Tuesday, December 11, 2018
1. Adjust brush size. With
the Brush Tool activate, rather than access the decline menu at the top of the display,
press the right bracket key, Photoshop Shortcut Keys],
to increase the size of the brush and the left group key, [, to decrease.
2. Adjust brush hardness. Along
with size, brush hardness often needs to be adjusted. Holding shift + ] (right
bracket key) increases the hardness of the brush while holding shift + [ (left
bracket key) will decrease the hardness. at the present you can keep the brush
tip where it belongs, in the middle of your image, instead of making frequent
trips up to the property bar
3. Copy to a new layer.
Again, keep the pointer on the art board. Duplicating a layer is as simple as
pressing CTRL + J (PC) or Cmd + J (Mac). This will create a copy of the active
layer in the layers palette. It will also copy an active selection onto a new
layer, leaving the current layer intact. Also, pressing CTRL+ Shift + J (PC) or
Cmd + Shift + J (Mac) will cut the current full of life selection from the
active layer and paste it onto a new layer. If you first name all your layers,
simply adding the ALT (PC) or Option (Mac) key to either of these combinations
will open the New Layer dialog box so you can name the new layer on the fly.
You can also adjust the opacity and blend mode of this new layer right in the
New Layer dialog box, saving you an extra journey to the layer Palette.
4. Fill the layer or assortment
with color. Press CTRL + Backspace (PC) or Cmd + delete (Mac) to fill the layer
with the current foreground color. Press ALT + Backspace (PC) or Option +
delete (Mac) to fill the layer with the current background color. These same
commands can also be used to fill a selection. Bonus: To change the foreground
and background colors rear to the default colors (black for the foreground and
white for the background) simply press the D key.
5. Undo. No need to visit
the History palette. CTRL + Z (PC) or Cmd + Z (Mac) will undo one step.
Pressing this amalgamation again will redo (or rather, bring you back to before
the undo). Need to go back further than the last step? Simply hold CTRL + Alt
(PC) or Cmd + Option (Mac) and press Z. Every time you press the Z key, you
will move backwards one more step.
6. The Hand Tool. Forget the
scroll bars at the edges of the document window. To quickly find the way around
the image, hold down the spacebar to temporarily activate the Hand Tool. Click
and drag with the Hand Tool to move the text. To deactivate the Hand Tool,
release the space bar
7. Favorite Tools. Learn the
keyboard shortcuts for your favorite tools. For example B = Brush Tool, V =
Move, J = Spot Healing Brush. As you become familiar with these, you will
notice that groups of tools all share the same shortcut key. For example, the
Spot Healing Brush, the Healing Brush, the Patch Tool and the Red Eye Tool all
share the same shortcut key - the letter J. By pressing J, you will activate
the last used tool in the group. To cycle though the other tools in the group,
hold Shift + the letter for that group of tools, and the active tool will cycle
to the next tool in the group.
If you find yourself
continually using a command that doesn't have a keyboard shortcut, you can
easily assign one. Go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. Find the command on the
list and assign the key combination you would like to use. If you try to assign
an already used combination, Photoshop will ask if you would like to reassign
that key combination. This dialog box is also a great place to find out what
keyboard shortcuts are assigned to all commands.
8. Layer Opacity. To quickly
change the opacity of the current layer, simply press a number key. Pressing 5
= 50% opacity, press 3 = 30%, etc. To narrow the opacity to a percentage more
specific than a multiple of 10, press the two numbers quickly. For example, pressing
5, 5 in quick succession will set the opacity to 55%. (To get back to 100%,
quickly press 1, 0, 0.) Please note, this shortcut will not work if one of the
tools in the second group is active.
9. Zoom in and out. To zoom
into an image, press CTRL and + or Cmd and + and to zoom out press CTRL and -
(PC) or Cmd and - (Mac).
10. Scrubby sliders. Most
settings in Photoshop provide a slider to adjust to your liking.
Click and drag on the name
of the setting to active the Scrubby Slider. Sliding to the left or right will
adjust the setting value up or down without having to open the slider. You will
know that a Scrubby Slider is available when your cursor turns into a little
pointing finger with arrows to the left and right.
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