When coming up with these tips,
I try not to repeat myself, but right now I want to turn back the Time Machine and revisit some of
those can't-live-without-'em tips that can make an enormous
difference to your work in Photoshop. These are the ones I use every
other minute of every day I work in Photoshop. You might have heard
some of them before, but if there's a single one that you don't use
on a daily basis then being reminded of it can really speed up your
work. So, in no particular order, here are the old reliables:
When working with any of the painting or retouching tools, you can
use the bracket keys (][) to change the size of your brush. Or, if
you'd rather change how soft the edge of the brush is, then add the
Shift key and you'll be changing the Hardness setting of your brush
in 25% increments. Or, if you'd rather access the brush presets
palette, then Ctrl-click (Mac) or Right-click (Win) on your image
while any painting or retouching tool is active.
To change the opacity of the currently active tool, use the number
keys on your keyboard. Pressing 1 will give you 10%, 3 gives you
30%, 23 will give you 23%, 0 will give you 100% and so on. And if
you happen to be in the Move tool while using the number keys,
you'll be changing the opacity of the currently active layer. You
can even add the Shift key to change the Flow setting of your brush
or the Fill Opacity setting of the active layer if you're in the
Move tool.
To reset your foreground and background colors to their default
colors (black and white), type D, and to swap them, type X. I use
those all the time when I'm painting on a Layer Mask.
When I need to scroll around my images, I hold the Spacebar, which
temporarily gives me the Hand tool. You can also add the Command key
(Mac), or Ctrl key (Win) which will temporarily activate the Zoom
tool so you can click and drag across the area you'd like to zoom
into. To zoom out, just hold down the Command key (Mac) or Ctrl key
(Win) and then press the Minus key (-).
I don't like to have to constantly look at the Layers palette to
change which layer is active, so I instead type V to get to the Move
tool and then Command-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (Win) on my image.
That will make Photoshop look for the top-most layer that contains
information below your cursor and it will make it active. Or, if I
need to dig a little deeper and make a lower layer active, I'll
Ctrl-click (Mac), or Right-click (Win) when the Move tool is active
and it will present me with a list of all the layers that contain
information below my cursor.
I often need to fill an area with a color, especially when working
on Layer Masks. You can type Option-Delete (Mac), or Alt-Backspace
(Win) to fill with your foreground color, or Command-Delete (Mac),
or Ctrl-Backspace (Win) to fill with your background color. Or, if
you'd rather access the Edit>Fill dialog box, then type Shift-Delete
(Mac), or Shift-Backspace (Win).
When working with numbers in Photoshop (type sizes, scaling
percentages, adjustment settings, etc.), I often click on the number
and then use the up and down arrow keys to increase or decrease the
setting. Adding Shift to the arrow keys will change the number in
larger increments.
Photoshop's palettes often get in my way, and when they do I press
Tab to hide my palettes. If you ever find that that doesn't work,
then first make sure you're not in the middle of something (like an
adjustment or filter dialog box) and also make sure you're not
working on a number (like in a palette). In both of those cases, you
can press Return (Mac) or Enter (Win) to commit to the change
(adjustment, number or whatever it was you were working on) and then
the Tab key should work to hide your palettes. I also like my image
to dominate my screen, so I usually type F once or twice to get to
one of the full screen modes where my image can slide behind all the
palettes and fill my screen. If you're in the second screen mode,
where the menu bar is hidden, try typing Shift-F to toggle the
visibility of the menu bar.
I often type Command-H (Mac), or Ctrl-H (Win) to hide something
(selection edges, text highlighting, slices for the web, guides,
etc.). And when I'm dragging something that starts to snap to things
I don't want it to (like dragging a guide near the edge of an
image), I'll hold the Ctrl key after I press the mouse button, which
temporarily turns off snapping.
There are literally hundreds of tips and shortcuts that I use every
week, but the ones I covered in this message are the core ones that
I use constantly. They are so ingrained in the way I work that I
don't have to think about them, and once you've used them a few
times, they should easily become second nature to you.
-Ben Willmore
read more tips from him at digitalmastery.com
those can't-live-without-'em tips that can make an enormous
difference to your work in Photoshop. These are the ones I use every
other minute of every day I work in Photoshop. You might have heard
some of them before, but if there's a single one that you don't use
on a daily basis then being reminded of it can really speed up your
work. So, in no particular order, here are the old reliables:
When working with any of the painting or retouching tools, you can
use the bracket keys (][) to change the size of your brush. Or, if
you'd rather change how soft the edge of the brush is, then add the
Shift key and you'll be changing the Hardness setting of your brush
in 25% increments. Or, if you'd rather access the brush presets
palette, then Ctrl-click (Mac) or Right-click (Win) on your image
while any painting or retouching tool is active.
To change the opacity of the currently active tool, use the number
keys on your keyboard. Pressing 1 will give you 10%, 3 gives you
30%, 23 will give you 23%, 0 will give you 100% and so on. And if
you happen to be in the Move tool while using the number keys,
you'll be changing the opacity of the currently active layer. You
can even add the Shift key to change the Flow setting of your brush
or the Fill Opacity setting of the active layer if you're in the
Move tool.
To reset your foreground and background colors to their default
colors (black and white), type D, and to swap them, type X. I use
those all the time when I'm painting on a Layer Mask.
When I need to scroll around my images, I hold the Spacebar, which
temporarily gives me the Hand tool. You can also add the Command key
(Mac), or Ctrl key (Win) which will temporarily activate the Zoom
tool so you can click and drag across the area you'd like to zoom
into. To zoom out, just hold down the Command key (Mac) or Ctrl key
(Win) and then press the Minus key (-).
I don't like to have to constantly look at the Layers palette to
change which layer is active, so I instead type V to get to the Move
tool and then Command-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (Win) on my image.
That will make Photoshop look for the top-most layer that contains
information below your cursor and it will make it active. Or, if I
need to dig a little deeper and make a lower layer active, I'll
Ctrl-click (Mac), or Right-click (Win) when the Move tool is active
and it will present me with a list of all the layers that contain
information below my cursor.
I often need to fill an area with a color, especially when working
on Layer Masks. You can type Option-Delete (Mac), or Alt-Backspace
(Win) to fill with your foreground color, or Command-Delete (Mac),
or Ctrl-Backspace (Win) to fill with your background color. Or, if
you'd rather access the Edit>Fill dialog box, then type Shift-Delete
(Mac), or Shift-Backspace (Win).
When working with numbers in Photoshop (type sizes, scaling
percentages, adjustment settings, etc.), I often click on the number
and then use the up and down arrow keys to increase or decrease the
setting. Adding Shift to the arrow keys will change the number in
larger increments.
Photoshop's palettes often get in my way, and when they do I press
Tab to hide my palettes. If you ever find that that doesn't work,
then first make sure you're not in the middle of something (like an
adjustment or filter dialog box) and also make sure you're not
working on a number (like in a palette). In both of those cases, you
can press Return (Mac) or Enter (Win) to commit to the change
(adjustment, number or whatever it was you were working on) and then
the Tab key should work to hide your palettes. I also like my image
to dominate my screen, so I usually type F once or twice to get to
one of the full screen modes where my image can slide behind all the
palettes and fill my screen. If you're in the second screen mode,
where the menu bar is hidden, try typing Shift-F to toggle the
visibility of the menu bar.
I often type Command-H (Mac), or Ctrl-H (Win) to hide something
(selection edges, text highlighting, slices for the web, guides,
etc.). And when I'm dragging something that starts to snap to things
I don't want it to (like dragging a guide near the edge of an
image), I'll hold the Ctrl key after I press the mouse button, which
temporarily turns off snapping.
There are literally hundreds of tips and shortcuts that I use every
week, but the ones I covered in this message are the core ones that
I use constantly. They are so ingrained in the way I work that I
don't have to think about them, and once you've used them a few
times, they should easily become second nature to you.
-Ben Willmore
read more tips from him at digitalmastery.com
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