9 Tips for saving time in Photoshop cc

Spending time in Photoshop to simplify the workflow seems like a paradox, and free time is a luxury for most designers. However, our real enemies are often our own-because we have long been accustomed to doing tasks with the default settings, even if it is not the most effective.

The goal of this tutorial is to get the software to help you do most of the work and reduce the average time you do each task. Adobe software has been widely regarded as a cumbersome but very necessary tool, but it also gives us some good time-saving tools.

　　1. Shortcut keys

You can find the "keyboard shortcuts" option under the Edit menu, but we're generally used to pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+K to bring up the shortcut menu. From the Application menu command, locate the image option, click the Drop-down triangle button, locate the CMYK option, and set a shortcut key for it.

　　2. Specification of your default settings

For the conversion between RGB and CMYK, you can set up a series of adjustment actions to contain all the transformations you want. The first step is to change the CMYK mode, in the Curve black field and white field to create a control point, and fine-tune it to change the tone value of the image.

　　3. Curve Setup

Add curve operations to a batch-even if you don't use it every time. Before you set the action, change the default settings for the curve: open an image and create a curve adjustment layer, double-click the Black Field Sampling tool, and set B to 5% in the color picker.

　　4. Continue curve Setup

Repeat the previous procedure, double-click the White field Sampling tool, and set a value between B 95%-100% in the color picker. Clicking OK will pop up a dialog box asking if you want to save the target color as the default, click Yes. When you use the black, gray, and white field sampling tools, these settings will help you make more detailed adjustments.

　5. Smart Filter

It is difficult to print out images that are not very clear, and an important way to solve this problem is to sharpen them in Photoshop. Using the smart Sharpen filter, change its sharpening "quantity" value, the larger the quantity value, the higher the image resolution, the greater the contrast of edge pixels.

　6. Use the Quick selection tool to create a layer mask

We usually use a selection method to do some of the image of the targeted operation, combined with the Wacom Digital board, using the Quick selection tool can save us valuable time. In addition, the Adjust edges option can output a selection as a layer mask, and you can adjust it directly.

　　7. Quick Selection Tool

Click on the shortcut key to find the Quick Selection tool, click and drag in your target area to create a selection, and hold down the ALT key while dragging to subtract the unwanted parts of the selection, click Adjust edges, and press F to cycle through the view. Click the smart RADIUS option under edge detection and smear the selection edge to make the selection more granular.

　8. Brush Strokes

This is a trick to clone some pixels in a CMYK image, create an open path along the target image, select the Stain healing Brush tool, set the brush size, and then click the Brush Stroke path icon in the path panel.

　　9. Smart Layer

If you want to do the same thing in multiple source images, you can try to convert normal layers into smart layers. Hold down CTRL and select all layers, right-click to convert layers to smart objects, drag smart layers into your image file, and add a layer mask.

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