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101 Hidden Tips & Secrets For Photoshop
101 Hidden Tips & Secrets For Photoshop
1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette. 2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge. 3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it. 4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser. 5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box. 6. In Photoshop, all "Cancel" buttons in a window can be changed to a "Reset" button by holding Alt. 7. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy. 8. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area. 9. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click. 10. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl. 11. Ctrl + Alt and click drag the image, it will make a duplication of the current image over lay on top. 12. Hold Space bar, it will make any tool into "Hand Tool" until you release Space bar. 13. While in Zoom Tool, Ctrl+space = zoom in, alt+space = zoom out. 14. Hold Ctrl and press "+" or "-" it will change the % for image in navigator window. 15. When Using eyedropper tool to capture foreground color, hold Alt and click, it will instantly capture the color for background. 16. With Measure Tool, draw a line then hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first line, it will measure the angle. 17. Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z will go back and forth in the history. 18. Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace will fill in the whole screen with foreground color or background color, Shift+backspace will bring up option window, Alt+Shift+Backspace and Ctrl+Shift+Backspace, will fill the image with foreground or background color but will leave the alpha transparent area alone. 19. When free transforming with Ctrl+T, hold Alt to keep the original image and then to transform a duplicated layer of it. Ctrl+Shift+T to repeat whatever you did in the last transform. 20. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.
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***The shortcut works even for following situation: ***Alpha turned off, Indexed Mode, Line tool, Bucket Tools, Dodge and Burn Tools 27. While using Brush or any other tools, change the opacity by typing the number. *** type one number for % of it's ten times [4=40%] ***type two number for exact % [press 7 then 2 will get 72%]
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39. Ctrl+Tab allows you to switch between different image files you are working on.
40. F12 = Revert to how the file was the last time you saved it.
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- Create a new file, 500x500 px, create a new layer, get a standard brush and paint a dot on the top center of your image (like the number 12 position on a clock). Press Ctrl+Alt+T, it will duplicate your original layer and free transform the new one. Move the pivot point (the circle with little dot in it found when you are free transforming something) to the center of your image, rotate your image 30 degrees to the right and hit OK to confirm the transform now.........
Be excited..........
Hit Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T 10 times and see what happens! 81. When using the "move tool" you can select any layer by holding down the CTL key(CMD on a Mac) and clicking on the part of the layer on the canvas with your mouse. This way you won't have to go to the Layers palette every time and you don't have to keep checking on or off the auto select options for the move tool. 82. You can link up layers without going into the layers palette, by selecting the layer (how I just mentioned above) and holding down CTL + Shift(CMD + SHIT on a Mac) for each additional layer you want to link up. You can unlink them by clicking on the layer again. 83. You can delete more than one layer at a time.......by linking up all the layer you want to delete, and holding down CTL(CMD on a Mac) while you click on the garbage icon to delete the layer. 84. When using the type tool you can ok it by pressing CTL + Enter(CMD + Enter on a Mac) instead of clicking on the check mark on the options. 85. If you have more than one type layer, and want to make any of the following changes color/font/size/alignment/initializing to all of the type layers at the same time.....All you have to do is link up the type layer, hold down the Shift key and in the options for the type tool make your change i.e. color, size, etc. 86. You can use your number pad to change opacity for a layer.... I.e. type 5 and the opacity will be 50; type 55 and the opacity will be 55. You can use the number pad for any tool that uses opacity...like the airbrush tool, stamp tool, brush, gradient, etc. 87. Pressing Tab key will hide the Tools palette and any other palette that you have on the stage. Pressing "F" will change between Full Screen modes. Using these two tips you can view your work Full Screen without any palettes.(You can press CTL+Alt+0 to fit your work to the screen, or you can
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