Courtesy Adobe What use is a keyboard shortcut if it doesn’t save you time? Precious little. It is a surprise then that some default shortcuts rely on so many keys you could type War and Peace in the time it takes to select them. Fortunately, the maximum Photoshop actually uses in the default set is ‘just’ 4. [...] [...]
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Courtesy Adobe F12 Short and sweet is the theme for today. This shortcut will get you back to whence you came in a fast and easy way. Pressing F12 on your function key area of the keypad (both Mac and PC) will revert the image you have been working on to its original state. Another good shortcut to [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe Working with your layers and want to quickly change the order of the layers without clicking and dragging? Here’s how to send a selected layer 1 place down the stack press : – Command + [ (Mac) Ctrl + [ (PC) To bring a selected layer 1 place up the stack press: - Command + [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe Today the humble Option (Mac)/Alt (PC) key comes to your rescue when in dire need within Photoshop CS4. Have you ever played with all the sliders and options in a menu box and wished you could extricate yourself quickly from the mess you have just generated? Happily there is just such a solution, and you [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe Birds’ Eye View In Photoshop CS4 there is a new way to scroll and zoom around an image. This is called the Birds’ Eye View. It saves you time when you are zoomed in closely to an image. To quickly move to another part of the image at the same zoom level simply press: – H + Click [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe I hope you have remembered all the tool shortcuts – good – there will be an exam . The tool shortcuts are a good starting point but there is so much more CS4 keyboard shortcut goodness out there to help you on your way to the perfect image. Here is one more efficiency shortcut [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe There are hundreds of Photoshop CS4 keyboard shortcuts available to every user. The best ones to memorise are those that you find yourself using most often. While that is often a personal choice there are a number of options that will be at or near the top of everyones’ list. One group of these [...] [...] Courtesy Adobe Not everyone likes keyboard shortcuts and many (including Steve Jobs) prefer the hands off approach, using just the mouse. After you gain sufficient familiarity with the operations of Photoshop the vast array of keyboard shortcuts can however save you significant amounts of time. Not all menu or panel options have an associated shortcut but [...] [...] When using the Colour Picker panel, have you ever noticed a small cube and colour square combination that sometimes pop up to the right of the new/current colour panel? This is a friendly warning telling you that the colour you just selected is not web safe. This may not be of interest, but if it is, [...] [...] Adding a Drop Shadow is one of the many layer effects you can add via the ‘fx‘ button at the bottom of the layers panel. Did you know that, while the effects panel is on screen, you can click and drag the shadow wherever you want it? Why not try it now? The ability to do [...] [...] |
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