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 while clicking on the edge of the canvas to set the canvas background color to the currently selected foreground color. If you want to revert to the default color, set the foreground color to 25% gray (R192, G192, B192) and hold down Shift again and click on the edge of the canvas.
3. Select the shortcut key of the tool
You can quickly select a tool in the toolbox by pressing the shortcut keys. The letter shortcut keys for each tool are as follows:
Marquee-M Move-V Lasso-L Magic Wand-W
Airbrush-J Brush-B Pencil-N Rubber stamp-S
History Brush-Y Eraser-E Blur-R Dodge-O
Pen-P Text-T Measure-U Gradient-G
Paint bucket-K 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 accurate cursor
Pressing the Caps Lock key causes the brush and magnetic tool cursors to appear as precision crosshairs, and pressing them again returns them to their 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 control panels will be displayed or hidden.
6. Quickly restore default values
Some friends who are not good at Photoshop went through many twists and turns in order to adjust it to a satisfactory effect, but found that the original default effect was the best. Now they were dumbfounded and regretted 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. Free control of 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. However, you need to click with the mouse to zoom; press Ctrl+"+" and "-" keys in the same way. It can also be used to enlarge and reduce the image respectively; Ctrl+Alt+"+" and Ctrl+Alt+"-" can automatically adjust the window to full screen zoom display. Using this tool, you can display the image regardless of the percentage. Can be viewed in full screen! If you want to automatically resize the window according to the size of the image 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, hold down the space bar to convert it to a hand tool, which allows you to 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 back to the standard mode. That’s it.
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 and then press the arrow keys, you can move the image in steps of 10 pixels each time. distance moving image. 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 great 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, stylus, 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 close to the edge of the image, the cropping frame will automatically be attached to the edge of the image. , making it impossible to crop 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.
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 name of the opened image in the bottom column of the pop-up menu. Yes, it's that simple!
22. When 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 transform 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; ) New Layer command will still put them in their original place when pasted, but by copying (cutting) 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 great, 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. Achieve regular copying in Photoshop
When doing layout design, we often place certain elements regularly to seek a form of beauty. This can be easily achieved through the combination of four shortcut keys in Photoshop.
(1) Circle the object you want to copy;
(2) Press Ctrl+J to generate 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 need to 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 select the object with the selection tool, 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 Lasso Tool to drag a selection from one document to another.
29. To create a copy of the current historical state or snapshot:
(1) Click the "Create new document from current status" button;
(2) Select 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. Drag a certain historical state of the current picture in the historical state 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.
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 GoodiesActions directory. Under it are buttons, specifications, commands, image effects, text effects, textures, and frames. The action set contains 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 artwork? 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 your room?
34. If you want to select the part between two selection areas, hold down the Shift and Alt keys while dragging next to any existing selection area, and draw a second selection area (a multiplication sign will appear 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 press the Alt key to drag the rectangular or elliptical mask tool within the selection area. 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 and press and hold the Alt key again, and finally release the mouse button. Release the Alt key.
37. When you want to quickly switch mask areas or select area options in the quick mask mode, 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 from 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 area where the transparency channels of the two layers intersect.
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 +". Drag the cursor so that you can expand the area you selected based on the original selection. Select the required area. 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 and the cursor "+" will change to "ten-", drag the cursor, so that You can leave the pictures 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 so that you want The important part.
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:
To increase the selection range press the "Shift" key. (The method is the same as 1 in "Select Box")
To reduce the selection range press the "Alt" key. (The method is the same as 2 in "Select Box")
Press the "Shift+Alt" keys in the area where the two selection boxes overlap. (The method is the same as 3 in "Select Box")
45. How to use the Shift and Alt keys in the "Magic Wand" tool:
To increase the selection range press the "Shift" key. (The method is the same as 1 in "Select Box")
To reduce the selection range press the "Alt" key. (The method is the same as 2 in "Select Box")
Press the "Shift+Alt" keys in the area where the two selection boxes overlap. (The method is the same as 3 in "Select Box")