Many people like to work in full screen mode in Photoshop to really get the best out of your display. However, with all the palettes hidden too, how do you apply text transformations when you can get to the ‘apply’ tick as its not even visible?
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Photoshop Troubleshooting - How can I apply my text transformations in full screen mode
Monday, September 10th, 2007Struggling to see the Photoshop font preview - make it bigger!
Friday, August 31st, 2007It’s really cool getting a preview of the selected font when you are working with type in Photoshop - but if you are running your monitor at a high resolution you can struggle to actually see it - not any more though!
Automatically highlighting text entry fields after you hit return
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007You often find yourself typing figures into various places in Photoshop, like the zoom level at the bottom left of the window, opacity in the layers palette and type size in the various type dialogs. You double click the figure (quicker than clicking and highlighting!), type in a figure, hit return… and repeat this process as many times as required… which is slow!
Moving your marquee selection whilst drawing it in Photoshop
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Here’s a nice tip - when you are drawing a marquee selection in Photoshop (little marching ants selection) did you know you can move the selection WHILST you are still drawing it - nope me neither until very recently!
Stop flattening or duplicating - start copying merged layers quickly!
Monday, July 16th, 2007Sometimes you need to merge all the existing layers in your document into one layer to either manipulate in a new document or in the existing document - and there is a great little shortcut for this!
See more of your image when you are working with these viewing shortcuts
Saturday, July 14th, 2007You don’t always have the luxury of a dual monitor setup and single monitor setups can get very cluttered with lots and lots of palettes - even if you use the palette dock. Use these simple shortcuts to make the most of your workspace so you can see more of your image when you are working.
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Altering layer order with keyboard shortcuts
Monday, July 2nd, 2007This is a great little tip, especially if you have a-lot of layers! Sometimes you want to move a layer up or down in the layers palette and at the same time keeping an eye on your artwork to see how it is effecting your composition.
Showing and hiding those distracting vector paths and masks
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007The paths that define vector shapes and vector layer masks in Photoshop like to reveal themselves to help you out when editing layers, but they can be quite distracting when you are working on layered compositions, making it hard to concentrate on your artwork.
Don’t forget your viewing shortcuts in the Navigator palette
Friday, June 15th, 2007Here’s a little gem for those who want to move around a large document using the Navigator palette.
Creating a black layer mask instead of a white one the quicky way
Thursday, May 24th, 2007It can be a little frustrating sometimes when you create layer masks that by default they apply as a white filled layer mask, meaning that the layer is not effected by it. Annoyed by having to keep selecting all and filling with black… you’ll like this one then!