The application of "Alt" "Ctrl" "Shift" in Photoshop

The application of "Alt" "Ctrl" "Shift" in Photoshop

"Alt"

You can use the Eyedropper tool when holding down the ALT key to get a lame view instead of the foreground color.

When you draw a selection, you can hold down the ALT key and temporarily switch between the Polygon lasso tool and the Lasso tool.

When you use the Burn tool and the Fade tool, you can hold down ALT to switch between them temporarily.

When you use the Brush tool, the airbrush tool, you can hold down the ALT key to temporarily switch to the Eyedropper tool to select the desired color at any time.

When you use the Eraser tool, hold down the ALT key and erase the system to the opposite state of history.

When you draw the path, hold down the ALT key and drag the mouse to switch to the manual drawing state.

When you call the Curves dialog box, hold down the ALT key and format the mouse button to increase the grid line and improve the accuracy of the curve.

When you change the settings for a dialog box, to revert to the default value, hold down the ALT key, the Cancel key becomes the Reset key, and then click.

When you use the lighting effects filter, hold down the ALT key and then drag the light source to achieve the copy light.

In the Thislayer and underlying under BLENDIF in the option of the layer, press the ALT key to drag the small triangle to produce a gradient transparency effect.

Vertical gauge: Metric tool + ALT + drag Endpoint

ALT + double-click background area = Open File as

Holding down the ALT key, the merge linked under the Select menu can merge the contents of the other linked layers into the current layer.

Hold down the ALT key, click the current layer of the brush icon to cancel the link with other layers

Hold down the ALT key, point the current layer of the eye icon to make the other layer is not visible, and then restore visible.

Hold down the ALT key, the point level board of the Trash box icon can directly delete the current layer.

Holding down the ALT key, the first item in the Point Filter menu, which is the filter you used last time, brings up the filter's settings box.

"Ctrl"

Use CTRL + X (cut) and CTRL + V (paste) to center the selected area on the screen or the newly created marquee.

Apply the filter effect again: Ctrl + F, you can apply the nearest filter effect again to enhance the filter effect.

You can convert a channel to a selected range by clicking the control key that contains the selected range of channels you want to load.

In the swatches and brushes panels, hold down CTRL click to remove the color block or stroke.

Ctrl + Double-click the background area = new file

When you need to make adjustments to a particular point in the Curves dialog box, move the mouse to the position of the point on the screen, press CTRL and click, you can set a diagonal line in the grid corresponding to the point of the gray level of the anchor point, we can use the mouse to adjust the.

"Shift"

Hold down the SHIFT key and use the marquee tool to draw a circle and a square.

When you use the Polygon lasso, hold down the SHIFT key to draw the selected range only horizontally, vertically, and 45 degrees.

While you are free to transform, hold down the SHIFT key and drag the control point of the bevel to deform in the original proportions.

While using the Eraser tool, hold down the SHIFT key and erase only horizontally and vertically.

When you draw a path, hold down the SHIFT key to limit the angle of the segment to a multiple of 45 degrees. When you select a path, you can select multiple paths.

To toggle the color mode directly on the color palette, hold down the SHIFT key and then move the cursor over the color bar to click SHIFT + Double-click the background area = Save

"Other Keys"

Double-click background area = Open File

ESC = Cancel operation; Enter = Perform action

Reset Marquee When selected: any marquee tool + SPACEBAR + drag

Add to a selection or subtract from a selection: Any selection tool + Shift or ALT + drag

Cross selection: Any selection tool + SHIFT + ALT + drag

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E: Merge all visible layers as new layers onto newly created layer

Ctrl + Alt + F: Displays the last Applied Filter dialog box.

Ctrl + Shift: Click a channel at the same time to place the original selection and the channel as the selected range after the addition.

Ctrl + Alt: Click a channel at the same time to subtract the range of the original selection and the channel after the coincident region as the selected range.

Ctrl + Alt + Shift: Click a channel at the same time to place the original selection and the overlapped range of the channel as the selected range.

In any dialog box, you can use the SHIFT + space to enlarge the screen, ALT + space to reduce the screen, space to translate the screen.

When you are currently the eyedropper, Color Sampler tool, hold down the SHIFT key to add a color sampling point, hold down SHIFT + ALT to delete the sampling point, hold down SHIFT + CTRL to move the sampling point, and hold down CTRL + ALT to copy the sampling point.

To produce more visible moire patterns when using the Filter/render/clouds filter, hold down the ALT key before you execute the command, and to generate a low diffuse cloud effect, hold down the SHIFT key before you execute the command.

When using the free deformation function, press the CTRL key and drag a control point to adjust the random deformation; SHIFT + CTRL and drag a control point to tilt; press the ALT key and drag a control point to adjust symmetrically; press SHIFT + CTRL + ALT and drag a control point to adjust the perspective effect.

"Several tips for using the path tool"

Hold down the SHIFT key to force the path or direction line to a horizontal, vertical, or 45 degree angle

Hold down the CTRL key to temporarily switch to the path selection tool

Alt-click the pen cursor over the black node to change the orientation of the direction line so that the curve can be turned

Pressing the ALT key with the path selection (Direct Selection) tool selects the entire path by clicking the path

To select multiple paths at the same time, hold down SHIFT and click individually

Pressing CTRL + ALT key to move near the path using the path selection tool switches to the Add node and subtract node Pen tool.

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