PhotoShop common tips

Common tips
1. Quickly open files
Double-click the blank space in the background of Photoshop (the gray display area by default) to open the browser window for selecting files.
2. Change the canvas color at will
Select the paint bucket tool and hold down Shift and click on the edge of the canvas to set the background color of the canvas to the currently selected foreground color. If you want to revert to the default colors, set the foreground color to 25% gray (R192, G192, B192) and Shift-click the edge of the canvas again.
3. Shortcut keys for selecting tools
You can quickly select a tool in the toolbox by pressing the shortcut keys. The letter shortcut keys for each tool are as follows:
Select Box-M Move-V Lasso- L Magic Wand-W
Airbrush-J Brush-B Pencil-N Eraser Stamp-S
History Brush-Y Eraser-E Blur-R Dodge-O
Pen-P Text-T Measurement -U Gradient-G
Paint bucket-K Drinking straw-I Gripper-H Zoom-Z
Default foreground and background color-D Switch foreground and background color-X
Edit mode switch-Q Display mode switch -F
In addition, if we hold down the Alt key and then click the displayed tool icon, or hold down the Shift key and repeatedly press the letter shortcut key, we can cycle through the hidden tools.
4. Get the precise cursor
Press the Caps Lock key to display the cursor of the brush and magnetic tool as a precise crosshair, and press it again to restore it to its original state.
5. Show/Hide Control Panel
Press the Tab key to toggle the display or hiding of all control panels (including the toolbox). If you press Shift+Tab, the toolbox will not be affected and only other controls will be displayed or hidden. plate.
6. Quickly restore the default value
Some friends who are not good at Photoshop have gone through many twists and turns in order to adjust to a satisfactory effect, but they found that the original default effect is the best. Now they are dumbfounded and regret it. How to restore to default value? Try lightly clicking the tool icon on the options bar, then choosing Reset Tools or Reset All Tools from the context menu.
7. Freely control the size
The shortcut key for the zoom tool is "Z". In addition, "Ctrl+Spacebar" is the zoom tool, and "Alt+Spacebar" is the zoom-out tool, but you must click with the mouse to zoom; the same Pressing the Ctrl+"+" key and the "-" key can also zoom in and out the image respectively; Ctrl+Alt+"+" and Ctrl+Alt+"-" can automatically adjust the window to full screen zoom display. Using this tool, you can The image can be viewed in full screen regardless of the percentage displayed! If you want to automatically adjust the window according to the size of the picture when using the zoom tool, you can click the "Full Canvas Display" option in the property bar of the zoom tool.
8. When using a non-Hand Tool (Hand Tool), hold down the space bar to convert it to the Hand Tool, and you can move the visible range of the image in the window. Double-click the hand tool to display the image in the most suitable window size, and double-click the zoom tool to display the image at a 1:1 ratio.
9. When using the Erase Tool, hold down the Alt key to switch the eraser function to restore the specified step recording state.
10. When using the Smudge Tool (fingertip tool), hold down the Alt key to change from pure smearing to smearing with the foreground color.
11. When you want to move the glyph selection range typed using the Type Mask Tool, you can first switch to the quick mask mode (use the shortcut key Q to switch), and then move it. After completion, just switch again Just go back to standard mode.
12. After holding down the Alt key, use the Rubber Stamp Tool to click the mouse in any open image window to set the sampling position in the window, but the active window will not be changed.
13. When using the Move Tool, you can press the arrow keys on the keyboard to directly move the image on the layer at a distance of 1 pixel. If you hold down the Shift key first and then press the arrow keys, the image will be moved each time. Move the image by a distance of 10 pixels. Dragging the selection with the Alt key will move a copy of the selection.
14. When using the Magnetic Lasso Tool or Magnetic Pen Tool, press the "[" or "]" key to increase or decrease the sampling width in real time (in the options palette).
15. Measuring tools are very convenient for measuring distances (especially on diagonal lines), but you can also use them to measure angles (like a protractor). With the information panel visible, select the measurement tool, click and drag out a straight line, hold down the Alt key and drag out a second straight line from the node of the first line, so that the angle between the two lines is equal to the angle of the line. The lengths are displayed on the information panel. You can move the measurement line by dragging it with the measurement tool (you can also move only one node of the measurement line individually). You can delete the measurement line by dragging it outside the canvas.
16. Use drawing tools (such as brushes, pens, etc.), hold down the Shift key and click the mouse to connect the two click points with a straight line.
17. Hold down the Alt key and use the eyedropper tool to select a color to define the current background color. Monitor the color changes of the current image by combining the color sampler tool (Shift+I) and the information panel. The color value before and after the change is displayed next to its sampling point number on the information panel. The color mode of the sampling point can be defined through the pop-up menu on the information panel. To add a new sampling point, just click anywhere on the canvas with the color sampler tool. Hold down the Alt key and click to remove the sampling point. However, only four color sampling points can be placed on a picture at most. When a dialog box pops up in Photoshop (for example: color level command, curve command, etc.), you must hold down the Shift key and click to add a new sampling point. Hold down Alt+Shift and click to subtract a sampling point.
18. Everyone must have used the cropping tool, and you must have encountered this situation; when you adjust the cropping grip and the cropping frame is closer to the image boundary, the cropping frame will automatically be attached to The edges of the image prevent you from cropping the image accurately. However, as long as you hold down the "Ctrl" key when adjusting the cropping border, the cropping frame will conform to your needs and allow you to crop accurately.
Copying Tips
19. Hold down the Ctrl+Alt keys and drag the mouse to copy the contents of the current layer or selection.
20. If you have recently copied an image and stored it in the clipboard, Photoshop will use the size of the image in the clipboard as the default size of the new image when creating a new file (Ctrl+N). To bypass this feature and use the last settings, hold down the Alt key (Ctrl+Alt+N) while opening.
21. If you create a new work, you need a file with the same size, resolution, and format as an open picture. Select "File" → "New", click the Windows option on the Photoshop menu bar, and click the opened image name in the bottom column of the pop-up menu. Yes, it's that simple!
22. After using the Free Transform tool ( Ctrl+T), hold down the Alt key (Ctrl+Alt+T) to copy the original layer (in the current selection) and then perform transformation on the copied layer; Ctrl+Shift+T to perform the last transformation again, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T copies the original image and then performs the transformation.
23. Use the "New Layer by Copy (Ctrl+J)" or "New Layer by Cut (Ctrl+J)" commands to complete copy-to-paste and cut-to-paste work in one step; by copying The (Cut) New Layer command will still put them in their original place when pasted, but by copying (Cut) and then pasting, they will be pasted to the center of the image (or selection).
24. If you want to copy the image directly without the naming dialog box appearing, hold down the Alt key and then execute the "Image" → "Copy" command.
25. Photoshop’s clipboard is easy to use, but you’d rather use the Windows system clipboard directly to process images captured from the screen. Okay, press Ctrl+K and click "Output to Clipboard" on the pop-up panel!
26. Realize regular copying in Photoshop
When doing layout design, we often place certain elements regularly to seek a form of beauty. In Photoshop, through four shortcut keys The combination can be easily derived.
(1) Circle the object you want to copy;
(2) Press Ctrl+J to create a floating Layer;
(3) Press Rotate and move to the appropriate position and confirm;
( 4) Now you can hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift and press "T" continuously to copy continuous objects regularly. (Just hold down Ctrl+Shift to move regularly)
27. When we want to copy the selected objects in the file, we must use the copy command in the edit menu. You may not find it troublesome to copy once, but if you want to copy multiple times, clicking again and again will be quite inconvenient. At this time, you can first use the selection tool to select the object, then click the move tool, and then hold down the "Alt" key. When the cursor turns into two overlapping arrows, one black and one white,
drag the mouse to the desired position. To copy multiple times, just release the mouse repeatedly.
28. You can use the marquee tool or the lasso tool to drag the selection from one document to another.
29. To create a duplicate document for the current historical state or snapshot:
(1) Click the "Create new document from current state" button;
(2) Select a new document from the history panel menu;
(3) Drag the current state (or snapshot) to the "Create new document from current state" button;
(4) Right-click the desired state (or snapshot) and select New Document from the pop-up menu to delete the history Drag a certain historical state of the current picture in the status to the window of another picture to change the content of the destination picture. Alt-click any historical state (except the current, most recent state) to copy it. The copied state then becomes the current (most recent) state. Alt-drag a step in an action to copy it to another action.
Selection Tips
30. When dragging a selection area or layer from one document to another, hold down the Shift key to center it on the destination document. If the source and destination documents are the same size (dimensions), the dragged element will be placed at the same location as the source document (rather than in the center of the canvas). If the destination document contains a selection, the dragged element will be placed in the center of the selection.
31. Click the triangle button in the upper right corner of the action palette, select Load Action from the pop-up menu, and enter the Photoshop\Goodies\Actions directory. Under it are buttons, specifications, commands, image effects, text effects, and textures. , frame six action sets, including a lot of practical things! In addition, there is an ACTIONS.PDF file in this directory, which can be opened with Adobe Acrobat software, which details the use of these actions and the effects they produce.
32. Click the brush tool in the toolbar, click the small triangle to the right of the brush label in the subsequently displayed property bar, and click the small arrow in the pop-up menu to select "Load Brush...". Go to the Brushes folder of the Photoshop directory and select *.abr. It turns out there are so many cute things here.
33. Draw a beautiful mark and want to reuse it in your work? Easy to do, use the Lasso tool to select it, select "Save brush..." in the pop-up menu of Brushes, and then use the brush tool to select the new brush tip... Friends, do you want to spray paint the room?
34. If you want to choose two Between the two selection areas, hold down the Shift and Alt keys at the same time and drag next to any existing selection area to draw a second selection area (a multiplication sign appears next to the mouse cross, indicating that the overlapping area will be retained).
35. To delete squares or circles in the selection area, first add any selection area, and then within the selection area, press the Alt key and drag the rectangular or elliptical mask tool. Then release the Alt key, hold down the Shift key, and drag until you're satisfied. Then release the mouse button and then the Shift key.
36. Delete a selection area from the center outward. In any selection area, first press the Alt key to drag the rectangular or elliptical mask tool, then release the Alt key, press and hold the Alt key again, and finally release it. Mouse button and then release the Alt key.
37. When you want to quickly switch the mask area or select area options in the quick mask mode, first hold down the Alt key and then move the cursor to the quick mask mode icon and click the mouse.
38. When using the marquee tool, hold down the Shift key to draw a square or circle selection; hold down the Alt key to draw a selection centered on the starting point.
39. Use the "Reselect" command (Ctrl+Shift+D) to load/restore the previous selection.
40. When using the Lasso tool to draw a selection, press the Alt key to switch between the Lasso tool and the Polygonal Lasso tool. When drawing a selection, hold down the space bar to move the selection you are drawing.
41. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the layer icon (on the layer panel) to load its transparency channel, then hold down the Ctrl+Alt+Shift key and click on another layer to select the intersection of the transparency channels of the two layers. area.
42. Switch to Quick Mask Mode [Q] before scaling or copying an image to retain the original selection.
43. How to use the Shift and Alt keys in the "Selection Box" tool:
When using the "Selection Box" to select a picture and want to expand the selection area, hold down the Shift key and the cursor "+" will change to "ten+" and drag the cursor so that you can expand the
selection area you need based on the original selection. Or select two or more marquees in the same picture at the same time.
When using the "selection box" to select pictures, and want to subtract the extra pictures from the "selection box", hold down the "Alt" key, the cursor "+" will change to "ten-", drag the cursor , so that you can leave the picture you need.
When using the "selection box" to select a picture, if you want to get the overlapped part of the two selection boxes, then hold down the "Shift+Alt" keys, the cursor "+" will change to "十í", drag the cursor, like this Just the part you want.
When you want to get a perfect circle or square in the "selection box", just hold down the "Shift" key.
44. How to use the Shift and Alt keys in the "Lasso" tool:
Press the "Shift" key to increase the selection range. (The method is the same as 1 in "Selection Box")
Press the "Alt" key to reduce the selection range. (The method is the same as 2 in "Selection Box")
Press the "Shift+Alt" key in the area where the two selection boxes overlap. (The method is the same as 3 in "Selection Box")
45. How to use the Shift and Alt keys in the "Magic Wand" tool:
Press the "Shift" key to increase the selection range. (The method is the same as 1 in "Selection Box")
Press the "Alt" key to reduce the selection range. (The method is the same as 2 in "Selection Box")
Press the "Shift+Alt" key in the area where the two selection boxes overlap. (The method is the same as 3 in "Select Box")
Shortcut Key Tips
46. You can use the following shortcut keys to quickly browse your images:
Home scroll to the upper left corner of the image; End Scroll to the lower right corner of the image; Page UP to scroll to the top of the image; Page Down to scroll to the bottom of the image; Ctrl+Page Up to scroll to the left of the image; Ctrl+Page Down to scroll to the right of the image.
47. Press Ctrl key + Alt key + 0 key to display the image in a 1:1 ratio.
48. When you want to "kink" (adjust the space between individual letters), first click between the two letters, then hold down the Alt key and use the left and right arrow keys to adjust.
49. To restore the settings in the dialog box to the default, hold down the Alt key first, the Cancel key will become the Reset key, and then click the Reset key.
50. To quickly change the value displayed in the dialog box, first click the number with the mouse so that the cursor is in the dialog box, and then use the up and down arrow keys to change the number. If you press the Shift key before using the arrow keys to change a value, the value will change faster.
51. In addition to the familiar shortcut key Ctrl+Z (which can freely switch between history and current status), Photoshop 6.0 also adds Shift+Ctrl+Z (which can be used to restore step by step according to the order of operations). operation) and Alt+Ctrl+Z (allowing the user to gradually cancel operations according to the order of operations). Press Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z to move backward and forward in history respectively (or you can use the menu in the History panel to use these commands).
52. Fill function:
Shift+Backspace opens the fill dialog box;
Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace key combinations are to fill the foreground color and background color respectively;
Press Alt+Shift+Backspace and The Ctrl+Shift+Backspace key combination only fills existing pixels (keeping transparent areas) when filling the foreground and background colors.
53. The D key and X key on the keyboard can quickly switch the foreground color and background color.
54. Use any drawing tool to draw a straight stroke: first click the mouse at the starting point, then hold down the Shift key, then move the cursor to the end point and click the mouse.
55. When opening the Curve dialog box, press the Alt key and click the curve box to make the grid finer, and click the mouse again to restore it to its original state.
56. After using the rectangular (ellipse) selection tool to select a range, hold down the mouse and press the space bar to adjust the position of the selection frame at will. After releasing the mouse, you can adjust the size of the selection range.
57. Add a rectangle or ellipse drawn from the center outward. In any added selection area, first press the Shift key to drag the rectangular or elliptical mask tool, then release the Shift key, and then press the Alt key. , and finally release the mouse button and then release the Alt key. Press the Enter or Return key to close the slider box. To cancel changes, press the Escape key (Esc). To increase or decrease a value in 10% increments while the pop-up slider dialog box is open, hold down the Shift key and press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow key.
58. If you want to preview the CMYK mode color of the RGB mode image on the screen, you can first execute the "View" → "New View" command to generate a new view, and then execute "View" → "Preview" → " CMYK" command, you can view images in both modes at the same time for easy comparison and analysis.
59. Press the Shift key and drag the marquee tool to limit the marquee to a square or circle; press the Alt key and drag the marquee tool to draw the marquee from the center; press the Shift+Alt key to drag the marquee tool to draw the marquee from the center Start drawing a square or circular marquee.
60. To prevent the marquee from adhering to the image border when using the crop tool, hold down the Ctrl key while dragging the control point on the crop tool marquee.
61. To correct a tilted image, first use the measuring tool to draw a line on the image where it can be used as a horizontal or vertical reference (such as the image border, door frame, horizontal line between the eyes, etc.), and then select it from the menu Select "Image" → "Rotate Canvas" → "Any Angle...". After opening, you will find that the correct rotation angle has been filled in automatically. Just press OK.
62. You can use the crop tool to complete the rotation and shearing work in one step: first use the crop tool to draw a box, drag the control points on the marquee to adjust the angle and size of the marquee, and finally press back The car realizes rotation and shearing. The angle measured by the measurement tool will also be automatically filled in the digital transformation tool ("Edit" → "Transform" → "Number") dialog box.
63. After cropping the image, all pixels outside the cropping range are lost. To crop without loss, use the "canvas size" command instead. While Photoshop will warn you that some clipping will be made, for some reason not all of the "clipped" data is actually kept out of the frame, but this doesn't work with Indexed Color mode.
64. When merging visible layers, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E to copy all visible layers and merge them into the current layer. You can also hold down the Alt key when merging layers, which will make a copy of the current layer and merge it into the previous layer, but the Ctrl+Alt+E hotkey will not work at this time.
65. Press the Shift+Backspace key to activate the "Edit" → "Fill" command dialog box. Press the Alt+Backspace key to fill the foreground color into the selection box; press the Ctrl+Backspace key to fill the background color into the selection box. .
66. Press the Shift+Alt+Backspace keys to fill the foreground color into the selection box and maintain the transparent setting. Press the Shift+CtrBackspace key to fill the background color into the selection box and maintain the transparent setting.
67. Press Alt+Ctrl+Backspace to fill a selection or layer from history, and press Shift+Alt+Ctrl+Backspace to fill a selection or layer from history and keep the transparency setting.
68. Press Ctrl＋“=" key to make the image display continue to enlarge, but the window will not shrink; press Ctrl＋“-” key to make the image display continue to shrink, but the window will not shrink; press Ctrl+Alt＋“=" Press the Ctrl+Alt+"-" key to continuously enlarge the image display and the window accordingly.
69. When moving layers and selections, hold down the Shift key to move horizontally, vertically or at a 45-degree angle; press the arrow keys on the keyboard to move 1 pixel at a time; hold down the Shift key and then press The arrow keys can move 10 pixels at a time.
70. When creating a guide line, press the Shift key and drag the guide line to fit it closely to the ruler scale; press the Alt key and drag the guide line to change the guide line to a horizontal or vertical orientation.
71. In the "Image" → "Adjustment" → "Curve" command dialog box, hold down the Alt key and click the mouse inside the grid to make the grid fine or rough; hold down the Shift key and click the control point Multiple control points can be selected, and a control point can be deleted by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on it.
72. If you want to copy an image on a certain layer to the center of another image window with a different size, you can hold down the Shift key when dragging to the destination window, and the image will be Automatically centered.
73. When using the "Edit" → "Free Transform" (Ctrl+T) command, hold down the Ctrl key and drag a control point to perform free transformation adjustment; hold down the Alt key and drag a control point Points can be adjusted for symmetrical deformation; hold down the Shift key and drag a control point to adjust proportional scaling; hold down the Shift+Ctrl key and drag a control point to adjust the perspective effect; press Shift+Ctrl key and drag a control point to make bevel adjustments; press Enter to apply the transformation; press Esc to cancel the operation.
74. In the color palette, press the Shift key to click a color block, and the foreground color will be used to replace the color; press the Shift+Alt key to click the mouse, and the foreground color will be used as a new color block at the clicked location. Insert; press the Alt key and click on a color block to change the background color to that color; press the Ctrl key to click on a color block to delete the color block.
75. On the layer, channel, and path palettes, when you press the Alt key and click the tool button at the bottom of these palettes, the corresponding dialog box can be called up to change the settings for tools that have dialog boxes.
76. On the layer, channel, and path palette, press Ctrl and click a layer, channel, or path to load it as a selection; press Ctrl+Shift and click to add it to the current selection. Selection; press Ctrl+Shift+Alt and click to intersect with the current selection.
77. When using a layer mask in the layer palette, press the Shift key and click the layer mask thumbnail. A red cross will appear, indicating that the current mask is disabled. Press the Alt key and click Layer mask thumbnail, the mask will be displayed as the entire image, making it easy to observe and adjust.
78. In the Path Palette, hold down the Shift key and click the mouse on the path bar of the Path Palette to switch whether the path is displayed.
79. After changing the settings of a certain dialog box, if you want to restore it to the previous value, hold down the alt key. The cancel button will turn into a reset button. Just click on the reset button.

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