ALL the shortcuts u know!!! 2

[Setta]

Hello all!!!

I know that everyone who uses PS for long periods LOVE to know a lot of it's shortcuts.

The porpuse of this thread is to get together ALL the shortcuts we know.

Please, do not send the common ones (Crtl+S for save etc...)

I'll star with my list.

Crtl + or - (Zoom in or out)
Crtl Alt + or -(Zoon in or out and fit window)
Crtl Alt 1 (Select all the white areas and its percentages - VERY USEFULL)

These 3 are the ones I use most.
What about you?

 

[lebisol]

I hate to do this...but:

http://www.thunderlizard.com/handouts/ps_table.html

all the best!

 

[Kliot]

Setta,

I agree with lebisol there are already lots of lists of keyboard shortcuts out there so how about some non keyboard tips and tricks.

I'll start with one I use all the time, when I scan a picture and it's a little crooked I use the measure tool (you know the one under the eyedropper} and I draw a line along the edge I want to straighten. I then select Image -> Rotate Canvas -> Arbitrary and Paradox will have automatically calculated the number of degrees to rotate the canvas to the closest Vertical or Horizontal axis. Really handy.

Perrin

 

[dimoj]

Hey Kilot, great tip, I can really use that! "A star earned you have", says Yoda.

Heres just a fun one that most people will already know...In PS7 (not sure about older versions) with the Channels Palette open Alt(option)-Click on the button that opens the drop down menu of options and select PALETTE OPTIONS (you will have to hold down the mouse button to do this while you are holding alt) and a secret magical image will appear!

 

[lebisol]

nice one Killot.....I can prolong the use of my eyes with this one
no more 1600 zoom and <= => strokes


> need more info?
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[Setta]

Oh, okay.
Thanks for the tip lebisol.

And that's a handy one Kliot!

 

[wiser3]

I deal with a lot of black and white symbols and pictures. I like to have the image window larger then the image. PS makes the area between the image and the window border grey. This grey blends in with the image and makes it hard to see the edges.

Pick a nice colour, then select the paint fill tool and shift + click this grey area. The grey fills to the paint colour and i can see my image bounderies again. You can set it back to the default grey by filling it with RGB values 192, 192, 192.

My remaining problem is that many of my symbols have a thin black border around them. And PS also buts a thin black border around the image ares. If anyone know how to get rid of or change this border colour PLEASE tell me.

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

One thing I hate doing is going back and forth to select layers and objects and the same for duplicating layers. There is a fast way to select layers and how to duplicate a layer using the move (Arrow) tool.

With the move tool selected go over top of the canvas and you can right click and choose the layer you want, or you can just hold down Ctrl/Command and then click on the object to select that layer.

To duplicate hold alt then click and drag an object on the canvas. This will not only duplicate the object but also stick it on it's own layer.

And then of course if you want to duplicate an object that is on a layer that's not selected hold Ctrl+Alt then click and drag.

Hope this helps!

Nate

http://www.mainframe-webdesign.com

 

[blueark]

When you have a brush or eraser selected, pressing a number will change it's opacity. With other tools selected, it changes the opacity of the active layer (except locked layers). Press 1 for 10%, 5 for 50%, etc.

It's an old one, but I like it!

Speaking of brushes, most people know that [ & ] decrease and increase the size of the brush. What may be helpful to know is that holding down shift with these keys will alter the softness of the brush.

Holding down the Alt/Option key with those two keys allows you to cycle through each layer. Use the Ctrl/Command key instead to actually move the layer up and down.

Who said square brackets aren't useful?!

 

[Kliot]

Hey were getting some great tips here.

Here's a fun one, Select Help About Photoshop and wait a few seconds and the credits will start to scroll, if you press the Alt key the credits will speed up. The credits toward the end get pretty funny and don't miss the very last credit. If you hold down the Ctrl key while selecting About Photoshop you get the Beta name.

 

[SPYDERIX]

For those that didn't know about what Kliot mentioned, those are known as easter eggs.

http://www.eeggs.com/

;-)

Nate

http://www.mainframe-webdesign.com

 

[Mattblack]

My favourite is increasing the canvas size non-mathematically. Surround the whole picture with the crop tool, then drag the handles away from the image. Double clicking will then increase the canvas to the size you have selected. I find this much quicker than using the Image > Canvas Size route.

 

[blueark]

Speaking of the crop tool - isn't the new perspective feature great? It's like Free Transform and Crop all rolled into one. Great for straightening our crooked scans. If you scan more than you need of a photo, for example, turn on perspective, drag the four corners out to the corners of your photo, and let Photoshop figure out how to straighten it. Brilliant!

 

[Setta]

Well,

talking about Cavans andImage size.
You can reach these options right-clicking in the window name of your picture.
Much faster than using the menu.

Other tricks that I use.
Hold ALT and click in a layer visibility - hide all layers, except the one you clicked.
ALT and click agian - show all the layers.

-- Webmonkey --

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

When you have your image open, maximize the sub window, select a color from the tools palette, then select the paint bucket, hold shift and click in the outside area of the image (default color is light grey) and you can change the outside background image color.

Hope this helps!

Nate

http://www.mainframe-webdesign.com

 

[100xcd]

I use Photoshop from time to time and never remember them (except the very &quot;basic&quot; shortcuts). So, I write a program that help me to keep shortcuts handy. Now it is a commercial software but I have a demo version that can be played with.

http://www.100xcd.com/PSKbd

Vladimir Ignatov, KMI Software
ignatov@infosec.ru

 

[thombathe]

If your working on an image and you save it then realize you screwed up all is not lost. If you did not do anthing else after saving it hit option-command-Z, this will undo the save.

Thom

The longest jounney starts with the first step.

http://www.thombathe.com

 

[SPYDERIX]

Thom,

Is that 100% accurate? I would have a lot more confidence going back in the history and re-saving than just undoing, you are 100% guaranteed that way.

Nate

http://www.mainframe-webdesign.com

 

[Kliot]

Good tip Tom,

Whenever I want to play with an image I open the image and go to Image - Duplicate and work on the duplicate image, it's much faster and safer than using save as to create a copy.

Perrin

 

[dimoj]

Two that I like/use often:

1) Most people use F as the shortcut to toggle Full Screen view but as you know there are also buttons on the main toolbar to do this. If you have more than one window open you can shift-click the Full Screen button on the toolbar and all open windows will become full screen (shift-click standard screen to go back).

2) Often I have many many layers in an image and often I have neglected to name them. Sometimes the little layer thumnails can be very small or similar looking and it's hard to determine what object is on what layer. A method I often use to select an objects layer is to choose the Move tool and choose the AUTO SELECT LAYER option. Now you can very carefully click on an object (so as not to actually move it) and it's layer will be now be selected.