The SHIFT key that you must know about in Photoshop

For people who often use Photoshop, the best friend in the left hand is the SHIFT key when designing or fixing a picture with PS. The SHIFT key is handy for the PS veteran, but it's a mystery to many of the people who have just come in contact with Photoshop, and today I'm going to introduce you to some of the shift keys that are useful in Photoshop, and don't know how to use PS The SHIFT key students learn quickly.

Create a line

When you use the Brush tool, do you have trouble drawing straight line segments for yourself? In fact, you can create a straight line on the canvas with a brush and other tools with the SHIFT key. You can force the stroke to move along a 90-degree (horizontal or vertical) direction by holding down the SHIFT key before you write and then dragging the mouse.

Move Body

If you want to move the main body in the horizontal or vertical direction, many people will choose to use the keyboard direction of a unit in a unit slowly moving, in fact, there is a more efficient way, that is, select the Mobile tool, with the SHIFT key + direction key! The combination of the two can achieve 10 times times the unit value adjustment; This method applies to moving layers, pixels within a selection, and selections.

Enforce scale

When you use the Transform tool to resize an object, just hold down the SHIFT key to ensure that your resizing does not distort or stretch the image to a strange point, but that it zooms in on the original proportions of the image.

Similarly, using the SHIFT key when trimming is used or when creating a rectangle or oval shape forces a square or circle range to be created.

Test layer Blending Mode

Different layer blending modes correspond to different layer effects, sometimes you need to test the effect of each pattern before you decide which one to choose. In this case, you can quickly see the effects of various modes by holding down the SHIFT key plus the subtraction key on the keypad ("-" or "+") when you select the layer.

Change Brush Hardness

The [or] key adjusts the current pen size in 10 pixels per time, and with shift, you can adjust the brush's hardness in 25% units.

Other applications

Pressing SHIFT (CTRL+SHIFT+L) when performing a level command (CTRL+L) enables automatic levels and avoids pop-up dialog boxes, while performing hue/color saturation (ctrl+u) by pressing SHIFT (CTRL+SHIFT+U) to color; performing color balancing (CTRL+B) When you press Shift (CTRL+SHIFT+B) for automatic color, and when you merge layers (ctrl+e), press Shift (CTRL+SHIFT+E) to perform the merged visible layer.

The shortcut keys for repeating filters are ctrl+f,ctrl+shift+f to fade the filter; the shortcut key to cancel the current selection is ctrl+d,ctrl+shift+d to select again; the group shortcut key is ctrl+g,ctrl+shift+g for ungroup; The gradual undo operation is Ctrl+alt+z, and the gradual recovery operation is ctrl+shift+z.

The CTRL key in Photoshop, with the [and] keys, enables the current layer to move down and up, plus the SHIFT key, which moves the layer directly to the bottom (still above the background layer) and the top layer.

When the display can only display part of the image, the PageUp and pagedown of the keypad can be the image of the local roll up a screen and a screen, with the CTRL key to the left volume of a screen and the right volume of a screen; however, by pressing the SHIFT key, you can achieve a small range of 10 pixels per

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