wand. But with more flexibility and much better results.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #24: Curves

Where luminance is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. It lets you reign in highlights, open up shadows, and reveal all points in between. Curves takes a bud of an image and makes it blossom.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #25: Selection Calculations

Press the Shift key to add to a selection. Press Alt (or Option) to subtract and Shift+Alt (Shift+Opt) to find an intersection. Helpfully, these tricks apply to layers, channels, and paths. They're a power user's dream.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #26: Dodge and Burn

Photoshop offers two tools that paint with luminance: The dodge tool paints in brightness, the burn tool paints in darkness. They're crazy useful, and they've gotten so much better in Photoshop CS4.