That you don't know about Photoshop cold knowledge

1. Optimization of the Path selection tool (cc+)

This article is for the PSCC and above version of the skills (in the beginning of the release of the PSCC is not this feature, subsequent updates are added), the first use of CC believe that a lot of people in the use of the path selection tool There are some discomfort--------how everything can choose!

The thing is purple, in cc, Adobe makes the level of the Path tool global (similar to AI), double-click to lock the target layer, without locking the path selection is not restricted by the layer, popular point is that no matter how many layers you have, whether the lock, as long as the existence can be selected, But the selection is not necessarily operational (such as the selected path contains a locked layer), which is very different from our previous operating habits, Adobe also found this problem, so in the subsequent version of the switch to add this feature

As pictured above, this time should be a better understanding of it ~ in the first box selection, you can select any path layer (including the lock), the upper left corner of the selection of existing layers/all layers, you can only select the current layer, a bit like the automatic selection of mobile tools.

Through this setting, we can control the range of path selection, we need to select a path and do not want to be disturbed by other layers to use the "active layer", when it is necessary to select the bulk operation of "all layers", the control, is so cool ~

On the application of this technique, the following text also has the explanation ~

2. Create a copy

Shortcut key: ctrl+j expand shortcut key: Ctrl+shift+j

"C" +j believe we all already know ~ in PS its standard term is "through the copied (shape) layer", to from a layer to a range (selection, shape) to create a copy layer, said very round, so look at the picture bar:

So how does it expand? Look at the following:

is still well understood, equivalent to adding shear on the basis of the original function

So the question is, what can we do with it?

These days there are small partners to ask this question, how to quickly multiple shapes in a unified layer into multiple layers? I recorded this gif for him ...

1. Select all layers (cc+) in the path selection tool.

2. Select the layer and switch to the path selection tool

3. Click the desired shape/path, "C" + "S" +j

4. Repeat step 3 until the split ends

It's simple, it's very easy to understand.

(I have limited ability, in the absence of plug-ins in the case of this is the fastest I can find the way to split, you reader if there is more efficient way to welcome the message to inform ~)

Of course, this technique is not only limited to split, more usage waiting for you to find out

3. Grouping/Solution group aligned with selection

Shortcut key: ctrl+g expand shortcut key: Ctrl+shift+g

In the second phase of the cold know there is an alignment technique that has been mentioned in the article

The selection or alignment of this item is priority over the layer (not valid for the path), so when you create a selection in the artboard, any alignment you make is a key object in this constituency!

Here to do a further expansion, the alignment between the layers is also a priority, that is the group! When a group exists in an alignment object, no matter how many layers there are in the group, the alignment is the sum of the layer boundaries within all groups. Listen, a little bit around, let's raise a chestnut:

We draw a, B, c three layers and adjust their spacing, another layer of D, and now we want ABC to align with the layer d with relatively constant spacing, and I have the following methods:

① A, B, C (ctrl+g)

② hold down CTRL and click on Layer d to activate the selection of the layer

③ Select group 1, to perform the alignment

④ Solution Group (CTRL+SHIFT+G) back to the original, on the sauce ~

PS: A lot of people asked me why I didn't align to the visual boundaries after I used the alignment because--

In Photoshop, the boundary of the shape layer is the path itself, not the visual boundary of the layer, and here's the picture, and we'll do an experiment to see what I'm talking about.

4. Reverse Layer

Shortcut keys: None

One of the more secret skills ~

Do not know if you have encountered similar problems, a pile of layers, and finally found that the order is all reversed, see such as mountain layer, how to do, get a adjust order?

Some students may have to say, there must be similar plug-ins or action, in fact, PS has always had this function ~

Layers--Arrange--reverse (select multiple layers to use)

So look at the effect (I set up the shortcut key here for the demo effect):

n Layers in reverse order

Quickly replace content

5. Nonlinear historical records

is a relatively uncommon function, not very good description, first look at the picture bar:

The above diagram is a state where the nonlinear history is turned on, you can see what I'm doing after the undo operation, and the record will take the previous steps, which means that all the history will be preserved, whether or not it is revoked, so that our flexibility becomes stronger when we do the drawing, and of course there are many drawbacks, First, after the opening of the history of the number of records will grow fast, resources do not say, the key steps are brushed off the sad rush. Then the habit of the problem, I first opened the feeling must be awkward ... Fresh vigor past has changed back, I do not know you reader whether useful to the habit of ~

The Open method is shown in the following figure:

6. Gradient window Stretching

It is not cold, often play PS people should know ~ Adjust the gradient of more than the inflection point will be very laborious, then the edge of the window can be opened, Ah, as shown:

7. Show Masks

Many beginners are not very clear about the concept of a mask, and this technique gives you a clear sense of how the Mask works:

Alt-click the Mask (limit layer mask, the vector mask is not valid), then the artboard will switch to the Mask grayscale state, so that the adjustment more convenient ~ Hold down ALT Click the mask again to exit the state.

By the way, hold down SHIFT and click the mask for deactivation (not cold)

8. Pen Rubber Belt

A very interesting function, the following two map:

See the little tail behind the pen pointer! It's funny, isn't it? With this tail, you can immediately measure to the next path of the track, the heart of the bottom, the hands of a few ~

The Open method can no longer be simple:

Above here, the rubber belt can be on the hook ~

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