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ReplyDeleteLet’s say you're using the Curves dialog for correcting images and you have an image where you’re trying to adjust the color of some green plants. How do you know where that particular green “lives” on the curve so you can dial in and adjust it? Photoshop can tell you—in fact, you can have Photoshop automatically plot that color on the curve for you. With the Curves dialog open, just Command-click (PC: Control-click) on that color within your image. Photoshop will then add a point to the curve that represents the spot you sampled, and now you're ready to tweak it.
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ReplyDeleteIf you've selected something within your Photoshop document and you want to copy-and-paste that item into its own separate document, don't worry about typing the Width and Height into Photoshop’s New document dialog. Photoshop automatically figures that you're going to paste that image into a new document, so when you open the New dialog, the exact size of your copied selection has already been entered for you, so just click OK, and then paste your image inside—it'll be a perfect fit.
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ReplyDelete1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette.
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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.
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1. Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z will go back and forth in the history.
ReplyDelete2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.
5. Ctrl+J will duplicate the current layer. 6. Ctrl+Shift+E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will make a copy of the original and merge
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DeleteThis is a pretty wild tip—how to make just one part of a layer have a lower opacity. We know it sounds impossible, but this is totally cool. Start by making a selection on any area of the layer that you want to become transparent, while the rest of the layer remains at 100%. Then go under the Edit menu and choose Fill. When the Fill dialog appears, from the Mode pop-up menu choose Clear. Then lower the Opacity of the fill to whatever percentage you’d like, then click OK and voila—part of your layer has opacity, while the rest remains at 100%. Majorly cool! (Note: You have to think in reverse here. Clear set to 100% Opacity will make the selected area completely transparent.) Wait, what if you decide later that you want to fill it back in? Here’s how: Just start making copies of your layer by pressing Command-J (PC: Control-J), and as you do, you’ll see the transparency disappear. You may have to make five or more copies, but son of a gun if it doesn’t work. When it looks right, hide all but those copied layers, and from the Layers palette’s flyout menu, choose Merge Visible.
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DeleteLet Photoshop Do The Math When Copying/Pasting If you've selected something within your Photoshop document and you want to copy-and-paste that item into its own separate document, don't worry about typing the Width and Height into Photoshop’s New document dialog. Photoshop automatically figures that you're going to paste that image into a new document, so when you open the New dialog, the exact size of your copied selection has already been entered for you, so just click OK, and then paste your image inside—it'll be a perfect fit.
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Delete1. Select a layer and hold Alt, then click on the garbage can button. It will instantly delete the layer, marquee where you want alpha and Ctrl+click the "Create new channel" button, it will create an alpha only on the area you marquee.
ReplyDelete2. File> Automate > Contact Sheet: this can create a small thumbnail for every file, this can save you some time from searching.
3. When Move Tool is selected, toolbox on top can be useful from time to time, these are "Auto select layer" and "Show bounding box".
4. While Move Tool is selected, hold Shift (Alt+Shift+Right click) and allow whether or not to make a current layer chain with your upper layer.
5. With grid on, click the top left corner of the grid and drag to anywhere on the image to set the pivot, double clicking on the icon again reset the pivot
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DeleteCheck the levels. In Photoshop, go to Image>Adjustments>Levels (or type control + L) to open the Levels dialog box. The histogram shows you the spread of color values in your image. The highlights are on the right and the shadows are on the left. If either end of the histogram doesn't reach the end of the graph then your lights, darks or both aren't as light or dark as they could/should be. By pulling the sliders in to meet the ends of the histogram data you will be darkening the darks and lightening the lights, which by definition will increase the contrast of your image. Hint: pulling the sliders past the end of the histogram data is generally a no-no. It will "clip" information from your image causing some areas to be completely black or completely white. Avoid this unless you are purposefully going for a Euro-fashion, impressionistic look.
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DeleteCheck the levels. In Photoshop, go to Image>Adjustments>Levels (or type control + L) to open the Levels dialog box. The histogram shows you the spread of color values in your image. The highlights are on the right and the shadows are on the left. If either end of the histogram doesn't reach the end of the graph then your lights, darks or both aren't as light or dark as they could/should be. By pulling the sliders in to meet the ends of the histogram data you will be darkening the darks and lightening the lights, which by definition will increase the contrast of your image. Hint: pulling the sliders past the end of the histogram data is generally a no-no. It will "clip" information from your image causing some areas to be completely black or completely white. Avoid this unless you are purposefully going for a Euro-fashion, impressionistic look.
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Delete1. 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.
ReplyDelete2. 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.
3. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.
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1. 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.
ReplyDelete2. 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.
3. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.
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1. Ctrl+Shift+E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will make a copy of the original and merge all visible layers.
ReplyDelete2. While using Marquee Tools, hold Alt it will make the starting point as a center of the selection.
3. Ctrl + D to deselect, Ctrl+Shift+D to reselect what you deselected.
4. While selecting with Marquee tool, pressing the space bar can allow you to move the selection.
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DeletePutting Your Lens Flare On The Spot This tip lets you precisely position the center of the Lens Flare filter by using the Info palette and a little-known feature of the Lens Flare dialog. First, open the Info palette (found under the Window menu), then put your cursor over the precise spot in your image where you’d like the center of your lens flare to appear. Look in the Info palette, under the X and Y coordinates, and write down those two coordinates (I knew one day I’d find a use for the X and Y coordinate readings). Then go under the Filter menu, under Render, and choose Lens Flare. There’s a fairly large preview window in the center of the dialog. Hold the Option key (PC: Alt key), click once on the preview window, and it brings up the Precise Flare Center dialog. Enter those X and Y coordinates you wrote down earlier (you did write them down, right?), click OK, and your lens flare is precisely positioned.
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ReplyDeleteThere are other ways to draw a straight line than using the line tool. After this tip, you may find your need to reach for the line tool reduced, in fact this may even break your addiction. While using any of the drawing tools; Brushes, Pencil, Dodge and Burn, Eraser, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge holding down the shift key will cause you to draw in a perfectly straight line either vertical or horizontal. An added feature will let you create straight lines between points by clicking, hold down shift and click again anywhere to join the 2 points.
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The Eyedropper tool (the icon in the Toolbar) is used to sample a color from an image to use this color further. It's practical as it facilitates color selection, for example, an appropriate color for the skin or the sky.
ReplyDeleteTip 1. When you pick a color with the Eyedropper tool, it appears as the foreground color in the Toolbar. If you want to pick a color for the background hold the ALT-key while selecting the color with the Eyedropper tool.
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The Importance of quick keys To increase your overall efficiency while using Adobe Photoshop, it is critical to apply some effort in learning 'quick-keys'. A quick-key is in effect a keyboard short-cut. When pressed in combination with another key, a quick key will send a command to Adobe Photoshop to perform a certain action. A good example of this can be found when holding down the 'CTRL' key and pressing the 'N'. This will cause the 'New' dialogue box to appear. There are 100's of quick-keys to learn about in Adobe Photoshop. Most of them can be found next to commands within the menu system. It would be an unrealistic objective to try and learn all quick-keys at this point. Indeed, you might not need to know all of them, just the ones that prove to be most useful to you. If you are applying a certain action or command on a regular basis in your work flow, rather than depending upon the menu system, take time in trying to learn its related quick-key. Quick Key Map The Following table is a useful listing of commonly used quick keys. Note: You will need to hold the 'Shift' key to cycle though obscured tools with the tool palette.
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Here’s a tip that gives you a faster and more convenient way to switch to another preset brush without using the Brushes palette—and you might find that you like it even better. Just press the Control key, then click within your image (PC: Right-click) and the Brush Picker will appear directly under your cursor. Plus, you can even change the Master Diameter of the brush that you choose in the Picker. This is one you'll have to try to appreciate the sheer speed and convenience of putting your brushes at your fingertips anytime.
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1. In Photoshop, all "Cancel" buttons in a window can be changed to a "Reset" button by holding Alt.
ReplyDelete2. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy.
3. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area.
4. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click.
5. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl. 6. Ctrl + Alt and click drag the image, it will make a duplication of the current image over lay on top.
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ReplyDeleteTips 1. Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z will go back and forth in the history.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.
5. Ctrl+J will duplicate the current layer.
6. Ctrl+Shift+E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will make a copy of the original and merge
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To rotate an image in Adobe Photoshop you can use commands from the submenu Image - Rotate Canvas. You can apply the following commands: 180° - it rotates the image by 180 degrees. 90° CW - it rotates the image by 90 degrees clockwise. 90° CCW - it rotates the image by 90 degrees anticlockwise. Arbitrary - this command rotates the image by an arbitrary angle. For this purpose: Step 1. select the command from the menu; Step 2. enter the value of the rotation angle in degrees; Step 3. specify the direction of the rotation - clockwise or anticlockwise; Step 4. press the button OK. To flip an image in Adobe Photoshop you can use the following commands from the menu Image - Rotate Canvas: Flip Horizontal - it mirrors the image as to the standing axis, i.e. interchanges the left and the right parts of the image; Flip Vertical - it mirrors the image as to the horizontal axis, i.e. it turns the image upside down.
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Where do I install an action or plug-in and how do I load it afterwards? A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that integrates into another program adding new features and increasing functionality. Adobe allows installing in its programs plug-in filters from other software developers. Some Photoshop compatible plugins have an installer that will guide you through the process. But what should you do if a plug-in has a ".8bf" extension (Windows) or any other extensions - like ".plugin" or ".thunk" or others (Mac OS) *? How to install these files? It's as easy as pie. All you need to do is to copy (or drag) the file into the "Plug-Ins" sub-folder of the Photoshop folder. For example, for Photoshop CS2 it's typically located at: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins (for Windows) or Library\Applications\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins (for Mac OS). If you have installed Photoshop in any other location you should look for the "Plug-Ins" folder there. Bear in mind that Photoshop must be closed when installing new plugins. Next time you start Photoshop, the plugins will be available in the menu "Filter":
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Some Useful Tips: Photoshop recognizes plug-ins located in subfolders and subdirectories inside the "Plug-Ins" folder. You can classify your filters by developer or by task. Just create a new folder inside the "Plug-Ins" folder and put the files in it. However, the list of plugins in the Photoshop menu (under "Filter") looks different from the list in the "Plug-Ins" folder. In the Photoshop menu plug-ins are usually classified by developer. Photoshop also recognizes shortcuts (Windows) and alias (Mac OS) within the "Plug-Ins" folder and subfolders. Install your plug-in filters into any folder outside Photoshop, and then create a shortcut for the ".8bf" file (or "make alias" on Macintosh) and place it into the "Plug-Ins" folder. With shortcuts you can manage your plugins quickly and safely. You can select an additional plug-ins folder in Photoshop Preferences. Call the command Edit (or Photoshop - for Mac OS), then Preferences
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Use the Reset Button. When you are in a Photoshop dialog (for example, the Image… dialog) you can press the Alt key on your keyboard (Option on the Mac) and the Cancel button will change to a Reset button and you can change back to whatever settings you altered.
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ReplyDeleteUse the Alignment Buttons. If you have multiple objects and you want to line them up you can easily do so by linking them together and using any one of the alignment buttons that appear when you have the move tool selected. This tip is great for lining up multiple text strings or shapes.
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ReplyDeleteA plug-in (or plug-in) is a computer program that integrates into another program adding new features and increasing functionality.
Adobe allows installing in its programs plug-in filters from other software developers.
Some Photoshop compatible plug-in have an installer that will guide you through the process. But what should you do if a plug-in has a ".8bf" extension (Windows) or any other extensions - like ".plugin" or ".thunk" or others (Mac OS) *?
How to install these files? It's as easy as pie.
All you need to do is to copy (or drag) the file into the "Plug-Ins" sub-folder of the Photoshop folder. For example, for Photoshop CS2-CS5 it's typically located at: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins (for Windows) or Library\Applications\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins (for Mac OS).
If you have installed Photoshop in any other location you should look for the "Plug-Ins" folder there.
Bear in mind that Photoshop must be closed when installing new plugins.
Next time you start Photoshop, the plugins will be available in the menu "Filter":
Some Useful Tips: Photoshop recognizes plug-ins located in subfolders and subdirectories inside the "Plug-Ins" folder. You can classify your filters by developer or by task. Just create a new folder inside the "Plug-Ins" folder and put the files in it. However, the list of plugins in the Photoshop menu (under "Filter") looks different from the list in the "Plug-Ins" folder.
In the Photoshop menu plug-ins are usually classified by developer. Photoshop also recognizes shortcuts (Windows) and alias (Mac OS) within the "Plug-Ins" folder and subfolders. Install your plug-in filters into any folder outside Photoshop, and then create a shortcut for the ".8bf" file (or "make alias" on Macintosh) and place it into the "Plug-Ins" folder.
With shortcuts you can manage your plugins quickly and safely. You can select an additional plug-ins folder in Photoshop Preferences. Call the command Edit (or Photoshop - for Mac OS), then ⇒Preferences ⇒ Plug-ins & Scratch Disk. Select "Additional Plug-ins Folder", then use the button "Choose" to select a folder or directory from the list. Some filters show up directly in the main Photoshop menu (typically between "Windows" and "Help" titles). Usually such plug-ins have an installer.
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Tip 1. To change the Brush Size it is enough to go to the Options palette (press the triangle near the word Brush) and enter the required brush size or move the slider "Master Diameter" to the required position. Hint: You can use the mouse wheel to adjust the size. Click the input field and move the mouse wheel to change the value. To change the Brush Size faster, without opening the Brush Size palette, use the hot keys «[» and «]» for reducing and increasing the tip size correspondingly. The step is +- 10px.
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Viewing and Navigation 100% Magnify Alt+CTRL+0 (zero)
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Getting more control over the magic wand.
ReplyDeleteBy default, the Eyedropper’s tool’s Sample Size option in the Options Bar is set to "Point Sample", which comes into play if you're using it to read values for color correction. But for now, it’s important to know that the Sample Size option chosen for the Eyedropper tool actually affects how the Magic Wand tool makes its selection (the two have an undocumented relationship). If you increase the Eyedropper’s Sample Size to 3 by 3 or 3 by 5 Average, the Magic Wand will select an average of a much larger of pixels in the sample area. This is important to know, because with one of those two other Sample Sizes chosen, if you were set to the Magic Wand Tolerance to zero, it wouldn’t just select all of the pixels that match any of the pixels in the sample. The next time your Magic Wand isn’t behaving the way it used to, check and see if you have changed the Eyedropper tool Sample Size.
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Have a lot of nice photos and want to print them? Just use the instruction.
ReplyDeleteTo change the image size for printing in Adobe Photoshop, follow the steps:
Step 1. Select the command Image Size from the menu Image of Adobe Photoshop.
Step 2. Activate the check-box Constrain Proportions to keep the image proportions.
Step 3. Activate the check-box Resample Image, if you want to keep the same image resolution.
Step 4. Select the interpolation method: Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear or Bicubic.
We recommend the Bicubic method of interpolation.
Step 5. In the group Document Size select units and enter new values in the fields Width and Height. If the check-box Resample Image is not activated, the resolution will change.
Step 6. Then press the button OK. .
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Warp. It sounds like Mr. Spock is talking inside The Enterprise starship. What I want to say in here is one of Photoshop Type feature. The warp feature allows you to bend all of your text into certain type of waving shape. You will be provided with a lot of shaped so you can put a more realistic look on any of your type layers quickly. You can have the Text warp menus on the type tool Option bar under the Menu bar. It seems I don’t have to tell you more detail about how to make it works since it’s just a piece of cake action. And sometimes when it goes to a warning that states "Could not complete your request because the type layer uses a faux bold style. Remove attribute and continue?", simply you can just click continue, and the Text warp menu is already to access. But you might ask for instance, why such warning comes up before you can get the Text warp options?
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Display The Same Image In Two Windows When doing detail work on an image you may need to zoom in to take a closer look at the pixels. But to make sure that any changes you're making in this magnified state will look realistic at a normal view you'll have to zoom out for a quick look. Here's a great tip - instead of zooming in and out you can have the same image open in two windows at the same time. With an open image selected choose Window> Arrange> New Window (the original file name will be listed). The same image will now appear in a new second window. Keep one window set at 100% to see your effects, and work in the second window - either zoomed in or zoomed out. Sweet.
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Getting Rid Of The Marching Ants Selecting an object will activate a line of dashes that blink to show you the selection's edge (marching ants), but they can be a visual nuisance at times. To quickly hide the selection marquee, Press Command +H (PC: Control+H). To view them again just repeat the shortcut
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Too many brushes? Cut those unwanted brushes There’s a something that might bother you when staring at those brushes variance inside the palette. Some of them just have size difference between others. A hard-rounded 8px side-by-side with hard-rounded 15px. Since you understand how to increase and decrease the size of your brushes quickly from your keyboard, you think it’s quite necessary to get rid some of identical brushes from the palette. The first way to do that is by right-clicking the corresponding brush and selects the Delete Brush option. The quicker tips: hold down the Alt [Mac: Option] key and the cursor will instantly into a scissor shaped tool. Click to your unwanted brushes, and they’ll get rid just in seconds.
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If you’re a newbie to Photoshop stuffs, maybe this little dirty trick will help your performance to a more professional one. At least, you look like Photoshop professionals. Some time you want to open your last project on a specific folder. Rather than digging the File > Open menus, you can give two clicks on any area on Photoshop’s background [here enlightened with orange areas], and the ordinary open dialog box is popping out to your view. Sure it would saves you one second faster.
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Dodging & Burning Tip... Instead of the dodge & burn tool, try making an empty layer, then got to Edit>Fill>50% gray, change the layers blending mode to soft light. I have an action for this. Then use a low opacity black brush to darken and a white brush to lighten. My action also selects a saved preset black brush at 20% opacity to start working with.
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On brushes, the ] bracket make your brush larger, the [ bracket makes it smaller. Shift-[ makes it softer, Shift-] makes it harder edged in 5 levels (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% soft). Shift-alt-s sets it to screen mode, shift-alt-m for multiply, shift-alt-n for normal, shift-alt-O for overlay, etc.).
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Learn your shortcuts! Want to boost highlights, hit the following..... control-alt-~, control-J, V, Shift-alt-S, 5 Control-alt-~ selects the highlights., then control-J jumps that selection to a new layer, V take you to the move tool so that shift-alt-s sets you to screen blending mode, then 5 sets the layer opacity to 50%. Or better yet, make that into an action. http://www.actions4photographers.com/Photo-textures.htm
ReplyDeleteInstead of dodging or burning, which tends to shift color, try creating a snapshot, then use your history brush (Y) set to screen (shift-alt-s) for dodging. No color shift! or set you history brush to multiply (shift-alt-m) for burning. Try it, burn an area of skin, then use the history multiply method. Less color shifting!
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How to draw straight lines There are other ways to draw a straight line than using the line tool. After this tip, you may find your need to reach for the line tool reduced, in fact this may even break your addiction. While using any of the drawing tools; Brushes, Pencil, Dodge and Burn, Eraser, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge holding down the shift key will cause you to draw in a perfectly straight line either vertical or horizontal. An added feature will let you create straight lines between points by clicking, hold down shift and click again anywhere to join the 2 points.
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Let Photoshop Do The Math When Copying/Pasting If you've selected something within your Photoshop document and you want to copy-and-paste that item into its own separate document, don't worry about typing the Width and Height into Photoshop’s New document dialog. Photoshop automatically figures that you're going to paste that image into a new document, so when you open the New dialog, the exact size of your copied selection has already been entered for you, so just click OK, and then paste your image inside—it'll be a perfect fit.
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1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette.
ReplyDelete2. 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.
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Here’s a tip that gives you a faster and more convenient way to switch to another preset brush without using the Brushes palette—and you might find that you like it even better. Just press the Control key, then click within your image (PC: Right-click) and the Brush Picker will appear directly under your cursor. Plus, you can even change the Master Diameter of the brush that you choose in the Picker. This is one you'll have to try to appreciate the sheer speed and convenience of putting your brushes at your fingertips anytime.
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1. In Photoshop, all "Cancel" buttons in a window can be changed to a "Reset" button by holding Alt.
ReplyDelete2. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy.
3. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area.
4. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click.
5. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl.
6. Ctrl + Alt and click drag the image, it will make a duplication of the current image over lay on top.
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Arrange your Photoshop screen to look like this. image. The palettes and toolbox are OUTSIDE the main window. So none of your picture is EVER covered up. Get rid of palettes that you never use. Put rarely used ones in the palette well (the box holding the tabs up top). Then put the ones you use a lot out in 2 groupings. In one small grouping, I have the Navigator, Swatches and Tool Presets palettes. In a larger grouping, I have Layers, Actions and History. http://www.actions4photographers.com/grunge.htm
ReplyDeleteLearn your shortcuts! Want to boost highlights, hit the following..... control-alt-~, control-J, V, Shift-alt-S, 5 Control-alt-~ selects the highlights., then control-J jumps that selection to a new layer, V take you to the move tool so that shift-alt-s sets you to screen blending mode, then 5 sets the layer opacity to 50%. http://www.actions4photographers.com/grunge2.htm
ReplyDeleteIf you want to remove a glare on the eyeglasses of an image you should use a part of the lens that does not have a glare and use it to layer the lens with a glare. Use tools like rotate and skew and soft-tip eraser to soften the edges. Ensure the glare does not show through from below. Or, do some careful work using the clone tool.
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Quick Revert - The Undo Command To undo your last image modification Press Control+Z (MAC: Command+Z), and repeat the shortcut to undo the undo. Toggling back and forth like this is a good technique to review the before and after effects of a one-step change to an image, like dodge or burn. For situations where you need to perform a multiple undo, go Edit> Step Backward or use Control-Alt-Z (MAC: Command-Option-Z. To go the other way (multiple redo) go Edit> Step Forward or use Control-Shift-Z (MAC: Command-Shift-Z). The number of steps available is the same as the number of History States, which can be changed in General Preferences.
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You’ll find connections between the key and its corresponding tools like
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M for “Marquee selection Tool”
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This is how to take control over cool filter that you apply to your images.
ReplyDeleteIf you used to select some areas and start to apply filters on it, from now on I suggest you to make that process on a new fresh layer. Press Ctrl+J [Mac: Command+J] after you do a selection and it will put the selected area up on its own layer. By the Photoshop words, it’s a Layer via Copy. You will have the advantages from this trick because as you put the area on its own area, you have more control over the images. For example, you can change the Blend Modes of the layer after you applied filters on it. By multiplying it, screening it, or overlaying it, you will be astonished with more visual effects that may never thought before. Also, you will have control of your filter "after the fact". This means after you applied the filter, you felt it too intense, you can always lower the opacity of the layer to calm it down a bit.
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If you’re creating web graphics, it’s almost important to preview your work at the same size your audience will view.
ReplyDeleteGet your image at 100% view by giving double-click on the Zoom tool. If you find that the image is too big for your screen, then you can zoom out until the view of your image is the size you’d like to appear on the Web page, then look in the lower left corner of the image window and you’ll see the percentage of zoom. Write that down, then go under the Image menu and choose Image Size.
When the Image Size dialog box appear, in the height pop-up menu , choose percent. Enter the percentage amount that you wrote previously. By default, Photoshop will enter the Width when you enter the Height setting to keep your image proportional. Click OK and it will resize your image to the exact sie you want it to appear on the web page.
Quick Tips: You can use the combination of the key Ctrl + - [Mac: Command + -] to zoom it and Ctrl + + [Mac: Command + +] to zoom out.
Another way, you can hold the Alt [Mac: Option] key to toggle between zoom-in and zoom-out in Zoom tool mode.
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If you want to know how long a particular Photoshop command takes, you can click on the right-facing triangle toward the bottom left-hand corner of the image window. Choose Timing from the pop-up menu that appears. This will start the equivalent of a stopwatch that times your Photoshop commands in seconds. Then, you can proudly ask your mates to challenge their computer for a speed test. Of course you’ll better sure if your computer is fast enough. http://www.actions4photographers.com/christmas-cards2.htm
ReplyDeleteNobody’s perfect. So does your setting. What we’re gonna talk here is that time when you deal with those Photoshop dialog boxes: Levels, color balance, curves, etc. Since they’re visually adjusted by sliders and ticks, it’s so easy for us to change the settings as it would immediately previews the result in your document. But sometimes your settings just went too far and you need to roll back to current settings. And I guess you will hit the cancel button and then [once again] opened the dialog box and restart the process, moving the sliders until you got the right value. All my advice is keep those work with you, shift the slider, move the curves, but when you stumbled on unwanted result, don’t instantly hit the cancel. Press Alt [Mac: Option] on an opened dialog box and you’ll notice that Cancel will turn to Reset button. Now, you can start it all over again without closing your dialog box.
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Maximizing the Move Tool
ReplyDeleteThe main function of Move tool is should be selecting and moving. By default, the tool won’t automatically select the layer as you click in the document, instead there are two ways for you to do it:
(1) click the layer in the Layers palette, and
(2) right-click [Mac: hold Control + click] on any areas in the document and you’ll provided by a pop-up menu containing several layers which located exactly beneath the areas you clicked.
Is there any other [simple] ways?
Yes, there are two more ways or you to select your layer even faster:
(1) Check the “Automatically select layer” on the Option bar in Move tool mode, so you can select your layer with a single click, (2) hold the Ctrl [Mac: Command] and click the object/layer in your document.
Another question: “how do I know that I have successfully select my layer?
Of course I need to know what current layer is active.” Look at your canvas title, you’ll find the name of of your current active layer.
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ReplyDeleteThis is how to take control over a cool filter that you apply to your images. If you used to select some areas and start to apply filters on it, from now on I suggest you to make that process on a new fresh layer. Press Ctrl+J [Mac: Command+J] after you do a selection and it will put the selected area up on its own layer.
By the Photoshop words, it’s a Layer via Copy. You will have the advantages from this trick because as you put the area on its own area, you have more control over the images. For example, you can change the Blend Modes of the layer after you applied filters on it. By multiplying it, screening it, or overlaying it, you will be astonished with more visual effects that may never thought before. Also, you will have control of your filter "after the fact". This means after you applied the filter, you felt it too intense, you can always lower the opacity of the layer to calm it down a bit.
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Find, Load, and Save Your Brushes in an Instant
ReplyDeleteWhile you're working on a brush tool, you can switch your brush type by using your right-click to pop out the brush palette directly under your cursor. Choose a brush and it will disappear automatically. The ultimate key which will brought you a lot of stuff is that little triangle on the top right of the palette. Click and you’ll be on your way to save, load, delete, modify, and replace the brushes. http://www.actions4photographers.com/Flash-made-easy.htm
Two Clicks Will Open Your Image Even Faster If you're a newbie to Photoshop stuffs, maybe this little dirty trick will help your performance to a more professional one. At least, you look like Photoshop professionals. Some time you want to open your last project on a specific folder. Rather than digging the File > Open menus, you can give two clicks on any area on Photoshop’s background [here enlightened with orange areas], and the ordinary open dialog box is popping out to your view. Sure it would saves you one second faster. http://www.actions4photographers.com/testimonials.htm
ReplyDeleteThere is a hidden option using which you can simulate bold and italic formatting styles for fonts that do not have these options. Click the button on the type tool option to bring up the character palette. Then select text and click the arrow in the upper right hand corner of the palette menu where faux bold and italics are present. However you will not be able to warp type when formatting has been applied.
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