19 common Photoshop skills

Photoshop is a professional image processing software with a wide range of functions, which sometimes makes it a little inconvenient to use. Here I have summarized some simple ways to improve the efficiency of doing things.

1. When you need to quickly hide the toolbar and multiple floating panels, click the close button on the panel one by one and open it again later, which is inconvenient. In fact, you can press the "shift" and "tab" keys on the keyboard at the same time, so that the floating panel will immediately hide, disappear from the screen, and press the two keys at the same time, the Panel will appear again; if you only press the "tab" key, the toolbar, together with the floating panel, will be hidden, and then click the key, they will appear at the same time.

2. In Photoshop, you often need to modify the set value. Generally, there is a black triangle on the right side of the Value box. Click it to display a sliding ruler. Drag the ruler to modify the value, but sometimes it is not very accurate. At this time, you can press the down arrow key (each click indicates a value plus one) and the up arrow key (each click indicates a value minus one) to adjust the value accurately. If you press and hold the "shift" Key, each click will increase or decrease the value by 10.

3. When you are using the paint brush tool and want to adjust the opacity, It is very troublesome to open the setting box. In this case, you can press the number key on the disk to set it. For example, when you press "0", the opacity is 100%. The "1" Key is 10%. Press "4" and then "5", then the opacity is 45%, and so on.

4. When we want to copy the selected object in the file, we need to use the copy command in the edit menu. Copy once, you may not feel the trouble, but to copy multiple times, one click is rather inconvenient. In this case, you can select an object with the selection tool, click the move tool, and then press and hold the Alt key. When the cursor turns black and white, the two arrows overlap, drag the mouse to the desired position. To replicate multiple times, just move the mouse over again.

5. when you need to select multiple layers, you can first use the selection tool to select a region in the file, pull a selection dotted box, and then press and hold the "Alt" key, when the cursor changes to a large "+" with a small "-" in the lower right corner (this indicates reducing the selected area or pixel), pull the second box in the first box; then press and hold the "shift" key. When the cursor changes to a large "+" with a small "+" in the lower right corner, pull the third selection box in the second box, in this way, you can choose multiple layers. In fact, you can use this method to select irregular objects.

6. when editing an image file, we sometimes need to remove the color of the image other than the selected object. In this case, we can press the "delete" key on the disk to change the color to a background color or transparent color outside the selection area, it depends on what background you set.

7. Remove the turtle pattern from the scan image. Due to printing reasons, some Turtle prints will be displayed when we input images on the computer by scanning. If we edit the images on this basis, the effects will be affected in the future. In this case, you can use the "despeckle" in the "noise" filter to process the image, and the image will become slightly blurred; then, use the sharpen edge in the sharpen filter (note that the value should be smaller) and try again. In this case, you can use the zoom-in tool to observe that no turtle lines will appear.

8. After using Photoshop for a while, a large number of images and image files are stored in the folder. When you want to call a file that has not been used for a long time and forget its file name, you need to open the files in the folder one by one to find it, which is too troublesome. I have a simple method: Under the File menu of Photoshop, the contact e command has a contact sheet command, which creates a small thumbnail for each file in the entire folder and stores it in an image file, this facilitates future retrieval and query, saving you and me valuable time.

9. When you want to "tighten the gap" (adjust the gap between individual letters), first click between two letters, then press the Alt key, and then adjust it with the left and right arrow keys.

10. To quickly change the value displayed in the dialog box, first click the number and place the cursor in the dialog box. Then, you can use the up and down arrow keys to change the value. If you press the Shift key before using the direction key to change the value, the speed of changing the value will increase.

11. if your mouse is in the following State: brush, spray gun, pencil, eraser, just press the Alt key, you can temporarily switch to the drop-pipe tool (but the mouse must be in the opened image area ).

12. Do you want to enlarge the image preview size in the filter dialog box? Press ctrl and Click Preview area with the mouse to enlarge the image. press ALT and Click Preview area with the mouse to zoom out the image.

13. You can make your change drawing (including using a brush, pencil, spray gun, or eraser) transparent. First, draw a pen, and then "remove X" will appear under the filter menu (x depends on the tool you just used), click it, the "undo" menu appears. Now you can change the transparency of the previous one.

14. cropping tools must have been used by everyone. In this case, you must have met: When you adjust the cropping box and the cropping box is close to the image boundary, the drop box will automatically paste itself to the edge of the image, so that you cannot precisely cut the image. However, as long as you press the ctrl key when adjusting the drop box, the drop box will be convinced to cut the box accurately.

15. if you use a pen tool to draw a path and your mouse is in the pen state, you only need to press the Enter key on the keypad (remember to press the Enter key on the keypad, not on the primary key disk !!!), Then the path will be loaded as a selection area immediately.

16. You can use the following shortcut keys to quickly browse your images. Home: scroll to the upper left corner of the image; end: scroll to the lower right corner of the image; page up: scroll to the top of the image; Page down: scroll to the bottom of the image; CTRL + page up: scroll to the leftmost side of the image; Ctrl + Page down: scroll to the rightmost side of the image.

17. to move the selected layer up, press Ctrl and press] to move the current layer up. Press ctrl and then press [key, you can move the current layer down.

18. to convert a color image to a gray image, the general method is to use the image → pattern → grayscale, or image → de-color, however, there is now a way to make the color converted to grayscale more delicate. First, convert the image to the LAB color mode: Image → mode → LAB color. Then, go to the channel panel and delete Channel A and channel B, then you can get a grayscale image that is more delicate.

19. to automatically select a layer (if you have used flash, you will know what it means to automatically select a layer). Of course, you can hook up the automatic selection layer on the option Panel of the mobile tool, however, in some cases, it is really troublesome to manually cancel this option when you do not need this feature. Now let's teach you a method. After pressing the ctrl key, your mobile tool will have the automatic selection function. In this case, you only need to click the object on a certain layer, photoshop automatically switches to the layer where the object is located. However, when you open the ctrl key, your mobile tool will not have the automatic selection function. This will easily prevent incorrect selections.

The above method is equally effective for Mac, except that the ctrl key must be replaced with the command key, and the Alt key must be replaced with the option key.