Photoshop interface Tips and interface shortcuts

　　You might know that by pressing the TAB key, you can hide the Toolbox and the floating panel, and also press Shift+tab to hide only the floating panel (while retaining the toolbar visible).

Hold down the Shift key and click on the title bar of the floating panel (the top blue bar) to make it adsorbed to the nearest screen edge.

Double-click each column on the floating panel (that is, the one with the title) to minimize it. The minimized buttons on the floating panel allow you to switch between compact mode (with minimal options and content visible) and normal mode (all of the options and content on the display panel).

You can open the options panel for the current tool by pressing the ENTER key (or by double-clicking the tool button on the Toolbox). Otherwise, you can only open it through the window > show Options command on the menu.

Use the scaling area (in the lower left corner of the Photoshop form or Navigator panel) to quickly select an accurate zoom, and pressing shift+enter when you enter a value causes the cursor to remain in the scaling area.

To change the status bar display information (at the bottom of the window, the default display file size, which can be opened by Window > show status bar), select a new item from the pop-up menu by pressing the button on the status bar. Click on the left area of the button on the status bar to display the current file size, hold down Alt-click to display file size and resolution, hold down CTRL and click the display tile information.

Tired of the gray canvas background? Choose Paint Bucket Tool

(Paint Bucket) hold down SHIFT and click on the edge of the canvas to set the canvas background to the current foreground color.

　　Note: To revert to the default color, set the foreground color to 25% grayscale (r192,g192,b192) and press SHIFT again to click on the edge of the canvas.

The Cancel button in all of the dialog boxes in Photoshop can be changed to the reset button by holding down the ALT key. This allows you to easily revert to the original value without having to cancel it again.

The CapsLock key on the keyboard controls the switch between the precise state and the standard state of the cursor.

　　NOTE: If the cursor is set to the exact state in the parameters of Photoshop [Ctrl+k,ctrl+3] (File > Preferences >display & Cursors ...), then the CapsLock key does not work.

Press the "F" key to switch between Photoshop's three different on-screen display modes (standard display mode → full screen mode with menus → full screen mode) (or you can use the buttons at the bottom of the toolbox).

　　Tip: Press Shift+f in Full-screen mode to toggle the display of menus.

Double-click the background space in Photoshop to open the file command "ctrl+o" (File > Open ...).

Hold down SHIFT and click the color bar under the color panel to change the type of chromatogram it displays. Alternatively, you can right-click on the color bar and choose another color mode from the pop-up color bar options menu.

Right-click on the title bar of the picture window to quickly invoke commands such as canvas size commands, image size commands, and replication, and so on.

In any blank (gray) area of the Palette panel, click to add a custom color to the palette, hold down CTRL while you click to subtract a color, and hold down shift to replace a color.

You can exchange color data between Photoshop and other programs (other programs that support 16 color values) by copying the 16 color values shown in the Photoshop picker.

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