Photoshop 75 Practical Skills

Photoshop maintains good usability while having powerful functions, this is largely due to its neat and refined interface and easy-to-use customization (except for its large number of tools and commands ). In fact, Photoshop has a lot of amazing "hidden" features. No matter how many years you have used Photoshop, you will discover more and more things in the east and west. I doubt who claims that he knows about photoshop "all" (unless it is possible that Adobe's Software Engineer wants ).

The following 75 tips will help you (novice or experienced expert) grasp some of Photoshop's "hidden" features, to help you complete complex tasks faster and more effectively; or they will tell you some phtoshop capabilities you didn't know before! For your convenience, we divide them into eight parts: * interface skills [tips]

1). You may know that You can hide the toolbox and floating panel by pressing the tab key. You can also press the SHIFT + Tab key to hide only the floating Panel (but keep the toolbar visible ).

2). Press shift and click the title bar of the floating Panel (the top? #123; entries) can be adsorbed to the nearest screen edge.

3) double-click each column on the floating Panel (that is, the one with the title) to minimize it. The Minimize button on the floating panel allows you to switch between the Compact mode (with minimal options and content to be visible) and the normal mode (with all options and content on the display panel.

4). You can press the Enter key (or double-click the tool button on the Toolkit) to open the option Panel of the current tool. Otherwise, it can only be opened through the window/show Options command on the menu.

5 ). you can use the proportional scaling area (in the lower left corner of the Photoshop form or the navigator panel) to quickly select an accurate display ratio. when you enter a value, press SHIFT + enter to enable the creation of a limit? Remain in the proportional scaling area.

6 ). to change the display information of the status area (the file size is displayed by default at the bottom of the window, which can be opened through the window/Show status bar ), select a new project from the pop-up menu by pressing the button in the status area. Click the button on the status area to display the size of the current file in the left-side area. Press and hold ALT to display the file size and resolution, and press and hold CTRL to display the collage information.

7) Are you tired of the gray canvas background color? Select the paint bucket tool [k] (paint bucket) and press shift to click the canvas edge to set the canvas background color to the current foreground color. (Note: to restore to the default color, set the foreground color to 25% gray scale (R192, g192, b192) and press shift again to click the canvas edge .)

8). You can press the Alt key to change the "reset" button in all the dialog boxes in Photoshop. This allows you to easily return to the initial value without having to cancel it.
9) The capslock key on the keyboard can control the cursor switching between the exact and standard states. Note: If the Photoshop parameter [Ctrl + k, CTRL + 3] (File/preferences/display & cursors ...) the cursor has been set to the exact state, then the capslock key does not work.

10 ). press the "f" key to display on three different screen modes in Photoshop (Standard Display Mode → full screen display mode with menu → Full Screen Display Mode) switch down (or you can use the buttons at the bottom of the Toolbox ). Tip: In Full Screen mode, you can press SHIFT + F to switch whether to display the menu. Double-click the blank area of Photoshop to open the file command [Ctrl + O] (File/open ).

11). Press shift and click the color bar on the Color panel to change the chromatographic type displayed. Alternatively, you can right-click the color bar and select other color modes from the pop-up Color Bar option menu.

12). Can I right-click the title bar of the image window and choose quick? #123; use some commands, such as the image size command, image size command, and copy. In? #123; any blank (Gray) area on the color palette Panel can be clicked in? #123; add a custom color to the color palette, press Ctrl to remove a color, and press shift to replace a color.

13). By copying and pasting the hexadecimal color value 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 [tips]

14 ). to use the paint 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 the image again, photoshop uses the current drawing tool to draw a straight line between two points.

15). Press ctrl at any time to switch to the mobile tool [v]. Press CTRL + ALT to drag the mouse to copy the content of the current layer or selection area.

16). Press and hold the Space key to switch to the handy tool [H] (hand tool) at any time ).

17). The shortcut for the Zoom tool is "Z". In addition, CTRL + Space key is used as the zoom-in tool, and ALT + Space key is used as the zoom-out tool.

18). Press Ctrl + "+" and "-" respectively to zoom in and out the Image view. Correspondingly, press the above hot key and press the Alt key to automatically? #123; the whole window is displayed on full screen (CTRL + ALT + "+" and CTRL + ALT + "-"), which is useful at 01:10! (Note: If you want to enable auto Scaling Based on the image size when using the Zoom tool? #123; you can select "? #123; the whole window size is displayed on full screen (resize windows to fit .)

19). Press the Alt key to define the current background color when selecting the color with the straw tool.

20). Combined with the color sampler tool [SHIFT + I] (color sampler tool) and the information panel (window/Show INFO), we can monitor the color changes of the current image. The color values before and after changes are displayed next to the sampling point number on the information panel. You can use the pop-up menu on the information panel to define the color mode of the sampling point. To add a new sampling point, just click somewhere on the canvas (with the color sampling tool) and press and hold the Alt key to remove the sampling point. Note: a maximum of four color sampling points can be placed on a graph. Note: When a dialog box (such as a color order command or a curve command) appears in Photoshop, to add a new sampling point, you must press shift and then click, and press Alt + shift to click a sampling point to subtract it.

21). The measurement tool is very convenient in measuring distance (especially in the oblique line), and you can also use it to measure the angle (like a measuring angle ). First, make sure that the information panel [F8] (window/Show INFO) is visible. Select the measurement tool and click and drag a straight line. Press and hold the Alt key to drag the second line from the node of the first line, so that the angle and length between the two lines are displayed in

* Command tips [tips]

22 ). to use the filter you just used again, select filter/last filter [Ctrl + F] from the menu. use the new option and use the filter you just used to add an ALT key (CTRL + ALT + f or Alt + filter/last filter ). Tip: Do you want to return the filter you used last time? #123; the effect of the integer (or change the merging mode), press Ctrl + Shift + f (filter? Fade filter ).

23 ). if you recently copied an image to the clipboard, Photoshop will create a new file [Ctrl + N] (File/New ...) the size of the image in the clipboard is used as the default size of the new image. To skip this feature and use the last setting, press and hold the Alt key [CTRL + ALT + N] (Alt + file? New ...).

24). Press CTRL + ALT + Z and CTRL + Shift + Z to forward and backward in the History respectively (or you can use the menus in the history panel to use these commands ). With the [Ctrl + Z] (edit/UNDO) command, you can use these hotkeys to switch between historical records and the current status.

25). The ALT + backspace and CTRL + backspace keys are used to fill the foreground color and background color respectively. Another useful Hot Key is SHIFT + backspace -- open the fill dialog box. Tip: press Alt + Shift + backspace and CTRL + Shift + backspace to fill in only the existing pixels (transparent area) when filling the foreground and background color ).

26 ). when using the free conversion tool [Ctrl + T] (edit/free Transform), press and hold the Alt key (CTRL + ALT + T or Alt + edit/free transform) you can copy the source Image Layer (in the current selection area) and then transform it on the copy layer. Tip: Ctrl + Shift + T (edit/transform? Again) to execute the last change again, CTRL + ALT + Shift + T (Alt + edit/transform/again) to copy the source image and then perform the change.

27). To prevent the selection box from absorbing the image border when the cropping tool [c] (crop tool) is used, hold down the ctrl key while dragging the control point on the Selection box of the cropping tool.

28 ). to correct skewed images, first use a measurement tool to draw a line (such as the border, door frame, and horizontal line between two eyes) on the image as a horizontal or vertical baseline ), select image/rotate canvas/Arbitrary from the menu, and the correct rotation angle is automatically set. Just press OK. Note: You can also use the cropping tool to complete rotation and cutting in one step: Use the cropping tool [c] to draw a box and drag the control point on the Selection box? #123; the angle and size of the entire selection box, and press enter to rotate and cut. Tip: the angle measured by the measurement tool is automatically filled in the edit/transform/numeric dialog box.

29 ). use "create layer by copying [Ctrl + J] (Layer/New/layer via copy) "or the" cut new layer [Ctrl + J] (Layer/New/layer via Cut) "command can be used to copy, paste, cut, and paste layers in one step. Note: The commands for creating layers by copying (cropping) are still placed in their original places, and the copy (cropping) and paste will be pasted to the center of the image (or selection area.
30). After cropping an image (using a cropping tool or selecting edit/crop), all pixels out of the cropping range will be lost. To crop images without loss, use the "image/canvas size" command. Although Photoshop will warn you that some cut operations will be performed, for some reason there is actually no-all the "cut" data is retained out of the screen. Tip: The image/crop command of imageready will ask whether to delete the cut area or hide it. Note: This does not work for the index color mode (in the index mode, using the canvas size command will result in loss of pixels other than the screen ).
31 ). when merging visible layers, press and hold the Alt key [CTRL + ALT + Shift + E] (Alt + layer/merge visible) to copy all visible layers and then merge them to the current layer. Tip: You can also press the Alt key when merging layers (Layer/merge down) to copy the current layer and merge it to the previous layer. This command does not have the corresponding hotkey -- CTRL + ALT + E does not work. 32). When using the box selection tool [m] (marquee tools), press shift to draw out the selection area of the square and positive circle. press ALT to draw the selection area from the center.

33). Run the "reselect" command [Ctrl + Shift + D] (select/reselect) to load/restore the selected area before.

34). You can press the Alt key to switch between the plug-in tool and the multilateral plug-in tool when you use the plug-in tool to sketch a selection.

35) When you sketch a constituency, you can press the Space key to move the selected constituency.

36) It is well known that holding shift or ALT can increase or trim the current selection area, but do you know that you can select the intersection of the two selection areas by pressing shift or alt? Tip: press Ctrl to click the layer icon (on the layer Panel) to load its transparent channel, press CTRL + ALT + shift and click the other layer to select the region where the two layers of transparent channels overlap.

37). Switch to the quickshield mode [Q] between scaling or copying images to reserve the original selection area.

38). Usage layer skills [tips]

39). Press SHIFT + "+" (forward) and SHIFT + "-" (backward) to switch between the compositing modes of various layers. We can also quickly switch the merging mode by pressing Alt + Shift + "one character.

N = normal)

I = dissolve)

M = multiply)

S = screen)

O = overlay)

F = soft light)

H = hard light)

D = color Dodge)

B = color burn)

K = darken)

G = lighten)

E = difference (difference)

X = exclusion)

U = hue)

T = saturation)

C = color)

Y = luminosity)

Q = behind (behind 1)

L = threshold (threshold 2)

R = clear (clear 3)

W = Dark? #123; (shadows 4)

V = middle? #123; (midtones 4)

Z = highlight (highlights 4)
A numbered value is valid in the following cases: [NOTE 1]

Work only in layers closed by "retain transparent area"

Indexed Mode)

Multi-layer image with line [N] (line) and paint bucket [k] tool (bucket tools)

Downloading and deepening tools [O] (Dodge and burn tools)

40). You can change the opacity of the current tool or layer by pressing bottom I directly. Press "1" to indicate 10% opacity, "5" to 50%, and so on. "0" is 100% opacity. Press the numeric key consecutively, for example, "85", to indicate that the opacity is 85%. Note: The above hot keys are also valid for the current drawing tool. If you want to change the opacity of the current layer, first go to the mobile tool or a selection tool.

41). press ALT and click the eye icon in front of the desired layer to hide/show all other layers.

42). press ALT and click the brush icon before the current layer to remove its link to all other layers.

43). to clear all layer effects on a layer, press ALT to double-click the layer icon on the layer, or select Layer/effects/clear effects from the menu. Tip: To disable one of the effects, press and hold the Alt key and select its name in the layer/effects submenu. Alternatively, you can cancel the "Apply" mark in the layer effect dialog box.

44). In the layer panel, press the Alt key and click between two layers to combine them into a group. This function is very useful when some layers are connected and you just want to group some of them (because the grouping Command [Ctrl + G] (Layer/group with previous) when the current layer is connected to other layers, the command [Ctrl + G] (Layer/group linked) is converted to the group link layer command )).

45) Is there a time-saving increase here? #123; Layer/New/adjustment layer method: Simply press Ctrl and click the "Create new layer" icon (at the bottom of the layer Panel) to select what you want to add? #123; full-layer type!

46). Press the Alt key and click the delete button (at the bottom of the layer Panel) to quickly delete the layer (no need to confirm). This is also applicable to channels and paths. In addition to editing the layer mask in the channel panel, you can press ALT to open the layer mask icon; press shift and click the mask icon to close/open the mask (a Red Cross X is displayed to close the mask ). Press Alt + shift and click the layer mask to display it in Ruby (50% red. Press ctrl and click the mask icon to load its transparent selection.

47 ). by default, all content of the current selection (Layer/add layer mask/reveal all) is displayed by adding the "add layer mask" icon (at the bottom of the layer panel) on the panel ); press and hold the Alt key and click the mask added by the "add layer mask" icon to hide the content of the current selection (Layer/add layer mask/hide all ).

48). Click the blank area on the path panel to close the display of all paths. The prompt is: press Ctrl + Shift + H to switch the path to display (view? Show/hide path ).

49 ). when you click the buttons below the path Panel (fill the path with the foreground color, use the stroke path with the foreground color, and load the path as the selection area, press the Alt key to view a series of available tools and/or options. When the current tool is a mobile tool (or press Ctrl at any time), right-click the canvas to open the list of all layers of the current vertex (sorted from top to bottom ): select a layer name from the list to make it the current layer. Tip: Right-click the Alt key to automatically select the top layer of the current point, or open

50). You can also set the automatic selection layer option on the "Move tool options" panel. Tip: press shift (Alt + Shift + right-click) to check whether the current layer is connected to the top layer.

51). Tips for guides and rulers [tips]

52). When dragging the guides, you can press the Alt key to switch between the horizontal guides and the vertical guides. Press the Alt key and click an existing vertical guides to convert them into horizontal guides, and vice versa.

53). Note: The guides are created by dragging them out of the ruler, so make sure that the ruler is open [Ctrl + R] (View/show rulers ).

54) when dragging the guides, hold down the Shift key to force them to align to the scale on the ruler.

55). Double-click the guides to open the guides & Style Parameter Setting Dialog Box [Ctrl + k, CTRL + 6] (File/preferences/guides & grid ).

56). Double-click the ruler [Ctrl + R] to open the Unit & ruler Parameter Setting Dialog Box [Ctrl + k, CTRL + 5] (File/preferences/units & rulers ). Tip: You can also select a ruler measurement unit from the Options menu on the information panel.

57). You can set the coordinates of the scale to any place on the canvas. You only need to drag it from the upper left corner of the scale to apply the new coordinates. Double-click the upper left corner to restore the coordinates to the default point.

58). Using the path tool to create guides for curves and diagonal lines is also a good way. As long as you use the pen tool to draw a path, you can use it as a guides when drawing or coloring (the path is always visible ). Tip: use the "Hide path" command [Ctrl + Shift + H] (view? Hide path.

59). The guides not only stick to the edge of the current layer or selected area (upper, lower, and left), but also align horizontally or vertically in the center (current layer or selected area. The opposite is true: the constituency and layer are also adsorbed on existing secondary online (edge and center ). Note: The guides are not adsorbed on the background layer. To implement the preceding functions, you must enable the [Ctrl + Shift +;] (View/Snap to guides) option of "tighten the Guides. Tip: to find the center of the screen, you can create a new screen and [Ctrl + Shift + N] (Layer/New Layer) and fill in [SHIFT + backspace] (edit/fill) one layer Then absorbs the guides to the vertical center and horizontal center.

60). navigator and action skills [NOTE 1] [navigator]

In many cases, using a keyboard to control navigation is faster than using a mouse. Some common navigator hotkeys are listed here:

Home = to the upper left corner of the canvas

End = To the bottom right corner of the canvas

Pageup = scroll up a page

Pagedown = scroll down a page

CTRL + Pageup = scroll the canvas to the left

CTRL + Pagedown = scroll the canvas to the right to move a page

Shift + Pageup = scroll the canvas up to 10 pixels

Shift + Pagedown = scroll down the canvas to 10 pixels

CTRL + Shift + Pageup = scroll the canvas to the left 10 pixels

CTRL + Shift + Pagedown = scroll the canvas 10 pixels to the right

61). use Ctrl + TAB/Ctrl + F6 to switch between multiple documents (or use the window menu), which is very convenient!

62). Use the recovery Command [F12] (File/revert) to restore the current document to the last saved state. Warning! In photoshop5.0, the restoration command also clears the history! This means that all changes made after the last saving of the restore command will be lost! Photoshop5.5 is more positive.

63). channels also have their default hotkeys. This makes addition, subtraction, and intersection operations between selection/masks in the form of channels very fast and simple. Some common modes are listed here:

RGB color CMYK color index color

CTRL + "~" = RGB

CTRL + 1 = red

CTRL + 2 = green

CTRL + 3 =? #123;

CTRL + 4 = Other Channels

CTRL + 9 = Other Channels

CTRL + "~" = CMYK

CTRL + 1 = cyan

CTRL + 2 = foreign red

CTRL + 3 = yellow

CTRL + 4 = black

CTRL + 5 = Other Channels
CTRL + 9 = Other Channels

CTRL + 1 = index

CTRL + 2 = Other Channels

CTRL + 9 = Other Channels

For example, to create a selection area to represent the intersection of Channel 7 and Channel 9, press CTRL + ALT + 7 (load Channel 7 as the selection area) then press by CTRL + ALT + Shift + 9 (and then intersection with Channel 9 ).

64). Press CTRL in the proxy preview area of the navigator to update and set the visible area of the current file. Tip: Hold down the Shift key when dragging the display box in the proxy preview area to lock the direction of movement to either horizontal or vertical. Tip: You can change the color of the box displayed in the preview area of the Administrator in the panel options of the navigator panel.

65). If you only want to perform a single step in the action, select the step to be executed and press Ctrl to play (at the bottom of the Action panel ). Note: to change the parameters of some commands in an action, double-click the corresponding step to open the dialog box: any new values are automatically stored.

66). To start from a certain step of the action, you only need to select the start step and press the play button (at the bottom of the behavior panel.

67) replication techniques [copying]

68). You can use the selection tool [m] (Marquee Tool) or the plug-in tool [L] (Polygonal Lasso) to drag a selection area from one document to another. When you drag a selected region or layer from one document to another, you can hold down the Shift key to center it on the target region. Tip: If the size (size) of the source and target file is the same, the dragged element is placed in the same location as the source file (instead of in the center of the canvas ). Note: If the target document contains a selection area, the dragged elements are placed in the center of the selection area.

69). To move multiple layers between different documents, first link them, and then you can use the mobile tool to drag multiple layers between documents at the same time. Note: you cannot drag multiple layers in the layer panel to another document at the same time (even if they are linked)-this will only move the selected layer.

70 ). to orchestrate multiple layers into a group, the quickest way is to link them first, and then select the Group link layer Command [Ctrl + G] (Layer/group linked ). You can cancel the link as needed. Note: This technology can also be used to merge [Ctrl + E] (Layer/merge down) multiple visible layers (because the current layer is connected to other layers, the "Group with previous" command changes to the "Group Linked layer" command ).
71 ). there is a clever way to re-arrange multiple layers (in the layer panel) at the same time: first, set the layer link group [Ctrl + G] (Layer/group with previous) drag it to a new place in the layer panel and then ungroup it.

72). To create a copy file for the current historical status or snapshot (window/show history), you can:

A) Click "Create a new document from the current state ".

B) Select a new document from the history panel menu.

C) drag the current State (or snapshot) to the "Create a new file from the current state" button.

D) Right-click the desired status (or snapshot) and select a new document from the pop-up menu.

73) drag a historical status of the current image to another window to change the content of the target image.

74). Press the Alt key and click any historical status (except the current and recent status) to copy it. The copied status changes to the current (recent) status.

75). You can copy the step from the alt-drag action to another action.