1. If you have multiple image windows open and want to close them all, execute the Window\Close All command.
2. When recording an Action, it is better to use the Condional Mode Change command to record the operation of converting the color mode, which can save a lot of unnecessary troubles.
3. Hold down the Shift key and click on the path name to quickly close the current path.
4. If the Add node and Delete node tool are selected, pressing the Alt key will toggle between the two tools. After selecting the pen tool, move the cursor to the direction of the curve and press the Alt key to become the transfer node tool.
5. Press the Ctrl key to click on the image in the transparent layer (including the normal layer and the text layer) to convert the opaque area in the current layer to the selected area. Press Ctrl+shift, and then click the image in the layer to add the current layer's selection to the original selection.
6. Select the Arrowheads option in the Line Tool Options panel to draw various arrow lines. Hold down the shift key to draw a straight line in the horizontal, vertical, or 45-degree direction, making it easy to draw regular shapes.
7. When using some tools in the toolbox to adjust pressure and opacity, it is usually more troublesome to open the tool options panel and set it with the mouse. In fact, we can directly press the number keys on the keyboard to set. When you press the 3 button, the opacity or pressure is 30%. Press 0 is 100%, press 6 is 60%. If you press 7 followed by 5, then the opacity or pressure is 75%, and other values ​​are analogized.
8. Press the Alt key to drag the selection. The square or circle will be drawn from the center. Press the Shift key to drag the marquee tool to achieve a square circular selection.
9. The excellent viewing software ACDSee 32 window and Photoshop window side by side, with ACDSee 32M browse the picture, the selected picture can be dragged directly from the ACDSee 32 viewing window to the Photoshop window to edit, this feature is particularly suitable for looking for material images in the massive library.
10. When executing the USM sharpening filter to process the image, if the bright colors cause excessive phenomenon, please convert the image to Lab color mode. In this mode, executing the USM filter command in the brightness channel will make the image clearer. Avoid adverse effects on image color.
11. Press the Ctrl+H key or execute the View\Hide Edge command to darken or lighten a selection in an image to hide the dashed box in the selection, so that you can view the brightened or deepened image more intuitively. Press again to Restore the display.
12. The blur tool reduces the contrast between adjacent images, and the sharpening tool does the opposite. Their work panels are exactly the same, and when you use the blur tool, pressing the Alt key will sharpen it, and vice versa. In addition, the above tools cannot be used in bitmap or index color mode.
13. The measurement tool works fine with the grid and ruler, press the Alt key, click and drag twice to measure the angle. By pressing the shift key, the measurement will be made in a straight line. The rotation can only be performed in multiples of a 45-degree angle. The information is displayed in the Info Info panel.
14. Double-click the mouse on the hand tool to fit the image to the screen size; double-click on the magnifying glass to display the image in 100% display. Right-click on the above two tools to achieve different sizes of display methods.
15. Regardless of the selected tool, press Ctrl+Space+Left to zoom in. Press Alt+Space+Left to zoom out. If you just press the spacebar you can switch to the grip tool.
16. If you want to remove images outside the selection after the selection, you can right-click to execute the selec Inverse command and press the Delete key.
17. After using the rectangular tool selection, right-click and select the Free Transform command to drag or resize the image. Double-click on the image to return to the selection, but the size of the selection will be affected by the previous step. Influence changes.
18. Press the Caps Lock key to quickly switch the cursor display.
19. Adjust the value in Photoshop, generally drag the triangle slider, the arrow keys on the practical keyboard can achieve precise control, hold down the Shift key, click the arrow key (upwards downwards) or (to the right Left), its value will increase or decrease by 10 times.
20. The smaller the space occupied by Photoshop is, the faster the startup speed is. Deleting third-party manufacturers' filters (eg KPT, Eye Candy) and extra fonts will make the opening speed significantly faster. English version users can also delete the Training folder or Help, Readme files.
twenty one. When using the magnetic pen and the magnetic sheath tool, clicking the "[" or "]" key can reduce or increase the sampling width. When using the drawing tools, click these two keys to select different brushes.
twenty two. To copy the image from one layer to the middle of another image, hold the Shift key and drag the mouse. The image will automatically center when it reaches the window.
twenty three. When drawing with the pen or pencil or the pen tool, if you hold down the Shift key and left click, you can connect the two clicked points with a straight line.
twenty four. When using the brush tool, in addition to the standard and precise cursors, you can also use the Painting Cursors section of the File/Preferences/DisP1ay&Cursors dialog box. Click on Brush size. Select this cursor to display in brush size and actual shape, which is very suitable for the use of patterned and textual custom brushes.
25. When using the polygonal lasso tool, if the end point of the selected line segment does not return to the starting point, double-clicking the mouse will automatically connect the starting point and the ending point to form a closed selection area. When using the polygonal lasso tool, press the Alt key to switch to the curve lasso tool and vice versa.
26. When using the curve lasso selection, holding down the Delete key causes the curve to gradually straighten until the end of the selected content is deleted. When using the Delete key, you should stop moving the mouse. Before pressing the mouse, press Esc to cancel the selection.
27. Before using the move tool, holding down the Alt key to move the selection will move the copy layer of the selection.
28. Execute the View\Snap To Guides command to automatically align the moving object when it is meshed or automatically select the area along the grid. This command is also adapted to auxiliary line operations.
29. If you press the Alt key and click on the guide, the guides can be switched between vertical and horizontal.
30. Press the F key several times to switch back and forth between the three screen display modes. Press Tab or Shift+Tab to edit the image in conjunction with screen mode switching.
31. When defining a pattern (Define Pattern), the selected range must be a rectangle and cannot have a feathering value. There can be only one pattern content in Photoshop. When a new pattern is defined, the original defined pattern content will be replaced by a new one.
32. If you want to quickly fill in the foreground color, press Alt+Delete. If you want to fill the background color quickly, press Ctrl+Delete. Press Shift+Backspace to open the Fill dialog box. When Fill and stroke are applied to the image in the layer, if the current active layer is a text layer or hidden, the fill and stroke cannot be used.
33. In the default history panel settings, when you delete a step, its subsequent steps are also deleted unless Allow Non-Linear History is set in the History Options dialog box. ) option, delete the current step does not delete the steps behind it.
34. In the case of an enlarged view of the image, press Page Up/Page Down to scroll up/down one screen view. Press Shift+Page Up/Shift+Page Down to scroll up/down by 10 pixels, or move to the previous or next frame in the Filmstrip file.
35. The maximum file size supported by Photoshop is 2GB and the maximum pixel size is 30 000 x 30 000 pixels per image. This limitation limits the possible print size and resolution of the image. For example, a 100x100-inch image has a resolution of up to 300ppi (30 000 pixels/100 inches = 300ppi). The file size is proportional to the pixel size of the image. With a given print size, more pixels produce more detail, but more disk space is required for storage, and editing and printing can be slower. For example, a 1x1 inch 200PPi image contains four times as many pixels as a 1x1 inch 100PPi image, so the file size is also four times larger. Therefore, image resolution becomes synonymous with image quality and file size.
In fact, there are many Photoshop tips and tricks. These are the experiences of a master finishing and not wanting to be "robbed" by me in a magazine, but I can't swallow it myself, and I have to send it out online. For everyone's reference, if you have any new ideas, but also hope to educated us, but if you want to use Photoshop proficiently and efficiently, the only way is to learn, diligence, and practice. Otherwise, even if you remember these tips, you will forget them for a while!
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