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| Quick Tip #1: When using your magic wand tool you can press your Shift to add more to the selection, or press your Alt to take away from the selection. |
| Quick Tip #2: When using your marquee tool hold the Shift key to get a perfect circle or square |
| Quick Tip #3: Pressing the tab key will hide the tools from view, press again to return. |
| Quick Tip #4: Press the F key to go to full screen. Two more times will return. | Quick Tip #5: To Zoom in use your keyboard, Ctrl + zooms in and Ctrl - to zoom out. |
| Quick Tip #6: Change the brush size on the keyboard by using the Bracket. [ this key makes the brush smaller and the ] key makes the brush larger. |
| Quick Tip #7: Duplicate selection or selected layer by using keyboard shortcut ( Ctrl +J ) |
| Quick Tip #7: Create new layer: To create a new layer with 100% opacity and in Normal mode, click on the Create new layer button at the bottom of the layers palette. |
| Quick Tip #8: Turn a Section into a layer: Create a selection (using section tool of your choice. To place a copy of the selected pixels on a new layer, leaving the original layer untouched, Choose the Layer menu, New, Layer via copy. |
| Quick Tip #9: When the Preserve Transparency box is checked on the Layers palette, only existing pixels on a layer can be edited or re colored. |
| Quick Tip #10: For the most seamless transition when copying or moving a layer or selection to another image, check the Anti-aliased box on the Options palette for your selection tool before creating a selection. |
| Quick Tip #11: Photoshop 7.0 now gives you the capability of saving A TIF format with layers as well as a PSD Format. |
| Quick Tip #12: Fit Image on Screen PC - Control + 0 Mac - CD + 0 Double Click Hand Tool |
| Quick Tip #13: To Visually Increase Space Between Lines of Text: Type text in text box and highlight, then press: PC - Alt + Arrow Keys Mac - Option + Arrow Keys This will increase or decrease the spacing between lines of text. |
| Quick Tip #14: Stretch Your Text Type Your Text, Select Text Layer, Press Ctrl + T, then grab a resizing box and stretch. If you have not rasterized your text it is still a victor of which can be re-sized without any loss in quality. |
| Quick Tip #15: Select a text layer, Go to the styles palette and try some, works best with a bold or big text. |
| Quick Tip #16: Fill Shortcut: To Fill an Entire layer with foreground color, press Alt + Delete (Mac: Option + Delete) To fill just an Object on a layer (not entire layer), press Shft +Alt + Delete (Mac: Shft + Option + Delete) |
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Tip #17: Paint Away Color: When working on a color image, you can use the Paint Brush tool to selectively “paint away” color to black and white. You can make one portion of your image really stand out. In the Paint Brush Options palette, change the blend mode to Color, and paint away the color. |
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Tip #18: Crop Tool - Snap: The Crop Tool wants to snap to the edge of your document, and can interfere with making an exact crop. To get around this, hold down the (PC: Control key) and (Mac: Command key) when you are getting near the edge and you will be able to precisely position the Crop Toll where you want it. |
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Tip #19: Getting Rid of Fringe Pixels: Often when you combine multiple images, there will be a bit of fringe around the edges of the composited images. Sometimes you can hide the fringe by going under the Layers menu, under Matting and choosing Defringe. At the dialogue box, choose the default setting; it that doesn't work, Undo, and try Defringe again at a setting of 2. |
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Tip #20: Quick Fix for Removing Scratches: To quickly remove scratches or blemishes from a photo, double click on the Blur Tool, and in the Blur Tool Options palette, lower the opacity to 15%, change the mode to Lighten. When you paint over the scratches they will disappear. |
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Tip #21: Instant Feather: If you are using the Lasso Tools, and want to set a feather, just press the Return/Enter key and the Feather field in the Options palette will highlight and you can enter or change the value. |
| Quick Tip #22: Two many layers? Select the right layer by select the move tool ( V ) Right click the mouse over the layer a drop down list will come up. |
| Quick Tip #23: Two many layer? Put them in layer sets. On the bottom of your layer palette, click the create new layers set, ( looks like a folder) name the new layer set. Now just drag the layers you like in that set. Great for coping a set too. Highlight the set right click and copy |
| Quick Tip #24 Do you have a layer style you like and use a lot? You can save that layer style as a style that will show up in you style palette. In the Blending Options look just under Ok and Cancel look for Save Style. Now to use it just click on it in your styles palette Note: must be in a layer. |
| Quick Tip #25 A quick way to rasterize a shape or text is right click the layer in the layers palette a flyout will come up with rasterize layer. |
| Quick Tip #26 With any of the tools Brush, Eraser, Stamp stamp, etc you can pull up the options by just right clicking the mouse. |
| Quick Tip #27 Notice on the top of the image you will see the image name it will also tell you which layer you are in. Right click on it to the pull up the options such as duplicate, image size, canvas size, image info and page setup for print. |
| Quick Tip # 28 You can make a selection in a layer that will selection only the pixels and not the transparency area of the layer by holdeing the Ctrl key and click the mouse on the layer in the layers palette. |
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