Seventy-five Tips for Adobe Photoshop (1)

The following 75 tips will help you (whether you are a novice or an experienced expert) to master some of the "hidden" features of Photoshop to help you complete complex tasks faster and more efficiently; or they will tell you something you have previously Do not know the ability of PHTOSHOP! For your convenience, we divide them into eight parts:

*Interface skills

1). You may know that pressing the Tab key hides the Toolbox and the Floating Panel, as well as pressing the Shift+Tab key to hide only the Floating Panel (while leaving the toolbar visible).

2). Hold down the Shift key and click on the floating panel's title bar (?123; bars at the top) to snap it to the nearest screen edge.

3). Double-click on each column (that is, the titled one) on the floating panel to minimize it. With the minimize button on the floating panel, you can switch between compact mode (only minimal options and content is visible) and normal mode (all options and content on the display panel).

4). The current tool's options panel can be opened by pressing the Enter key (or by double-clicking the tool button on the toolbox). Otherwise, it can only be opened by the Window/Show Options command on the menu.

5). Use the scaling area (in the bottom left corner of the Photoshop form or navigator panel) to quickly select an exact display ratio. When entering a value, press SHIFT+ENTER to enable the scaling area.

6). To change the display information of the status area (at the bottom of the window, the default display file size can be opened via Window/Show Status Bar), press the button on the status area to select a new item from the pop-up menu. Click on the left area of ​​the button on the status area to display the current file's print size, Alt-click to display the file size and resolution, and Ctrl-click to display the collage.

7). Tired of gray canvas background? Select Bucket Tool [K] (Packet Bucket) Press Shift to click on the edge of the canvas to set the background color of the canvas to the current foreground color. (Note: To revert to the default color, set the foreground color to 25% grayscale (R192, G192, B192) and hold down Shift again to click on the canvas edge.)

8). The Cancel button in all dialogs in Photoshop can be changed to the Reset button by holding down the Alt key. This allows you to easily return to the initial value without canceling it again.

9). The Caps Lock key on the keyboard can control the cursor to switch between the exact state and the standard state. Note: If the Photoshop parameter [Ctrl+K, Ctrl+3] (File/Preferences/ Display & Cursors...) has set the cursor to the exact state, the Caps Lock key will not work.

10). Press "F" to switch between Photoshop's three different screen display modes (Standard Display Mode → Full Screen Display Mode with Menu → Full Screen Display Mode) (or use the buttons at the bottom of the Toolbox). Tip: Press Shift+F in full screen mode to toggle whether to display the menu. Double-click on the background of Photoshop to open the file command [Ctrl+O] (File/Open).

11). Hold down Shift and click on the color bar under the color panel to change the type of chromatogram displayed. Alternatively, you can right-click on the color bar and select another color mode from the pop-up color bar options menu.

12). Right-click on the title bar of the picture window to quickly use some commands, such as the canvas size command, image size command, and copy. Click on any blank (gray) area on the swatch palette to add a custom color to the swatch, hold down the Ctrl key to subtract a color, and hold down Shift Click to replace a color.

13). By copying and pasting the hexadecimal color values ​​displayed in the Photoshop Color Picker, you can exchange color data between Photoshop and other programs (other programs that support hexadecimal color values).

*Tool tips

14). To use the brush tool to draw a straight line, first click on the image, then move the mouse to another point and hold down Shift to click on the image again. Photoshop will use the current drawing tool to draw a line between the two points.

15). Hold down the Ctrl key at any time to switch to the move tool [V]. Hold down the Ctrl+Alt key to drag the mouse to copy the contents of the current layer or selection.

16). Press and hold the spacebar to switch to the Hand Tool at any time.

17). The zoom tool shortcut is "Z", in addition to the Ctrl+Spacebar zoom tool, Alt+Spacebar zoom tool.

18). Press Ctrl + "+" key and "-" key to zoom in and out of the image, respectively; corresponding, press Alt key while holding the above hot key to automatically? # 123; the entire window to full screen display ( Ctrl+Alt+ "+" and Ctrl+Alt+"-" ) This is useful! (Note: If you want to use the size of the picture automatically when using the zoom tool? #123; the entire window, you can select "?#123; Resize Windows to Fit" in the options of the zoom tool. Options.)

19). Use the eyedropper tool to select the color and hold the Alt key to define the current background color.

20). With the color sampler tool [Shift+I] (Color Sampler Tool) and the information panel (Window/Show Info), we can monitor the color change of the current picture. The color value before and after the change is displayed next to the sampling point number on the information panel. The color mode of the sampling point can be defined through the pop-up menu on the information panel. To add a new sample point, simply click anywhere on the canvas (using the Color Sampler tool) and Alt-click to remove the sample point. Note: Up to four color sampling points can be placed on a graph Tip: When Photoshop has a dialog box (eg color gradation commands, curve commands, etc.) popping up, you must hold down the Shift key to add new sampling points. Click and hold down Alt+Shift to click on a sample point to subtract it.

21). The Measure Tool is very convenient for measuring distances (especially on diagonal lines). You can also use it to measure angles (like a protractor). First of all make sure that the information panel [F8] (Window/Show Info) is visible. Select the measure tool and click and drag a line, hold down the Alt key and drag the second line from the node of the first line so that the angle between the two lines and the length of the line are displayed

*Command skills

22). To use the filter you just used again, select Filter/Last Filter [Ctrl+F] from the menu; use the new filter with the newly used filter and add an Alt key ( Ctrl+Alt+F Or Alt + Filter/Last Filter ). Tip: To retire the last used filter or the entire effect (or change the compositing mode), press Ctrl+Shift+F (Filter ? Fade Filter).

23). If you recently copied a picture to the clipboard, Photoshop will use the size of the picture in the clipboard as the default size of the new image when creating a new file [Ctrl+N] (File/New...). To skip this feature and use the last setting, hold down the Alt key [Ctrl+Alt+N] (Alt + File ? New...) when it is open.

24). Press Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z to go back and forth respectively in the history (or use the menus in the history panel to use these commands). Use these hot keys in conjunction with the Restore [Ctrl+Z] (Edit/Undo) command to freely switch between history and current state.

25). Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace key combinations fill the foreground and background colors, respectively, another very useful hotkey is Shift + Backspace - - open the fill dialog box. Tip: Press Alt+Shift+Backspace and Ctrl+Shift+Backspace to fill only the existing pixels (keeping the transparent area) filled with foreground and background colors.

26). When you use the free transform tool [Ctrl+T] (Edit/Free TransFORM), hold down the Alt key (Ctrl+Alt+T or Alt+Edit/Free TransFORM) to copy the original layer first (in the current selection) ) Then transform on the copy layer. Tip: Ctrl+Shift+T (Edit/TransFORM? Again) is to perform the previous transformation again, and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T(Alt+Edit/TransFORM/Again) is to perform the transformation after copying the original image.

27). To prevent the use of the crop tool [C] (Crop Tool) when the marquee is snapped onto the picture border, hold down the Ctrl key while dragging the control point on the cropping tool marquee.

28). To correct the tilted image, first draw a line (such as the border of the image, the door frame, the horizontal lines between the eyes, etc.) on the drawing with the measurement tool as the horizontal or vertical reference, and select Image from the menu. /Rotate Canvas/Arbitrary, after opening it will find the correct rotation angle has been automatically filled out, just press OK to OK. Note: You can also use the cutting tool to complete the rotation and cutting work in one step: first draw a box with the cutting tool [C], and drag the control point on the box to select the angle of the entire check box. Size, finally press Enter to achieve rotation and cutting. Tip: The angle measured by the measuring tool is also automatically filled in the Number/Transform/Numeric dialog box.

29). Use the "Layer/New/Layer Via Copy" or "Layer/New/Layer Via Cut" command to get in one step Complete the work between copy & paste and cut & paste. Note: By copying (cutting) new layer commands, they are still placed in their original places, but they are pasted (cut) & pasted to the center of the picture (or selection).

30). After cropping the image (with the Crop tool or Edit/Crop selected) all pixels outside the crop range are lost. To cut without loss, use the "Image/Canvas Size" command instead. Although Photoshop will warn you that it will perform some cuts, but for some reason there is actually no - all "cut off" data is kept outside the screen. Tip: ImageReady's cut command (Image/Crop) asks if you want to delete the clipping area or hide it. Note: This has no effect on the index color mode (using the canvas size command in index mode will lose pixels outside the screen).

31). Press Alt key [Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E] (Alt + Layer/Merge Visible) to merge all visible layers and merge them into the current layer. Tip: It is also possible to hold down the Alt key while merging layers (Layer/Merge Down). This will copy the current layer and merge it into the previous layer. There is no corresponding heat for this command