120 Photoshop tips to help you accelerate your design (top 60)

Photoshop is getting stronger! Trying to control all of its features is unrealistic (let alone have so many hidden features!), then we may as well collect the 120 PS tips summed up by the great God, occasionally look at, so that their design more powerful and efficient!

These 120 techniques cover most of the main functions of PS, these features you are familiar with, but understand their details, control the shortcut of the Strokes, repair drawings may be able to reap the wonders of the painting!

01. Rotate Style

Cmd/ctrl+shift+alt+t is a magical shortcut that can help you create stunning kaleidoscope patterns that, when you use it, can copy the current layer and repeat the previous rotation, magnification, and so on. As the following illustration shows, using this shortcut key can easily turn a dazzling light into a beautiful kaleidoscope. In the operation, you first use the cmd/ctrl+t and the appropriate rotation, enter to determine, and then use this set of shortcuts until the entire style is completed.

02. Let the picture overlay on the text

This is actually the function of the clipping mask, but there is a simpler way to do it: Place the picture layer just above the type layer, hold down the ALT key, click the line between the two layers, and it's done!

03. Overlooking the picture

When you zoom in on the details of the picture, you just hold down the H key and you can see the entire view as you slide the mouse, and you see the cursor in a small box, which is the part you're working on. Drag the box to the other area, loosen the H key, you will switch to the area where the cursor is, super convenient!

04. Fast Full Layer Mask

When you hold down the ALT key and click on the Layer Mask button, you can create a mask that covers all the content.

05. More Convenient selection box selection

When you hold down the ALT key, select any marquee tool to pull out of the selection box will be the location of your cursor at the center of the first choice.

06. Adjust PS Default background color

Very few people will take the initiative to adjust the background color of PS dark gray, if you want to quickly replace the background color, select the Paint Bucket tool, hold down SHIFT and click on the background, you can replace it with the foreground color! To restore the defaults, right-click in the background and choose Default!

07.1000 Historical records

Not enough history entries? simple! Select in the menu bar select Edit-> Preferences-> performance, and then you can adjust the number of history to 1000! Of course, this setting can affect the performance of your computer. Hard drive small, poor performance of the computer, please be careful to handle.

08. Layer Color Identification

Using color to organize layers is a good choice, right in the eyes of the layers panel, you can use color to identify the layer, and then you can manage the layer according to the color.

09. Close All Documents

To close multiple documents at once, hold down the SHIFT key and click the Close button on any window.

10. Temporarily Switch Mobile tool

No matter what tool you are using, press and hold Cmd/ctrl to temporarily switch to move tool, release the button and can restore the previous tool.

11. Interactive Scaling

Press and hold the cmd/ctrl+ space key (although will switch input method, but no effect), move the mouse can quickly zoom, slide to the left to zoom to the right zoom in, zoom to the mouse cursor in the initial position and center.

12. Make layer copy quickly

You can easily copy a layer by holding down the Cmd+alt key and dragging any layer.

13. Dispersion Effect

Diffuse light filters allow the image to appear soft and elegant, especially if you have lowered the saturation. Click D to have the color Reset, after the menu filter-> distort the-> diffuse light or find the hidden filter in the filter-> Filter library, and then cmd/ctrl+u quickly pull up the palette to adjust the saturation.

14. Undo!

You know Cmd/ctrl+z is a shortcut to undo, but you need to use cmd/ctrl+alt+z to undo it all the time.

15. Cycle Adjustment Blending Mode

If you haven't adjusted the default shortcut settings, use Shift with +,-press the key to quickly adjust the blending mode from start to finish, and back and forth until you find the desired effect of the layer.

Common shortcut key collection (16–43)

Cmd/ctrl+shift+alt+e merge copies of all layers

F can quickly toggle background display mode

X can quickly toggle foreground and background colors

D This shortcut can quickly restore the foreground color and background color to the default black and white

] and [quickly toggle the size of the brush

Cmd/ctrl+j quickly copy layers

SPACEBAR hold down the SPACEBAR to drag the entire image up and down quickly

Tab key to quickly hide all tools and panels

Cmd/ctrl+t transform layers so that they can be edited

Cmd/ctrl+e Merge the selected layers

Cmd/ctrl/ctrl+shift+opt+s is stored as a web format (a friend who often designs Web pages should always use this shortcut key?)

Cmd/ctrl+l Adjust the color order

Cmd/ctrl+t Open Free Transform tool

Cmd/ctrl+m Open Curve Tool

Cmd/ctrl+b Adjust color balance

CMD/CTRL+SHIFT+OPT+C Zoom the picture to your preset state

Cmd/ctrl+opt+g Create a clipping mask

Cmd/ctrl+0 the image to fit the screen

cmd/ctrl+shift+>/< This shortcut allows you to scale the text you choose at 2pt intervals.

cmd/ctrl+option+shift->/< allows you to resize the text you choose at 10pt intervals

Shift+f5 fills the selection fill the selection

}/{increase or decrease brush hardness

,/. Toggle Brushes

Toggle the first and last brushes

Cmd/ctrl+] Let the layer position move up

cmd/ctrl+[Jeantou layer Position Move Down

cmd/ctrl+shift+[layer to bottom

Cmd/ctrl+shift+] put layers on top

Layer Control Tips

44. Convert Layer Style

Convert layers to normal pixel-based layers, allowing you to control content more easily. You can add a blending effect to a layer, then you right-click on the blending effect, select Create layer, and the special effects become a separate layer for easier management.

45. View a layer

This is a common-sense technique. When you want to view a particular layer, click on the eyes in front of the other layers to hide them, and then you can see the only layer that is visible.

46. Flip Layer Mask

After adjusting for the layer, click Cmd/ctrl+i to flip the layer mask and quickly hide the effect, then apply white to the picture surface so that you can show the adjusted part.

47. Remove the link between the layer and the mask

In fact, this technique is also very simple, you only need to click the layer in the Layers panel and the link between the Mask icon to contact the link, with the mouse to select the part you want to move the thumbnail, move it together to the place is good.

48. Quick Copy

Hold down the ALT key, drag the layer you want to copy, and you're done.

49. Convert Background

Double-click the background layer, and you can unlock it by clicking OK, and then you can edit it.

50. Adjust the layer

Most of the time people will edit a layer directly, but many times the image processing is ruined and can't go back. Of course, a stupid way is to copy the original layer of the original to prepare for the accident. But there's a better way: Create a new adjustment layer. Select the layer you want to edit, click on the bottom half black and half white circle icon, you can create a new adjustment layer. No matter how you edit this layer, the original image will not have any effect. Of course, you can also use the menu layer-> to create a new adjustment layer to complete this process.

51. Move the Layer list

This is also a small trick, when you use the Mobile tool, at a certain point in the picture right click, you can see the existence of all the layers, and then you can select the icon you want to select.

52. Panel Options

The Layers Palette is one of the most important components of PS, and you need to set it in handy (or you've adapted to the default settings?). Click on the top right corner of the menu button will have pop-up menu, reasonable settings, make it more useful.

53. Move layers up and down

Use drag-and-drop layers is the way everyone is accustomed to, keyboard choice of the party is usually a shortcut key: cmd/ctrl+]/[, mouse and shortcut key combination will be much faster.

54. Fill in Shortcut keys

You can use the Opt/alt+ Backspace key to fill the foreground color for a layer, use the cmd/ctrl+backspace to fill the background color, and if you want to set it carefully, use the Shift+backspace shortcut to pull up the fill control Panel.

55.5% levels of gray layer

In many cases, it is useful to create a layer with 50% shades of gray. This layer can be easily reduced or deepened, add textures or flares, you can optimize the image in a non destructive way, create a new layer, and then select Edit-> Fill, and then set the blending mode to overlay.

56. Layer Group Shortcut keys

Layer groups are useful, but you don't necessarily have to click the Layer group icon to create a new one, and then move the layer in. You just need to select a group of layers, and then drag to the icon on the good, shortcut keys is also a good choice: cmd/ctrl+g.

57. Edit multiple text layers

Students who often edit text layers should know that the button at the far right of the Text Tool menu bar can bring up the character Setup Panel, so when you want to resize more than one text layer at a time, just press and hold Cmd/ctrl to select multiple text layers, and then in the character Setup Panel, set multiple layers at once.

58. Layer Mask View

Press and hold the Alt/opt key, then tap the thumbnail of a mask, and then switch back and forth between the image view and the Mask view, holding down the SHIFT key to enable or disable the mask.

59. Select a similar layer

This is used to help you choose the same type of layer, such as selecting all of the shape layer or text layer, you need to do is to enter the menu, choose-> Select similar to it!

60. Change Transparency

When you do not apply the brush tool, you can use the number keys to quickly set the transparency of the layer, the number 1 is 10%, the number 5 is 50%, the number 0 is 100%.

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