Photoshop Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in easy steps

Robert Shufflebotham

• Publisher: In Easy Steps Limited
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781840787399
• eBook ISBN: 9781840787962
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Desktop Applications
• Index: Computer Science

Hundreds of tips, tricks and shortcuts to help you get the most out of Adobe's Photoshop CC. Achieve expertly produced images, and learn shortcuts to save time! Covers all versions of Photoshop CC. Ifyou've been using Photoshop for a while, but you've only been using a few basic features to get by and want to know all those clever tricks of the trade, thenPhotoshopTips, Tricks & Shortcutsin easy stepsis for you! Learn about all the exciting features to achieve expertly produced images, and shortcuts to save time. Photoshop Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in easy stepswill enable anyone to create, edit and produce professional looking images – allin easy stepswith little time and effort required for learning. Ideal for: anyone who needs to produce professional-looking images, brochures or marketing material, without needing to pay a premium for designers; students who want to add stunning images to their school and college projects; anyone wanting to produce stunning images and with limited time and/or budget for training courses; designers who may need to update their skills with Photoshop CC. Covers all versions of Adobe's Photoshop CC

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Go Faster

This chapter introduces a set of tips and tricks that you really should be using to work quickly, effectively, and with control and precision, to produce beautiful, crafted, inspiring, Photoshop images and compositions.

Zooming in and out

Content-Aware crop

Perspective crop

Reset Preference Settings

Controlling brushes

Pixel Grid

Recent Files panel

Notes

New Guide – precision placement

New Guide Layout – precision grids

Artboard documents

Create and manage Artboards

Custom keyboard shortcuts

Auto-Select

Zooming in and out

Work for a day in Photoshop and you’ll find yourself zooming in and out on your images constantly. As with all design tasks, to become faster and to be efficient you should look to identify those tasks that you perform on a regular basis and find the quickest, most efficient and effective way to perform them. Zooming in and out provides one of these opportunities.

Don’t use this keyboard shortcut if you have the Text Insertion Point flashing in text as there is a danger, when using the Spacebar as part of the shortcut, that you will accidentally introduce unwanted spaces in the text.

Instead of moving your cursor to the Zoom tool, clicking on it to select it, then moving your cursor back into the image to perform the zoom in/zoom out, and then going back to the Tool panel to either re-select the tool you were previously working with or select a different tool – try using the keyboard/mouse shortcut below.

Working with any tool other than the Zoom tool, hold down cmd/ctrl and the Spacebar to temporarily access the Zoom tool.

Drag diagonally down and to the right to zoom in, or diagonally up and to the left to zoom out.

When you release the cmd/ctrl keys and Spacebar you can continue working with the tool that you were previously working with.

Another good reason for learning this shortcut is that you can use the same technique in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator.

If you are working on a Mac, make sure you hold down Spacebar slightly before the cmd key. If you hold down cmd first, the Spotlight Search entry field appears; although the zoom technique still works:

Content-Aware crop

Content-Aware crop is useful when you want to retain as much image detail along the corner edges of an image when you need to rotate and straighten it and/or expand the Photoshop canvas area beyond its initial size. The Content-Aware technology fills areas that would otherwise be lost, to create a seamless result based on existing pixel data in the image.

As an optional first step, choose View > Rulers, to show the rulers along the top and left edges of the image window. Position your cursor in the top ruler, then drag in a ruler guide to act as an additional visual reference if required.

Select the Crop tool and create ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1 Go Faster
• 2 Selections
• 3 Layers and Masks
• 4 Layer Blend Modes
• 5 Type
• 6 Transform, Reflect, Shadow and Light
• 7 Path Power
• 8 Cloud Power
• 9 Actions and Output
• Back Cover