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These Photoshop keyboard shortcuts are probably the most important ones you can learn - they are useful in any kind of Photoshop work and you will come back to them time and time again. If you are learning keyboard shortcuts, this is where you should start - any Photoshop Ninja should know these!
There are many times when you want to be keeping an eye on your image as things are adjusted, rather than looking from dialogue box setting field to image to setting to image yadda yadda yadda and back again-we are talking rsi on your eyes…not healthy for any budding Photoshop Ninja!
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?
Here’s a little gem or a tip - are you getting sick of keep on switching between tools in when you are working? The tool that gets used most in Photoshop is the move tool, and here’s a little tip to stop you having to switch between whatever tool you have active (eg brush) and the move tool.
It’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!
It’s been a while since I last created a download, so this time I thought I’d make it extra special for you with something a little bit different! I have created a unique set of 5 Photoshop brushes that I’m calling the Blobby collection volume 1 - great for backgrounds or where you need a bit of soft blobbyness!
You 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!
You spend ages setting up your palettes exactly how you like them in your workspace, and then you maybe knock the keyboard and they all disappear! This can be infuriating for people working in Photoshop, especially those who are just learning.
I am personally still on CS2, but one of my larger clients upgraded to CS3 about 6 weeks ago, which I have now had a chance to work with for a while… is it just me being set in my old ways or have Adobe gone a bit off-track with their new tool palettes?
Here’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!
