Photoshop offers many different cursors to help you complete your tasks but some are a bit cumbersome for detailed work. Sometimes, the tool you are using just gets in the way. With some tools, such as with the crop tool, it is not very clear where the point of the cursor is (its half way along the [...] [...]
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Marching ants are wonderful. They shift leaves and help recycle the forest. In Photoshop they are as helpful but, like the real thing, some times you wish they weren’t there. No problem. To remove the marching ants press: – CMD+h (Mac) CTRL + h (PC) Voila; an ant free image. Press the same shortcut to get them [...] [...] In the midst of all the excitement here at Improved Images there is nothing like getting back to the tranquility of Photoshop’s many keyboard shortcuts. After the War and Peace nature of some of the previous ‘shortcuts’ it is time to return to the fast and snappy. It is an interesting fact that some of the [...] [...] 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. [...] [...] 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 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 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 [...] [...] |
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